> They are a vocal minority as well as the playing majority. Halo changed for the worse. They left.
-Yoink-. Never in the game’s history has a competitive playlist taken its spot at the head of matchmaking (well perhaps under normal circumstances, I can’t speak for every spike to a “competitive” double exp weekend playlist.) Team Slayer, MLG, they’ve all been second banana to the social gametypes including BTB.
This statement (to try to put this in perspective) that Halo is a primarily competitive game is a self-serving slogan, an assertion that doesn’t consider what has actually happened to this game (see. playlist population figures over history) but rather what you would like 343 to believe happened in order for your special interest group to get a larger say in the direction of the franchise than the numbers would otherwise indicate. To be fair most hardcore groups within gaming communities take the same approach and push in the same direction (I’ve been watching people try to do analogous things to Star Trek Online of all games which is just about as far as you can get along the social spectrum), so perhaps its a fundamental part of how humans, at least in special circumstances, respond to modern group settings (and try to secure power/authority within them), but that doesn’t make it justified.
Anyone can vocalize, that’s the beauty of the forum. But as for what people have primarily played in this franchise (through all of Halo including CE. See. Blood Gulch and the role there of) there is a sizable disconnect between that reality and the voice of the so called “Community” which should be appreciated if we’re to cut down on the disingenuous propaganda and try to get at useable information.