Personally I feel that if you care enough about the politics of this site as to actually put time and effort into a rant, your no better than the elitists you claim ruin the community. There are elitists here, big woop, a mod turned out to be sour, oh no, the world is going to end. I would like to see more Bungie interaction in the forums sure, but it is not vital to my survival as a forumite to talk to a Bungie staffer, and I doubt it would do anything but increase the traffic of suckups. The Bungie community as it was pre-Halo is a collection of people who like to interact with one another, and have fun together, doing whatever it is they feel like doing. It was relatively small and tight nit, think small town. The current B.net is like a city, it is not possible to have such a community exist here anymore, too many people, the type of people that floods various forums does not help either. The problem is that quite a few people WANT that kind of old-school community again, but I feel that due to a combination of too many people and the mindset of young people these days, it won't happen outside of a group, the oldschool users tried doing this, but even their lives chang and their starting to "die" off. I don't like that, it's sad that such a thing happened, I am a small town liking guy myself, but the world is changing and sadly in order for Bungie to be sucessfull it needs a large fanbase and so what we see happen now is a necessity to them as a company. And just like small towns everywhere, enough people didn't care about the community they lost in favour of the new that was given to them, and so those who do care are left outnumbered and have no choice but to go quietly into the night. Melodrama aside, the ranter needs to get over himself, B.net is not going back to the way it was as a tight nit community, with The New Hotness v2.0 hopefully we will see the founding of a bigger, more organized community, but it won't be the same, and people need to either start accepting that, or get on with their lives away from Bungie. --EDIT-- Damn it, I re-wrote this thing 3 times and it's still to long, ah well. [Edited on 3/14/2007]