- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GezaB
I think we realy, realy need to stop Elite racism on the forums once and for all.
I love to play Halo, I play it every day once I get home, sometimes hours at a time. I used an Elite model on live, and every day I'd get insulted by people... most commonly fifteen year old boys, who say things like "(Insert the N word here), how the hell can you play as an Elite, they're big, clunky, can't jump for crap, and are way easier to headshot" (Note, I had to clean that up abit since the B.net cussing filter will put "-blam!-" on every second word...).
I joined the bungie forums around the newyear of 06, and than, the forums where flooded with topics about Elite racism and people would often go off topic in a thread to say how bad Elites are. Thankfully, this has died down over some time now, but I still see it regularly.
Recently, I've seen a video which made fun of Elites... which seemed to say (Not literaly) "All Elite players on Xbox Live are just six year olds trying to be cool". People have actualy said that, that Elites are mostly six year olds who play on Xbox Live (They shouldn't even be playing Halo) thinking their cool or something like that.
I recently switched my character model and now, it seams people who treated me poorly when I was an Elite seem to like me better now, and I find that less and less people trash-talk me.
My point is:
I think if someone shows Elite racism on the forums, I think their threads should be locked, or maybe they should be blacklisted, I find it abit silly actualy that the moderators don't understand that Elite racism is targeting alot of players, both young, and old, by putting out the basic message "Elites have os many disadvantages they suck! And whoever plays as them "sucks" too!". And they are insulting the (small) group of gamers that are Elites, people who just want to have fun, but they won't let them just for some character model...
Its insulting, and I think it should be stopped, at least to lock these peoples threads if not stop it completeley.
Oh please. "Elite racism"? Don't try to turn this elite thing into some critical debate point...it all comes down to opinion.