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Subject: Why is Halo waypoint so hated by B-net?

I enjoy halo for it's story and when I am in the mood, its gameplay. Reach was significantly worse then I expected but was still a great game (minus the european hitscan fiasco). I am sitting on a two mile wide fence on the subject of halo 4. Most of the things I like a technical aspects though and not story or game play. Plus I am slightly mad they took my elites from MP.

I don't hate the 343 forums but there are some really, really stupid things on them. No not funny stupid ala flood but just plain, brain cell killing stupid.

oh and anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly support 343 in every decision they have ever made and that halo 4 is how halo should have been all along ignoring that arena shooters are still the most mature setting of an FPS, community wise. Essentially they are casuals. No I don't mean BK's I mean casuals. You essentially have to stick around ordered coma, deva path and anton to get any kind of intelligible discussion. Unless of course you like being called a troll and not a true halo fan in post blocks that conform to the great wall of china.

That is the reason I mostly stick to the universe forum which seems to be the only 'living' board where discussions aren't followed by people who criticise you while knowing about ten percent of what you know about the franchise.

Still some really cool people though and I would visit it much more frequently if the universe forum was more active (and not with the people from the h4 forums). My honest opinion is that the halo 4 forum drags the entire site down quite a few pegs.

Oh and just to add to my criticism of the 4 forum, if something is revealed and then dozens of threads are made to discuss negative views of the reveal then the posters holding the views that are not praising 343 for making the right decision at every turn are called trolls and haters and then when they stop discussing it because they realise how bad the fanboyism is the pro-343 fanboys claim that "they won" when their circular 'logic' has been defeated several times in the threads they are claiming to have won on.

TL;DR fanboys on the halo 4 forums damage how great the site actually is.

  • 09.09.2012 10:23 AM PDT
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  • 09.09.2012 10:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: Redonkulous
Cos it's not B.net


Pretty much.

  • 09.09.2012 10:28 AM PDT

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Tbh, I think you guys are over exaggerating how bad the forums and mods are. Tell you what, I'm going to make a topic criticizing Halo 4 and 343's decisions. I'll try to put it nicely, and see if I get banned for it.

But uhh.. I haven't been following Halo 4 news that much, you guys got anything I could complain about?

  • 09.09.2012 10:45 AM PDT

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After the Bungie.net Halo forums were removed, all the idiots in the Reach board migrated to Waypoint. 'tis now a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  • 09.09.2012 10:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: TheHawk62
Tbh, I think you guys are over exaggerating how bad the forums and mods are. Tell you what, I'm going to make a topic criticizing Halo 4 and 343's decisions. I'll try to put it nicely, and see if I get banned for it.

But uhh.. I haven't been following Halo 4 news that much, you guys got anything I could complain about?

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Posted by: TheHawk62
Tbh, I think you guys are over exaggerating how bad the forums and mods are. Tell you what, I'm going to make a topic criticizing Halo 4 and 343's decisions. I'll try to put it nicely, and see if I get banned for it.

But uhh.. I haven't been following Halo 4 news that much, you guys got anything I could complain about?
You could post those spoilers that came up yesterday.

  • 09.09.2012 10:47 AM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

I can certainly see why Waypoint hates The Flood, [url]https://forums.halo.xbox.com/yaf_postst112132_All-of-you r-threads-are-stupid.aspx[/url].

I understand the hate towards the fanboys, but I tend to see people here claim to get banned for "nothing" and then it turns out to be because they were being stupid.

[Edited on 09.09.2012 10:53 AM PDT]

  • 09.09.2012 10:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
I can certainly see why Waypoint hates The Flood, [url]https://forums.halo.xbox.com/yaf_postst112132_All-of-you r-threads-are-stupid.aspx[/url].

I understand the hate towards the fanboys, but I tend to see people here claim to get banned for "nothing" and then it turns out to be because they were being stupid.

QFF

  • 09.09.2012 10:53 AM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Posted by: Kai Hiwatari

Posted by: DecepticonCobra
I can certainly see why Waypoint hates The Flood, [url]https://forums.halo.xbox.com/yaf_postst112132_All-of-you r-threads-are-stupid.aspx[/url].

