Before you generalize this thread, this is not a complaint about Bungie.Next.
Anyways, I was poking around Bungie.Old and going through various iterations of the site. It occurred to me that their is a history so rich and full of stories here... and most people know nothing of it. We need an Archive. Not a Wiki (Even though the people running that do a good job.), but a full fledged archive. And before you say you know everything about the Bungie Community, do you worship Clyde? If you don't get that reference, you don't get this Community in its entirety. We need a place to Archive Bungie's Community, Forum Memes, Employees, Community Guys (Bungie Employees), and trends in the site.
You should just scroll to a certain year or month and see, hmmmmm, this meme was popular this month. Oh, this guy was in charge of the community this particular year. Bungie's community goes farther back than Halo: CE.
You can feel the memories, the good times. And they're slowly being forgotten. Don't let that happen [i]Current[/i] Bungie Community, otherwise it'll happen to you too.
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The bungie.old content was just toxic towards the new title ... it would be very difficult to pick up a single tread from any of the old forums which left bungie in a positive glow, not something you want shown to a potential new fan base (ok - agree everyone will remember, but bungie can hope - cant they?) The funniest of these was the Crimson Steam Pirates area ... the "[i]indie developers bungie love[/i]" have been shut out - nice way to treat the one developer who took the leap of faith and went with bungies crimson project. Our posts can be treated like worthless material, but to cut of the support of a commercial start-up who still has to pay bills ??? ... wonder how bungie would have reacted if Microsoft had done the same to them when the publisher/developer roles were reversed?