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Edited by HopeRidesWest:
11/8/2014 8:44:39 PM
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Deej, about last night...
Deej,
I'd like to take this moment to apologize to the Bungie Exec who was victimized in the SWATting incident. It was a cruel, selfish, stupid thing to do and whoever did it deserves much more punishment than they will likely receive. I absolutely hope you ban the perpetrator from your games for life.
It seems like Bungie has been the target of a great deal of flak and hate on the forums since Destiny dropped, and as community liaison you've definitely been at the center of a lot of it. That's unfortunate, and doubly unfair. We as a community of gamers tend to become so passionate about our experience that we allow ourselves to turn into entitled brats who abuse developers at every turn, forgetting how excited we were to play the game and how much fun we have doing so. It's a sad consequence of our instant gratification based culture. We forget that a game, much like movies or books, won't please everyone all the time. We also tend to discard the fact that we didn't do the years of work it took to make the game, and that we weren't there for the struggle of creating something new from nothing at all.
Once again, I apologize, Bungie. I'm sorry we've been so rough on you. I'm sorry we keep giving Deej a hard time. To the Exec this happened to, I apologize both to you and to your family for the distress this obviously must have caused.
And to whoever did it, f*** you, a**hole.
Edit: removed "on behalf of the community". Didn't realize that phrase would be a hot button issue for some people. I was just trying to do something nice on the forums, and I don't have much experience on here so I'm not sure what's taboo and what isn't. My bad.
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It's a pretty immature prank that's for sure, I hope they find the idiots involved. (Unlikely though) It sounds like you are using it as soap box though. One bad thing doesn't invalidate another and reducing the general theme of these forums to absurd extremes gets done enough on both sides and is equally useless.
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5 RepliesEdited by Arthr2ShdsJcksn: 11/8/2014 5:12:01 PMIt doesn't need to be said that calling the SWAT on an innocent person is wrong. Every sane person agrees with that. That being said, don't presume to speak for me. Who designated you as the 'voice of reason' for these forums? It seems clear that your only reason for posting this is to create a persona about yourself as a good guy. Otherwise, you could've sent this message straight to Bungie and not posted it on the forums. You sound pretentious, probably because you are. That is my own opinion, not that of the community.
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3 RepliesEdited by PallidWhite: 11/8/2014 4:46:00 PMI think the people who should be apologizing for this should be the people who decided to split the game up and sell it as DLC. I really didn't care because I make a lot of money and $20 isn't a lot to me but some kid who $20 is like $100 was probably asshurt because of this, went to his school or a Starbucks and made a fake Skype account and did this. When a company potentially "screws" a bunch of consumers to a point where they flood their forums with nonsense and angry threads trying to coerce the rest of us to follow along with there protest. These are the types of situations they should expect to see at some point in this day and age of anonymity. So who is really to blame? Who should apologize? In this case. In my opinion. Not us. OP please speak for yourself. This is a very unfortunate situation for the exec and his family but I'm not sorry it happened. You push people so far and the crazy ones will retaliate.
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2 RepliesEdited by LostZenFound: 11/8/2014 4:51:27 PMI feel bad for Deej. He was a Bungie super-fan who probably thought he was getting his dream job. I'd like to believe that if Deej had known he was walking into a company that's last two vestiges of honor and soul, in any sort of leadership capacity that is, walked out the door with Marty and Joe that he would have told Bungie-vision to go kick rocks. I said I'd like to believe that, but every shwarmy weekly update makes me doubt it more and more Clarification: when I say Bungie-vision I am not talking about the countless Everyman/Everywoman who pours their souls into the art, design, coding, etc. That's why on one hand we r able to play one helluva addicting, beautiful game. On the other hand Bungie-vision -blam!-s us daily w/out a thank you and treats us like we're all too blind to see what they've done to this game and their plans for it. Bungie-vision: "Give me a toot, I'll sell u my soul, pull my strings and I'll go far" -Dead Kennedy's
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This type of behavior is disgusting. Even if you think the game is shitty, there's nothing criminal about it. Calling the swat team on someone is nothing to joke about. They could've been doing something important like a drug bust instead of this pretentious bullshit.
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Nice post. Well said.
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Wow... that's sad. I don't know what I would do if I thought my wife and daughter's life was in jeopardy. Then it turned out to be a "prank" by some little bastard playing a game? What the hell is wrong with people?
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That's just disgusting on behalf of the person who made the call. What people do sickens me sometimes.
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This is an act of terrorism. Who ever did this doesn't deserve any rights.
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I understand what you are trying to do, but it's not you who should apologize, nor can you apologize for the community or actions from them. Don't give others the excuse that it's just ok to do things then say sorry afterwords. That means they (or you) should tolerate those types of actions, which you shouldn't be doing.
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43 RepliesMaybe Bungie will think twice about releasing an unfinished, gutted game next time. Hats off to the dude/chick who fought back against bungie in the only way he could (cause you know none of them read the forums)
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Some people game to much. They think everything is a game... This kind of jokes effect people alot. So this is not a blaming joke.
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Why did you feel the need to do this again ?
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What exec was it? Cuz I mean, it coullllddddd have been deej right? I know he isn't an exec but the news just may be referring to him a such right?
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.... go to a pub and get drunk, not sit at home making creepy threads towards developers. Why are you apologizing to him? Why are you apologizing on behalf of the community? I can assure you, 99.9% of this community had nothing to do with it.
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Sorry? That they have -blam!-ed over tons of fans and customers?
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From the title I thought you and deeg had a date or something
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What happened???
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If it was you guys family it would be different, but the fact that a -blam!-ing video game isn't all you want you threaten to take hostages and shit!? Wow crazy ass no life's in here.
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1 ReplyHoly -blam!- this happened my god the world we live in today I bet if shit hit the fan and one of them got shot dead by this cus who knows the police in the states are going nuts I bet half the gamers in this community would applaud this guy sick -blam!-s. it's one thing to gripe over lost promises and to hate the company cool more power to ya to involve a man's wife and children that's pretty low and you can't really rationalize that if your trying your a psychopath
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People are going way too far. No matter what, there will always be complaints. And these complaints should be shown in ways that show respect and manner. No one should ever go to the extreme of this. I hope whoever I behind this gets caught.
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19 Repliesthe police needs to verify that before they storm the keep.. -.- .. dangerous and threatening..US Cops are not like "normal" cops, they rather shot first then ask.. -.-
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What are you guys talking about ...?
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This makes me laugh. Now if only it was Deej who'd get stormed.
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He only asked for 20K? That spells hoax right there.
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lol that's hilarious.
