2 maps in twelve months of development time? You can see what theyre doing, theyre pushing forge out the door, so the community can make the maps and they dont have the spend development hours and money on making them. Its a free work model.
This is just poor business leadership. Hire the staff to the level that you need to meet demand. Once youve met demand, then you can find efficencies, like reduction of staff or a work life balance.
The work life balance thing is only there because they dont want to drive away the staff they have who know how to use the tool box that is difficult to use.
Very meh
Iāll survive. The difference now is that I know how quickly I can crush a BP, and I donāt have to feel any need to rush it thru season 2. I can play at a casual pace, go hard for any worthy weeklies, and still probably be done with months to spare.
There is a massively wide breadth between what weāre currently getting and crunch. Typically people donāt think of devs as lazy and incompetent on this scale. But with 343, theyāre so laughably bad at their jobs that itās hard not to see it that way.
Having months to spare, okay what are you going to do with those other months? You can see how thatās not okay for someone to ācasuallyā complete this and have months to spare. And how stale is it going to get during that timeframe of playing the same thing over and over?? Wake up!
The game is still in beta mode, why not admit it.
Many of the features coming would have been included in a full game release.
The game was released early to push Xbox Series X sales.
Making it free to play means less money and it was an excuse for the game not beeing ready.
Season 3 I say is where the game will feel more like a complete Halo experience.
Im still missing Team slayer ranked because playing Team slayer now has no point when you beat Level 100 in Battle pass. There is no ranking to gain, its pointless without ranking.
Theyāre a corporation, similar to the military industrial complex. Most often, the individual doesnt matter so long as the results are what were promised.
The corporation will go rolling along, with or without a particular dev.
Which means they can work them how they want i guess.
No offense but your point comes off terribly its not unreasonable to ask for new content every 3-4 months from a live service game ESPECIALLY from a company thatās backed by Microsoft
I barely touched the game since december,coming in every now and then for some of the events, and it seems today I will uninstall it from my xbox, cause so far it was just wasting space on the Xbox, and will keep it like this until maybe the full forge is out. I only play Arena, so for somebody like me ,this season means literally 1 map for 6 month wait, and apparently another 6 for the 2nd map, so thatās a hard pass. None of my friends play neither, and it seems theyāve taken a very good decision in doing so,unlike me.
I used the MS points for the S1 pass, and GP for the story ,and I still feel ripped off. Basically,seems I can finally say that all hope I had for Halo has died, and I get the feeling others shame the same opinion, whilst others that were looking to come back will now 100% NOT do it.
Man, I really miss the days where the product was actually finished before release. How we have got to this point. This game along with numerous other examples of botched unfinished releases (eg cyberpunk) should surely be a wake up call to this industry that you canāt rush games to release because it comes back to bite you.
I am looking at that roadmap and I just cannot comprehend that this drip feed of content is the output of an entire companyās efforts in 6 months. Sure, work life balance is important, but at some point you just have to pull your finger out, realise how far behind you are and that the survival of your product depends on it and take some damn pride in your work.
When I am behind in my job I know that I have to work hard to get back on track, and that is the same with every job Iāve ever had. If your team are not able to get you back up to speed then you need to expand the team, urgently.
To the corporates who rushed this game to release, you should be ashamed, youāve let down the community and yourselves. Not to mention, I doubt the financials are very good for this game given how poor the store options are, the extra resources you are now having to pull in at short notice to finish the game, and how few people are left in the game. So I hope that has backfired on you as well
The only people that should be surprised at this roadmap are the blinded 343 defenders. There has been an infinite (pun intended) pieces of evidence that point to 343 being light years behind with the state of the game.
I would take any plans past Season 2 on the roadmap with the largest grain of salt you can find.
Full agree. What happened to enjoying things for a long time? Now the time for the ānew thingā sparkle to wear off is even shorter and we get bored of things so soon. Iāve put about 400 hours into this game since it launched and I donāt anticipate stopping because Iām still having fun!
The main concern is that the replayability will continue to degrade if the playerbase continues to decline. Why should people be playing Infinite regularly when there are a million other games competing for their time and are also adding new things for players to do on a frequent basis?
343 should be given credit for trying to reduce the forever-crunch that happens at other studios, but they should still be putting in the investment into making sure that deadlines are being hit during this critical point in the games lifespan. What we have seen so far is continuing to delay features that previously have launched with games, withholding content from the game that we know are already part of the game (MKVb CQB helmet, several pieces of customization content that were shown in trailers, various maps and modes that have been data-mined prior to being announced such as KotH, etc).
Players will not want to stick around when updates are only coming around twice a year.
I put over 1000 hours in Monster Hunter World because it was fun, but it also had loads of content that kept me coming back for more every day. I pretty much only used one of the 14 weapons for all of my playtime because it was fun. It didnāt need some arbitrarily FTP model to keep constant free updates with new content rolling around, all it had was one single expansion and goodies that you could buy with real money that were cosmetic only, if you so chose to support the game further after the launch of the base game and Iceborne. Even then, the selection of cosmetics you could unlock via free events is absolutely astounding.
Infinite has my least played time out of any Halo game, and thatās because it has almost no content and Iām bored of it.
It doesnāt even need to have a Battle Pass, MHW didnāt. Halo 2 didnāt, nor did Halo 3. Even Halo 5 had me around for much longer. Even the CoD shadow that is Halo 4 had me for substantially longer.
Infinite is a hollow shell of what Halo used to be. It isnāt fun anymore.
Hey now, we have a pretty decent core foundation for a game. I think the gameplay is pretty fun, I like the visual style of the game as well. There are some bugs and desync which admittedly need to be fixed. The problem is that we started out with something pretty good (and somehow more polished than most of the other AAA FPS crap coming out lately) but its incomplete and the content is coming at a woeful snailās pace that Iāve not seen from any other ālive-serviceā title.