It's fine. You don't have to. This is all you need to see. Halo Infinite is the #2 most played game on Game Pass. Game Pass is THE biggest thing at Xbox right now and the reason Microsoft is dropping up to $80 billion on gaming related acquisitions. Microsoft take Halo from 343? Wishful thinking my friend. Keep it in your dreams.
Nothing like shutting up a troll. I knew you'd have no possible response to counter Halo Infinite being the #2 most played game on Game Pass. Ignored cause nobody likes a sore loser.
Even the most hardcore Halo fans have lost patience with 343. You 343 apologists are something else.Nothing like shutting up a troll. I knew you'd have no possible response to counter Halo Infinite being the #2 most played game on Game Pass. Ignored cause nobody likes a sore loser.
You thought Halo Infinite was similar to Mass Effect?
They have failed 4 times in a row. Halo 4 was the closest to a "good game" they have ever had and its major problem was balancing in MP (which led to it dying off pretty quickly) and much of its story being relegated to extraneous media sources. Halo 5's problems are well documented here and elsewhere. MCC was broken for literal years and barely playable. They had to hire outside sources to fix their mistakes. It still took nearly a decade post launch to fix the most basic problems.
What success? They are actively doing worse than Bungie did. Halo doesn't have the market share of attention it used to. Its a joke. A shell of its former self.
People desire to play finished, completed games with the same level of launch content as previous releases. Not less while being nickle and dimed in MTX.
That isn't how that works. Do you really think the crossover between Halo Fans and Elden Ring players, from an FPS MP/SP title to an open world action RPG is that large? I am sure there were some that moved over, but unless you can verify this claim with data, I am going to assume you are full of your usual shill shit.
Older players moved on because 343i utterly failed to give people what they want.
Halo had *more* competition during its heyday than it does now. Everyone tried to be the next Halo. Every FPS game had to have a MP mode to compete with Halo and CoD. You literally have no idea what you are talking about.
A game that was broken for years vs a game with barely any content and much of it is hidden behind a paywall. Great comparisons.
343i failed to release a sequel for 6 years, with numerous development problems that have been explained ad nauseum in this thread and others. They had to hire back old veterans to fix the broken shit they had leading to a still bare bones, rushed release that we got.
Only people who will say yes to this are people who don't like Halo as a franchise, I honestly think. 343 are the perfect studio for Halo and they have done an amazing job with it.
Nothing is wrong with giving spinoffs to other studios, but they would be dumb to ever take the main franchise from 343 after all the success they've had with it. They know what they're doing.
Even with a better progression system, many more maps and modes, Halo Infinite's population STILL drops as much as it has down to the most hardcore of the hardcore because people desire those battle Royale games that they and their friends are playing, that the streamers are playing. They desire to jump around and play different things every now and then.
A massive number of Xbox gamers moved on to Elden Ring. A game I doubted before release, but as it turns out really, really is something special. A traditionalist MP Halo has no chance against that and against all the other games available on Xbox right now. Just before Elden Ring dropped Halo Infinite had
The Halo audience is older than it use to be. The existing Halo MP formula, regardless of content (which does need to be better), isn't as attractive to as many people as it use to be. Even for many older players they've moved on. I haven't been affected by this dilemma because I was never a big Halo MP guy to begin with. I didn't become a Halo fan till right before Halo 3's release when I read Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. Those two books are what made the Halo Universe interesting enough for me to seriously give the videogames a chance. And it took some getting use to to find my appreciation for Halo as a videogame franchise. I'm all about Halo Campaign because of how much I enjoy the lore.
The Halo many remember had far less competition in the shooter space. Not just that, there was less competition on the Xbox platform itself. There are now many games that are more than worthy enough to dominate people's attention over everybody just playing Halo simply because there isn't much else better on the platform and a lot of games skip the platform. Knowledge of what is available is also on a whole other level now in the Youtube/Twitch content creator era. The accessibility to all those games, especially backwards compatible ones, is also all the easier with Game Pass.
Outriders is a good game getting crazy content, yet it's not in the top 49 games on Xbox and it's on Game Pass. Sea of Thieves, which is insanely popular, is #28 on on Xbox eco-system.
Master Chief Collection is #44 on Xbox.
Halo Infinite is in the top 15 on Xbox.
