https://youtube/c_6kgv3XwH0
This YouTube video archives 343 over the years since they took the reigns of the Halo Franchise.
And boy they have been pretty consistent at least in a specific aspect. Go ahead and give it a watch.
Seriously though how many people actually still trust 343 to actually deliver, taking one step forward two step back seems to be their mantra.
Like I said before I. Believe a complete reset and restructure needs to be done
The devs at 343 seem super competent to me (besides map design which is really meh, H4 maps were better than H5 and 6 to me).
This company and franchise are dragged through the dirt repeatedly because of higher up decisions and priority on making money instead of making money via a great product. It’s never been as apparent as with Infinite.
Their PR/CM team need work, too. (Unyshek is great though)
I really doubt “the higher ups” coded a UI which can’t handle new playlists without imploding. 
Or a mute function which takes 5 steps.
Yeah the QoL things are terrible in this game but most of these things should be resolvable in a day or less.
They don’t have enough workers, they don’t have enough time allocated for certain things or bad priorities. And the code seems trash but that was probably also an upper management call to keep piling over it early on instead fixing it right away.
You really think the devs who put heart and soul into this game just sit on their -Yoink!- turning thumbs all day? It doesn’t make sense to me.
Trust? How can anyone trust a company that has continued to lie?
The truth here is, Microsoft need to man up and find actual competent people that know how to manage a game. How the hell do you have all the resources you actually need, with 6 years to create a complete game and still manage to mess things up this bad?
Seriously, look at how small of a studio the original Bungie was vs everything 343 has to work with in 2022. It’s a freaking joke…
I mean there really is no way around this fact. How they have any support at all at this point is baffling
The developers are largely contractors and most of the upper echelon has no idea what they’re doing. In short, it’s turtles all the way down.
I know I’m basically saying they have been consistently messed up and failing to deliver anything as they stated they would, the video really shows how they say one thing and than do another or backtrack on something and come off completely your of touch. Or scrambling to fix a huge PR mess
You try to do that when the engine was built by contractors.
The engine is a mess, I completely understand why they have issues adding new stuff
This is why imho they should dump the entire engine and just give ID a ring since you know Microsoft now owns one of, if not the best engine devs in the biz. There is so little content in the game that moving stuff over to ID Tech wouldn’t take that long.
Saying one thing but their actions showing another is just basically them misleading. That may have worked before the game released, but more and more players are catching on to their BS.
The players are dropping off because 343 has shown they have nothing to offer this game.
Yea, That YouTube video literally shows this. One of the best ones was when one of the Execs said they don’t want to copy another game and they went and copied COD with Halo 4 lol.
That’s the whole point of my post 343 is consistent in basically being a disappointment on so many levels. Oh
The devs are consistent at one thing it seems :
Hyping us up for a big let-down.
Agreed 100%. Halo 4 is proof that 343 CAN make a content complete, fully functional game at launch when given the proper amount of time.
Top tier clown company.
It would be really nice to see less of this specific type of consistency.
Yeh exactly. I’ve have enough. It’s been going on for 10 years and 343i have not shown to be able to handle the legacy of Halo and I’m even concerned about the live action tv series.
From what I can gather 343i do not understand the franchise and they do not respect the fanbase either. I’m amazed how long I’ve gone without playing lately because of how 343i has acted with the fanbase. I’ve got to a point where I have to used to being disappointed in 343i.
Plus don’t get me started on how irritating 343i have been with Cortana since they messed up her design in Halo 4-5 and Infinite. Plus the overall art styles have been irritating.
I’ve said for a long…long tiem that 343’s greatest contribution to halo will be fixing the things they changed to begin with
The best parts of infinite are the parts they’ve taken from the original trilogy…
It’s all about management, and how they have handled infinite is the worst I’ve ever seen happen to Halo. I did have a little hope before the game launched, but they literally smashed that hope.
Not even Staten will be able to convince me they will ever get this game in a good place see how their main focus is the shop/BP/live service that shouldn’t have ever taken place.
Honestly like at this point it’s beating a dead horse and I know you have heard me speak out on the topic of Coatings so much.
But for me the way it was implemented in terms of what wasn’t included was such a missed opportunity on content.
When they announced the Coating system was replacing standard color choice we got bothered but we got over it mostly
I got over it because in my head I was thinking ok clearly 343 has a better more logical approach to this that players are going to be satisfied with.
My prediction was players were going to get all 60 default colors that we got in Halo 5 standard on all cores, weapons, and vehicles. They were going to be like a fresh paint look.
And each color would have a more veteran battle worn equivalent that Ayers can u.lock through grinding.
To take it further I also figured maybe after unlocking all those colors for each core, weapon and vehicle, you get an exclusive coating.
This would add layers of grind for players.
And yet what we received was a watered down give player less model.
Honestly it really bothers me because unlike server issues and other problems as such this wasn’t by accident or unexpected. They say down and decided on that being the final product and what we gave up cor customization for.