- Uriel S167
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- Noble Member
~ Life is Killing Me. ~
~ I hate, therefore I am. ~
(Insanely long read, please bear with me)
Have you guys noticed what I have about the Community lately?
It has acquired an almost Zen-like peacefulness.
Since 343i took over everything Halo, most of the biggest whiners who cried bitter tears of rage and abject hatred because "insert Halo game here" didn't live up to their personal expectations, have left/are leaving.
They are migrating over to 343i's forums. The real fans of Bungie, the core of this Community, is going back to it's quasi-normal state of cynical, sarcastic realism.
lol
I still will always believe that this community is/will be the true Halo fans. All of the little kids who have no idea of what Halo is, the journey it has taken, are evacuating over to 343i's forums. That just leaves more room in the Forums for the people who have always been here, who will always be here, true and loyal fans of one of the greatest game companies ever founded. The same company that created one of the greatest game universes ever imagined.
I say this, and realize that I have only been a member of B.net since December 2010, but as with so many other things, all is not as it seems. I was here when Halo 2 was getting ready to drop. I witnessed the aneurism-inducing rage (and the rushing river of tears of anguish that followed after it) over Halo 3's BR/AR thread. I saw the "THIZ G@M3 SUXS!!! WHY DID U CRE@T3 TIHS CR@P BUNGIE?!?!?!?" threads when ODST dropped. The whiners have come and gone with each game. They arrive to voice their displeasure that the game isn't exactly what they had thought it would be, and b*tched that games should be given a Title Update every time they found the tiniest flaw. In reality, they b*tched because they just sucked at the game.
Then, after 5-6 months, they would leave the forums as they ever so slowly realized that they were the minority. Then the next Halo game would drop, and the cycle would start anew.
Reach was/is no different. Reach is a great Halo game. It has its flaws, but what game doesn't? It is the culmination of 10 years of perfecting an entire genre, and there is hardly a better game out there, much less a better FPS. The haters returned in that same classic, predictable cycle as they always have, but now they are slowly filtering themselves out as more and more of them move to 343. The cycle continues as it always has. All is serene.
I have seen it because I have been a member since 2004 off and on, mostly reading thread posts. I finally created a set account (linked my GT) in 2006. Then in end of 2008/beginning 2009 I became homeless. I fought and battled my way back to having a life, money, job and reason to live, and when I came back to the community in 2010, I couldn't remember my B.net info, my GT, or my Live ID. I had lost all of that history except for my memory of how great this Community is. I would love to have my Halo 2 stats back, as well as the nameplate, but I know it won't happen. I don't need it to because I have the memory of it all safely locked away in my psyche. Now, I am back in the Community that I have loved so much for so many years. While again, I'd love to have my tenure on this site back, I don't need it as I see that it is just the way it was when I lost everything.
Perfect.
But now the Forums, this Community of gamers (both Hardcore and Casual), is returning to it's core. As I have said, the people who created an account for no other reason than to b*tch and moan just to gain attention, or to troll us whilst supporting another game, are now 343's problem.
At least if I could access their Forums, I suspect that this is what I would find. I can pull up the site, but when I click on the Forums it doesn't work. For almost a week now. lol But I am confident in what I would find there in terms of thread content.
But through all of this, this Community has remained, at its core, the same.
And now as with so many game cycles in the past, the haters who hate for the sake of hating, are leaving. The Forums aren't all of the way there yet, but things are moving that way at a good, steady pace.
Peace and quasi-intelligent thread topics are returning.
Like Zen Buddhism, all is becoming One again. One whole Community, united in the love of the greatest of games and an unflinching expectation of quality that always gets delivered on.
Now the Community waits (not patiently, but excitedly all the same) for info on the new IP. Already the "crack the secrets" threads are flooding the Forums in that same way that all of us love. It is this dedication, effort, and fanaticism that makes Bungie love to torture us, but reward us with the juiciest morsels of info when they do release them. Sure this Community argues like siblings do, but that is a sign of mutual respect in the intellects of the individuals that populate these Forums. The people who have been here since the beginning. The same people who joined later, but have the same love and respect for great games that the ones from the beginning have. We are a living and breathing Community, and we will not be bested by the irrational hatred of those who join just for trolling.
This Community is becoming whole again, and all of the "false" fans who joined just to give Bungie grief and to thinly veil their support of other competing games are almost gone.
It is what it is, we deal with it, we move on. But we, the Core B.net community, will endure. We will be here when the new IP is announced, one small bit of info at a time. We will be here to witness the drop of the next great game universe. And we will be the ones to drive it well into the stars, and beyond.
All is returning to the way it should be, the way it always has been.
Our sense of Zen is returning, all is One again.
See you Star Side.
Celer. Silens. Mortalis.