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11/6/2014 5:23:24 AM
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Well, this site is a huge disappointment now
I stopped playing Destiny a few weeks ago because I didn't see the point in the grind anymore. I stopped posting on the site because it was chaos due to the influx of new users who didn't know the rules. I try to come back to the site every now and again, and it is still flooded with poorly grouped topics and mostly people just trying to find raid groups. (Which could be fixed by adding a raid matchmaker that required a mic to be plugged in).
I know the mods on this site are basically appointed volunteers who can only moderate in their free time, but it seems that the site is finally out of control. Unless you are willing to hide away in the private groups, you cannot communicate anymore. Hell, I doubt this topic will get read by more than two people.
You go to Gaming, it is all raids. Community, all raids. I haven't clicked on Destiny but damnit, that is where all those topics should be in the first place. I'm sure offtopic is just as flooded, but I have don't want to disappoint myself any further.
This used to be my go to site when I opened Chrome. Now it is just a link I dread clicking. I think Destiny has effectively killed the forums for the predestiny community. Now that we/me/they are gone, all that is left are people who don't even care about the site.
Bungie, I hope you learn from this and fix the issues at hand in the future, but until that happens, you have lost another long time fan (I guess you don't really care since the site probably generates millions of hits a day now) to your shenanigans with Activision and just a general lack of planning.
The site has no structure and clearly the ninjas no longer carry enough fear for users or the numbers to actually stop the flood of crap coming into it now.
It's been great everyone, but now I must say farewell and hope that those of you willing to stick it out longer than me are able to see a brighter future.
p.s. Bungie, I'm not saying this happened because you sold out to Activision, but this happened because you sold out to Micro....Activision. (Wait, didn't you want independence from big brother when you broke from Microsoft? Great choice guys, great -blam!-ing choice).
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I can't like this post enough! Seriously, it's been about a month since they said they would start fixing the site. This morning I found I had an update for the app; lo and behold no fixes to the forums, but hey there's improvements to other stuff! Also I agree about the Ninjas. The new moderation system makes them seem pointless/nonexistent. I get they don't want to scare away new users, but it doesn't hurt to inform and teach new users how the forums work. Let's be honest too, the new users clearly don't listen to veterans of the site who, regardless of how polite they are, try to teach them how the forums work. Furthermore, the new moderation system doesn't show people "this is bad, don't do it", people aren't going to learn if they don't see what's wrong. I know Bungie is focused on Destiny, but they are forgetting that the Destiny fans are just another subsection of the Bungie Community. It seems as if (and I know, or hope, this isn't the case) that they want the Bungie Community to become the Destiny Community. People come to the site because they like he Community, they don't just come for the game, I really hope Bungie understands this.
