I was very happy last week when I saw the weekly challenge. I am talking about the Co-Op Dash. It was new, it was worst 30,343 credits. I don’t care about the total amount of credits, however, obviously, 343i was making a point. I figured it was a sign that they now had total control over the challenges and we would be seeing some changes and new ones!
However this week, the weekly is old news, and the weekly’s total is 17,777. The 777 stuff, naturally, a Bungie reference. I have no problem with Bungie, they are awesome. However I think it’s a little soon to be paying homage to Halo’s original creator. The weekly, and its total, is kind-of a sign of laziness, in my opinion. Not to mention we have a daily challenge today to “Link Up with Bungie.net” the last time we had this challenge it was changed mid day to “Clip it, Share it” . I guess my ultimate statement is, 343, if you are really in control of all things all, take control. You might be doing a ton of work on Halo CEA, and Halo 4, plus the title update. The daily challenges are a day-to-day thing that people notice. It’s the little thing s that will go a long way to establish ownership and a signal of a change. This might all happen with the title update, but since we had “30,343” last week, someone is paying attention, just not all the time.
Daily and Weekly challenges are automated and chosen at random from a computer, where there’s an expansive list of the overall daily and weekly challenges.
In certain cases, like last week, the weekly was user inputed. Today’s challenges were those chosen at random by a computer, it’s not 343i being “lazy”.
I understand how the challenges work. That isn’t the point. The pool of challenges are geared towards to a Bungie origin. There are a lot of people who have been playing Reach since it came out, so things tend to repeat.
The “user” needs to imput new challenges (daily and weekly) into the pool. The Link up with Bungie.net should just be removed, and they know this, because they changed it two weeks ago! That shows lazniess.
that was BUNGIES job, not 343’s. They are busy enough with 2 other games and the TU, if bungie was too lazy to switch for 10 whole months, that’s their fault, not 343I’s.
Seven is heavily related to 343. It’s really hard to come up with amounts that refer to 343. Sure you can always put 343 and slap a number in front of it to make it x,343 (x being any number from one to infinity), but that looks somewhat dumb. Other option is to make incredibly low or super high payouts such as 343 or 3,434 or 34,343 or 343,434 or 3,434,343, but only considerable of those are 3,434 and 34,343 (latter for a weekly). Seven is a fitting and natural number to go with, it also makes people who have used to the seven references in Halo feel comfortable, I wouldn’t mind if 343i continued making seven references in future Halo games. They are always going to have at least two, name of their company and 117.
Let’s not forget about the fact that they just threw one of the most awesome parties ever! And from the looks of some Twitter accounts, some of the staff took some well deserved time off.
They gave us 30k for 5 minutes last week. Let’s give them a break this week.
> that was BUNGIES job, not 343’s. They are busy enough with 2 other games and the TU, if bungie was too lazy to switch for 10 whole months, that’s their fault, not 343I’s.
No, 343 have Reach so thats 343 responsibility now
> > that was BUNGIES job, not 343’s. They are busy enough with 2 other games and the TU, if bungie was too lazy to switch for 10 whole months, that’s their fault, not 343I’s.
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> No, 343 have Reach so thats 343 responsibility now
still, they have MUCH more urgent stuff to deal with and challenges are gimmicks for the Cr system anyway. i would like if they increased the payout to like 80,000 or 75,000.