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Just to clarify, this is my first delving into the Community forums, so please pardon my ignorance.

Anyway, I used to be an avid visiter to the Reach forum, intending to spent time reading insightfull threads and endulging in even mildly fun topics, but as you know almost 90% of that forum is clogged up with moaning or people trying to get across their complaints.
While I have no direct problem with someone expressing their oppinion about armour lock and bloom, it does result in almost every topic being drowned out and ignored.
Ideally, such complaints should be removed leaving a forum that strictly provides usefull information an game related topics, as apposed to the same point being repeated, and thus my solution is a "feedback forum".
The basics behind it is that each new Bungie game gets their own forum in which players can post topics related to things they want changed or toned down. This would allow Bungie to be able to see (somewhat) the communities reaction quickly and, hopefully, would remove most of the same mindless posts that haunt every new game and clogg up their forums.

Feedback?

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  • 12.15.2011 1:12 AM PDT

A better name for something of this nature would be a feedback forum. Complaint has to negative a connotation with it.

  • 12.15.2011 1:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: insaneAssass1n9
A better name for something of this nature would be a feedback forum. Complaint has to negative a connotation with it.


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  • 12.15.2011 1:21 AM PDT
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I don't think it'll make much of a difference. It's like having a forum for the discussion of mathematics and a separate forum for addition and subtraction, it just doesn't fit or make sense.

Few new members pay any attention to forum rules and even less read the forum descriptions, the reach forum is mostly made up of new members, and I'd like to add that many of the new members make up the majority of the spam in the reach forum.

The new forum wouldn't only govern those who troll or spam. The rules would actually force good members to make intelligent posts in that forum instead of the reach forum as well.

Lastly, how do you think this will effect the Reach forum?

  • 12.15.2011 1:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Izak609
I don't think it'll make much of a difference. It's like having a forum for the discussion of mathematics and a separate forum for addition and subtraction, it just doesn't fit or make sense.

Few new members pay any attention to forum rules and even less read the forum descriptions, the reach forum is mostly made up of new members, and I'd like to add that many of the new members make up the majority of the spam in the reach forum.

The new forum wouldn't only govern those who troll or spam. The rules would actually force good members to make intelligent posts in that forum instead of the reach forum as well.

Lastly, how do you think this will effect the Reach forum?


It would effect the Reach forum by allowing people who want to discuss the game and share maps ect to have prioroty over those who just want a moan, yet still get more replies. Most people now days head over to the Reach forum for a good moan or arguament, and with the new forum they would instead head over the the feedback forum.
This would almost certainly drastically reduce the active members of the Reach forum, and as a result more members would filter in, previously put off by the poor thread variation of the games fourums and the abundance of similar threads.
There is no denying that many are put off by the Reach forum, mainly for the moaning and whining. The new forum would ideally remady this, and would please all parties. The complainers now have a forum dedicated to them, and the Halo/ other Bungie game lovers now can go and discuss their games without having to filter through a load of "bloom takes no skill" and "AL takes no skill" threads.

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  • 12.15.2011 1:49 AM PDT

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Just drink a beer and everything will be ok

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Anyway, I used to be an avid visiter to the Reach forum, intending to spent time reading insightfull threads and endulging in even mildly fun topics
Ummm... I think you've got the wrong Reach Forum.

OT: Seeing as how the Reach Forum is right now, I don't think it'd make much of a difference. Most complainers would just post in the basic Reach Forum becuase it gets more attention.

  • 12.15.2011 2:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: the rabid grunt
All of the discussion in the reach forum can be dumbed down to complaints about something having a greater potential or something that the players would like "fixed".

The Reach forum isn't for sharing content (example: maps).

"Now a day"? I'd like to say that the only time that the reach forum didn't have people trolling and moaning as much (it's always had moaners and trolls), was when the game still hadn't come out.

I guarantee that this won't "drastically reduce the active members of the Reach forum" as explained in my previous post.

If the "active" members or "complainers" of the reach forum filter out, I still don't think the forum will be filled with good members. The good members (that supposedly aren't already there) are most likely put off by their inability to arbitrate with the trolls of the forum. They'd still reach the same verdict, just with other good members instead.

The "complainers" now have a forum dedicated to them? As I said before: What do you think will keep them on their side of the blue tape? Who do you think would even consider referring to themselves as a complainer? And how would this separation help Bungie?

You might as well call one forum the Troll's Reach forum and the other forum the Nice People's Reach forum, it's rationalization is the same no matter how nicely you put it.

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  • 12.15.2011 2:32 AM PDT
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this is why there should be a feedback forum

  • 12.15.2011 8:23 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Since Halo 2 was released (and before that with Marathon and the Myth series) Bungie has listened to the player community, but not as individual voices.

They lurk, they read, they listen, and they let the waves of outrage, of calm rationalism, of calls for blood, all wash over them and combine that cacophony into a derivative "here's what we may want to look into" list.

If Bungie (or any dev) ever wants specific feedback and or response to a particular gameplay element/issue, they ask for it.

To create a dedicated forum would give the impression that Bungie is/was uncertain of what they wanted/intended to make and they released a 0.9 version of the game and were waiting for players to tell them how to "finish it".

Might as well call it "The Whine Cellar". Because every title, every element, every pixel has people in favor of it and people who consider it to be the work of the antichrist.

  • 12.15.2011 8:47 AM PDT

It would serve a good purpose. However partitioning off sections of forums would not only be confusing to some members, but it would also cause for less overall activity in the forums.

  • 12.15.2011 8:51 AM PDT
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Addicted.

as i can see here, this "feedback forum" isnt needed, this post is very serious, and i only see serious reactions, so doesnt that say enough?

  • 12.15.2011 9:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: Aronvw
as i can see here, this "feedback forum" isnt needed, this post is very serious, and i only see serious reactions, so doesnt that say enough?


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  • 12.15.2011 9:50 AM PDT
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Addicted.

never mind what i wrote, i now understand what you mean with the "feedback forum", and its a good idea, but, i think people will dump there complains in this forum again in no-time.



[Edited on 12.15.2011 10:16 AM PST]

  • 12.15.2011 10:08 AM PDT