Note: this is a direct copy from reddit. I am merely spreading the word
[quote]I know, these things never work. I know, this probably sounds entitled. Perhaps it is, but I ask that you at least read all of this before you make those judgments and dismiss this post.
If you haven't read the top post by now, Luke Smith has taken it upon himself to slap every last player in the face and show us that we're nothing more than cattle to Bungie. If that sounds reactive or like hyperbole, please read the article and you'll realize that it's a pretty accurate assessment. This doesn't just insult you and I as regular players, but it spits on all of the hard work of everyone who made awesome community tools to fill in the gaps of Bungie's otherwise 6.5/10 game. Things like LFG sites that were made to compensate for the lack of matchmaking; like DestinyPublicEvents or Destiny Item Manager; like Destiny Ghost Hunter or sites that give you a better look at the Grimoire so that you have even the slightest clue as to what story actually exists in this game. The list can go on. We as a community put a lot of time and effort into making this game more than we were given. And don't get me wrong, there are some fantastic people at Bungie working their hardest to constantly improve the game, to listen to us and implement as much feedback as they can, to give use the tools needed to build everything I just mentioned. I get that. I'm hugely grateful for them, too.
However, we can't let an attitude like Luke Smith's dictate the future of this game without being contested. We shouldn't, anyways. We didn't just play this game; we invested in their community. We invested our time and talents to enrich the experience for each other in ways the game itself couldn't. Yet now we're being treated like we're nothing more than a pile of wallets? I get that they're a business, but you don't build a strong base for a game that's supposed to last 10 years by ostracizing and insulting your existing player-base.
For that reason, I implore anyone reading this to consider taking a day off. Just one day of either watching Netflix or playing a different game (new Batman, yes?) or anything else, really. That Tuesday, when they expect all of us to rush back into the weekly events and start knocking out our chores (likely even offering us some trinket to celebrate their favorite day of the year), let's actually show them what happens if we take our business elsewhere. Let's try to drive their server numbers to record lows. Let's organize ourselves as the community that wants this game to be as great as we know it can be and tell them in a way that even Activision can understand that we don't agree with their direction and we're not afraid to go elsewhere (especially after that E3 we were given this year). They need to stay competitive to retain us, so please, I only ask that you consider grabbing your friends and playing something else on Bungie Day this year. Show them that we matter just as much as any new players they mean to attract.
It's your choice as to how the future of this game shapes up, so do you want to try to make a statement or do you want to pay $40 for exclusive dance moves?[/quote]
Edit: I really do loathe people who don't even read the post and just go down to the comments to insult/rage against me. If you read the post and still don't see any point in not logging on, fine. But read the damn post!
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Edited by shdhissjdnssodjn: 6/23/2015 9:34:19 PMI'm logging on the 7th :)
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Do I count as a veteran If I got it a week after it was released?
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Meh, I'll bump it
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The forums outrage has not gone unnoticed. The developers see this. Preorder sales have dropped. They see this, nevermind what the minority defense say. It will change. And this, although not the first step, is something that might - just might - battle Activision's greed. It's just up to the Community to stand united; to shrug off past games with loathful players, to do something truly epic that no one can miss. Even if the small amount of forum goers that bump this stave the game for a day, they will notice. They can't help it. "Strike them where it hurts: Their wallets" TL;DR: BUMP!
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Good luck with that
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How about I'll play if I want to, and laugh while all the whining entitled "veterans" complain about how they think Bungie is ripping them off.
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Not a chance, this is just laughable pathetic.
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I'm sure Bungie and the rest of us will thank you scrubs for the load off the server. Thanks in advance!
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Okay, sounds like fun.
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Count me in
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For anybody new, Bungie's favourite number is 7 and the 7/7 always has something special- Halo 3 had a Bungie symbol painted on the wall of one of its most famous map for only that day.
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I will be playing and paying and playing some more regardless. You people are just silly. It's just a game. If you are so upset just stop playing. Move on to another game, get off the forums, and enjoy life sans Destiny.
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Considering I think that this Luke Smith interview has been blown way out of proportion (he was trapped, asked questions the interviewer should know he's not actually qualified to give a real answer to: why's the price so high in Europe?!), I think I'll be here. I'm not buying the Collectors Edition, because I'm not buying content I already have. But I'll get TTK, it looks fun and beats paying full price to buy a new game and DLC every year (à la CoD).
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Make sure you post about not logging into any Bungie service. Phone apps and forums also. Don't half ass it. Go full Monty
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I haven't played destiny since the witcher and ESO came out. I don't plan on playing it until I see reviews on TTK about a month after it comes out. I'm almost positive it'll be the same as everything usually is in destiny. It looks great in trailers and gameplay videos but after a month it'll be stale and you'll be out of content again. But I am hoping it's not.
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So completely bored with the lack of playable content in HoW I probably wouldn't have been logging on anyway. If they want me to pay $40 for TTK I need to see that there is a lot more content than TDB and HoW combined. Which I guess shouldn't be that hard as HoW had very little new playable content for me.
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Still going to log in.
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Anybody for a raid on 7/7?
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What Luke Smith really had no appreciation for is just how venomous the reaction might be from a fully-pussified generation of entitled whiners. I've read the article, and I see nothing more than a developer a little overconfident in his product. He probably didn't imagine that his every word would be over-analyzed, with the vocal minority on here working themselves into a frenzy over silly marketing trinkets. This ridiculous exercise in group think has allowed some of you to take great offense that an authority figure supposedly DARED speak down to you. I can't wait until some people on here find themselves in the real world where not everyone is "mad chill" and where no-one speaks to you in a gentle tone. (Besides your parents that is.) Your proposed scheme won't work, any more than the thousands of "don't buy gas on X day" slacktivist schemes that preceded it.
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Edited by jay p: 6/23/2015 7:20:28 PMI don't play every day, but i will play extra on 7/7 to counter this silly bullshit. And I will contact everyone on my friend's list to play that day also. [b]Did I particularly like what Luke said in the interview?[/b] I don't give a -blam!-. It's a video game.
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I'm staying up on the 6th so i can be logged in for the entirety of the 7th....
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Nevermind the fact that a minority of Destiny's playerbase actually views these forums.