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Steam username: TopWargamer
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One does not simply get rid of TopWargamer so easily.
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ALL HAIL GABEN

What keeps us members staying on here for hours at a time? No other internet forum has this affect on me, except for Bnet.

Why is this so?

  • 04.23.2012 1:14 PM PDT

The awesome design and layout along with a community of people with similar interests and good humour.

  • 04.23.2012 1:15 PM PDT

B.net doesn't affect me like that at all.

  • 04.23.2012 1:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: AcedannyK 7
The awesome design and layout along with a community of people with similar interests and good humour.


Exactly.

  • 04.23.2012 1:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: AcedannyK 7
The lame jokes.

Fix'd

  • 04.23.2012 1:35 PM PDT

The WorkPLace

Posted by: FALSE R3ALITYx
And Cobravert is absolutely correct.

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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and Cobra."
- Der

Posted by: AcedannyK 7
The awesome design and layout along with a community of people with similar interests and good humour.

Something like that, but my version leans heavily on private group more so than community.

  • 04.23.2012 1:38 PM PDT

GGGGGGggggggggggggGGGG


Posted by: AcedannyK 7
The awesome design and layout along with a community of people with similar interests and good humour.

This pretty much sums it up.

  • 04.23.2012 1:39 PM PDT

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The awesome lay out, good rules and the nicest people you can ever meet.

  • 04.23.2012 1:43 PM PDT

The Risk Is Worth The Reward.
Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War.

Agreed, of all the community sites out there. B.net by far is the best. Nothing can really come close to this site.
Posted by: AcedannyK 7
The awesome design and layout along with a community of people with similar interests and good humour.

  • 04.23.2012 2:06 PM PDT

Non facete nobis calcitrare vestrvm perinaevm.

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You imply a level of control over Halo: Reach matchmaking that we no longer have. Or, in your vernacular, it isn't our shiznit anymore.


Active 9/1/11, Heroic 12/25/12

For me it's the interesting discussions and the Bungie employees' interaction with the community.

And the lame jokes of course.

  • 04.23.2012 2:52 PM PDT

Cammalamm is the best.

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Posted by: TopWargamer
What keeps us members staying on here for hours at a time? No other internet forum has this affect on me, except for Bnet.

Why is this so?


because humans look for a cause or a purpose to make you feel like your worth something to society.

or maybe you have nothing better to do :)

[Edited on 04.23.2012 2:54 PM PDT]

  • 04.23.2012 2:54 PM PDT
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Shoot pool, not people.

Obvious alt


Posted by: Cobravert
Posted by: AcedannyK 7
The awesome design and layout along with a community of people with similar interests and good humour.

Something like that, but my version leans heavily on private group more so than community.


What Cobra said

  • 04.23.2012 3:06 PM PDT
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A lot of people here do it because they've elevated the company to a pretty high spot in their minds. Most start here out of loyalty and appreciation to the company. A specific product from Bungie merited enough appreciation, and you had a calling to join and discuss it. For many, this effect snowballs. Bungie becomes an object of perfection. No product is better, no one is better. Employees become celebrities. Moderators become celebrities. Your heart skips a beat when you see a gold septagon next to a thread. Suddenly you realize the potential. In this new realm, you have the ability to become known. You can be recognized, revered, and known by your favorite new celebrities due to the levels of interaction. This results in droves of members striving unnecessarily for higher member titles and popularity, and trying way too hard to make "productive" or "useful" posts that end up only slightly more exciting than churning butter.

In that sense, you could say that the community is addictive, though I would suggest that people with these thoughts might be suffering from a bit of delusion. I like Bungie, but the people who work there aren't celebrities. The website isn't perfect, nor are the games (both are, of course, very nice, but definitely not perfect). And you're not likely to gain much from lurking for hours on end.

I'm not saying that this applies to everyone, although I think that a lot of people (myself included) have been this way at some point, to some degree - even if we don't care to admit it. Most of the other motives I see for people coming here for are, in my opinion, derived from the original purpose above, except with more mature and legitimate approaches. These are things like community interaction (by other members, this isn't you if you consider colored text your idea of interaction), private groups, or perhaps an actual interest in one or many products that Bungie has released.

A lot of people do come here because they like a single community for online interaction, so they default to it. But even then, there's always a reason for the initial choice, and for you staying around as long as you have. To be honest, I'm probably in that last camp at the moment. I used to do a lot here, and I'm used to it here, so I default to the site.

  • 04.23.2012 3:25 PM PDT
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That's easy: the community (and site design and subjects).

  • 04.23.2012 3:28 PM PDT

@Vinyl_Hb

Wait... We're allowed to leave?

  • 04.23.2012 3:31 PM PDT