Because it May end up being a really good update.
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Well, to be honest, you don’t have to wait. The option to leave exists, there’s all kinds of games to play. If you feel like coming back later when there’s more to Halo Infinite, then by all means do it, but don’t tie yourself down to a game you don’t like playing.
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Bey don’t forget to close the door you won’t be missed. 
So many have already left there’s almost nobody left to close the door
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I kept telling people how “Battlefield V had a roadmap too”
“Nah it’s gonna be great i have total faith in 343-”
Jesus.
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I’m going to rely a little more on 343i. Well, not in 343i, in the people who are surely giving everything to solve the bad decisions of their bosses.
I have enjoyed many years of the Halo saga and I want to think that all these problems have been due to a rushed launch, perhaps due to the excessive desire for money.
In my opinion, he should have closed the beta, corrected the problems that the community has already mentioned, and taken enough time to release a polished game that would have been a complete success.
Well, here we are, at this point where we are abandoning or continuing to support this game. I have the same problems as the others with the desynchronism, the lag, the inconsistencies and mistakes they have made…
And I will have a little faith despite getting angry every day and I will continue to believe that this game, in a while (maybe the year they should have waited), it may look like what the fans expected, especially in the gaming experience. You must solve the issue of servers in Europe and the rest of the world…
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They should drop a free second battle pass in Season 1 with all the missing REACH armor in it.
Also things like removing Attrition from the game makes no sense. Just keep as much playlists in the game as possible.
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Yeh something does need to be done and I still don’t like how they’re still ignoring the steam community since 272k at launch and dropped to 6-7k in 2 months and not even a single mention from 343i on that.
Unless I have missed something they still haven’t apologised for the progression system and they seem to be ignoring the fact that Steam has had a massive drop in population while there bragging xbox numbers at launch. Kind of feels like 343i are misleading the fanbase with the Xbox numbers.
And as others have said it’s a F2P and people can make as many dummy accounts as they want and that just means that active players right now are not all going to be ‘unique players’.
I keep coming back to the community to see if things have changed and yet far as I can tell 343i are still not doing enough.
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We don’t even have overall Rank XP! Just stupid weekly challenges (which only attribute to battle pass rank) that aren’t fun, are annoying, and affect the way you play the game! These challenges cause people to leave games, and focus on AR kills or whatever instead of doing anything possible to confirm the kill. It sucks.
The overall xp ranking was fine in MCC! “Oh cool look its a Tour 3 General”, it was a reward to Grind! Halo 3 was still the best and perfect i think. Now we have NOTHING.
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“But we’ve given you so many cosmetics to buy from the store! How is that not a reason! And Fiesta! Don’t forget Fiesta!”
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There’s a reason for that.
Most games these days have recurring advertised content on the Xbox Home Screen. The idea is to constantly show you ads about games you normally wouldn’t purchase otherwise. But if you are connected to the internet at all time they can advertise repetitively until you finally decide to buy that relatively cheap game.
They can’t get you to buy additional content if they can’t market it to you. It’s designed that way purposely.
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Fortunately it’s a completely free game that you can drop in and out of, and unless you dropped a bunch of money on cosmetics (the very definition of a “you” problem) you can walk away “unscathed” by a game you find disappointing.
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I will, but only because I have a friend who enjoys the game and it’s immensely more fun with them. Without them and a completed Battle Pass… yeah, I’ve got change left over to buy the new Call of Duty: Vanguard season.
“Counterintuitive” is exactly the word I’ve been grasping for, recently. Many challenges encourage bad play or selfishness, rather than playing to the strengths of the map, match, and your team composition.
I disagree, I think it is inspired and rewarding, but that’s because I like Halo: Reach. What the next season will offer, I’m not so sure. I like the changing weekly events (when their Ultimate doesn’t suck,) but I won’t deny a few problems.
- The Double XP item is incompatible to the current challenge system, which does not reward good play in the game, only the challenges you have. “Got the highest K:D, spent the most time on the objective, and saved a few teammates? That’s cool and all, but that’s not what we asked, so no XP for you. The clock’s still ticking in the menus, so don’t waste any time.”
