DestinyGAF Clan -> Request thread

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Everyone else who has apply but have not been accepted yet. Please do the following.

PM me on NeoGAF with your GAF username in the message. And then go find me in Bungie.net

ShadownetX

Send me a PM on there and in the body also put your GAF name as well.

Then I will cross reference your Display Name on there and will approve you. Assuming you already clicked "join" on there.

If anyone else is reading this and thinking about applying for the first time. Just do it normally through this thread. Thank you. This is only for people who been waiting for a long time and haven't been approve yet.
 
Admiral Woofington said:
All right I'm back out from my lunch break. I'll be adding people again maybe later today after work but I'll be with a friend (a fellow gaffer and member of this group) all day chilling. So whenever I get a chance I'll add people.
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I'm so jealous. Why didn't I get an invite?:p Lol have fun.

Red Mercury said:
Request to join PS4 DestinyGAF submitted on Bungie.net.

PSN/Display Name: Rationale
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Accepted!
 
I think it's hilarious that we're MONTHS away from launch and we already have guild drama...
 
*ADMINS PLEASE NOTE*

ALL ADMINS. PLEASE STOP APPROVING MEMBERS.

THERE WILL BE AN ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON.

but for right now we are halting on accepting more members.

Thank you for understanding.

I just had a talk with Valentinus. Aka the Leader of DestinyGAF about the situation and we have came up with a mutual agreement on how to end this once and for all.
 
Frankly, the way I see it, the only group I really care for is the platform I will be playing the game on, which happens to be PS4. If I wanna discuss Destiny with GAF in general I'll just go to the OT on here, or whatever. For all the weirdos who will play on several platforms (I say this lovingly, because I've done it myself lol), it's in their best interests to have platform specific groups anyway, to make things easier, whether it's under a main DestinyGAF umbrella or not. I just don't find it useful to tell the OP and the others willing to invest their time with this stuff that it's not needed; it can all be joined together for the good of everyone. No one else thought to do it, so just be appreciative that someone gave a fuck and tried to do something for others, no need for the drama.
 
*ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ*

Now i'm not very good with words so if anything I'm about to say is confusing, I'm sorry.

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As you know right now we have two Destiny groups. DestinyGAF and DestinyGAF PS4.

Valentinus who is the leader of DestinyGAF and I have sat down and talked (via the power of the cloud... I meant PS4) and have come to a conclusion that we both think will benefit the members of both groups as well as ending this dilemma once and for all.

We have agreed to merge the two groups together under one banner of DestinyGAF. If only the following conditions apply or will be apply in the future.

1) There will be no more drama from now on. Anyone who is caught making a fuss will be given a warning. There will be a 2nd warning as well. If it happen a 3nd time, depending on if you're an admin or a regular member. You will be demoted to being a regular member and/or banned from the group.

2) We have decided to have Divisions within DestinyGAF. There will be 2 Commanders per Sub-Group dedicated to each console. So there will be a total of 8 Commanders, and each one of those Commanders will have a 2nd in command underneath him, a Captain. Each Commanders is responsible for his own Division.

*Commanders so far for the PS4 Division will be Me and Valentinus. I believe Valentinus already found his Captain as well. The other Division Commanders will be appointed/volunteered later. Commanders can pick his own Captain. Commanders and Captains are the only ones who can appoint other admins to their divisions*

*There will be an official list of all the admins, including their Bungie Name/ GAF name and their respective region so people know who to look for when in need*

Please remember that Admins are being picked because they're your BFF, we should only pick those who are responsible, love NeoGAF and Destiny and are professional.

3) Within each Divisions underneath the Commanders and then the Captains will be a group of Admins that will help handle the every day work of organizing strike groups, monitor the Forum and Threads, etc.

4) As you can tell if you ever visited any other forum like Ubisoft forum for example. That within each Forum there are Sub-forums dedicated to different topics.

(example: Ubisoft Forum -> Assassin's Creeds 4 -> which will split off into "Announcement" "Q&A" "Finding Friends" etc.

As far as we can tell there is no such thing like that on Bungie.net Group Forum. So Valentinus and I will try and talk to Bungie about that, about if they could add Sub-Forum as a feature.

