- Recon Number 54
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
Posted by: ABungieFan
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Though I am liking the idea of a Bungie-themed coffee shop chilled-arcade in the same Galleria. Maybe not with direct line-of-site to the studio, but a place for fans (of Bungie, of coffee, of a cool place to chill) to hang out.
Bungie staff would get free coffee (always) as a way to gently encourage them to visit and meet with the (hopefully) pleasant and polite fans.
Guests/Pilgrims could enjoy beverages, snacks, WiFi and maybe even a couple of couches/alcoves with LAN capabilities for some Halo/Marathon/Oni carnage (have to be free to get around that "no pay for play" license restriction).
But that could be a decent business model, provided the clientele were capable of being cool and polite if/when an employee dropped by.
oh my gawd recon. could you imagine everytime a bungie employee walked in it would be like flies on -blam!-. he would be jumped all over by fans grilling him for information.
You might be surprised. My visits to PAX and E3 have impressed me that a good percentage of this community aren't utter jerks and tend to show a decent amount of courtesy and respect for personal space when it comes to meeting/encountering/chatting with folks from Bungie. Sure, some geek out (I confess, the first time I met Marty, I was a COMPLETE geekfest. But he was utterly cool, incredibly gracious, and in a word "classy").
Anyone who would create a disruption in this hypothetical establishment would be asked to leave.
The idea would be a welcoming place for fans and staff. Where everyone is there simply to relax, sip a beverage, make a friend who they've never met, and be excellent to each other.