- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: PsionicPhyre
I like the fact that the 7thcol is getting revamped, but I wish I'd seen this ahead of time and been able to save some of my newsposts...
Oh I agree. Isn't it considerate of them to have given us a whole whopping 4-5 days to backup all of our treasured history? Isn't it nice to see how much they value the countless hours each of us hard-working founders and chapter staff members have put into our "homes"?
Do I sound a bit bitter? Yeah, just a little.
I guess there must be something wrong with me. I mean, how could I have been so stupid as to think when I was writing up those hundreds of news posts that they meant anything? That they were worth posting and keeping? That they were more than something to fill the time when a new and supposedly better seventh column came around?
I guess I must be crazy to have actually taken pride in my work. After all, the guys with the power thought it was all worth the glory of briefly seeing the inside of their Bungie Server Recycle Bin. Thanks for the support.
But like I said, 4-5 days was a generous amount of time for us loons who took our chapter founding seriously to back up the tiny morsels in our chapter that we saw as somewhat worth of memorial. I mean, I was easily able to find time to get it done; I forced myself to get up at 2:30 Tuesday morning when the computer was available to go through every single news post that I've ever written and save what was worth keeping. After totalling that with the few chances I had before that to get busy on it, I only spent a quick 3-4 hours doing it. In the end, I saved 168 files: 1 file per worth news post. That was 80% of all the news I and my co-founder authored. I would've saved more, but around 4:00 a.m. I started to give in to my sleepiness and skip a few. I'll probably regret that later.
You know, I had a whole (civil, of course) speech thought up in my head of what I was going to say in this post; but once again it's getting late, and I'll have to keep this short.
You know, I'm sure Halo 2's gonna be great. And I'm fairly sure the New Hotness won't be half bad. But can any of that really make up for what they're taking away from us? Namely, or history and our memories.
I don't want to get too into the whole removing the Event system problem, but I'll just say this: Just because everyone loved the vehicles so much in Halo 1 is no reason you should simply remove the weapons in Halo 2.
Of course, in Bungie's defense, they've proven themselves to be intelligent people who always know what they're doing. Perhaps things won't be as bad as the latest news post made it sound (was it just me, or did everyone imagine Achronos saying all those words in a very apologetic tone?). It's likely that they'll provide a feature to cover the elements of the Events feature in an even better way. We'll all just have to tough it our for another week or so.
There is no need for anyone to take offense at this post or to delete it; I worked hard to keep it civil, and I never sunk to the level of a flamer. I was simply expressing my opinions, which could effectively be ignored.
Just my thoughts,
Poocho :)