Do you think 343i is still listening?

Considering that we’re under a year away from launch, do you think 343i is still even considering implementing changes that they see in this forum?

I mean, given the development cycle of a video game, I guess I wonder if it’s worth posting suggestions, wishes, and whatnot for Halo 4… if it’s becoming almost technically impossible to make such changes this far along.

I’m not talking about little things like damage balance, spawnpoints, or stuff like that. I mean big things, like adding weapons and vehicles, adding a campaign mission, or overhauling a ranking structure. What do you guys think?

Hopefully they never were, an unflushed toilet would be a more productive source of inspiration.

I highly doubt that anyone working on the game will read anything from these forums, mainly because they should aim to be unbiased towards any particular game matter, for example, you get a bunch of lucky kills in Reach with a DMR. That would likely make you feel better towards the concept of bloom, but if you were to be unlucky and get killed a bunch of times it would change your disposition towards it negatively and as such impact your decision on whether features like this would be implemented in the game.

I for one would prefer that nobody who is in charge of any aspect of development view these forums as I want the best experience possible for everyone, which would be difficult if people from 343i started listening to the ideas on the forums.

I’m sure they don’t listen to big things like that. But they could be listening to small ideas, like gametype ideas and other little stuff. But man, I hope so much that they use only a few of the ideas from the forums, and those few are the good ones.

No way to late for that. it all a bit of fun at this point.