If not, we will try and ask the mods on here if we could create an OT for Destiny, and also 4 more threads in the Gaming Community section for each of the platforms. So people can socialize normally in the OT and talk to their brothers specifically on their own specific thread. In the OT will 4 links to those separate threads so people can find them easily. (Assuming this is okay with the mods of course)

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This is basically what Valentinus and I have agreed upon after talking with one another. If you have any question, feel free to PM me or Valentinus or post it bellow.

Though Valentinus is sleeping at the moment. So I will handle all the answers till he return.

*DestinyGAF PS4 will be disbanding sometimes soon. All members should migrate to DestinyGAF if they havent join yet. Admins of DestinyGAF PS4 and DestinyGAF. You guys will join forces very soon. Valentinus and I will talk to you guys later about that.*

I'm glad that we have resolved this peacefully without pitchfork and machine guns.

Long Live DestinyGAF.
Now go find that wizard

EDIT 1: Members of DestinyGAF PS4. Please don't leave this group just yet. There is a GAF member who is sending an email to a Bungie Employee asking if they can merge the two groups together. So people don't have to waste time re-applying, So please just sit tight until further update.
 
Admiral Woofington said:
Dhuie king and motastique are accepted. The rest of you aren't in the list. If you haven't applied in the bungie.net group please do so the link is in the OP. Also I'll be writing a list of names so people can claim them if they aren't claimed by the end of the day they'll be removed from pending and they'll have to apply again.
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I sent the request.
MrDenny
 
Guys i got a message back from Urk that I should send an email to a certain Bungie employee. Please wait for that before disbanding anything.

I will send him an email asking to merge tte members if possible. :)
 
Doh, I read the other thread before this one so didn't see that we were trying to ask Bungie to merge them so I bailed out of this group already.

Glad you got it sorted I'll go sign up for the other one.
 
I missed if this was posted elsewhere, but is there somewhere to post so that people know that someone joining the other group is really from GAF? I just clicked join, so its pending.
 
well ok then...


I still think its going to be messy as hell, the weekend alpha PS4 group had over 500members which is too many to be active in the clan at one time and fly the presumed [GAF] clan tag.

I get the idea of a super group but it doesn't really fit in this game IMHO, I am probably going to play mostly with IRL friends who will undoubtedly wan't to make a clan for ourselves.

I still think smaller clans/groups whatever will end up having to be made, there is just to many people on GAF, to many regions and timezones, too many platforms.

I think it makes a lot more sense to have the main discussion in a GAF community thread, I really don't see the point to have everyone in the same group on the bungie forums since the players will all be split by platform and time zone.
 
Flo_Evans said:
well ok then...


I still think its going to be messy as hell, the weekend alpha PS4 group had over 500members which is too many to be active in the clan at one time and fly the presumed [GAF] clan tag.

I get the idea of a super group but it doesn't really fit in this game IMHO, I am probably going to play mostly with IRL friends who will undoubtedly wan't to make a clan for ourselves.

I still think smaller clans/groups whatever will end up having to be made, there is just to many people on GAF, to many regions and timezones, too many platforms.

I think it makes a lot more sense to have the main discussion in a GAF community thread, I really don't see the point to have everyone in the same group on the bungie forums since the players will all be split by platform and time zone.
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I understand your concerns. It was mine as well. But lets just hope that Clans will not be limited to 500 in the future. 1000 would be much better. of course no limit would be nice.

we are merging it for the time being. If this doesn't work out or if the cap for CLANS is really small. Valentinus, Me and whoever will be the Commanders for all the other divisions will talk about alternative plans.
 
KeRaSh said:
He's probably asking them to transfer all members of the PS4 group to the other one so people don't have to reapply.
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That would be wonderful. I shall wait on that. Everyone who is reading this. Dont be hasty and leave DestinyGAF PS4 just yet. Please wait to see if a Bungie Employee can merge us. If not. You can guys can leave and reapply over there later.

Let just chill for the time being. Thank you,
 
Glad to see this seems to have been resolved. It's too bad we don't have more information on how groups will function relative to clans, but based on what we saw in the alpha (and assuming the membership cap will be raised), having one single group really does seem to make the most sense.

