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Re: Needs moar fiction threads
By:thebruce0
Date: 8/6/13 10:33 am
In Response To: Needs moar fiction threads (Postmortem)

: Stuff like Loftus' thread above is the sort of stuff that brought me to the
: Halo community in the first place. There aren't really any other people
: you can talk the specifics of Elite anatomy with without getting weird
: looks.

: Nowadays it seems like people want to hear more about multiplayer as that
: gets refined further and further, and people just don't seem as interested
: in that anymore. Maybe it's changed too much from the typical Halo
: formula. I don't think so. I personally haven't had this much fun in Halo
: multiplayer since Halo 2. School and side projects have gotten in the way
: of what would normally be my relaxation time with MP though.

I think it's a few things... IMO,
1) People are growing up - many of us who connected with Halo in its early years, when gaming had a slightly different style, are now college/post-college/career/family, with less time to play & geek over stuff we used to. The newcomers who've replaced us are of a different type of gaming mindset, generally speaking.
2) Definitely a developer style difference; 343 ain't Bungie, and regardless of whether their community/development style differences are better or worse, they are different, and so the community is different.
3) Destiny. With Bungie's new IP went a whole lot of general forum activity over to DBO. And due to #1 and #2, a lot of the forum vets also migrated.

Really, I just think the gaming and Halo landscapes have changed... and that happens. There's still a lot of activity, but it'll take either inspiring the newer generation of gamers to be as invested as we were in places they aren't as much these days, or we just try to be satisfied with what we do still value and discuss here.

For me, I can say the same about ARGs over the years; the community has changed, development standards have changed, game styles have changed, jobs have changed, ages have increased, individuals' priorities have changed while the younger community getting into the scene are coming into a different landscape from the get-go... it's not the same as it used to be, just because of Change.

For us, the Change seems to be downhill. For others, it may be an improvement (out with the old, in with the new, as some may say). *shrug* To each his own.

Let's just try to keep HBO bouncing as much as possible :)

: I think this down time will be good for the community. We need more down
: time, because it'll help us go back to what it was we liked about Halo in
: the first place. What it was that kept us going back to play the same
: games even when no new content had been released. And then want to talk
: about it with people. I'm still hopeful.

Sometimes I fear 'downtime' can have a negative effect though, depending on what the goal of the downtime is. If it's to improve this community, it probably won't. If it's to 'move aside', as it were, and let the community move and evolve naturally how it will, then it's more like a good move 'for the greater good' :).

So who knows where HBO will be in a couple of years, or even a year, or less. It is halo.bungie.org, after all. /:)


Messages In This Thread

Oh noCody Miller8/4/13 4:37 pm
     Constant community fragmentationRC Master8/4/13 4:51 pm
           This. *NM*Hyokin8/4/13 5:47 pm
           Re: Constant community fragmentationAvateur8/4/13 6:14 pm
     Re: Oh noserpx8/4/13 5:43 pm
           Re: Oh noAvateur8/4/13 6:15 pm
                 Re: Oh noserpx8/4/13 7:45 pm
                       Re: Oh norobofin1178/4/13 9:09 pm
                       Re: Ohserpx8/7/13 1:59 am
                 Re: Oh nopete_the_duck8/4/13 10:27 pm
                       Re: Oh noJoe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/5/13 4:55 am
                             Re: Oh nopete_the_duck8/5/13 11:34 am
                                   Re: Oh noJoe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/5/13 5:40 pm
                                         Holy. Damn. Cow.ZackDark8/5/13 6:28 pm
                                               Re: Holy. Damn. Cow.Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/5/13 9:37 pm
                       Re: Oh noAvateur8/5/13 10:51 pm
                             Re: Oh noRevenant19888/6/13 8:39 am
                                   Re: Oh noAvateur8/6/13 10:11 pm
                                         Re: Oh noRevenant19888/6/13 10:35 pm
                                               Re: Oh noJoe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/6/13 10:41 pm
                                                     Re: Oh noAvateur8/6/13 11:08 pm
                                                           Re: Oh noRevenant19888/6/13 11:23 pm
                                               Re: Oh noSchooly D8/7/13 12:57 am
                                                     Re: Oh noAvateur8/7/13 1:19 am
                                                           Re: Oh noRevenant19888/7/13 7:21 am
                                   the keyes roll *NM*Joshinhuman8/6/13 11:18 pm
                             Re: Oh noCody Miller8/6/13 1:22 pm
                                   Re: Oh noKermit8/8/13 5:35 pm
                                         Re: Oh noAvateur8/9/13 1:39 am
                       Re: Oh noGeneral Vagueness8/15/13 1:37 am
     Needs moar fiction threadsPostmortem8/4/13 10:43 pm
           Re: Needs moar fiction threadsrobofin1178/5/13 12:06 am
                 Re: I'm all for more fanfic!thebruce08/6/13 10:36 am
                       Re: I'm all for more fanfic!Stephen L. (SoundEffect)8/6/13 12:23 pm
                             I would love you forever!padraig088/6/13 2:20 pm
                                   Re: I would love you forever!Stephen L. (SoundEffect)8/6/13 3:29 pm
                                         What does a chopper look like... *IMG*uberfoop8/6/13 9:52 pm
                             The Gibraltar Chronicles incoming! *NM*munky-0588/6/13 3:23 pm
                                   Going where no man has gone before!LostSpartan9878/8/13 1:07 pm
           Re: Needs moar fiction threadsLeviathan8/5/13 1:32 am
                 Re: Needs moar fiction threadsCody Miller8/5/13 1:11 pm
                       Re: Needs moar fiction threadsPostmortem8/5/13 1:44 pm
                             Re: Needs moar fiction threadsStephen L. (SoundEffect)8/5/13 4:02 pm
                                   Re: Also, THIS *NM*thebruce08/6/13 10:38 am
                       Re: Needs moar fiction threadsKermit8/8/13 5:46 pm
                             HBO is way more active though...Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/9/13 12:40 am
                                   Re: HBO is way more active though...Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/9/13 12:47 am
                                         Re: HBO is way more active though...Schooly D8/9/13 2:07 am
                                               Re: HBO is way more active though...Louis Wu8/9/13 1:32 pm
                                               Numbers don't liepadraig088/9/13 1:44 pm
                                         Re: HBO is way more active though...thebruce08/9/13 9:51 am
                                               Re: HBO is way more active though...MacGyver108/9/13 10:03 am
                                               Re: HBO is way more active though...Grizzlei8/9/13 4:57 pm
                 Re: Needs moar fiction threadsthebruce08/6/13 10:37 am
           Re: Needs moar fiction threadsXmoosev38/5/13 7:40 am
           Re: Needs moar fiction threadsCody Miller8/5/13 1:10 pm
           Re: Needs moar fiction threadsthebruce08/6/13 10:33 am
                 Re: Needs moar fiction threadsStephen L. (SoundEffect)8/6/13 12:18 pm
                       Re: Needs moar fiction threadsthebruce08/7/13 12:34 pm
                             Re: Needs moar fiction threadsStephen L. (SoundEffect)8/7/13 1:36 pm
     Don't Worry, Be (Shiny) Happy Peopledavidfuchs8/5/13 11:21 pm
     Re: Oh noLurono8/8/13 12:27 am
           Re: Oh noMacGyver108/8/13 2:07 pm
                 Re: Oh noLurono8/8/13 9:30 pm

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