Do you think 343 is actually listening?

I have noticed over the past four months of this games release that 343 hasn’t exactly been fulfilling the fans out cry’s heck this has been happening ever since halo 4 , don’t get me wrong they have fulfilled a few fans queries and questions but it just makes me wish they could be more vocal within the community, this isn’t a bash post BTW as I think 343 are doing a decent enough job.

They listen and I feel bad they have to read all the -Yoink- we say. I would hate my job.

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> They listen and I feel bad they have to read all the -Yoink- we say. I would hate my job.

Oh tell me about it , I think they could do with a few more community managers to be honest.

They have listened a lot! Also did you really feel it was necessary to make another post about this? there is already one on the front page with almost the exact same title as yours.

I honestly think they are listening to us because bravo pretty much prooved it in the infinity armoury update post in the news tab

Well I can see why they wouldn’t respond. Most the forum posts that are asking for a response are ungrateful people claiming 343 is ruining halo or that they are doing terrible. When in fact they are doing the opposite, this is my favorite game of this last year and second favorite halo ever for multiplayer (right behind halo 3). And everyone saying they are doing bad is attacking 343 mostly for the lack of infection. When in fact I don’t personally even want it back, play it in custom games if you miss it. The attacking 343 makes them not want to respond and probably makes them not want to put full effort into the game because they have little to no support from the community. Enjoy the free dlc they give us, enjoy the game they made, and please everyone quit complaining that’s all the forums seem to be anymore.

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> Well I can see why they wouldn’t respond. Most the forum posts that are asking for a response are ungrateful people claiming 343 is ruining halo or that they are doing terrible. When in fact they are doing the opposite, this is my favorite game of this last year and second favorite halo ever for multiplayer (right behind halo 3). And everyone saying they are doing bad is attacking 343 mostly for the lack of infection. When in fact I don’t personally even want it back, play it in custom games if you miss it. The attacking 343 makes them not want to respond and probably makes them not want to put full effort into the game because they have little to no support from the community. Enjoy the free dlc they give us, enjoy the game they made, and please everyone quit complaining that’s all the forums seem to be anymore.

I get that completely it’s the same as any business if a dissatisfied customer is screaming , ranting and raving along with various insults I wouldn’t want to even associate with them let along give them what they want.

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> Well I can see why they wouldn’t respond. Most the forum posts that are asking for a response are ungrateful people claiming 343 is ruining halo or that they are doing terrible. When in fact they are doing the opposite, this is my favorite game of this last year and second favorite halo ever for multiplayer (right behind halo 3). And everyone saying they are doing bad is attacking 343 mostly for the lack of infection. When in fact I don’t personally even want it back, play it in custom games if you miss it. The attacking 343 makes them not want to respond and probably makes them not want to put full effort into the game because they have little to no support from the community. Enjoy the free dlc they give us, enjoy the game they made, and please everyone quit complaining that’s all the forums seem to be anymore.

That is one of the problems though, 343 have not even added infection to custom games! this is why so many of us are frustrated, we have been asking for it but we keep getting ignored.

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> They have listened a lot! Also did you really feel it was necessary to make another post about this? there is already one on the front page with almost the exact same title as yours.

Oh sorry I didn’t see it! Regardless their is two sides to the story as a large side of the community are flagging 343 for doing the exact opposite, which I get they have listened to some extent they have turned a blind eye to alot of the community and the way I see it the more posts 343 see about this gives them alot more incentive to be more active with the community so the more posts they see about this issue the better.

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> > Well I can see why they wouldn’t respond. Most the forum posts that are asking for a response are ungrateful people claiming 343 is ruining halo or that they are doing terrible. When in fact they are doing the opposite, this is my favorite game of this last year and second favorite halo ever for multiplayer (right behind halo 3). And everyone saying they are doing bad is attacking 343 mostly for the lack of infection. When in fact I don’t personally even want it back, play it in custom games if you miss it. The attacking 343 makes them not want to respond and probably makes them not want to put full effort into the game because they have little to no support from the community. Enjoy the free dlc they give us, enjoy the game they made, and please everyone quit complaining that’s all the forums seem to be anymore.
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> That is one of the problems though, 343 have not even added infection to custom games! this is why so many of us are frustrated, we have been asking for it but we keep getting ignored.

I do think this is a major issue Imo just purely because it has been in the base of halo games since reach and is still stupidly popular till this day.

