Wall of text about my feelings about Bungie.org (Destiny)

by car15, Friday, September 26, 2014, 00:18 (3948 days ago) @ Xenos
edited by car15, Friday, September 26, 2014, 00:28

"Why are you here?"

That is a very good question. I know it wasn't directed at me personally, but it's a question we should all ask ourselves, and this is the answer I came up with.

I honestly don't know.

I know why I came here initially. I loved every game I'd ever played that had been made by Bungie. Halo, Marathon, Oni... they were all amazing. (I never did get around to playing Myth, but that's life.)

I thought this would be a pretty cool place to chat about the game. My presumption was that the focus would be on the game. I knew this was a Bungie fan site, but I didn't expect the people here to be such, as you put it, fanboys.

And I don't mean to be nasty when I use that word. I just didn't expect so many people here to be die-hard Bungie fans that had followed the company for thousands upon thousands of years. I thought there would be a more even mix of people - not just in the amount of time they had spent here, but in their approach to the company and to entertaining criticism as well. This has not been the case.

...if you don't like Destiny think about that question and why, on a Destiny and Bungie fan site people would become annoyed to have someone repeatedly putting down the game that they came to this site to discuss and to find other fans. And if you do like Destiny, find a civil way to express your disappointments and let it drop, even if someone responds in a less than civil way. The number one thing I learned on this forum is the best experience comes when you ignore the few negative people, because when you don't, you generally become one of them.

That's a very good point about why people are so annoyed here. I apologize if I've annoyed or offended anyone with my negativity about the game. That was not my intention.

The thing is that I do have appreciation for this game, and it's far more than minimal. Destiny has such a strong foundation that the disappointment of its actual content, or lack thereof, hurts more than it otherwise would. That untapped potential is why I'm still here. I focus on the negative parts of this game because nearly all of them are things that can be fixed. I know Bungie reads these forums, and if we can start a dialogue about the things we don't like and why we don't like them, maybe they can figure out a way to salvage the excellent foundation they've built and deliver a more polished product next time around... or perhaps even later on this time around...

Unfortunately, that kind of thing has to happen as a dialogue. One person being negative doesn't necessarily even know why he doesn't like the game, but if he comes to a discussion forum and compares his experiences with other players who are similarly disappointed in the game, maybe they can all figure it out together.

Being negative =/= being completely disinterested in the game.

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Now, regarding being civil...

I have not been a very civil person around here as of late. I know that. I'm trying to change that. So what I'm about to say should not be construed as passing blame for my behavior onto other people. Not at all.

1) When someone is less than civil, and someone else responds in a less than civil fashion, nobody here seems to have any sympathy for the person who responded. I should keep that in mind in the future.

2) Certain people here can be extremely condescending when they want to be. I even combed through old posts to make sure I wasn't misremembering things. I should try to ignore those people, at least when they get that way, because you are absolutely right. When I don't, I become one of them.