Early June was our last MatchMaking update. 343 completely ignored July, which makes me feel they will blow-off August as well. Are we going to get playlist updates for August, or are we just not going to get updated stuff anymore?
Because personally, I’d love to see some more gametypes/maps in Team Objective, Action Sack, BTB, and Anniversary BTB. It just seems that things are getting stale without a change every month, and it makes me lose interest if things aren’t kept fresh.
Personally, I’d rather they just pour all their efforts into Halo 4.
If a neglected Reach is the price we pay for a totally awesome Halo 4, I gladly accept.
I doubt it i think 343 is concentrating more on Halo 4.
If they didn’t make an update for July then i doubt they will on August even less since Halo 4 is close.
i think a big playlist update is comming in august, see some playlist merge, some disappear, maybe some comunity maps will disappear and some new ones added.
There wasn’t a matchmaking update for July due to the immense amount of time and preparation dedicated to SDCC and RTX, not to mention August’s update will be fairly large and significant from my understanding.
With these two factors, 343i didn’t “ignore” July, they just pushed what could have been made in July to August because of other focuses that month. I believe they discussed this in July’s first Halo bulletin, where August’s update will streamline Reach, as well as Halo 3, and make significant changes in both’s matchmaking playlists.
Also, just because they “skip a month” doesn’t mean they don’t care. 343i has put out a matchmaking update nearly every month for the past year; most developers are lucky to throw out one in that time frame.
In August, there is expected to be the last update for Reach. Hopefully it will bring us some new stuff, and clean out the old to leave Reach on a positive note.
A game never “dies” when a new “version” is released. A game truly dies when it stops recieving updates. Frankly I think that if Reach regularly recieved updates in the last 2 years then we would be seeing a higher population. You could have even kept Halo 3 alive with various updates.
That’s why we see many map packs right after release date. They’re trying to keep the population around by giving us more to see in the game. The best thing about Halo (that most people ignore) is that with Forge and the vast amount of options available we shouldn’t be seeing any Halo game dying after only a few years.
Halo 4 seems to be a step in the right direction with weekly Spec Ops updates.
> Personally, I’d rather they just pour all their efforts into Halo 4.
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> If a neglected Reach is the price we pay for a totally awesome Halo 4, I gladly accept.
Let Reach die
And work on Halo 4 lets make that perfect
> Personally, I’d rather they just pour all their efforts into Halo 4.
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> If a neglected Reach is the price we pay for a totally awesome Halo 4, I gladly accept.
Maybe 1 last update before Halo4.