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Posted by: Nessy
The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.
Posted by: Iggwilv
I agree with you somewhat that it has got bad with the TKers, I'm not done yet. That why I help maintain a server and have weekly gatherings. One, it keeps the Tkers and the loudmouth idiots to a minimum because we ban/kick them. Two, you recognize the people you are playing with and can laugh and joke about the game later.
In addition, you sent me money to help pay for the server. I sent you the current rcon password so you have a server out there that you can kick idiots off of and keep the games clean. Show up for some of the Gatherings and see how it is. You'll have fun.
Halo 1 will be here at least until Halo2PC comes out. Halo2 will be the nail in the coffin. I will play Halo2 PC when it comes out to continue the story line, and I'll give MP a shot. I know in my heart Halo2 will not be better then Halo 1. So I may keep a Halo1 server running after Halo2 comes out so that we have a place to play the original.
Iggwilv: thanks for the invite to Bungie.net Maw server. I never did get the password, if you sent it to my email, there is a good chance I never got it. If you could PM me that would be great. Thanks.
Yeah, last night's post happened largely because I had just "had enough." More sad than anything else. Sad to see the game (IMO) on it's final legs. There is one fundamental problem with the multiplayer portion of the game, and it will never be fixed.
Someone said there are thousands that still play, I beg to differ. Most of the time that I get into the gamespy lobby, maybe 800-1000 players max. Mid-'04 we easily had double the players. That's a huge difference.
I'm not against newbies, but it seems Halo has many of them these days, and lots of them realize how easy it is to be a TKer. So they do it. People are going to do what they can get away with. If it's fun, and it generates a response, there is nothing to stop them from TKing endlessly. So while the veterans of the game move on, they are replaced with newbs, some of which become TKers. It's really silly how this game was left to rot.
I'm not telling anyone to stop playing, I'm asking them to realize that the game isn't what it was, and it probably won't ever recover. To some extent it's the natural way of things, but to a larger extent, the game is dying because it seems there is nothing to look forward to with Halo anymore. If there was even a remote chance that 1.08 would come with a fix for the TKers (no, not turning off friendly fire, a real fix please), I think you would see many players returning. The realist in me thinks that there is no benefit in the eyes of M$/Bungie. They don't want us playing a 4 year old game anymore, they want us to move our mouses (and wallets) to Halo2 and Vista. Why keep fixing an old product when you can sell everyone a new one?
[Edited on 3/28/2006]