Now you guys just need to get on one page when it comes to making OTs and running the DestinyGAF Twitter and whatnot. But after this, that stuff should be no big deal... right?
 
Madness said:
Of course. Now please, go and read what I wrote the past two pages, and read the responses of JBurton, he's very inflammatory in the way he's writing responses and very insulting. Just read above. He doesn't know me, but because I said I joined GAF for the Halo community here, "I think theyre great and will naturally sing their praises". That's just insulting and invalidating my opinion.

If he has beef with other users, that's fine, no need to take it out on me or others who've done nothing to him, or even said anything. He replied to me first. If he's truly done with the "drama" why keep bringing it up, insulting others, keep creating the very drama page after page. Seriously just read the last 15 pages and you'll see.

Either way, you're free to make any group you want, but when you know a "DestinyGAF" exists, one that encompasses PS4 owners, why want to make your own? But it's your prerogative. I can't speak to what anyone else said. I just entered the thread last page when I made my post. I've only been on GAF less than 1.5 years and yet I was hearing about "DestinyGAF" or reading about it a lot longer than that. That was all I meant.
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But why should it encompass everybody when I only care about having a CLAN with the other PS4 GAF Players? There's gonna be the OT of the game for discussions, lore, etc. so we don't need a 10000 people big ass clan to have everyone under one tent as far as online multiplayer goes, since there's NO CROSS PLAY between platforms. Why do you care so much about having one group that fits 'em all? Who care how Bungie sets it up, it's not like I'm interested in participating in the Bungie forums, only about GAF where, like usual, there's gonna be an OT to have everyone interested discussing together, no matter the platform.
What is outside of GAF is outside of GAF, it doesn't really matter, I've been here 10 years and we've always had platform specific clans, last but not least with GTA5.
It'd make sense if there was cross multiplay and we were non-GAF members looking to Bungie's forums as our venue to talk about the game... but we don't need that since you know, we're members here
 
Dash Kappei said:
But why should it encompass everybody when I only care about having a CLAN with the other PS4 GAF Players? There's gonna be the OT of the game for discussions, lore, etc. so we don't need a 10000 people big ass clan to have everyone under one tent as far as online multiplayer goes, since there's NO CROSS PLAY between platforms. Why do you care so much about having one group that fits 'em all? Who care how Bungie sets it up, it's not like I'm interested in participating in the Bungie forums, only about GAF where, like usual, there's gonna be an OT to have everyone interested discussing together, no matter the platform.
What is outside of GAF is outside of GAF, it doesn't really matter, I've been here 10 years and we've always had platform specific clans, last but not least with GTA5.
It'd make sense if there was cross multiplay and we were non-GAF members looking to Bungie's forums as our venue to talk about the game... but we don't need that since you know, we're members here
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DestinyGAF is the group. You can have multiple clans within it.
 
Dash Kappei said:
But why should it encompass everybody when I only care about having a CLAN with the other PS4 GAF Players? There's gonna be the OT of the game for discussions, lore, etc. so we don't need a 10000 people big ass clan to have everyone under one tent as far as online multiplayer goes, since there's NO CROSS PLAY between platforms. Why do you care so much about having one group that fits 'em all? Who care how Bungie sets it up, it's not like I'm interested in participating in the Bungie forums, only about GAF where, like usual, there's gonna be an OT to have everyone interested discussing together, no matter the platform.
What is outside of GAF is outside of GAF, it doesn't really matter, I've been here 10 years and we've always had platform specific clans, last but not least with GTA5.
It'd make sense if there was cross multiplay and we were non-GAF members looking to Bungie's forums as our venue to talk about the game... but we don't need that since you know, we're members here
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Exactly my sentiments in my earlier post. I don't blame JBurton for being pissed.
 
suedester said:
DestinyGAF is the group. You can have multiple clans within it.
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I know.
And why exactly is it so important to be all in it that it spurred all this drama and accusations?
Explain to me why it'd be better to be a clan in a subgroup of a huge ass group instead of an easily manageable per platform clan (or at least per PS4, since we've shown interest in it so far) since there's no cross platform online in the game and we'd be using the proper GAF venue [= the game's OT] to discuss the game with all of GAF's Destiny players.

perineumlick said:
Exactly my sentiments in my earlier post. I don't blame JBurton for being pissed.
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I don't know, but I'd just avoid the drama and do my thing. Nobody owns anything, another dude could start a 'Destiny GAF PS4 *jpop fans*' tomorrow and he'd have every rights to if that what he wants. It's up to the people to show I terser or not by signing up.