- There’s no daily challenges. Likely on purpose, Weekly creates fear of missing out (FOMO), and the reward for the time commitment it requires is very rarely if ever worth it. Those who do complete the weekly challenges had better have a Battle Pass because the only way they’d get XP after that (again, not from playing the game well) is through the 300/200/100 XP dailies.
There’s room for change on this, I agree. However constantly telling the devs to lower the prices is going to run out of steam. Let’s build up the backlash for the moment something more than $12 comes to the store.
100%. And the roadmap being delayed is hardly news to live disservice games. It’s one of the easiest things to screw up, and developers keep doing it. Roadmaps are no longer impressive. They haven’t been since Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade’s ever-changing one, and the head of Behaviour Interactive wasn’t Tzeentch. That we know of.
Emphasis is my own. 100% agreed; 20M accounts… but how many are playing, because Steam Charts is telling me there’s 25,000 people within the last 24 hours, and while that may be a fraction of Xbox users… it ain’t a fraction of 20,000,000 people online at once. This is hardly a new trick, World of Warcraft has relied on this for over a decade, but it’s still one that needs to be pointed out all the same.
I’m satisfied with the current content because I’ve got a friend to play with as said earlier, but we’ve got plenty of other fresher experiences to play. We don’t need Halo: Infinite, and selling the idea of need is Marketing 101. And in the service game, content is king. Halo: Infinite just doesn’t have enough of really anything, and it being its first season is simply not a good enough excuse right now.
I don’t have faith so much as cautious optimism. Like, how much worse than the bare-bones and buggy Season One can it be? That’s not a glowing endorsement of Season Two, but I’ll take slightly better over this Season.
However, I have this inescapable feeling that 343 Industries have blown their load with the first Season. Selling Halo: Reach stuff in Season One is very much like selling Call of Duty’s Ghost or Captain Price; there’s too many iconic suits of armour (namely Emile’s helm) to miss out on.
As do I. Nice to see some constructive criticism that wants to be proven wrong. It was a pleasure reading your post. 
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You must have missed the first few weeks after launch. There were daily challenges that were pulled from what seemed to be the same pool as the weekly challenges. The only reason we have what we do now is because of the backlash from players that their system sucked; which could have been avoided, at least in part, if 343 wasn’t so hard headed and actually bothered to react to the feedback from the flights.
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the shortage if content is a real issue. im a huge halo fan and i like the game despite the many issues, but ive found myself gravitating back to apex legends simply because theres just more going on in that game. the progression is thorough and rewarding, the challenges are diverse and there are tons going on at once, i find myself intrigued to progress through the battle pass because i find the rewards simply better. i understand that apex is 3 years into its life, but i think this halo game has a LONG way to come on the content side. desperately needs new maps, skins, cosmetics, loading screens, anything to get players excited honestly
im hoping a monsrer update is coming for season 2
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i like the weekly challenge system in infinite, kudos to that. if they make the weekly reward a weapon skin, or helmet, or visor (something good) every week,i think that would incentivize people actively doing those challenges
I had indeed missed that part of the game’s history, I’ve only been playing for approximately three weeks. I’m not sure how glad I am to be half-right. Not very if they suffer the same fundamental problems as the Weekly ones.
I have to ask, is this even an official forum? Because I’ve never seen any input from a developer or community manager barring the locking of threads without explicit reason (which comes off as unofficial, to put it diplomatically.)
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Yeah, it seems like Reddit gets more replies from 343 than Waypoint…
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I don’t think we’re gonna see a major revamp of the challenge system before May.
You’re not gonna get a progression revamp before May.
You’re never gonna get an insanely cheap store. The prices were lowered once. Maybe they’ll get lowered again.
It’s actually not, though. Their F2P model is almost identical to F2P models that are incredibly popular with players.
As far as I’m aware the next major content drop is in Season 2. You’re not gonna get them to fast track the stuff because you want a reason to “wait until May.”
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Most of the moderation you are seeing comes from community moderators, 343 does fill that role occasionally, but quite rare.
Yes, this forum is official. To me, it feels more like a play room that parents put their kids in while they try to get some work done. They’ve been nice enough to give us a few baby sitters to keep us from hitting each other with the plastic bats. Occasionally mommy or daddy will open the door and announce what they are making for dinner, but then promptly leave. There is very little community interaction here.
The last few weeks we’ve gotten a brief update on Friday evenings, so I guess that is improvement??
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