Looking at steam you would think Halo Infinite and MCC trade blows with one another. Not the case if you look at Microsoft's storefront.
But the reality is that the market has changed. It isn't 343 that's somehow doing all this stuff wrong. Should content for MP come quicker? Yes, that would be nice, but I don't believe for a second it makes a massive difference in the current number of people playing the game on places like steam and even on Xbox and on Microsoft's store.
And also, considering Game Pass is the most exciting thing going at Xbox right now, and it's a huge success (15 million new subscribers since 2020, now sitting at over 25 million) it's important to see what those subscribers are playing most. And would you look at that... Halo Infinite is the #2 most played game among Game Pass subscribers. So you mean to tell me the 2nd most played thing on the subscription that has Microsoft throwing all this money at gaming is the same Halo Infinite. Sea of Thieves is #6. As to why you don't see MLB The Show on the game pass list, it means many more people on Xbox are playing a version of MLB The Show 22 they bought rather than playing the Game Pass version.
And for those who might think it isn't fair to only look at Game Pass subscribers, I say why the hell not? Game Pass is the main reason Microsoft is dropping all this money on acquisitions and why they're so all in on gmaing. And their previous big buy before Activision, Bethesda, accounts for 3 of the top 10 most played in Game Pass.
This is hilarious lol
It's fine. You don't have to. This is all you need to see. Halo Infinite is the #2 most played game on Game Pass. Game Pass is THE biggest thing at Xbox right now and the reason Microsoft is dropping up to $80 billion on gaming related acquisitions. Microsoft take Halo from 343? Wishful thinking my friend. Keep it in your dreams.
I heard Bungie is staying independent. Contract it back to them
Honestly i have no idea what the Halo community wants anymore but if you go to the Halo Sub Reddit you can see all the crying and salt post they do there
I hope to shed a little more clarity regarding 343 and their management issues (and by extension MS's management) relating to the MCC. You see you played the PC versions of the MCC which are indeed in good shape, as is the Series X version. However, if you look at the Xbox One X which was supposed to offer the "premium" experience prior to PC/Series X releases, you'll see that MCC runs like absolute dogshit to this day! To make matters worse though- it used to run really well on that console! It was running at a dynamic 4k/60 fps with some drops in FPS, but not severe drops or anything. It felt more or less smooth until 2 years ago when Halo Reach update happened, which tanked the fps for some reason AND added constant brutal stuttering to the campaigns of Halo CE and Halo 2A.
Buy a series s, peasant.
The irony of this statement.
About their "awful" track record. Yes, go ahead and keep holding 343 to an entirely different standard than the ones you guys claim to be successful products for games from developers you like.
Is it them continuously releasing many millions of units selling, critically acclaimed games? Because that's exactly what they've done.
Halo 4 became the fastest selling game for Xbox ever, beating Halo 3. Halo Infinite just finished having the best launch of any Halo game in history at over 20 million players after a month.
And when I mentioned Game Pass, I was referring to it being the 2nd most played game amongst on the 25+ million subscribers. It's #3 now. And amongst all Xbox gamers, it isn't doing half bad there either, only a couple spaces behind Destiny that just had a massive content drop I believe. And I guess Minecraft must be a failed game.
Not one game 343 has released has failed to sell well or perform well or review well. So, yea, you guys can keep entertaining yourselves. Now I can ignore this thread.
The campaign felt great to play but there was virtually nothing to it, all of the indoor environments looked the same and the outside area also had no variations. I could forgive all of that if the story was actually good but there was almost no story there, the main villain sounded like a cartoon character (and didn't look particularly good) and the last level was basically a single player horde mode. To me it's pretty clear that this was all thrown together out of something that was supposed to be bigger but had to be cutdown due to time and expense. This was not a good campaign at all, they nailed the gameplay but the rest of it was well below average and I wish reviewers would have actually paid attention to those things instead of talking up the grappling hook as if that made the story more interesting.
I have a Series X you sad little fanboy
Why the fuck are you moaning about a version you'll never play? Thanks for the PSA.
I thought the multiplayer gameplay seemed pretty smooth from what I played. Gunplay felt pretty solid as did hit detection. Connection seemed alright as well. I didn’t have a lot of issues with the gameplay felt like a good update to Halo. Weapons felt good to shoot and seemed to have heft, player movement had momentum.
This is my thought too.
