This is not true at all.
Most comments in here are coming from people who are unhappy with some game mechanics and they tell why.
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Let’s take the most recent communication. You cannot praise them for doing the bare minimum. They told us they are fixing BTB after they broke it and refused to change out the challenge system that locked challenges into BTB. They are quite literally doing the bare minimum to fix and already broken game.
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If I’m remembering it right they said they were going to try to hotfix it because they were going on holiday break and would try to solve the issue after the holidays (Jan-Feb) not that they wouldn’t fix it but that the actual changes wouldn’t roll out until 2022
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Don’t just plain lie to try and make a point.
The vast majority are detailed posts that include examples, reasons and ways it would benefit 343 and us
The post that say “X sucks” usually get ignored, get comments defending and/or get locked quickly.
I agree it’s sometimes toxic but don’t lie, it’s more like <5%.
Personally I’m only toxic to other users who I see being toxic and then I get banned 
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Well, when you lie to people and deliver a mediocre product your going to get crapped on like you deserve.
If you do immoral things, expect immoral things to happen to you.
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It think it’s pretty clear.
End the corp speak.
It doesn’t matter if sketch opened his mouth. Doesn’t matter how people responded to it. What matters is ending corp speak as a whole. Stop with non answers. The half answers. Give us the raw truth. Just say it’s not ready. Just say it’s early access.
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I have an idea.
Keep FTP for Pc users and let them play each other…
…integrate the campaign and Multiplayer for Xbox users and let us pay the 60/80 dollars for a full game release next year.
I bought an Xbox for the same reason I buy apple products… closed/secure/products and services.
*some of the sentiments in this statement are opinion only but also can be discriminatory towards PC users. However Pc Users is not a protected characteristic - so I down care.
The biggest confusion for me talking about communication and keeping on topic - is saying that this game is free to play when 2/3s of the game is 60 dollars. Storeplussixtydollars = lots of money.
edit: Halo infinite ftp multiplayer
Halo ce/2/3/4/5 were all cheaper to play than Halo infinite.
F does not equal free.
Basically halo fans are been … in infinite. - ftp caters for non halo fans who are being introduced into the series.
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The environment here is not bad. After all, this is official territory.
Consumers have the right to evaluate.
Maybe the production team needs to communicate more with customers and show a positive attitude.
When gentle voices are ignored, fierce verbal attacks are inevitable.
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I feel it’s not the communication of the developers that are the problem that’s causing the reaction and the negativity. Instead its what’s being said/has been said vs the reality.
So like for example, when sk7ch said in his update about an anti cheat fix and other things, it’s that vagueness thats rubbing people raw right now. Because players were expecting one thing and recieved another, players are bitter and that’s hard to change without meticulously choosing what your communicating.
On the flip side of that, 343 might be doing exactly that, and being intentionally vague as Sean W. Pointed out, 343 clearly does not have a plan post launch, otherwise they would have given us that, thus being intentionally vague to try and portray the image that everything is ok, thus making player more bitter with that exact communication because everything is obviously not.
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Interesting, do you think how the CM presented himself might have had anything to do with it, and using the excuse “they need the money”? (All businesses need money,) 343 isn’t special. It sounds like to me that they need to get their own house in order.
Or, how about all the lies 343 told over the years and what was to be expected when the game released?
I agree communication is a two-way street and that that needs to happen, but how do you trust people that lie?
I would love to see how that works…
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They backed themselves into this corner and now they’re scrambling hard to bandaid the stab wounds inflicted by their own incompetence; or maybe they’re still on vacation while Halo Lite bleeds out; or not fully aware, so “Here’s another $20 micros-transaction, shut up, purchase, and shut up.”
They had no business dabbling with open-world and F2P ideas for a major installment in the series. This is their third strike! Have they not learned from their past games that their wild, half-baked ideas often divide their fanbase? I suppose not, because with each game it seems like it’s a new 343 at bat!
I’d demand for their head but they probably offed it themselves and are now running around aimlessly trying to resell it for $19.99; then flail around some more until the last bit of life in Halo Lite dies out!
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The community wants communication that involves solutions to problems and responses to feedback. 343 has not yet done this at all since launch.
The response we got from Sketch was essentially “I’m sorry you are upset, it’s hard on us right now but we’re trying, servers cost money”.
Threads like this make no sense.
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When 90% of the community that cares enough to give feedback tells you to change something, you should probably do it. And yet the game still lacks player collision with teammates and enemy collision is still messed up.
༼ づ ಠ_ಠ ༽づ Summon Collision
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I really am surprised they’ve been silent on this. They’re just pretending 90% of their players have nothing to say of importance to them. Continues to demonstrate contempt for their playerbase.
If you can’t fathom why longterm Halo fans would be anti-343i.
343i had the Halo Series for 10 years.
Halo 4 happened and failed colossally
Halo 5 Happened and failed
Halo MCC: Launched abysmally and 2 years in they contracted people to fix it.
Do you think the Halo community didn’t try to communicate properly?
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This may have become their corporate culture.
Over the years, there have been several changes at the leadership of 343, but we still get the same thing.
343 Unlike dice today, they don’t have a huge staff turnover and intern problem.
I can only think that Microsoft has been too tolerant of them, allowing them to have such a corporate culture.
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The problem is the top brass at 343, where there has been no real change in 10 years. I can’t fathom how some of those folks still hold their positions, except either they are buddy buddy with the right people at MS, or they are very skilled at creating scapegoats and fall guys.
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They’re just aiming for the fornite kids and their parents money. The ten year plan doesn’t concern Halo veterans. They aren’t stupid, they got the $$ eyes.
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I don’t know, man.
What we can know is that the internal core of 343 is basically old bungie employee who wants to continue
do halo and the people who were in the xbox department very early.
I have to assume that their technical ability is enough, but their work over the years ,low work productivity has never changed.
And no matter who changes at the leader, they will always make mistakes.
The underlying employee with high liquidity is innocent, but their middle and high levels are really disappointing, and they are all kinds of high-quality old employees seem to Know more about halo better than me and you, but they always screw up.
They are either too arrogant, or they are as bad as the rumor goes, they are digging holes and fighting among themselves to affect the schedule, in short, their corporate culture is bad enough.
This time around, Joseph, who already has a high position at Microsoft, is back to help 343, or the campaign could be even worse.
They seem to be the safest studio in xbox, as long as halo exists.
This is desperate.
They’re stupid precisely because they got the $$ eyes. They aren’t going to get the fortnite kids and their parents money when they bleed out 95% of their playerbase in 6 months due to laziness/greed/mismanagement/contempt for their players.