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5/1/2012 10:33:19 PM
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The next step in Bungie.net's evolution: flash games
(If I'm using improper terminology by using 'flash games' in the title, please let me know.)
Be honest, if Bungie.net offered another pastime other than the forums, would you ever leave this site? I feel like such a feature would be amazing for community retention during down times in between games, such as the period we're experiencing right now.
I don't mean anything big; just something like a text-based game like Pandemic or Project Terra, a game where users could interact in leader boards and such. (Something other than message boards.) The slight amount of competition offered by said games could fuel conversation and interaction on the forums enough to keep things active in between games.
With that being said, I'm no programmer; I have no idea if this would be feasible on the coding side. I think that possibly making it a feature for Bungie Pro subscribers would add incentive for Bungie to implement it, thus making it doable from a business perspective.
Anyway, in a ideal world where this would be technologically doable, would it be a feature you would like?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DE4THINC4RN4TE I'd like to see their next game as a pc game (even though we all know it will be on the ps3), with direct links to and from bungie.net, so they could truly combine their game and communtiy seamlessly. Think about it, talking with your buddies, click a button, playing a game with your buddies. Playing a game with your buddies, click a button, surfing the forums with your buddies. Depending on the type of game their doing, they're doing, this could be the perfect way to implement a clan system. So long as it's not a flash game.[/quote]This is probably going to be a double post, but iPhone lack of ease trumps ettiquite in this scenario. This type of system is used in the bf3 games and I absolutely despise every aspect of it. Having to run a version of the game in addition to a poorly conceived love child of an Xbox live friends list, a web browser, and a social networking site IN ADDITION TO origin makes for a laughably large amount of RAM usage for a game. Making the option available whether ir not to persure this level of integration is great. Forcing it upon the players (I.e. not using a modicum of critical thinking skills and recognizing the origin design as largely obtrusive and a needless drain on resources) is not.
