What a sad sad state for halo. Who even is in charge?? Infinite Multiplayer is a complete unfinished mess.
Beta is no excuse.
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On steam, thank me later 
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How does this post help anyone? We all know multiplayer is in a bad state right now; bringing up steamcharts does nothing.
It brings nothing new to the table.
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Good, I want to see PC fail. MS needs to stop pushing this nonsense.
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I highly doubt it considering we don’t know the Microsoft store palyercount or the Xbox playercount. Steam doesn’t have all the players and I wish people would stop making it out to be.
Also no idea why the guy above wants PC to fail.
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probably another “crossplay makes me die too much” whiner
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I’d understand cross-input like M+K and controller. But being on PC or Xbox barely gives you any advantage. If that’s the case split PC, XSX, XSS and XOne as they’re all different. Wanna split PC between your settings? XD
The Devs who are on holiday?
I get that most of us are no lives who go day to day waiting for things to change, but there’s a day left before they go back. Exercise a little patience.
It’s finished, it’s just crude.
Beta ended a year ago.
This post is just being hyperbolic. Chill.
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Pretty odd you’re always in every thread defending this game at every turn. Give it a rest. Also if it’s so good why have you only played 4h 57m 55s? Miss me.
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I don’t understand why people are focusing so much on steam numbers.
Any one who paid for pc gamepass to play the campaign is going to be playing on the windows store.
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Defending, criticizing, debating, conversing, goofing around.
If you look for only one thing, you’re going to find only that one thing.
Just a player with too much time on his hands.
It is about time for bed, you right.
You must not creep enough then, I’ve got plenty of presence in many other threads, as I listed above.
Yeah people are, but if they make a public comment I’m gonna leave a public reply. Reap what you sow, you dig? (Pun intended)
Wanna quote me where I said this? Seems uncharacteristically like me to type in caps like some rager or unilaterally shower a game in praise like some sort of fanboy.
Lot of stuff wrong with this title, lot of stuff right, it’s far from perfect, and it’s gonna need to time and effort to get somewhere great.
Another happy fan 
Was it really necessary to make the same post 5 minutes after the last post on the exact same thread?
Lmfao I dunno where you pulled that number from, but it’s only about 4% of my actual playtime 
Broski, I’ve only known you for like 5 minutes, I don’t miss people I’ve known for 10 years
If you don’t have something constructive to say about my arguments, it’s probably best to keep it to yourself instead of derailing a topic just to tell someone you don’t even know that you don’t like them 
Steam is about the only legitimate way of quantifying population counts when other companies like hiding the true numbers. It doesn’t tell the whole story, anyone claiming it does should be ignored, but being the biggest PC game sales platform does lend it plenty of credence.
Just some food for thought, but have you ever read the first party claims of “____ millions of copies sold”? Using Steam numbers can cross check these claims and get an idea of overall popularity rather than relying purely on hyped up numbers.
Some games used to feature in game populations numbers. Halo 3 for example peaked at a little over 1.1mil in its prime, but sold well over 3.1mil copies by the end of that year. While 3.1mil players will not be on at the same time, it seems a bit weird why it never got any higher than that population count despite selling over 8mil copies by the end of its run.
And let’s be honest, it’s better than relying on Twitch viewer numbers
Most likely, but that population count is a closely guarded secret, unlike Steam’s which is public.
I’d wager at best Windows Store has a similar count as Steam, at worst a quarter, and most likely somewhere around 60% of what Steam is showing optimistically.
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In a world where you can sub to gamepass to play campaign for a dollar on the windows store, vs paying 60$ on steam I don’t think I agree.
Any one already subscribing to pc game pass or game pass ultimate is going to be playing on the windows store to get the monthly perks and campaign access.
The only people who are going to be playing the steam version are people dead set on paying 60$ to own the campaign when they can pay as low as 1$, and at most 12$ to play it and many other games, and people with no interest in campaign even for the low cost of a subscription.