I understand the hate towards the fanboys, but I tend to see people here claim to get banned for "nothing" and then it turns out to be because they were being stupid.

QFF


Yeah, yeah, yeah broken hyperlink. It isn't working for me. But it does on Waypoint...

[Edited on 09.09.2012 10:56 AM PDT]

  • 09.09.2012 10:55 AM PDT
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And threads like this one.

Another.

One more.

[Edited on 09.09.2012 10:59 AM PDT]

  • 09.09.2012 10:57 AM PDT

<3

I mean seriously, stop making 343 related threads!

  • 09.09.2012 10:58 AM PDT

Someone should make a thread on Waypoint asking what they think of teh Flood.

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Posted by: Fegelein
Someone should make a thread on Waypoint asking what they think of teh Flood.
Check my above links.

  • 09.09.2012 11:01 AM PDT

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  • 09.09.2012 11:02 AM PDT

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Posted by: BalistaGaming
The mods are 15x more strict than bnet's and it's filled with Halo 4 fanboys and former Reach-Forumers.


really?. I am leaving to that place :D

  • 09.09.2012 11:04 AM PDT

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  • 09.09.2012 11:27 AM PDT

Ugh...

First on a BWU.. yeah, I'm cool.

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I don't hate it that much, but I think this one time I got a small little detail wrong about something I was commenting on, and a user said to me: "Oh, don't worry, with your post count I wouldn't expect you to know anything about Halo."

Which pissed me off to no end.

  • 09.09.2012 11:30 AM PDT

A few reasons:

Most of them have been banned.
There's a lot of stupid discussion going on there (IE "They're going to make Cortana a human to save her OMG!")
The forums are very buggy.
Some people are very defensive.

Just to name a few. I personally don't mind it so much despite its faults.


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  • 09.09.2012 11:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: POKEY CLYDE
I don't hate it that much, but I think this one time I got a small little detail wrong about something I was commenting on, and a user said to me: "Oh, don't worry, with your post count I wouldn't expect you to know anything about Halo."

Which pissed me off to no end.

Though, that still isn't as bad as the "My K/D is Higher than Yours" argument.

  • 09.09.2012 11:31 AM PDT

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Posted by: TehWarMoose

Posted by: POKEY CLYDE
I don't hate it that much, but I think this one time I got a small little detail wrong about something I was commenting on, and a user said to me: "Oh, don't worry, with your post count I wouldn't expect you to know anything about Halo."

Which pissed me off to no end.

Though, that still isn't as bad as the "My K/D is Higher than Yours" argument.

Actually, yes it is. When multiplayer is discussed, k/d is highly relevant. Post count on a select forum, however, is not.

  • 09.09.2012 12:32 PM PDT

If you've read the Halo Reach forum about 2 years ago you'll see why. Idiots. EVERYWHERE!!

  • 09.09.2012 12:33 PM PDT

Trussingdoor is pretty kewl. He fires lasers and doesn't afraid of anything.

Short answer? It sucks.


Long answer? It really sucks.

  • 09.09.2012 12:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

The bans are so stupid.

The decided to ban me for posting "the thursday war preview" in which members soon noticed you could search up words and get around the book. So two days later they have a little meeting that they then decide that is leaked content and decide to arbitrarily ban me as if i had any control over that.

It was overkill; Toa Freak already locked the thread and explained what was going on so i didn't talk about it further. Yet ten minutes later i get banned.


Talking to them is a was of time also. All i kept getting was "didn't you think it was weird nobody posted that preview?", "If it isn't from 343 then it should be treated as a leak".


The -blam!-? It isn't like anybody goes to waypoint first nor is it like they actually tell us stuff their since frankie goes to neogaf. So i guess i can't post anything from IGN,youtube, or any other amazon previews because it is leaked content.

  • 09.09.2012 12:40 PM PDT

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The mods merge to many topics, the mods tend to do more moderating then interacting with the community, and its full of all the fan boys that destroyed the Halo 2, 3, and Reach forums. Meaning you have a bunch of Halo fanatics arguing over why they think their opinions should be implemented into the next game.

Most importantly 343i has let every Halo game besides CEA and Reach die. They do not maintain the Halo Universe outside of the most recent installments.

  • 09.09.2012 1:01 PM PDT