Do you think Bungie giving recon away a Mistake?

[dreaddraco2]

Yes, because previous owners of recon totally didn't brag.
Also, I think them giving it away was a mistake. Not for beating all the vidmasters, but for things like being splattered by a traffic cone.

Just because people were "original" owners of recon, doesn't mean they're more deserving.
The ones that had recon are probably jealous that they aren't a "special few" anymore.

[Crippled Hobo]

Recon armour in Halo 3 was something to be earned and something to aim towards. Icons in the halo 3 community like Digital Ph33r worked for recon, he made unique machinimas and introduced alot of people into the machinima world. That's an example to what recon stood for and how it could be obtained, and now to him, it's worthless.

If you saw someone in Halo 3 with recon, before the Bungie vs world events, it was quite a rare ocassion because it wasn't easy to come across. You knew that the person must've done something pretty special to get it and, well, I guess people respected those people. Now, you see someone with reson and think "oh, another person who's completed the Vidmaster Achievements". It means nothing. And for that reason I think it was a BIG mistake, unless they bring out some kind of new armour to seperate the regular player from an icon in the community it's all worthless.

[iRaynne]

Originally Posted by Insane54

It wasn't tough. At all. It was just 2 hours of boring Firefight.

Tough? Not really.
Two Hours? Yeah.
Boring? HELL NO

I thought that this was fairly challenging and INCREDIBLY fun, and I'm happy that Bungie made the achievement that they did. It does require a good amount of coordination, and it ends up being two hours of incredi-fun.

Recon is just recon, in a few weeks it won't be any better than Hayabusa.

And deaddraco, nobody got recon for getting splattered by being hit by a traffic cone. Rumors ftl.

[x DREAM 76 x]

No. I don't think it was a mistake. I love the way Recon looks and I am looking forward to unlocking it myself as soon as I get some free time.

If you think that some kid who has Recon who is bragging is going to make me sad, think again. This is not Bungies fault. Recon is sweet and I am glad everyone has the chance to obtain it. I am not going to let someone ruin my fun just because they have a bad attitude. You should not let it get to you so much. It's just a game..

[Conkerkid11]

There are only two ways you can get Recon... Either you have sex with a Bungie employee, or you get it from the Vidmasters. The first time I thought Bungie giving recon away was a mistake was back when they had screenshot contests for it. Almost every single screenshot that won sucked ass. One of the screenshots that won the Landscape contest was a fucking close-up of a flower! How the hell is a flower Landscape, or scenery!?

I look at people with Recon the same way I look at everybody. But the moment they start to brag about it, I raise hell...

[KsqueaK]

Originally Posted by Crippled Hobo

Recon armour in Halo 3 was something to be earned and something to aim towards. Icons in the halo 3 community like Digital Ph33r worked for recon, he made unique machinimas and introduced alot of people into the machinima world. That's an example to what recon stood for and how it could be obtained, and now to him, it's worthless.

If you saw someone in Halo 3 with recon, before the Bungie vs world events, it was quite a rare ocassion because it wasn't easy to come across. You knew that the person must've done something pretty special to get it and, well, I guess people respected those people. Now, you see someone with reson and think "oh, another person who's completed the Vidmaster Achievements". It means nothing. And for that reason I think it was a BIG mistake, unless they bring out some kind of new armour to seperate the regular player from an icon in the community it's all worthless.

i completely agree with that 100%.

[IndigoBeef]

Well recon has never really been an issue for me since I have always preferred being an elite than a Spartan, but what I can say about bungie giving away recon is this, Recon is and armour permeation that does nothing for game play. You it was used to signify these people who had achieved something in the halo community but these people are known for their deeds and not their armour so I can’t really see anything overly significant about it. Yes there will be people bragging about it for a while but after a month or so that should stop and it will become just another armour. And what we haven’t mentioned is that once reach comes out recon armour is going to be redundant since the majority of the halo 3 fan base will move on to halo reach. From a halo fan’s point of view recon being released hasn’t truly affected me in any way, however from bungie’s point of view releasing recon is a powerful marketing tool, there will be thousands of people around the globe that will buy odst simply for recon so they will gain a much better profit off odst if they release it and so from their point of view I would say that it is an extremely smart idea.

[Yeti]

It's weird... I have Recon now and I still get messages from fools asking me how I got it.

I always just say that Bungie likes me... just for the lolz.

[RCGV]

The guys you were playing with are assholes, plain and simple. I support Bungie's decision to make recon attainable.

It would be nice if elites could use recon armor, though. And the katana as well.

[halo kid]

Yes,but the recon they have away is mildly different from vidmaster recon. Its to do with the little patch on the head,but that aside...Recon was something you wanted to own,would you perfer to have some thing 100 people own,or 1,000,000 people own. I rest my case.