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Halo 4 is failing on all fronts. Call of Duty has over 500k people playing on average, 250k at 5am on a Monday morning. Halo 4 barely breaks 100k on a weekend.
Oh! <mark>Christmas sales</mark> will boost H4 sales right? <mark>NOPE</mark>
Oh! <mark>More people will be on during the weekend</mark> right? <mark>NOPE</mark>
343 fails to understand that the reason COD does well, is because they’ve developed and made a game that the call of Duty fan-base has come to love.
Every change to Halo has been brought on by Call of Duty:
-Load-outs
-Perks
-Join in progress
-no zoom out when shot
-Progressive social ranking
-kill streaks
-instant respawn
-over-sized maps.
-button layouts: FOR CALL OF DUTY PLAYERS
And you know whats sad?
Call of Duty now has doubles, and <mark>RANKED PLAYLISTS</mark> with <mark>TRUESKILL</mark>
You have an emblem, and a division. You win, you go up. You lose, you go down.
Think about that for a minute. Call of Duty has ranked AND social. Halo doesn’t.
Please tell me more about how:
<mark>" If we don’t make changes to halo it would get stale"</mark>
If that’s true, then <mark>why</mark> does call of Duty make the same game twice a year, and their sales destroy Halo’s? Oh, right. Because THEY ARE LOYAL.
Halo 4 has been out for months; where is 343?
For the first time in my life, I’m going to play Call of Duty; they have ranks.
My friend broke his BO2 disc, thats enough reason for me not to get it. However though, I am thinking of going back to MW3 or BF3 even though it sucks I don’t have all the BF3 maps. BF3 is actually more decent then MW3 at the moment. But I agree with you, I still play Halo 4, just very little now.
I’ll take Halo over Call of Duty anyday. Call of Duty just seems like the same game every year. At least with Halo there are substantial differences through each title and the campaign is great in every game (even though I didn’t like Halo 3’s campaign that much, it was enjoyable with 4 other people).
Also, Battlefield 3 is better then Call of Duty as well, a First Person shooter with destructible enviornments and vehicles and squad based gameplay. I freakn love that game.
> Halo 4 is failing on all fronts. Call of Duty has over 500k people playing on average, 250k at 5am on a Monday morning. Halo 4 barely breaks 100k on a weekend.
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> Oh! <mark>Christmas sales</mark> will boost H4 sales right? <mark>NOPE</mark>
> Oh! <mark>More people will be on during the weekend</mark> right? <mark>NOPE</mark>
>
>
> 343 fails to understand that the reason COD does well, is because they’ve developed and made a game that the call of Duty fan-base has come to love.
>
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> Every change to Halo has been brought on by Call of Duty:
>
> -Load-outs
> -Perks
> -Join in progress
> -no zoom out when shot
> -Progressive social ranking
> -kill streaks
> -instant respawn
> -over-sized maps.
> -button layouts: FOR CALL OF DUTY PLAYERS
>
> And you know whats sad?
>
> Call of Duty now has doubles, and <mark>RANKED PLAYLISTS</mark> with <mark>TRUESKILL</mark>
> You have an emblem, and a division. You win, you go up. You lose, you go down.
> Think about that for a minute. Call of Duty has ranked AND social. Halo doesn’t.
>
> Please tell me more about how:
> <mark>" If we don’t make changes to halo it would get stale"</mark>
>
> If that’s true, then <mark>why</mark> does call of Duty make the same game twice a year, and their sales destroy Halo’s? Oh, right. Because THEY ARE LOYAL.
>
> Halo 4 has been out for months; where is 343?
> For the first time in my life, I’m going to play Call of Duty; they have ranks.
Halo 4 hasn’t dropped below 100K peak since Christmas Eve.
Christmas sales boosted the online multiplayer 40% the first week, and still up about 18%.
Halo 4, like all previous LIVE enabled titles also uses Trueskill
All of those “CoD features” you mentioned were in existence before CoD was a game. They are pretty much a feature of the majority of FPS games.
Halo is an Xbox exclusive. I also feel that people are playing BLOPS 2 now because it came out more recently than Halo 4. The same thing happened when MW3 released after Reach.
Please refrain from making CoD vs. Halo threads. These threads always end up being non-constructive, and always end up going the same way. Thanks for understanding.