FORBES: MCC is the single biggest game disaster

Games Halo: The Master Chief Collection
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Well… I’ve been teelling this since all this mess began; Halo is too messed up, and the Xbox brand WILL pay for this.

Now, Forbes magazine, just wrote a story about this, and their veredict is harsh: MCC is the biggest single disaster in games this year, and have all the potencial to mess the Xbox brand for sure.

Now, I dont even know if any fix will really save this game. Microsoft will have to give gold to people in the hopes all this incredible bad impression will go away. And pray it works.

I repeat, 343 should rethink all their strategy, Halo 5 included right now. They have to regain respect, or risk everything.

And all depends on the MCC crisis.

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I think Forbes is blowing it way out of proportion.

They’ve always been a site that appeals to investors, in a lot of cases with some of their stories pertaining to the Xbox brand.

In addition, I’ll call BS on that verdict. In the grand scheme of things, this story will do little but to sway the outside forces. In terms to the Xbox Brand and 343, this will be water under the bridge soon enough.

I don’t seem to recall that anything harsh happened to Sony with their even-worse fiasco with drive club.

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If anyone honestly listens to forbes then they have some major issues. Forbes is nothing but garbage. And the post is nothing new. We all know halo MCC is having issues. I can’t believe people still go to that place full of pretentious self centered filth.

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“It’s hard to overstate just how bad this launch has been, with Halo: MCC literally not having a working multiplayer since its debut, which is the primary draw of the game for players who were excited to relive Halo’s glory days on remastered maps and blended playlists. Instead, they were treated to an exercise in frustration and the best example of a company completely and utterly dropping the ball when it comes to what should have been a slam-dunk.”

“Halo was a perfectly cooked steak that fell off the plate onto the floor, and now players are waiting for someone to pick it up and clean it off. Even then, they may have lost their appetite for it.”

“Here you have a game that by all accounts is close to perfect in concept and execution, but a complete technical meltdown destroyed its launch, is continuing to destroy its entire release window, and may very well destroy its legacy if players don’t come back when the game finally is fixed. And for Microsoft, they’ve just lost perhaps the single biggest reason to pick up an Xbox this holiday season, and they have to be fuming.”

“Fix it quickly, and there still may be hope, but if this continues much longer, all 343′s work might be for nothing.”

I don’t know what you’re talking about. They nailed it.

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> I think Forbes is blowing it way out of proportion.
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> They’ve always been a site that appeals to investors, in a lot of cases with some of their stories pertaining to the Xbox brand.
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> In addition, I’ll call BS on that verdict. In the grand scheme of things, this story will do little but to sway the outside forces. In terms to the Xbox Brand and 343, this will be water under the bridge soon enough.
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> I don’t seem to recall that anything harsh happened to Sony with their even-worse fiasco with drive club.

This post says it all ladies and gentlemen. Even 343 apologists are now comparing Halo with “Drive Club”. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

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> If anyone honestly listens to forbes then they have some major issues. Forbes is nothing but garbage. And the post is nothing new. We all know halo MCC is having issues. I can’t believe people still go to that place full of pretentious self centered filth.

Lmao - you said it brother

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> 2533274826920712;2:
> I think Forbes is blowing it way out of proportion.
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> They’ve always been a site that appeals to investors, in a lot of cases with some of their stories pertaining to the Xbox brand.
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> In addition, I’ll call BS on that verdict. In the grand scheme of things, this story will do little but to sway the outside forces. In terms to the Xbox Brand and 343, this will be water under the bridge soon enough.
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> I don’t seem to recall that anything harsh happened to Sony with their even-worse fiasco with drive club.

There is no way we can compare Drive Club with Halo. We can’t even compare Drive Club with Forza, imagine with Halo. And, MCC is a even worst state.
Always a site that appeal to investors. And you think thats means nothing?

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This year? That’s either this or AC: Unity, which I’d argue is even more broken and damaging to it’s respective publisher and IP. Between the low framerate, intentional dumbing down of graphics, lack of female assassins, review embargos and the just plain laughable bugginess, that game is easily more broken and the developers are way more trashy.

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> > 2535422112705145;3:
> > If anyone honestly listens to forbes then they have some major issues. Forbes is nothing but garbage. And the post is nothing new. We all know halo MCC is having issues. I can’t believe people still go to that place full of pretentious self centered filth.
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> Lmao - you said it brother

Invertors, and a lot of people listen to Forbes. Your argument is not even a argument.

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Atari ET will always be the worst

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Whats the link to this story? The only one I found was:

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> > 2533274826920712;2:
> > I think Forbes is blowing it way out of proportion.
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> > They’ve always been a site that appeals to investors, in a lot of cases with some of their stories pertaining to the Xbox brand.
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> > In addition, I’ll call BS on that verdict. In the grand scheme of things, this story will do little but to sway the outside forces. In terms to the Xbox Brand and 343, this will be water under the bridge soon enough.
> >
> > I don’t seem to recall that anything harsh happened to Sony with their even-worse fiasco with drive club.
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> This post says it all ladies and gentlemen. Even 343 apologists are now comparing Halo with “Drive Club”. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

I can’t agree more!

