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Changes in Access Policy on Bungie.net
Hey there, Community.
At Bungie, we’re committed to making our website a safe, well-lit place for the community. As the engaged innkeepers of Bungie.net, we’ve learned that accountability is a great ingredient in the recipe for a healthy community. When a user has some personal investment associated with their account, they’re more likely to take pride in the way they communicate with other people.
Since its inception and throughout various evolutions, Bungie.net has served a community that shares a game. The game (Destiny, for example) is the thing we all have in common – the unifying element that brings us together in the first place. In order to ensure that the end-users who are accessing the public forums on Bungie.net have a greater interest in the quality of the conversation, we’re going to require that each account be linked to a Guardian with some player history. At current, that includes more than 99% of our active community.
Bungie.net accounts are free, easy to make, and easy to link to your playable character. Your access to the public forums is tied to your Guardian, but your account can still be used to enjoy many of the free social features that we provide. If you’re not playing Destiny, you’ll still have access to Private Groups.
If you’re a new user who is seeking support from us on the #Help forum, you can find some instructions on how to create and link an account here: https://www.bungie.net/en/Help/Article/12130
If you need assistance with creating your account, let us know here: https://www.bungie.net/en/Help/Troubleshoot?oid=13633
It is our hope that you’ll enjoy a long stay in our online home. Throw down some roots. Make some friends. Play some games. Be excellent to each other.
DeeJ, out.
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Edited by Messax: 1/31/2018 1:38:13 AMTest brb gonna get fiddler.
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[quote]Hey there, Community. At Bungie, we’re committed to making our website a safe, well-lit place for the community. As the engaged innkeepers of Bungie.net, we’ve learned that accountability is a great ingredient in the recipe for a healthy community. When a user has some personal investment associated with their account, they’re more likely to take pride in the way they communicate with other people. Since its inception and throughout various evolutions, Bungie.net has served a community that shares a game. The game (Destiny, for example) is the thing we all have in common – the unifying element that brings us together in the first place. In order to ensure that the end-users who are accessing the public forums on Bungie.net have a greater interest in the quality of the conversation, we’re going to require that each account be linked to a Guardian with some player history. At current, that includes more than 99% of our active community. Bungie.net accounts are free, easy to make, and easy to link to your playable character. Your access to the public forums is tied to your Guardian, but your account can still be used to enjoy many of the free social features that we provide. If you’re not playing Destiny, you’ll still have access to Private Can I join your clan I'm a 314
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Sometimes I like to wrap myself in blankets and pretend that I'm a worm.
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3 RepliesEdited by ZoltoydeZ77: 1/5/2016 4:02:20 AMStill locked?
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15 RepliesBump.
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Edited by Tom T: 11/7/2015 2:28:27 PMIn theory, I guess this makes sense; small cost, significant gain. But it saddens me, and I wish the time had been taken to better incentivize members and improve site moderation (not just referring to moderators, but the ability of the community to moderate itself). This change has greatly inconvenienced the rotten part of the community, at the expense (sacrifice) of some of the oldest community members. Thinking about it, had the timing been slightly different, this could very easily have impacted me. I haven't ruled out posting here again, but presently don't have a gaming console and haven't yet been able to engage with Destiny Y2. I would have been gutted, had I logged in to see how things were doing (see: right now) and been unable to post. :( This quick-fix may have a small cost overall, but I would like to see this refined at first available opportunity, perhaps taking note of account age or linked Halo stats, to allow older users to post again. A small cost may be acceptable to some, but not here in the 7th Column, especially when a gain can be had with no such cost at all, and when those who have been excluded once contributed so much. Never forget, [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/154396494/0/0/1]Qbix[/url]89, evilcam, [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/159637549/0/0]Captain K[/url], and the rest...
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6 RepliesMy assumption is your intent here is to prevent duplicate/spam accounts. That makes sense. More and more websites require their comment sections to be tied to a facebook account to give the user some skin in the game. I don't think this is some "cash grab" to "force" users to buy the game, as a couple have suggested. It's very unlikely anyone who hasn't played the game by now goes out and buys it solely for forum access, and the vast majority of the accounts that will lose access are alts or trolls. However, that being said, this will impact some older members that don't frequent these parts as much as they used to. This won't affect me, but there are other users that came here originally for Halo that have drifted away from the games but still maintain their accounts for occasional community contact. I propose a grandfather clause to allow older members who have been on the forums for years to still maintain access for their loyalty. Even if you want to put a join date on it to prevent existing duplicate accounts, five years, seven years whatever it may be, I'll see people every once in a while pop their heads back here after years of absence just to say hi. Many of them have moved on from this place, but it's always good to see an old face and remember the people that helped build this community to what it currently is. I'm biased as hell, but those people should always be welcome here.
