- CrazzySnipe55
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- Fabled Legendary Member
So, presently on Bungie.net there isn't much of an incentive to keep any given account. I, like many others, am extremely adverse to the idea of alts as I think that it's much better to maintain a single, dignified Bungie.net identity. The point of interacting within a community is to be part of a community, and to do that you need an identity.
The first and foremost reason for this, other than having an account to troll or post risque posts or topics with, is that, besides your title, there's no real incentive to have any one title. If people don't give a -blam!- about their identity or their hat, then there's no real reason to not make and use endless alternative accounts.
And that is what I am proposing we (with a *little* help from the web team) rectify.
The first and most obvious solution that daza has been lobbying for in several threads for a long time (somehow finding a way to relate it to whatever it is he's talking about) is adding literal value and incentive to your account on the site. This would mean giving you exclusive access to certain features, avatars, themes, etc. if you meet that feature's, title's, or theme's prerequisite, whether that be any given prefix or base title.
These features could be anything from image posting (when I'm not in favor of), to the ability to use named hyperlinks, to the ability to use, say, the ignore feature if it becomes a reality, to maybe even the ability to use polls. For things like poll posting or the use of named hyperlinks, the prerequisite would be something as simple as having any title at all, while things like image posting (if implemented) would require a more high-level title (Mythic, Senior, etc.). I'm not specifically suggesting any of these examples I give, to be clear. They're just that; examples. I could talk about them later, but I'm pretty much in favor of any type of incentivization or title-based exclusivity.
The next kind of account incentivization that I brought up in another thread would be in-game incentives and exclusives. For examples of these and what I mean (in relation to a potential build of Destiny), refer to [this] post. These sorts of incentives in-game would be helpful yet not gamebreakingly advantageous. Plus, it would drive more traffic to Bungie.net if there was a message in-game as well as telling people that it could lead to in-game incentives.I think it's safe to say that Fabled and Intrepid would not be included in the titles that would be linked to in-game exclusives and incentives due to it encouraging spamming on the site to attain those titles.
So, what do you guys think about this sort of "solution" to the growing problem of people seeming to have a lack of identity, importance, and worth to their account? Any additional ideas and bits (or essays) of constructive criticism are welcomed and happily accepted.
TL;DR: What do you think about adding incentives and exclusive access to "things" both in Destiny and on the site which are related directly to you Bungie.net account age and current title?
e: probably not the best time of night to have posted this...
[Edited on 08.28.2012 11:38 PM PDT]