- RoboChocobo
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If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.
Posted by: SS_Zag1
Dangit Chocobo! Stop making such excellent threads and such.
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I agree, Bungie has lost some of it's community-ness (Yeah, it's a word now.) in the recent years, which I think is due to the fact that the community is much bigger. Far bigger than it once was. It's easy to address 1000 people with a good sense of companionship or with whatever word you would describe as 'the Bungie community feel', but 10,000? 100,000?
How big is the Bungie/Halo community, compared to the Bungie/Myth community?
Perhaps some of Bungie's staff, the person who wrote the comics, or the Webmaster himself, have just lost the motivation to do such things as they once did. Perhaps they feel that after a hard day at work, responding to a bunch of fan e-mails, or spending some free time on a funny little comic just isn't worth it. They don't get paid any more for it, and they're all furiously working on Halo 3 to make sure it doesn't flop, as some claimed Halo 2 did.
Maybe this big gap of "Bungie community feel" is all just the build up to a stronger, larger, and even better community upon the release of Halo 3. It's not very welcomed, however.
And I agree with WhiteRaven's comment, on the fact that many of the Community team spend more time on HBO than over here, but then again, what are they going to say? Notice how Bungie.net has these "let's talk about Halo 3 and the online community" subjects, whereas HBO is the place to go for the LAN parties, events, etc.
I just wish somehow they could be meshed into two. Somehow the Septagon could become that place for events, reports on LAN parties, etc., as it seems to be intended.
The problem here, with everything, is time, and perhaps even willpower. Not enough time to do the comic. Not enough time to respond to fan mail. Not enough time to do the, for the community, fun things that Bungie used to do. Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling Bungie lazy, I'm actually calling them great. They're spending time working on what might possibly be one of the best games of this decade. They have a right to not have enough time.
See, now I'm not sure what I'm asking for, or what my point is, exactly, so I'll end it here. .. ;)
I think you bring up some very good points. Mainly that you adress
1) General fatigue does wear on a community, and slow it's interaction.
I think many of us here can say that they've tried to start a "machinima, A community project, a vid doc, a custom theme etc" yet very few of these efforts ever come to fruitation, or are accepted. I myself have been at work at several projects, but barely have the energy to finish them. I think this is probably true of alot of us.
We lack guidance, and so we sit here, infront of a monitor, with a heavy sigh as we think about just how awsome that new theme would be, or how much you would like to affect the community. We all want to help, but there IS a reason there are so few theme masters.
I think guidance is the hardest part. We want the path to be laid infront of us, or some kind of a pat on the back to keep going, while in real life we fight extenuating circumstance, work, school, lethargy, and our projects die.
I myself have been at work on a Machinima Script I planned on filming and posting to B.net and HBO since Febuary. I've ended up only getting 1/3 of the work done. Is it because my ideas are bad? No, I just lack motivation.
So how many others out there are floundering from Motivation? How many other fans simply lack that final push. We see the work of those we do succeed, everyday we see it on HBO. Maybe Bungie, just like us, simply lack the motivation, and the willpower to take the time to update something that likely won't fully be appreciated?
This requires more thought.