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> Halo Wars has been killed off by 343i
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> Just this week 343i shut down the Halowars.com website.
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> They released Halo Wars: Definitive Edition without proper Matchmaking.
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> They made it for PC and XB1 without Crossplay, to further split the community.
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> I personally feel that soon they will pull the plug on Halo Wars Online for the Xbox 360. Then they have finally done everything in their power to destroy Halo Wars. They didn’t replace Halo Wars with something better. They gave us HWDE which is far worse, to kill the game even more. It was an opportunity to make the population on Halo Wars so small, to finally kill the game. I feel that their goal all along was to kill the game off and force us to play their game Halo Wars 2. I’ve played the Beta, I’ve watched every video and have seen the Blitz mode. The truth is I personally think the game isn’t anywhere as good as Halo Wars. I think it would’ve been so much more in the hands of Ensemble studios.
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> Halo Wars has been my favorite game for years, I started playing it back as a freshman in High School. I’ve been playing for a long time, and have a made a lot of unexpected friends along the way. I learned a lot of things from the game, that has stuck with me in life. Wether it was from the people I met, or just problem solving tools for the real world. It kept me on a good path, away from bad things. I guess at this time it’s officially gone forever when Halo Wars 2 releases, which I’m not going to play. They’ve changed way too much, and it doesn’t feel like the original to me. I just think it’s a shame that they felt it was necessary to do all of these things. Halo 3 is a fan favorite game, I do understand it carried more population over the years. Except it has been playable longer than Halo Wars, even with many other Halo games coming out.
You are a killjoy, I mean some of your points are true, but truth in my eyes isn’t possible yet because the game isn’t even out! I know you might hate it, but If Halo 4 was about Chief going back for one final round with the covenant, as they plan to destroy earth, it would’ve been a bust! We’ve seen that 3 times already and what we got wasn’t far off from fantastic, and I know that’s an unworthy example but I’m one of the humans in the community who enjoyed it and had fun, be it on the Multiplayer, Campaign, cutscenes, Spartan ops, everything, I learned to respect it once I realized how thoughtful and faithful the story was and what they wanted it to be, and the multiplayer? Well it was their first time making a Halo game, they didn’t know that. Halo 5 comes around and I’m shocked that everyone hated it so, and realized I was dumb for thinkin it’d be the best Halo Game of the year, the campaign was horribly written, whether it was the linear gameplay, or the story, or More importantly for me, the terribly choreographed cutscenes! After that experience I was skeptical, because this change wasn’t what we wanted, in fact, this game wasn’t supposed to change so much as it kept the formula, which it did (without sprint) in the multiplayer, but the Story featuring such a bland and thoughtless, Buck approved quadruple take on Chief who should have been given more levels, and an enemy who we rejected badly in the long run. I understand that, and I believe it considering the standards now… But With Halo Wars 2 coming back and the beta launched, and I jumped into the game, and immediately picked the covenant (banished) and saw the base design and absolutely rejected it! “This wasn’t the original! These bases aren’t covenant enough and I hate the -Yoinking!- unit design! Leader powers are stupid and the Story is probably going to be terrible too!”
I sat thinking that angrily for a few days before I finally thought “… This… This ISN’T Halo Wars, no, this is Halo Wars 2!” A new installment that I than came to realize was another creative stab at making a game that really catered something new that I haven’t seen for a while, and while the base design doesn’t bug me anymore, I can say the game has flaws, and it is different, with the whole power system, and the leader powers and such but other than that, it’s the same and extremely fun experience we had before now that they are increasing the population (Which I will admit, took a heavy hit with some of the units occupation being larger, I understand), and the new feedback points that they literally had us tell them in the community feedback survey! The covenant may not be the covenant anymore but that’s ok! Because things change, but there are still some fantastic reiterations, Elite rangers, grunts, marines, flamethrowers, they are all coming back and are looking better than ever! And haven’t even gotten to the story.
What I’m saying, is try it out again, with open eyes, and see what you think, but for the most part, I think its going to be fantastic on my end, but not even I know that for certain.
Nobody knows for certain yet, and you can rub it in my face all you want if its terrible in both our eyes!
