- BRADEN OWNZ
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
Ever since Bungie left Halo and are in pursuit of creating their new awesomesauce universe, I've watched the community slow down, a lot. There has been a thread a day asking for a weekly update, and yet nothing has been published as of yet. In fact the most activity I've seen in a few months is when we were hazing DeeJ ( For those of you who live under a rock, that's the new assistant community manager) So instead of me writing this horribly boring intro just to create some context for this post that just reiterates a bunch of things you already know; I'm going talk about the issue at hand, which is that it's getting incredibly boring around here waiting for something to happen.
Let's Make Something Happen
I think we should start writing weekly updates again, however it doesn't even have to do with Bungie's game, that'll happen when they think the time is right to release that information, it will merely jumpstart community involvement. In the Weekly Updates you could talk about what is happening in the Bungie Studio such as pranks and various other shenanigans, you could host contests for the community to participate in and the winner gets some magnificent prize, the weekly group showcase, Member of the week, Video of the week, Photo of the week, Topic of the week, Epic Threads, community carnage livestreams, your options here are virtually endless. I would read it, it would be better than the majority of the writing I have to read in school.
-You could have the community contest based on just about anything, such as ''Photoshopping DeeJ's face on a pirate'', ''Who can build the prettiest lava lamp with a CryEngine SDK?'', ''Can You Auto-Tune it?'', ''Caption This Screen Shot'' stuff like that let's us know you're watching, think like Bungie All Stars, just based around the forum community.
What could the winner of the weekly contest receive?
-A shiny new forum title that says the '' Winning'' until the end of the week, then they have to compete in the next contest to continue being top dog.
- A Crimson Steam Pirate Code
-Their work plastered on the front page of Bungie.net for the rest of the week
More Controversial ( Or just plain funny) Employee Ninja Posts
These attract a lot of attention if you think about it, plus if they keep delivering a good laugh or two, people are going to keep coming back
[stoner/hipster persona]'' Wow man, did you see what Captain K Mart did?''
''No man, wha'd he do?''
'' He totally posted like 5 pages of -blam!-ion analogies''
'' No way man''
''Yes way, check it out dude''[/ stoner/hipster persona]
You won't even have to write anything for these mini ''weekly updates''
You can give a community member who is willing to write the ''update'' the information, media, ect. that you want put in and they will write it at their leisure. Then the next week you can give a new member the opportunity to write the ''update'' and so on, until of course Bungie is ready to release the information about their new IP. Then DeeJ should take over.
I'm done for now. I might update it later, I'm bored so I wrote this.I hope you enjoy my poor attempt at making and elmicker's level topic
Discuss YOUR ideas, to increase community involvement, or what keeps you coming back here.( Even though we already know it's the free food
[Edited on 11.26.2011 4:34 PM PST]