“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
Having been on here in the post-MoR REQ reveal era, I’ve noticed a continuing trend inflamed by the latest update. I see people post things about how they are excited to be receiving Infection, or Forge, or Assault, or a new map, or whatever. They are then immediately shut down with the standard “IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE AT THE BEGINNING!!!” rage that seems to follow any positive post towards 343 adding content.
Listen, people who get excited for the community updates KNOW it should have been there at the start. But that is in the past. IF you find a way to change it, please, by all means, go back and put it in. I would love to have Infection and Forge from the get-go. But apparently I’m also not allowed to be excited that we are getting it now. Which is silly. Don’t stifle someone else’s excitement because you enjoy being constantly mad and holding grudges.
Which brings me to the quote at the top, from a certain popular book. What is in the past cannot be changed. But I don’t see how people can look at the past 6 months (post launch period) and think that 343 is doing any less than their very best to make this the best Halo ever. Think of your favorite game company if it isn’t 343i (mine’s Bioware). I guarantee you they have had a slip up on a large scale. Because they are staffed by human beings. We aren’t perfect, even when you don’t consider the fact that there are time and budget constraints placed on your work by people above you, as well as your consumers. They make mistakes. But they also clearly try to atone for those mistakes. The more important part is the latter, because if everyone was stoned to death when they made mistakes, there would be no one left on the planet.
I think you are looking too deep into this. 343 simply under delivered in the content category when every Halo before it has had plenty. You have every right to be exited, but I also have every right to be disappointed.
Yeah people like to whine “should’ve been at launch”
I just kind of tune them out at this point, the statement has really lost any meaning.
New update looks pretty sweet, can’t complain. New Phaeton is gonna be a beast hopefully.
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> I think you are looking to deep into this. 343 simply under delivered in the content category when every Halo before it has had plenty. You have every right to be exited, but I also have every right to be disappointed.
I just think its heavy grudge holding. You have the right to be disappointed, but just shooting down enthusiasm for its arrival now is just ignoring their attempts to rectify their mistake. Again, they messed up. But they also released their playlists and their full contents, full disclosure on the state of multiplayer, on 10/13 (here). You had ample opportunity to read that and cancel your pre-order or make up your mind to not purchase and support it until it had the content you wanted in a Halo. I saw it. And I was satisfied enough to go through with the purchase. It was a mistake. But I got to play the game while I waited on the rest of it. And the mechanics are very well designed. But if you didn’t think it was enough content, you had a warning from 343 themselves.
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> “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
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> Having been on here in the post-MoR REQ reveal era, I’ve noticed a continuing trend inflamed by the latest update. I see people post things about how they are excited to be receiving Infection, or Forge, or Assault, or a new map, or whatever. They are then immediately shut down with the standard “IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE AT THE BEGINNING!!!” rage that seems to follow any positive post towards 343 adding content.
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> Listen, people who get excited for the community updates KNOW it should have been there at the start. But that is in the past. IF you find a way to change it, please, by all means, go back and put it in. I would love to have Infection and Forge from the get-go. But apparently I’m also not allowed to be excited that we are getting it now. Which is silly. Don’t stifle someone else’s excitement because you enjoy being constantly mad and holding grudges.
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> Which brings me to the quote at the top, from a certain popular book. What is in the past cannot be changed. But I don’t see how people can look at the past 6 months (post launch period) and think that 343 is doing any less than their very best to make this the best Halo ever. Think of your favorite game company if it isn’t 343i (mine’s Bioware). I guarantee you they have had a slip up on a large scale. Because they are staffed by human beings. We aren’t perfect, even when you don’t consider the fact that there are time and budget constraints placed on your work by people above you, as well as your consumers. They make mistakes. But they also clearly try to atone for those mistakes. The more important part is the latter, because if everyone was stoned to death when they made mistakes, there would be no one left on the planet.
Heavy but quite true
The woman in your “book” wasn’t in danger of being stoned over how well she did or didn’t do her “job”. She had a “job” that was… less than respectable… in the first place. The entire concept is off base.
Although, it is true that the past can’t be changed, the present and future are most certainly measured by it and not always “wrongly so”. Forgiving of past transgressions is one thing… forgetting… another. It’s a business oriented issue. Not a life or death lesson on morals. People aren’t literally standing with stones in their hands and demanding 343’s death.
The problem is not that 343 isn’t [arguably] doing the best they can. The problem is that (to my recollection) they’ve never even bothered to acknowledge one of the biggest complaints I can recall… the fact that there was little content at launch. It’s probably one of the few complaints that even a large number of those who still love H5 will openly agree upon with those who don’t. If they [343] don’t acknowledge, how can anyone view what they do after as trying to “atone”?
Would you still feel the same and/or make the same post if you believed that 343 wasn’t trying to atone for anything? That they are just following the plan they had from the very beginning? It’s not that they aren’t doing their best. But it’s business… their best is expected, regardless, and nothing less.
343 didn’t just suddenly cook up this plan to provide “free” DLC, in trickled installments, in response to complaints about the lack of content at launch. What they’re doing was already planned and well known before launch. Therefore, why should those who are disappointed see it as “trying to atone”, when they’re doing what was already planned and promised from the beginning and doing their best at it? That’s status quo for any business.
Forgiveness is noble and there’s nothing “bad” about someone who does it. Can I forgive 343 for their mistakes? Sure. Done. But I have no intention of forgetting. Nor do I intend to let 343 forget.
If I forget, I’ve accepted mediocrity. If they forget, nothing changes. Life lessons and business lessons are not necessarily parallel, nor should they be.