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Posted by: Search Engine
I say we start a group and hold discussions inside the group about what we can do, and if nothing else make that our own community and only let people dedicated to making bungie better in, who is with me?The last thing we need is for this issue to go private. It was the 7th Column Council idea going private that got me out of the idea in the first place. The Septagon is the place to discuss anything relating to Bungie.net and if any chapters have ongoing discussions regarding this site, by all means migrate the discussion here. ^_^ We don’t need a private chapter to address concerns with this site. HFCS and Chapter Founders should be the only ones for that stuff, in my opinion.
Posted by: dmbfan09
One thing we should remember, Bunge.net was given to the fans by Bungie. They didn't have to, but they wanted to so they could reach out to their fans. Maybe they don't need to do that anymore?Quite frankly, that is the most useless garbage I’ve seen anyone post. Bungie.net wasn’t given to the fans by Bungie, BUNGIE was given itself by the fans. I see people say Bungie owes us nothing all the time, most of the people saying this are mods defending this company. Bungie owes us nothing, really? Talk about profits, Bungie owes us their money, jobs, their livelihood. Come to think of it, they owe their fans EVERYTHING don’t they? Where’s the fan appreciation? Where’s Sketchfactor making a post saying “Thanks guys, for buying our games and shwag and supporting us so that we can do what we love and make great games”? Where are the fanfests that cost Bungie money but show the appreciation for the ones who gave Bungie that money in the first place? Bungie doesn’t need the fans anymore, but without the fans, they’d go bankrupt. Granted they may not need the fans of just this site, but it’s safe to say we’re their biggest fans. If there’s any community they should be concerned about, it’s this one. I’m not ungrateful for what is a wonderful site, but I’ve never been to a fanfest dammit, I feel cheated.
Posted by: Achronos
The mythical search engine is coming... sooner than you expect. More I cannot say.
Lots of things are going to change to get this place ready for Halo 3. But we'll also likely spread the development love around to not just the Halo 3 related stuff, as well. Don't confuse the lack of information with the lack of change. We'll be moving to a new datacenter within the next week or two, and then shortly after that... well, you'll see.Making promises is hard, because then you have to keep them. I understand that as a member of the webteam, you don’t really determine your budget. I for one, would like to see that budget increased 3 or 4 fold, so when you make a promise, it doesn’t take 3 years for Soon™ to happen. I want my features, and I want them now. Why shouldn't Bungie.net be the biggest resource for all things Bungie? Where’s the links to HBO, or HighImpactHalo, or the Halowiki on the front page? Hell, do I even know of very many other great sites? Maybe links on the front page would be nice?
When I first came to Bungie.net 4 score and -76 years ago, I came here looking for information about Halo and things to do in Halo, because the game was so fun, I knew I had only scratched the surface. I wasn’t really getting bored, per se, but I was looking for more exciting things to do with the game. I did come here with the intent on finding local LAN groups, and what I did find was one massive community that was really awesome. The website itself and the forums got my attention. You could search the whole history of all the posts and pull up things people said. The view was threaded (impossible now) so you could follow an idea without interruption. I guess Achronos is right, other websites can do this stuff better now, maybe we should all take a hike to somewhere else and let Bungie.net be the place for new people to spend a couple years before getting sick of it and moving on to greener pastures. I guess I’m just stubborn, because I’m not leaving, and bitter because I can’t play Halo 2 over Xbox LIVE just yet and don’t have access to all those great XBL enabled features of the site.
[plots]Maybe I have to take some initiative myself >:)[/plots]