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10 RepliesAfter much research and calling in favors I found out who is behind this.
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19 RepliesEdited by moo: 11/4/2015 5:25:35 AMYou either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villian. Maybe your life cycle should have ended. Maybe, after all these years, all the "success". You lost your way as a company. It saddens me deeply, honestly. I had lan parties on a weekly basis for your games, hell i beta tested halo 2 before it was what you see today. Maybe, just maybe, a mirror of your old self is what you're trying to banish. As a whole, the beautiful past will always stay with me. You cant run from guilt. Its a sad day when i have to use my psn to even post.
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15 RepliesThe old community isn't dead. It's just missing in action.
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1 ReplyThis shit must have like -1000 downvotes if they actually showed the number. Honestly though, why was this unpinned? This is something that should stay up in sight for everyone to see.
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It's sad that Activision ruined Bungie to the point that they're giving the middle to their old fans. Hey Bungie -blam!- off you're nothing but a bunch of frauds.
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1 ReplyIf you do this I won't buy the next destiny expansion or game or whatever period. #Offtopic (the flood) will be torn apart by this rule. Many people there do not play or want to play destiny. Forcing them to so they can return here is pretty messed up. Offtopic may be the most screwed up place on these forums... But I like it there. Honestly more than bloody destiny. It's like my daily news, comedy, and satire all wrapped up in a messy, half hearted bow. Don't flush your old fanbase. It's just proving that the only people in charge over there are Activision.
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5 RepliesI'm not even part of the 1% and I think this is ridiculous and messed up
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25 RepliesWell, the old, cool Bungie is now officially dead.
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3 RepliesI'd like to pretend that I'm surprised and taken aback that Bungie would betray their old fans like this, but I was here for the release of Reach and the big site update in 2012 so I can safely say that this is [i]such[/i] a Bungie thing to do. It astounds me, the way the new Destiny fans on the site don't seem to realize that Bungie doesn't give a shit about them or anyone else but themselves. All they have to do is look at the company's history and it's easy to tell that Bungie stopped caring about anything other than money a very long time ago. Introducing Destiny, the Taken King, featuring access to our all new pay-to-post forum, Bungie.net!
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43 RepliesYou've killed us. You've killed something that was the last of its kind, and will never happen again. You killed a community that spanned generations of consoles and games, and traded it's body for a bastardized version that you'll be lucky if it lives until the next game. You've taken something strong, while misguided and driven mad by the replacements you try to bring in, and broken it down until it decided it had nothing to live for. You have taken a proud group of individuals and swapped it for an asthma of Destiny playing drones. And why did you do this? Money, money, money. The only guiding force in this decision isn't the community you just gladly took to the gallows wasn't respect for something that will never be replicated, but the revenue you can make off of the new traffic after exterminating the old generations. And you'll do the same thing to the ones meant to replace people like me for a profit. This forum should have died, and it has every right to, but not like this and not now.
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This is pathetic. We have to pay for your piece of shit game to use the forums. This is a slap in the face to all your original fans. Bungie is dead to me. I'm never buying any games they create if this is how they treat their fans. You don't care about us. You just want our money.
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6 RepliesEdited by ZoltoydeZ77: 10/27/2015 7:22:30 AMRemember, remember, the end of September.
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2 RepliesEdited by Avants Garde: 10/12/2015 8:45:28 AM[quote]Bungie.net has served a community that shares a game. [/quote]Bungie has served [i]multiple[/i] communities. You know, the one about the guy in a suit? There's a community for that, don't know how you forgot about that one. Myth? Oni? [quote]At current, that includes more than 99% of our active community.[/quote]What is defined as active? I would probably be defined as inactive but you're lucky that I bought Destiny to [i]support[/i] you so I could respond to this trash. What happens when Destiny becomes older, and you no longer actively support it? You'll just dump those users too and tell them to go somewhere else? Real classy. This is a lazy solution to spam accounts. You need better tools. Period.