343i.

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> > > Well I can see why they wouldn’t respond. Most the forum posts that are asking for a response are ungrateful people claiming 343 is ruining halo or that they are doing terrible. When in fact they are doing the opposite, this is my favorite game of this last year and second favorite halo ever for multiplayer (right behind halo 3). And everyone saying they are doing bad is attacking 343 mostly for the lack of infection. When in fact I don’t personally even want it back, play it in custom games if you miss it. The attacking 343 makes them not want to respond and probably makes them not want to put full effort into the game because they have little to no support from the community. Enjoy the free dlc they give us, enjoy the game they made, and please everyone quit complaining that’s all the forums seem to be anymore.
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> I do think this is a major issue Imo just purely because it has been in the base of halo games since reach and is still stupidly popular till this day.

it was in halo 3 too, i figured it was already in customs or someone had made it a game. I don’t touch customs is why i wouldn’t know that part

Are they listening? Yes. Pretty sure Bravo et al see almost everything posted here, on Reddit, Facebook (if you ever need to feel better about the waypoint community, read some of the comments on the halo Facebook feed. Ye gods). It’s following though that or valuing what the community wants that is the problem. Honestly so far the only thing we’ve really gotten is BTB. We got some social lists, which they promptly took away. Gametypes? If they really valued the communities opinion wed have more by now, since the clamor for them started immediately at the launch and we still have nothing.

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> > > > Well I can see why they wouldn’t respond. Most the forum posts that are asking for a response are ungrateful people claiming 343 is ruining halo or that they are doing terrible. When in fact they are doing the opposite, this is my favorite game of this last year and second favorite halo ever for multiplayer (right behind halo 3). And everyone saying they are doing bad is attacking 343 mostly for the lack of infection. When in fact I don’t personally even want it back, play it in custom games if you miss it. The attacking 343 makes them not want to respond and probably makes them not want to put full effort into the game because they have little to no support from the community. Enjoy the free dlc they give us, enjoy the game they made, and please everyone quit complaining that’s all the forums seem to be anymore.
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> it was in halo 3 too, i figured it was already in customs or someone had made it a game. I don’t touch customs is why i wouldn’t know that part

It’s been popular since halo 2 but it got introduced into public and social games online sometime in 2007-2008 halo 3 & has been their ever since, heck they even put it in halo 4

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> Are they listening? Yes. Pretty sure Bravo et al see almost everything posted here, on Reddit, Facebook (if you ever need to feel better about the waypoint community, read some of the comments on the halo Facebook feed. Ye gods). It’s following though that or valuing what the community wants that is the problem. Honestly so far the only thing we’ve really gotten is BTB. We got some social lists, which they promptly took away. Gametypes? If they really valued the communities opinion wed have more by now, since the clamor for them started immediately at the launch and we still have nothing.

It does seem like they are listening but it’s pretty much selective hearing, I get why the community is angry as things like : infection , one bomb, one flag ,griftball , koth & original non forged Dev maps, it seems like they are focusing on the reqs which come on probably takes a few days work? If that.

They may hear us, but they aren’t listening, and it is an important distinction. Sure, they have heard our complaints, but they haven’t really changed their plans or approach at all to accommodate those complaints. I mean, people have been complaining about the lack of game modes since day one and after 3 months we are still waiting for Oddball for Pete’s sake, a mode that has been in the series since 2001. Same with the lack luster maps. People have been screaming for original, developer made, maps since the beginning and yet all we have gotten is forge maps and a couple of remixes, with no new maps on the horizon. The closest they have come to truly listening is by making BTB “social” and saying they are working on a file browser (why that didn’t come with Forge I will never know). Hardly a Herculean effort on their part.

If there’s one major thing we can all agree on about Halo 5 is this: it’s way -Yoinking!- better (by comparison) to EA’s Star Wars: Battefront. At least Halo 5 has SOME content while Battlefront really doesn’t.

Well we all whined about
-No time to grab weapons
they are having a 15 second increase to despawn time
-Lack of BTB
It was added
-Lack of warthog ski-
Wait, ok so they aren`t listening perfectly but they are listening abit because
-Abuses in warzone assault
Patched

I`m sure there are others

They hear, but they do not listen, if you get what I mean.

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> 343i.

That was hysterical! :slight_smile: