<mark>Calling out.</mark>
They aren’t going to release what they promised this month. They will release a client-side patch and tell you, “The team has determined that to fix as much of the remaining issues as quickly as possible, a couple pre-patches and rollbacks must first be put in place, prior to implementing the major content update”.
The Feb client-side patch will fix a good bit of visually noticeable things in the UI. It will improve several gameplay things which are noticeable via “feel”. It will disguise things we can currently see and feel which help us know things are screwed up. It won’t make much a difference in the grand scheme of things.
It will be the second to last final patch, with the last one being CALLED the CU (with a reversal of the reversal saying "team determined the CU is in fact ready), and you’ll download a a file that appears to be pretty gigantic…but it will simply be a repeat and replay of all the other rather useless patches.
I’ve watched this company since they took over during Reach, and like many others I’ve noticed them lying ever since. You can expect your final client-side patch in mid to late April, or even May. They are trying to make it to E3 where they will be expected to speak about the future.
They want to get to the time when they’re “allowed” to look ahead. That’s the goal, and that’s the reason they are silent about 25 days out of every month. That’s why it went from silence 1 week in November to 2 in December, to 3 in January, to 3.5 in February. They’re distancing themselves from the issue slowly and steadily.
They aren’t running from anything. They’re good at what they do. They know better than to run, because they know that in itself will incriminate them. So they do what any other profession criminal would do, they stay calm and quiet. They let time be the confuser until watching eyes succumb to the apathy which sets them free to go on to rob the next group with Halo 5.
Until more people wake up and recognize this is in fact what’s going on (or remove themselves from their state of denial regarding the matter), they will continue to be successful in their deceitful ways. If they remain successful much longer, they will have changed what Halo represents. It will be more focused on a story than a game, and it will eventually become a movie and a show, as MCC is the game…
I don’t foresee either side of the two sides in this currently divided Halo community existing much longer. I see one united Halo LORE community eating up every bit of Halo media thrown their way. Unfortunately AAA Halo games won’t be part of that. Why? Because, it costs too much money for how often it must be done. Not ‘too much’ as in they can’t afford it, but rather the profit margins are only -Yoink!- worthy when the games are HITS. Bungie is no longer there to make hits, and 343 isn’t there to make any either.
343 is there because profit margins are still large -Yoink!--worthy. The “Halo” name alone still sells the hell out of the games (regardless of their quality). But once the name stops selling the game, so too will 343’s development of them for -Yoink!- to sell. 343i is there to make documentaries about games partially made in-house at -Yoink!- $tudios, but mostly made by other teams which -Yoink!- awarded the work to via private contracts (outsourcing the work).
343 has never bitten off more than they could chew, they bite off as much as they think they can possibly stuff in everyone else mouth and shove down their throats without killing them off and losing a future sale. What isn’t swallowed is lost and ‘oh well’ to them.
343 is a marketing team, albeit with a true game development team within. Still, <mark>someone’s</mark> history has nothing to do with games. <mark>They</mark> wasn’t put in <mark>their</mark> position to make, nor even manage the making of the games. <mark>They’re</mark> there because <mark>they’ve</mark> -Yoink!- blood running throughout <mark>their</mark> entire professional career’s veins. <mark>They</mark> didn’t miraculously start from the near the top of the ladder. It’s not luck either that <mark>they’ve</mark> only edged closer to the peak of the -Yoink!- chain ever since <mark>they</mark> hopped from school to leading a studio at -Yoink!-.
NOBODY starts where she did. NOBODY. <mark>They</mark> didn’t either (technically). <mark>They</mark> was just given a title with power and whoever is <mark>they</mark> master controls <mark>they</mark> the puppet who controls the works who make that portion of the -Yoink!- world go round. That’s not an exaggeration. Do some research if you really want to understand how much of a scam this game actually is. Do they lie? Technically…no. They tell you the truth in deceiving manners.
Like I said, they’re marketing experts, and everyone should keep that in mind (believing it or not), because they’re about to be in-season. They are about to sell Halo to everyone and their imaginary friends’ pet dog’s most hated mailman’s sister’s daughter’s son’s hamster. From just before E3, in each and every week leading up to H5G release, they will be talking more than they have from now back to the day when MCC released.
They are consistent. They are not incompetent. They are practical, and they are good at what they’re doing. If you believe they are, the only reason they seem so is because you don’t see what business they’re actually in. “Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish’s intelligence on its’ ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its’ entire life believing its’ an idiot.” - Albert Einstein. If you think these people are dumb, you are expecting a fish to climb a tree. They have no intention of doing what you’re expecting, so incompetence is the only thing that makes sense. Change what you believe they’re intentions are, and suddenly you see a heck of a lot of sense in their actions or lack thereof. Coincidence? lol…nah I think not.
Halo 6 will be the last game, and it will either be a huge flop or massive hit. More than likely it will be a massive hit. Here’s why: Either they will continue going their current direction and selling strictly off of “Halo” the name, or they’ll have to do something different to spark enough interest in the name “Halo” to get the -Yoink!- style profit margin needed. So to finish the trilogy they’ve signed up for, I think they’ll have no choice but to make a Halo 3 (ver. 2). No not anniversary. They’ve got a new story to tell and they’ll want to put all eggs in one basket for one last hoorah. Now, while it will be an obvious reversion back to Halo 3’s style of gameplay, they won’t dare say it first. No no, they’re marketing experts - They’ll let you the fan relate it to the classic games first, and let word of mouth ignite a massive fireball. It won’t require much money for marketing (just as the MCC didn’t). It will be titled Halo 6: (something), but at least in MM it will play very much like Halo 3.
Just when you think Halo is back, you will here the “incompetence” again… They will say they’re ending the game series on that note…THAT MAKES NO SENSE!! INCOMPETENCE!!! Wrong. They will walk away heroes beloved by all those whom can’t see the -Yoink- they’ve have been constantly flinging upon your faces and are shoveling it on each and every second at this very moment in time. They are not clueless. They are marketing guru’s who are going to make MILLIONS if not a BILLION off of people who simply cannot believe that $ doesn’t rule what goes down 1 Micro $oft Way. Enjoy calling me a fool, then enjoy seeing it come true. But when it does, remember it so the next time a similar situation occurs you can at least try to tell others they’ve got feces all over their faces.