Btw, I'm reposting this 'cause I'd like to discuss the matter:

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Shadownet said:
I states in the OP. Once most Gaffers have joined. If we still have room. I will open this up for non-gaffers to join as well. I already have a couple people PM me about that. I'm just waiting.
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I don't see the point in having a GAF clan if we're going to let in non-gaffers which I won't be able to interact with on GAF/other games/etc. since they're not part of this MB.
I don't care about playing with the friend of a friend of a gaffer, a lurker or a member's wife, what's the point of signing up to anything GAF if you end up playing with randoms?
Otherwise just make an open clan with "fans of GAF" or whatever, but GAFclans/tournaments/etc should always only be open to proper NeoGAF's members.
 
suedester said:
DestinyGAF is the group. You can have multiple clans within it.
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I really don't think thats how it works.

You can have alliances between groups. I see NOTHING in the alpha or on bungies website to make multiple sub clans inside of a group.

Whatever. We will see how it all shakes out. 90% of the people are going to play for a week then never again, you got people signing up for the clan now that might not even buy the game, ect, ect.

The max party size is 6. I really don't need a clan of thousands of people on GAF that I am never going to play with.
 
Flo_Evans said:
The max party size is 6. I really don't need a clan of thousands of people on GAF that I am never going to play with.
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Today's Weekly Update hinted that clan battles will be a feature, so depending on how they're implemented, it could be beneficial to have a clan made up of lots of people around the world so you can easily match into a clan match with them at any time of day.

Bungie Weekly Update 6/20/14 said:
Corneilius86 I am intrigued about clans in this game. What is their REAL purpose? Surely it is not JUST a gathering of friends under one banner.

Read that last sentence again: “A gathering of friends under one banner.” Now, picture the banner. Now, imagine you can hear its ceremonial horns.

If you were able to complete that guided meditation, you know what purpose clans will serve in Destiny. Playing this game is more fun when you play it with your friends. That’s such a warm and fuzzy business offering. Ain’t it? We’ve been dropping that pleasantry for years now.

Behind those buzz words lurked amazing moments of action that we haven’t been talking about yet. Every time I gladly hit the points, I had to stifle mental images of armored knights with pure energy crackling in their hands.

I am intrigued by clans in this game, too. I hope you make a lot of them.
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This is why we can't have nice things...

So the whole DestinyGAF PS4 is going away eventually? to be merged? with individual groups within the clan for each console?

So very strange. Think i'll just wait until all this is sorted.
 
Let me get this straight
During the alpha we had a group and clan
But the "clan" got disbanded
So technically I should be in both groups but only the one remaining clan (gaf ps4)

Clans can only hold 500 people, that maxed out in the alpha. How come no one on the Xbox side is making a clan for their console?

Last question, what can Bungie possibly due to rectify this situation, give us a special clan with a 1000 member cap?
 
devilsadvocat said:
Let me get this straight
During the alpha we had a group and clan
But the "clan" got disbanded
So technically I should be in both groups but only the one remaining clan (gaf ps4)

Clans can only hold 500 people, that maxed out in the alpha. How come no one on the Xbox side is making a clan for their console?

Last question, what can Bungie possibly due to rectify this situation, give us a special clan with a 1000 member cap?
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No, this isn't correct. We do not know all details regarding groups and clans yet, including clan size.

Potentially, one group can hold many clans, Just as many lords might reside under a single king, or banner, or in this case group. So a NeoGAF group may have clans such as PS4, XBo, PS360 whatever...

If the clan has hard caps that will easily be hit, a clan could be divided down to time zone or whatever comes out the best.

In group hierarchy was also discussed and can be read in detail a few posts above.

