I’m in a… unique situation. I love Halo. So very much. I waited out months of anticipation for Halo: The Master Chief Collection and to play the iconic, series defining Halo 2 for the first time.
A bit of background information
- I first played Halo(3) in 2008 when I went to my neighbors house.
- I was immediately hooked and bought my own Xbox 360 with Halo 3 to go with it.
- Over time I developed I passion for the campaign and got pretty good at online multiplayer
- I loved Halo Reach
- I stopped playing Halo in early 2012 and did not care for it anymore
- That Christmas, I opened up Halo 4, and was pleasantly surprised, but not excited
- I played it and was mad about the story and quickly bored with the multi-player but I had my fun with friends in custom games
- Forgot about the series until E3 and immediately bought an Xbox One, and was playing the series once more
- Convinced my friends to buy Xbox Ones and pre order the collection
Yes I’m 15 years old and I never played Halo 2 up until last Tuesday when I was disappointed with the multi-player, but in no way was I panicking over the fact that 343 sold me a “broken” or “unfinished” game. So I waited, played through Halo 1-3 and forge for the next few days and LOVED every minute of it. But matchmaking was still down and seeing everything on these forums made me feel bad for 343 b/c I knew they would fix it eventually. On the 15th, I hopped on a flight to Florida for baseball and I am now looking, 10 days after launch, at half of a game. I am so angry about this. It is unacceptable. I’m not pissed about the “unfinished game” (well I am) but I’m pissed at the fact that when I was convinced Halo was dead and that it would never be as good as it was, 343 announced this and found a formula to resurrect Halo and more importantly the community and blew it with a horrid launch. And now some of that community is gone forever because ALL confidence in 343 is lost and that part of the classic community doesn’t want to come back and has moved on. This launch was a disaster, and now halo won’t be the same.
I don’t hate 343 and I’m not returning MCC, but some people are and now Halo is being destroyed
Inb4 343s botched apology
I would also like it noted that I love Halo, this collection and I like 343’s ideas but the execution is what pisses me off
I’m in a… unique situation. I love Halo. So very much. I waited out months of anticipation for Halo: The Master Chief Collection and to play the iconic, series defining Halo 2 for the first time.
A bit of background information
- I first played Halo(3) in 2008 when I went to my neighbors house.
- I was immediately hooked and bought my own Xbox 360 with Halo 3 to go with it.
- Over time I developed I passion for the campaign and got pretty good at online multiplayer
- I loved Halo Reach
- I stopped playing Halo in early 2012 and did not care for it anymore
- That Christmas, I opened up Halo 4, and was pleasantly surprised, but not excited
- I played it and was mad about the story and quickly bored with the multi-player but I had my fun with friends in custom games
- Forgot about the series until E3 and immediately bought an Xbox One, and was playing the series once more
- Convinced my friends to buy Xbox Ones and pre order the collection
Yes I’m 15 years old and I never played Halo 2 up until last Tuesday when I was disappointed with the multi-player, but in no way was I panicking over the fact that 343 sold me a “broken” or “unfinished” game. So I waited, played through Halo 1-3 and forge for the next few days and LOVED every minute of it. But matchmaking was still down and seeing everything on these forums made me feel bad for 343 b/c I knew they would fix it eventually. On the 15th, I hopped on a flight to Florida for baseball and I am now looking, 10 days after launch, at half of a game. I am so angry about this. It is unacceptable. I’m not pissed about the “unfinished game” (well I am) but I’m pissed at the fact that when I was convinced Halo was dead and that it would never be as good as it was, 343 announced this and found a formula to resurrect Halo and more importantly the community and blew it with a horrid launch. And now some of that community is gone forever because ALL confidence in 343 is lost and that part of the classic community doesn’t want to come back and has moved on. This launch was a disaster, and now halo won’t be the same.
I don’t hate 343 and I’m not returning MCC, but some people are and now Halo is being destroyed
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> I would also like it noted that I love Halo, this collection and I like 343’s ideas but the execution is what pisses me off
You have a right to be upset. Calling it unacceptable is a tad premature since they haven’t abandoned the game unlike some of the hypothetical refund posts. Cramming all 4 games into one package on a system they weren’t originally designed for is no small feat. They’re still working on it, just give them time. Unacceptable would be 343 saying take it or leave it.
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> > I would also like it noted that I love Halo, this collection and I like 343’s ideas but the execution is what pisses me off
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> You have a right to be upset. Calling it unacceptable is a tad premature since they haven’t abandoned the game unlike some of the hypothetical refund posts. Cramming all 4 games into one package on a system they weren’t originally designed for is no small feat. They’re still working on it, just give them time. Unacceptable would be 343 saying take it or leave it.
While I see what you’re saying, that’s what the problem has become for this generation. We now accept shoddy launches and must have “patience” for the patches and hot fixes to roll out over weeks or even months. Our expectations have become so low. I mean, we have people here trying to say that you can’t call a game broken unless it’s 100% unplayable. Is that how it’s become? Only allowed to complain if the game is literally completely unplayable?
Dont get me wrong, I love the idea of this collection and I know what a huge project it was. But I refuse to excuse 343 or Microsoft or whoever’s fault it was.