- Cowgoesmoo
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I have a theory.
This theory is about how Bungie destroyed the Reach forum.
As we all know, the Reach forum is now rather inactive. But how? Wouldn't people still post there? How come the popularity has went down? Surprisingly, it's not related to Bungie's dormancy. The reach forums were just a gathering place for anything. Bungie deals as much with the Reach forum now as they did before, which is practically nothing. It was just a place to argue about armor lock and that stupid armor complimenting thread.
On the more subtle side, Bungie has changed the location of the Reach forum. Unless people have it homepaged, getting to the Reach forums is considerably more annoying, you have wait for the drop down menu, then you go to game forums, THEN you might have to scroll down, THEN you click on the Reach forum. It's labor intensive for the average lazy gamer.
Before I go further, I will explain that my deductions come from a book I finished recently on habits, changing the way I perceive anything in the world.
Let's have a quick psychology 101 here-
Habits are very primitive and fundamental to the human mind. Through habits is how our minds only need to work about 1% in some situations, however it's not very clear how much we use anyways. The current prediction is from 1% to 99%. In other words, experts suck at this.
However, what is undeniable is that habits do alleviate our minds of a huge, possibly 99% of work at times.
I will explain how habits work.
Habits are started by a cue. A cue could be anything. It's anything your brain recognizes, and you have an ordered interaction with. For example, you see 1+1. Generally, your brain has a habit of writing down two as the answer. Or, perhaps you see a homeless guy, what happens is your brain runs habit_homelessguy.exe and you go pull out some change for the poor fellow. Those are cues. The action which comes after the cue, is pulling out the change, or writing down the number two.
That's a quick psychology 101 for you guys.
Now, here is my explanation.
Habits are easily destroyed because the cues your brain sees must be very precise. If Bungie so much as changed the text and font of "Reach Forums" your brainless, emotionless habit_ReachForums.exe would not run. Your brain then has to then think. (Habits aren't considered thinking) And thinking means you can perceive things as pointless, or tedious.
Thus, with such a "drastic" change to the location of the Reach forums, Bungie has effectively destroyed the cue your brain perceives. However, if it were in habit for us all to take less than two seconds to go to the Reach forums with the current layout, the Reach forums would be as active as ever.
I take a short bow for this performance to-night.
[Edited on 09.26.2012 10:22 PM PDT]