Now, I’m not hating on all the original halo fans, but I just want you to think of this, nor am in liking halo 4.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
If i convert this to halo:
“It is not the halo player that loves halo 1-3, or the best player, but the player who is the most adaptable to change, 343i change.”
So what do you think of this?
Except the only ones who could adapt were the mere ~15% to ~25%. You can’t make this sound like a good thing.
There’s change and then there’s a monkey trying to be a pterodactyle.
Yeah, people who will like halo despite its changes will survive the longest as fans. However, when wanting to produce a good product, you don’t want to produce something that only that group will like.
Evolution is not marketing. Yes, change does have to happen to keep a market from stagnating, but alienating vast chunks of your userbase in order to gain…nothing isn’t worth it.
~20% surviving your bad choices is not a good thing.
We never know what we truly want until we gaze apon it. We always encounter bumps along the way but if you’re willing to step over you’ll never know what you might find and holding a grudge just anchors you down, it’s time to let go and move on.
> There’s change and then there’s a monkey trying to be a pterodactyle.
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> Yeah, people who will like halo despite its changes will survive the longest as fans. However, when wanting to produce a good product, you don’t want to produce something that only that group will like.
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> Evolution is not marketing. Yes, change does have to happen to keep a market from stagnating, but alienating vast chunks of your userbase in order to gain…nothing isn’t worth it.
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> <mark>~20% surviving your bad choices is not a good thing.[</mark>/quote]
> I know what your saying, but when the k-t extinction happened it wiped out all dinosaurs, but the ones that survived were tiny and could hide from doom. Oh yeah this extinction killed 75% off all life, so 25% survived so yeah bad choice I guess.
Beautiful tears run down face :,)
> I know what your saying, but when the k-t extinction happened it wiped out all dinosaurs, but the ones that survived were tiny and could hide from doom. Oh yeah this extinction killed 75% off all life, so 25% survived so yeah bad choice I guess.
Considering that choice resulted in a species that actively makes others extinct and is destroying the environment. Yeah, if something did choose to cause the extinction event, they made a bad call.
That said, Earth is not a product (to our knowledge) nor did the dinosaurs (ticked off fans) continue to haunt the survivors and prevent new ones from being born (bad public opinion). Its also not competing with other planets (games) in order to survive.
Adapting to change is important, but abandoning your niche(Traditional Halo gameplay) and going after one dominated by a well established species(CoD) isn’t exactly a great strategy.
To continue with the metaphor a Jaguar and a Lion are both large predatory cats(Halo and the ‘Modern’ FPS). They have some similarities(genre), but their survival strategies are different. A Jaguar is not going to beat a Lion at being a Lion in Lion territory(throwing ‘modern’ FPS mechanics on top of Halo mechanics).
However neither the lion or the jaguar need to compete with one another as they are separated by a continent(sub genre). The success or failure of either species does not necessarily impact the other. Even if one is ultimately more successful then the other it does not that mean that the other can’t coexist within its own separate niche.
We are not going to get anywhere by simply playing follow the leader with what is ‘expected’ of shooters. Halo needs to change and evolve, but compromising what made Halo ‘Halo’ and abandoning an established audience for unknown new one doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
Mentioning “adaptation” in this context is a baaaaad idea OP. Someone might come along and try to tear your head off over this, but their ire isn’t quite entirely unfounded. Why should they be forced to adapt from something they enjoy to something they do not?
So tell me, would 343 Industries or Microsoft want to make $600,000 off of the 10,000 or so active Halo 4 players most likely to buy Halo 5 at $60 or hundreds of millions off of a formula that will at least encourage fans who abandoned the franchise to come back? Not the most concrete numbers of course, but I think the point is made.
That whole “adaptation” argument doesn’t hold up when sales numbers are involved. No smart business would actively go after the lowest amount of profits nor would it look good on 343 Industries end to say they are listening to the fanbase and implement things that show the exact opposite.
I think I’m tired of hearing evolution and Charles Darwin references around every corner.
Your quote is also worded strange. If you read it in the same context as the original, you’re implying the only people that love Halo’s 1-3 are the ones accepting of change. Which obviously isn’t true.
Regardless games aren’t about survival, they are about enjoyment. You can’t just completely change the hobbies that you enjoy.