Umm, Claude, How has the Halo community changed since the days of System Link and Halo on Xbox?

It's bigger! (Duh.) Some things haven't changed much at all; many - or most - of the hardcore fans had been online, on Halo forums, before Halo 2... and they're still there. Playing games, though... the folks who played online during Halo mostly used XBC, and were pretty damned serious about their gameplay.

It wasn't a lot of fun for casual gamers to jump on and play, because they would get DESTROYED. The potential for casual games has increased exponentially with XBL and Matchmaking - so there are a lot more people who play more often than once a week or once a month (getting together in lan play with friends). The serious players are still there - but the overall audience is much bigger, and much more focused on 'fun'.

I'm looking at your stats, and it seems you play more now than you did close to launch. What up with that. And sorry for spying on you.

It's a combination of things, really. Before AU1.1, I got owned - a LOT. I don't mind losing... but losing badly, all the time, isn' ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.