Been here almost 8 years, even through the huge site downgrades, and now I got booted off for not paying the new $60 entrance fee.
This is probably the most heinous money-grubbing sleaziness I've ever seen a company try to pull on its fans. I guess it's not surprising, really. They tried to kill off the older members by executing Bungie.net and replacing it with this ugly, eye-burning design, and when that didn't work they finally realized the only way to exterminate us fully would be to enact a pay-wall for website usership. Indefensible, really. This may be the farthest a company has gone to alienate people in the gaming industry ever. If I didn't buy Destiny before, I sure as shit am not going to now, since I'd prefer not to give a single penny to the corporate overlords at the top of the pyramid wringing their hands with delight over this new final solution for all those users who still haven't paid up on their new piece of trash product.
Underhanded, low, shady. There is no excuse. It is not a means of improving the community, and it was never intended to be. The community is only going to worsen if its older, mature members are barred from participating in it, and no-one could possibly be stupid enough to ever believe that hanging up a "No proven devoted site members allowed" sign on Bungie.net would improve it long enough to put something like this into practice. That's a load of garbage they're trying to feed us to simply cover up the fact that they don't want users who haven't bought one of their games in five years to be getting a free ride on their forums anymore. Plain and simple.
But, if you've borrowed Destiny from your friend once and popped it into your machine and fired up an account, you're automatically a more valuable community member than someone who's been here 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7+ years because at least you’re meeting the new boss. What a brilliant system. This is surely a means of improving the community and not simply a passive-aggressive way to try to squeeze a few more people for their pocket change. I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to make a character at a friend’s in order to openly criticize this absolute avarice, or if I should just have left the website, since I, along with every other member who joined before last year, am clearly not wanted. In the end I just decided I would out of spite more than anything.
Truly a marvel of stupidity. And the attempts to "justify" it and damage control their trainwreck of a decision so far have been even more amazing. What an utter failure of community management. The committee that dreamed up this joke should lose their jobs for this kind of mishandling of online presence for a company. This is like Facebook shutting off access to anyone who hasn't played Farmville. If you wanted to limit the Destiny forum with this sort of stipulation, fine, but ranging it to a site-wide ban for anyone not interested in some garbage game shat out on a plate by a company sucked dry of its vivacity by the corporate wonder of Craptivision is utterly villainous business practices. I would love for the MBA failure who dreamed up this company policy to attempt to explain it in any way that does not make him or her sound like a first year business student stuttering through their proposal for web presence concepts as the professor looks on with a grimace of disappointment at the embarrassment.
Because that's what this is, embarrassing. For everyone involved. Everyone who thought it up, everyone who worked to implement it, everyone who wants to try to defend it. What a failure.
[quote][b]DeeJ[/b]
It is our hope that you’ll enjoy a long stay in our online home.[/quote] But not for too long, of course. Some of you have already overstayed your welcome.
[quote][b]DeeJ[/b]
Throw down some roots.[/quote] But make sure not to let them sink too deep, because around here we’ve got a long saw and a hankering to cut down the tallest trees.
[quote][b]DeeJ[/b]
Make some friends.[/quote] But don’t get too close. They may not be around for long.
[quote][b]DeeJ[/b]
Be excellent to each other.[/quote] Because Bungie is not going to be excellent to you.
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a gaming company so openly antagonistic to its audience. It’s a marvel, it truly is.
Oh and also, #WeAreThe1%
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Truly a sad day to be a long-time supporter of Bungie I bet this is how Marty felt. Betrayed.
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Download density demo
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Maybe now you idiots can go out and get jobs instead of living in your parent's basement for the last 8 years.
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It's funny because there was the whole Bungie premium membership Joke going on, and now it's basically a real thing
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Wait until November, there will be an emote, minimum to get in.
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This is not a money grubbing move. The people who make these decisions do not give a fu[i]c[/i]k about you or any other member of this forum. All they see is that people who are no longer contributing buyers are continuing to use their services which costs them money. They, objectively, have no reason to care about the users who have not bought Destiny and its expansions. They have crunched the numbers and know what is best for them. You need to accept the FACT that you have no RIGHT to use the service of a company you do not support financially. It is a privilege. One that they paid for up until now. It is a just a job, and you are just a number. [spoiler]Disclaimer: My subjective feelings on the subject are not entirely reflected above. That is the objective argument, which is an argument you will be hard pressed to disprove. [/spoiler]
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It's sad but unfortunately true :(
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Wait what's going on?
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"We hold our wallets with missing funds. We stand tall against missing content. We stride forward on the bones of our fallen. Then, and only then, are we alive. This "Pain" is ours and no one else's. A secret weapon we wield, out of sight. We will be stronger than ever. For our peace ... Still, It doesn't feel like this is over.
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Yeah, nice rant But if you download the [i]free[/i] demo, that works too
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Let's focus on the important issue: Destiny sucks.
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Old bugie died man.
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Bump to the moon
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This policy is pretty stupid in my eyes
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Meh. I've been thinking of leaving this site for some time now. Haven't really made as many friends as I used to have on here. Run a couple small, not-so exciting threads. Lame to hear that they've actually employed the option to lock out people who have not purchased Destiny, (got over the fact its mediocre– its OK). I guess my days are coming to an end quicker than I'd expected.
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Its been like that for a while. Made an alt to troll them back in july. Didnt have access there Not sure why you want to go into the salt fields anyway
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the more loyal you are the more you get fk'ed by bungie , destiny was my first and last bungie game thats for sure
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Edited by Decimator Omega: 10/4/2015 9:41:27 PMI might make an old tribute video to old Bungie sometime this month. This new Bungie by far is the worst set of people to be in charge of a game studio. The Halo days were the prime days of this site. Not anymore now with this new crap.
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It's such a shame... I'm tearing up ;-; Bungie isn't the same anymore. We should stand up for their freedom. Who cares if they don't make another Destiny with Activision? They can do one with Microsoft and they could make the masterpiece Destiny was meant to be #FreeBungie
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Signed.
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Agreed.