- Shai Hulud
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With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.
Posted by: tex mex matt
I understand what you mean GameJunkieJim, but I dont think the process is reversible. Basically what you want is the pre-hotness days. When there wern't half as many members and everyone just sat around all day discussing Pics of Halo 2 or discussing something. We can't go back to those days because we are simply to watered down with users. I visit this forum everyday, and yet I still I find myself seeing someone post, and being like wow, I've never seen this person in my entire life, and they'd been a member for a year. Basically B.net used to be like one big group, everyone knew everyone basically, now its lost is personality. No longer do I see a post and be like, oh this is gonna be a good one,or wow I bet this is gonna be stupid, because I've never that person post before then. And its not like we can go back to where we came from, we cant just get rid of members.
It just seems like people have lost the point in playing video games.
I don't think it's so much that we actually want a pre-hotness community again. We know that's not possible... But I think it is possible for things to be communized on a greater level. Maybe everyone won't know everyone else, but at least we'll could have something we all relate to and contribute to... I can honestly say that I have no clue how to go about taking steps to accomplish this greater community. But I think that once it gets large enough, people will see it and either join, or leave.
Perhaps I'm being a bit too much of an idealist, here... but I still think it's possible. The 7th Column rebirth ideas are good... But the 7th Column was flawed such that it could never survive with such a large amount of people on this site. It's "death," so to speak, couldn't be helped. Bringing it back won't help. We need something new that can bring the majority of the site together. Once people start collecting into this newer community, those that haven't will see that it's becoming the entire site, and will either be "forced" to join (for lack of a better term), or they won't be interested, and they'll leave. That's somewhat how the pre-hotness days were. People either connected with the community and stayed, or they didn't and they left (of course there were those that didn't and stayed (spammers, trolls, flamers), but they either matured and stopped spamming after a time, or they were chewed off the site by other members).
Getting rid of some of the forums will do that, I think... Two that come to mind would be The Flood and Optimatch (nothing against those that go there or the topics that pop up... I just think the two forums are unnecessary, and tend to shard people away from the rest of the site). Hell, what would happen if we collectivized all three Halo forums into one General forum about anything that's Halo (1, 2, or 3)?