Here's the game plan, Dani. You've got to post the first Reach E3 thread, have it titled appropriately e.g. "Skirmishers revealed to make afroman BaKaaw sound" then just update it with all the news anyways and we can keep our HaloGAF discussions in there without them being strewn about several random threads. If you don't make the first thread, post on the first page and update it as if it were the OP, rest of the plan proceeds as before.
Brian could always give you the first E3 screenshot of Halo Reach to be released in the new thread only minutes before the conference starts.
GhaleonEB said:
Yes. But from the sticky thread, it sounds like the concern is with multiple salvos of news getting buried in the mega threads that erupt around E3. So if Bungie has a campaign demo on stage at E3, that will get a thread. And if they announce and demo Firefight later in the show (as they did at last year's E3 for ODST), there will be a thread for that, to ensure people don't miss it during the insanity that is E3.
Whether Dani can make his interim Halo discussion thread after E3 is still an open question.
I understand their reasoning for general game info, but I'd rather have someone who's invested in the OP, create the thread. That way all the info, both minor and major, will be amassed in the OP. The way they want it done it'll be harder to miss each major announcement about a game (provided one doesn't sink off the first couple pages) but the minor announcement will be hidden and if the OP isn't invested in the game as much, they won't be updating the OP to include all of these minor things.
Personally I'll try my best to keep up with any and all Reach-related threads (reading every post) but who knows with all the other games that could show up. For those less dedicated it'll be harder and each thread will be full of people asking questions about things already answered in minor updates.
Captain Blood said:
I also think the fact that it is more of a departure from the Halo 2/3 model is getting a lot of people interested that perhaps wouldn't be otherwise.
And vice versa.