Posted by: Kickimanjaro
They can all be played offline with no gamertag.Which is rare that someone would come to the forums to discuss the game then. Especially considering this is not the place to discuss Halo anymore.
And if by some circumstance such a person did still come here? It is not an inconvenience in the slightest to make an XBL account. In fact it's incredibly easy. Only when someone needs to do it multiple times does it become an inconvenience.
I still think it would inconvenience too many legitimate forum goers for it to be worth it.The previous text in this post non-withstanding, you guys assume that there are a LOT more of these people than there really are.
Posted by: Zealot Tony
and on the other end you have members who have been here for years without a linked gamertag, and have been extremely friendly to the community- why risk losing those members with this new system?And how are we kicking them out again?
Posted by: ian1706
Some people for various reasons, including security, like to keep their emails for separate things different. For that reason, i don't think it's a good idea. If they're that afraid of linking their gamertag then they probably don't need to be making threads in the Halo forums, now do they? And if somehow they did? They can create another account. After all, since we've established it's an easy process and doesn't inconvenience new members, and since we've established that the people in your situation wouldn't be linking their real gamertag anyways, then there is absolutely no harm whatsoever done.
Again, I see absolutely no downside to doing this.
Posted by: jross1993
Not that it matters now, but this is a stupid idea.Provide reasoning.
When I first made my Bungie account, I didn't have Xbox Live. I came here to just talk about the game I loved and had been playing for years. ...And? Do you have one now? All this would do is it would have had you make it even earlier. And if you still don't? Then you have lost nothing.
Again, provide reasoning for your opinions, because all you basically says was 'I don't like this because of a situation that is moreorless irrelevant to the point.'
Arch? An XBL account is free. It's only the Gold Membership that costs money.
Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
I don't have XBL because of our budget router.
Excellent! Then it doesn't affect you in the slightest to link a gamertag you created via Xbox.com! That's wonderful!
[Edited on 09.06.2011 3:46 AM PDT]