This isn’t a typical game releasing on the windows store and steam.
This is an Xbox franchise, whose core audience will see a disproportionate adoption of gamepass, with several game pass perks that make buying the steam version illogical in most use cases.
I for one played the steam version until the campaign came out because there was no point in keeping two separate downloads. And i’m sure i’m not remotely alone.
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Posts like this are entirely unneeded. We all know wtf is going wrong with Infinite, we really have to wait for the entire team to be done with their break. They definitely needed one.
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It’s only on Steam right? Steamcharts have been proven to be entirely unreliable in judging playerbase health considering there are people who vehemently refuse to use Steam to launch games, preferring to use standalones instead.
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Take a break and play MCC maybe? We need more people here.
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That really begs the question then: what percentage of population is playing paid Campaign content or F2P multiplayer.
Put it this way, the game’s known PC population peaked at 276k, and stabilized for weeks around the 150k mark. For a little less than a week after launch the known population held steady at 130k, then plummeted when the playlist update was introduced.
We don’t know who’s playing what part of the game period. I have a Game Pass subscription and I don’t even use it (which I’m going to unsubscribe from right after writing this) so right there you already have one person who’s not active on the Store. Who’s playing what on Infinite?
And some people take that route dude, everyone approaches things in their own way. Without solid numbers to base these things off of, it’s mostly just assumption. I’m gonna go off on a limb here and assume that you have Game Pass, so naturally you’re more inclined to see things from that perspective.
Here’s the thing though. Microsoft only recently (within the last couple of years) started pushing its storefront pretty hard because it just doesn’t have the oomph other digital storefronts did. Until Game Pass was introduced, there really wasn’t much incentive to purchase titles or even browse through it.
Anecdotally, it wasn’t until Halo 5 Forge that I even realize it existed, I didn’t touch it again for years until my buddy wanted to play Gears 5, then I didn’t touch it again until Infinite’s beta dropped. Considering I read that it had issues on the store at the time before it downloaded, I switched to Steam instead. Most players are going to take the path of least resistance. If they don’t have Game Pass, they’re going to play multiplayer on through the storefront they’re most familiar with, if they do have Game Pass they’re going to most likely stick with the Store version.
But again, I’m merely speculating on numbers here based on my own experience with the Microsoft Store. Much like you’re speculating biased in favor of it based on your experience and entirely valid points, I’m also basing my speculation on bias against it using experience and valid points of my own.
Personally I’m gonna pick the title up when it goes on sale. $60 is too pricey for what it is, but I’d drop $40 or less on it when the opportunity arises. Much cheaper than $15 a month.
Not saying you are, and you make some great points. I’m on the flip side of that coin though, I need to get rid of my MS file because I have the Steam file installed, and will pick the campaign up when it goes on sale. And I’m also sure I’m not alone either.
But again my point wasn’t that Steam was somehow superior to MS, I was merely speculating based on the fact that Steam gives population counts and MS doesn’t. Neither of us has anymore than a small fraction of the whole data, best we can do is guess based on the facts we have.
Damn really it doesn’t surprise me the game does needs some extra polishing that’s for sure. Net code is my main gripe and a overall progression system. To those who say it’s sad honestly it should of been expected all things considered. In any event play other games till infinite becomes the game you want. That’s what I’m doing and I’m sure many others as well.
I mean they are taking A VERY LONG time to do anything about some of the stuff in the game.
okay can we not use the steam chart for the entire player base its not realaable to use only one source for the whole shebang the steam numbers are for only steam players and thats it we have no evidence with the other ways to play due to the other sources being not public knowledge so its a guess on that but we dont need to take one player chart for one way to play thats gonna lead to more trouble then anything else
Considering that big majority of the Xbox users cannot find a SXS because they dont resupply often enough and Xbone runs the game in questionable state.
And now remove PC, the game would be a ghost town.
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pal most xbox users cant get their hands a series s or series x thanks to scalpers buying them up and Microsoft not restocking them often
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