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> Whats the link to this story? The only one I found was:
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/11/22/microsoft-is-losing-xbox-one-momentum-due-to-343s-halo-master-chief-collection-misdeeds/

Thats the one!

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Forbes has molded themselves into an unlikely legit gaming voice. I applaud their efforts to treat reviews like newspapers treat movie reviews. I actually prefer to see their points than IGN or Gamespot.

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Yeah…definitely over exaggerating. Its rough but sooo many games have problems (a lot have big ones) these days. They are just making it a much bigger deal because Halo is the Xbox’s big title. It’s definitely a problem, but…yeah…sounds like that’s some major clickbait.

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> 2533274826920712;2:
> I think Forbes is blowing it way out of proportion.
>
> They’ve always been a site that appeals to investors, in a lot of cases with some of their stories pertaining to the Xbox brand.
>
> In addition, I’ll call BS on that verdict. In the grand scheme of things, this story will do little but to sway the outside forces. In terms to the Xbox Brand and 343, this will be water under the bridge soon enough.
>
> I don’t seem to recall that anything harsh happened to Sony with their even-worse fiasco with drive club.

Forbes is lying…ET atari, collapsed the entire gaming economy until japanese import nintendo came along, Halo mcc is not a game disaster

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> 2752423165120539;5:
> > 2533274826920712;2:
> > I think Forbes is blowing it way out of proportion.
> >
> > They’ve always been a site that appeals to investors, in a lot of cases with some of their stories pertaining to the Xbox brand.
> >
> > In addition, I’ll call BS on that verdict. In the grand scheme of things, this story will do little but to sway the outside forces. In terms to the Xbox Brand and 343, this will be water under the bridge soon enough.
> >
> > I don’t seem to recall that anything harsh happened to Sony with their even-worse fiasco with drive club.
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> This post says it all ladies and gentlemen. Even 343 apologists are now comparing Halo with “Drive Club”. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

I’m not comparing driveclub to Halo in any respect.

Driveclub’s launch was a catastrophe. Compared to the MCC, it’s mild.

For one, the matchmaking works for me, and others as well. For the MCC to be a failure, it would have to be completely broken. It is not.

Also, I’ve probably been in this forum for a bit longer than most (Halo 4 pre-release days), I’ve been through my fair share of arguments. I’ve defended and bashed 343i throughout my time here, and suddenly, I’m declared a 343 apologist?

Seems legit.

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> There is no way we can compare Drive Club with Halo. We can’t even compare Drive Club with Forza, imagine with Halo. And, MCC is a even worst state.
> Always a site that appeal to investors. And you think thats means nothing?

Actually, yes. I do think it means nothing. This article in itself is merely clickbait. Arguably on the scale of how IGN does it. There have been plenty of bad situations throughout the time that Microsoft has been carrying the Xbox.

And in every one of those instances, the Xbox brand has pushed through. Even through E3 2013, where they are now near the top once more. Take my word for it; history has shown that they tend to bounce back relatively well. In the grand scheme of things, the launch issues and matchmaking issues (which don’t even effect everyone) are not going to sink either 343 Industries nor Microsoft.

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Wonder if anybody at Forbes has even played an Xbox before lol

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Quick side note: I’ve seen a number of video game related articles on Forbes these past months, and I’m trying to figure out why. I guess it fits with a new direction for the brand… after all, I’m reading them! I guess I’m just not used to it rubbing up against my generation’s (25-35 yo) hobbies.

That said, the article makes some salient points. Halo is a console launcher and a console seller. MCC is killing the momentum that MSFT has been trying to build by cutting console prices and offering free games with a console purchase.

This sentence was well phrased:

> But Halo was a perfectly cooked steak that fell off the plate onto the floor, and now players are waiting for someone to pick it up and clean it off. Even then, they may have lost their appetite for it.

And this closing paragraph hits home:

> In an age when broken game releases are unfortunately becoming the norm, the Halo: Master Chief situation is the worst of them all. Here you have a game that by all accounts is close to perfect in concept and execution, but a complete technical meltdown destroyed its launch, is continuing to destroy its entire release window, and may very well destroy its legacy if players don’t come back when the game finally is fixed. And for Microsoft, they’ve just lost perhaps the single biggest reason to pick up an Xbox this holiday season, and they have to be fuming.

No wonder Sunset Overdrive was free for a day.

I just hope they fix it quick. I really don’t want to spend full price for a one month Beta experience and 4 games i already own but now can’t enjoy like i used to.

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The people STILL defending 343i have got to be either less than 15 years old or people who don’t try to play with friends. Forbes is right, other than battlfield I’ve never really seen multiplayer this screwed. And the fact that halo 2 3 and 4 all connected much better seperately on older consoles makes it even more frustrating. Forbes also hits the nail when talking about launches sucking in general. This was the one game I was positive it would work, only having campaign stable is really annoying, I love the campaigns but lets be honest for a second here: if the multiplayer worked like the other, same games but the campaigns were broke MUCH less people would be pissed.