Thinking back to when Halo: CE for the PC was out, how many players were on everyday. How many servers for clans and communitys there were that were dedicated. Gearbox brought all that to the PC, ultimately Microsoft decided to keep it up. Then came the Xbox and Halo was the Xbox’s icon for a long time. Remember the Lan matches and the system-links? Halo was the most unique game out for the Xbox at it’s prime.
Halo 3 regardless of it being knocked off the XBL charts is still played, still has a couple thousand players left. Same goes for Halo 2 Vista, it’s still played via XBC(Xbox Connect) Reach is still played and I honestly though Halo 4 would destroy Reach…but guess what…it didn’t.
Halo 4’s population declines everyday 343. People say population don’t mean -Yoink- yet Reach still has a population and still has players returning to it as Halo 3 has players returning to it also.
Halo stopped being unique with Halo 4. But the question is why? Was it to bring new players in or to keep up with the market, yet it can’t keep up with the latest installments of Call of Duty. Black Ops is beating it right now. It’s being tailed by Modern Warfare 3 which came out last year. Reach is being tailed for 16th place by Borderlands too. But all of our questions are simple, why take COD like aspects and plant them into multiplayer. Why take the cannon and plant it into mutliplayer? Halo’s cannon never tied into mutliplayer. New players had no problem getting used to Halo 3, and in some minds, that was the last "true unique Halo.
Now look at this year. Halo 4 is one siding the community, and is a game thats more broken then Reach. Maps have exploits, weapon mechanics have glitchs(thats normal) What map had exploits in any Halo(excluding super jumps in Halo 2)Casuals want their side of Halo and so do competitives but Halo 4 doesn’t have that. Many people won’t even buy Halo 5 or 6 because of what Reach and Halo 4 became. For Halo 4 to get knocked off so easily from the top spot right when Black Ops 2 launched, theres something wrong with that in my opinion.
Halo 4 can still be unique 343, but your team has to remember what kept Halo unique in the first place. You’re owned by Microsoft, one of the biggest names besides Sony and Apple. I’m sure theres nothing Microsoft cannot do for Halo because it’s what made the original Xbox. It’s what made Xbox LIVE. You’ve lost a lot of trust with the community. Upset a lot of the fanbase even here on the forums. Halo 4 can turn back into a successful game next year. Just bring the uniqueness back into Halo. It’s what made Halo such a successful franchise to begin with.
I didn’t read the full post to be honest, but judging from the title I’d have to agree.
343 either needs to cater to the newer Halo fans or make Halo simple and the way it used to be, you know when 1 million people were playing Halo 3 at the same time, or when Halo 2 was #1 on LIVE till Halo 3 came out.
If that doesn’t tell you that REACH/4 did something wrong then I don’t know what will…
> I didn’t read the full post to be honest, but judging from the title I’d have to agree.
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> 343 either needs to cater to the newer Halo fans or make Halo simple and the way it used to be, you know when 1 million people were playing Halo 3 at the same time, or when Halo 2 was #1 on LIVE till Halo 3 came out.
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> If that doesn’t tell you that REACH/4 did something wrong then I don’t know what will…
You guys forget that halo 3 showed unique players in the last 24 hrs. Halo 4 shows all players in wargames at the moment. There is a forum that converts this to unique players but i forget which one. This game still has a lot of life left in it as its only been a month and 9 days, were still getting more playlists in the future and more features added into the game like the csr, and dont forget the new maps. Point is the population will (and i hope) rise again, as i do enjoy this game alot for all its problems and i want to see it thrive cause its a good game.
First you got the order of games wrong. Halo CE came out for xbox way before halo PC came out. Halo PC while I played for a while and went to tournaments for the net code was atrocious. The single most lag ridden game I have ever played online in my life.
Secondly, please please please stop saying halo is copying cod features when these said “features” WERE IN OTHER GAMES LONG BEFORE COD ADOPTED THEM.
The game is still very unique. Most of you are just too busy whining on the forums because you did not get halo2.42342348945 re skinned, you got a game that has changed just like it has changed EVERY time it has been released.
Is it perfect? No
Does it need some tweaks? Yes, just like every halo has needed some minor tweaks after release
Am I tired of seeing these threads comparing it to CoD and not being unique? Abso-effing-lutly.
> Thinking back to when Halo: CE for the PC was out, how many players were on everyday. How many servers for clans and communitys there were that were dedicated. Gearbox brought all that to the PC, ultimately Microsoft decided to keep it up. Then came the Xbox and Halo was the Xbox’s icon for a long time. Remember the Lan matches and the system-links? Halo was the most unique game out for the Xbox at it’s prime.
Only Halo came out on the Xbox before it was released on PC…
343i doesn’t know how to make a game. Halo 4 feels like a BETA and many things shouldn’t be there.
Having COD ideas and making them better… please 343, we don’t like that. The real Halo community DON’T like that. Halo 3 still and will be the last real Halo Game.
Multiplayer is NOT enjoyable in H4 with all those “new features”. Halo was unique in it’s own way, and you guys destroyed that.
Other online communities, like IGN may say “it’s an awesome game, best game ever” but remember they just played it once and it was the campaign.
Why couldn’t they just have stolen from Battlefield 3, or for god sakes at least Battlefront ? I’d be more forgiving with the addition of massive maps that can take up to 24 players, a virtual gun store, and vehicles that are awesome over these COD additions and these horrible maps and 3 pathetic Forge worlds. I really wished I had waited for the 40.00 price range or better the 4.99 bargain bin price range. Because by then hopefully 343 will have fixed their game to the point of being enjoyable.