Of course, exact details will have to wait for Bungie to trickle them down officially.

Shadownet explained much of this in a recent post.
 
I'm glad it was solved. Not a fan of giving terms like "commander" but as long as no power trips occur I don't mind. At least no more fighting.


Well I've done my job. I defended my team. And I did so with class and amazing vocabulary. Job well done Woofington.

*spreads arms like jesus*

Now I can die. I'm coming home papa.
 
Admiral Woofington said:
I'm glad it was solved. Not a fan of giving terms like "commander" but as long as no power trips occur I don't mind. At least no more fighting.


Well I've done my job. I defended my team. And I did so with class and amazing vocabulary. Job well done Woofington.

*spreads arms like jesus*

Now I can die. I'm coming home papa.
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Hey hey now don't die on me yet. I still need you to be my admin for the DestinyGAF.

And everyone if anyone have any question regarding the merger of DestinyGAF and DestinyGAF PS4. Feel free to comment bellow or send me a PM. I'll be happy to provide answers as best as I can. :)

But believe me when I say this does not mean that PS4 DestinyGAF is dead. We can still do our own thing within the sub division of DestinyGAF.
 
So... We're just waiting until the other admin gets on, then?

I'm just now catching up, quite a lot happened in a day.......

Edit: Are the PS4 group admins migrating or is there something else happening there?
 
Izayoi said:
So... We're just waiting until the other admin gets on, then?

I'm just now catching up, quite a lot happened in a day.......

Edit: Are the PS4 group admins migrating or is there something else happening there?
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Yes all the PS4 Admins are migrating to DestinyGAF. We are combining with the DestinyGAF Admins.
 
Shadownet said:
Yes all the PS4 Admins are migrating to DestinyGAF. We are combining with the DestinyGAF Admins.
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I gotcha. I had no idea there were two different groups in the first place, :lol. I just saw this thread on the front page and so I went here without even thinking to check the Alpha Withdrawal thread. I'm glad it's all sorted out now, though!
 
Shadownet said:
Yes all the PS4 Admins are migrating to DestinyGAF. We are combining with the DestinyGAF Admins.
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Bro, sent you a PM. Where's the list?

Admiral Woofington said:
I'm glad it was solved. Not a fan of giving terms like "commander" but as long as no power trips occur I don't mind. At least no more fighting.


Well I've done my job. I defended my team. And I did so with class and amazing vocabulary. Job well done Woofington.

*spreads arms like jesus*

Now I can die. I'm coming home papa.
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There's not going to be any Captains & Commanders, there's only going to be Admins and assistant Admins for when the main Admins are away and such.

LkPr said:
In case you didn't see this in the other thread...
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Yeap, got the msg. That clarification is for Woofington. Thanks!

LkPr said:
Edit: double post as well... weird
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I can only see one post from you. lol

oSoLucky said:
I'm not really into the commander stuff that much either. I play a lot of MMOs and I'm usually very good at the competitive games that I play, and put a lot of time into them. From my previous experiences, these groups always feel like a big power trip to me with politics and such instead of just playing for fun. I have been following this thread and debated joining a few times but it's looking like precursors/warning signs are coming up for me.

I do understand the need for structure with such a large group, but maybe I'm just more cut out for smaller, more intimate groups where people aren't trying to give me orders over a game.
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See my posts above.
 
Admiral Woofington said:
I'm glad it was solved. Not a fan of giving terms like "commander" but as long as no power trips occur I don't mind. At least no more fighting.


Well I've done my job. I defended my team. And I did so with class and amazing vocabulary. Job well done Woofington.

*spreads arms like jesus*

Now I can die. I'm coming home papa.
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I'm not really into the commander stuff that much either. I play a lot of MMOs and I'm usually very good at the competitive games that I play, and put a lot of time into them. From my previous experiences, these groups always feel like a big power trip to me with politics and such instead of just playing for fun. I have been following this thread and debated joining a few times but it's looking like precursors/warning signs are coming up for me.

I do understand the need for structure with such a large group, but maybe I'm just more cut out for smaller, more intimate groups where people aren't trying to give me orders over a game.
 
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