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7/15/2015 5:31:35 PM
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Thoughts on Cozmo's hiring.

Fine with CM from Reddit

419

Rather have CM from Bungie.net

116

Indifferent

262

[b]Note:[/b] Before I go into this, I'd like it to be known that I don't have anything against Cozmo. I've never met him, and I've only heard good things about him from some friends who have met him. This is about the circumstances of his hiring. ----- Ok, now with that out of the way, it's about to get saltier than the Atlantic in here. When reading through his introduction, the phrases that really stuck out to me were "Destiny community", and "I come from the Destiny subreddit." I'll break this down seperately as to why they bother me. As RagnarokUnbound pointed out to me, Bungie never used the term "Halo Community." We were, and always have been, the Bungie Community. We are the Seventh Column. Cozmo's coming from a place that pretty unanimously likes Destiny. The subreddit doesn't have to deal with #Gaming and #Offtopic, that, for the former, is indifferent to the game, and in the case of the latter, completely dislikes the game. This website is a multi-purpose platform for communication and interaction between people. I'm in 15 groups, and none of them are Destiny-centric. We may have come here for one reason or another (mostly Halo: Reach), but we stay for each other, and not Destiny. "I come from the Destiny subreddit" is the second part of this problem. It comes off as if they're proud to ignore candidates from Bungie.net. There are a few employees that I can think of right now that came up through [i]this[/i] community, that understand the dynamics, and would have made better CM's, and that line rubs it in that this website is getting overlooked by its owners [i]again[/i], in favor of a place full of people that most of us have never heard of. So now, we're stuck with someone that has no idea what we, as Bungie.net users want, because how could he? r/destinythegame doesn't have groups, so how could he know that Bungie gutted the features out of them? Reddit doesn't have titles, so how could he deliver Mythic status back if he doesn't know what it is? Maybe I'm cutting him short, but it's irritating to me, as a long-time user of this website, to see DeeJ pick his personal friends from TTK, and a guy who run a subreddit, over someone that's paid their dues to the Column.

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  • I find it acceptable. From their point of view, I believe they WANTED someone that had a hard background on the Destiny community and the game itself. Deej is still the Bungie CM as that part will remain for a very long time till the end of Bungie. But considering the Destiny community alone is growing and becoming more vocal (and coupled with the fact that Deej doesn't have much hands on experience with the game itself), they needed someone to quell the masses of Destiny alone. Cozmo fits this role well. He comes from a large Destiny community and has a considerable more experience than Deej when it comes to playing. And since he is not involved in the back end of the development, he will be able to do exactly what people have been clamoring for Deej to do....focus on the community. With Cozmo, he will be a (more) vocal voice than Deej has been and make it feel like someone is out there interacting with us as the game progresses. We weren't looking for a CM that was going to moderate the #Gaming or #Offtopic, we were looking for a CM that was going to answer us when we had worries about this game they've been pushing so hard to us. Cozmo is now that guy we've been asking for, for a long time. I think they did well.

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