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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I'm not on "bungies side" but as far as humanity goes this was just sick, cruel, disgusting, and really shows where the world is headed. Seriously pull your heads out your asses. There is NO reason for this kind of thing. If someone gets so upset over a video game, they really need to reevaluate themselves. Here come the 2D side scrollers cuz nobody is going to take making games seriously if this keeps up. Hate me for my opinion I really don't care, fact is its people like that that are bringing society down.
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Edited by Mike_Pittsburgh: 11/8/2014 7:10:15 PMPreach. The game may not be perfect, but it is A GAME. You don't start risking people getting gunned down through the window because of A GAME.
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If u look up this one article a 16 year old got life for swatting multpiul houses and even getting one of the peopels dad shot because he thought it was an intruder. They take it very seriously
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Reading some of the posts in here makes me lose faith in humanity.
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'This also happened where somebody called police on a player for beating them in call of duty' Ahahahahahahha. Wtf. CoD... Serious buisness. Bahaha..
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Disagree don't speak on my behalf you red shirted ass
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Omg this is so funny
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Don't worry it was all a hoax created by Bungie to get some of you on their good side. lol
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So what he was disappointed in the game...
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I heard about this from Kotaku (via Facebook) last night. Kotaku summed up the article in one word : "Stupid." The police should go after the guy who set this all up. It shouldn't be that hard to track him down; the police would surely have some contact information of the guy who set up the Bungie exec to be swatted. But I don't know; I read the article in the OP and it says that the person who set it up was using some method of sorts, probably a means to just leak info about the Bungie exec....meaning, possibly, there's no way to track down the person who set up the swatting. Maybe it will be that hard to track him down after all. :/ As for how this applies to the rest of us as a whole, well, if stuff like this continues, it will be a circumstance where we "have nobody to blame but ourselves". All it takes is one rotten apple to spoil the whole bunch, even though you yourself might be, or are, innocent. Turns out that "swatting" isn't a new thing, though it's new to me; some guy who got beaten at a match in COD swatted the winner, an event that happened in late April of 2014. I think that, in order to prevent things like this from happening to us, we should keep our personal information discrete. I only use my username, though that itself is a big risk. On my PS4 it's possible to disclose my full name, but I only use initials, not just because I'm not playing games to seek relationships or friends, but also because I don't want someone looking me up in a phone-book.
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Lock the retards up.
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I don't recall anyone appointing you as community liaison... let alone letting you speak on my behalf.
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No words.
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Boooooo go away OP. What a huge suck up.
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Blame the gamers. Why not. No go and kiss with deej
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You've got a little something on your chin there.
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What makes you internet white knights think anyone needs or wants you to apologize? Did you make the call in question?
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Wooaahh the Destiny babe who did that is an idiot. I didn't even know swatting was a thing.
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Swatting is pretty new to the world, but it hasn't happened all that often. I don't condone it or anything like that, but doesn't it just go to show that people are so up in arms about how terrible destiny is that one of them swatted a lead developer? It wouldn't have happened if bungie had just given us the game we were shown, or pushed it back 3 months and rolled it out with all of its content. I'm not saying I'm glad it happened, it's terrible and dangerous, but come on, if this isn't a sign that the community is unhappy, bungie needs to wake up.
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Wow... just wow...
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Lame post stop eating his gonads.
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Clearly this is the guy who did it duh.
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Wait, when did I give you permission to speak on my behalf? And when did we need to apologize for one persons actions, who may or may not have been apart of the Destiny community in these forums. Were the actions by this person stupid? Yes. Does it mean we, the larger community, should apologize for it? No. You need to learn that we cannot accept responsibility for a random persons actions. We might as well apologize for Ebola, ISIS and World War II as well while we're at it.
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So glad my generation didn't invent this crap
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WTF!! Some people are sick. I can't believe people get their jollies doing shit like this.
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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.