If my OP doesn’t work. hell at least I tried.
Halo has been a superb franchise since 2001. Everyone who knows Halo, has played Halo or even knows of Halo CE, regardless of what Halo you started knows this. Every Halo has had it’s competitive scene, friends competing with eachother over Halo CE lan parties, and having fun doing it. Halo 2 had it’s casual and it’s competitive scenes, remember how many tournaments were televised, back when Halo 2 entered MLG? Remember how many viewers it had? Some of the top teams I remember were Ogre 1 & 2, STR8 RIPPIN, and Carbon. How about the midnight releases, how many people gathered at Gamestop, EB Games, wherever! Halo has had many unique things about it, it’s gameplay, its Campaign, the community.
The three weeks of suspension, I had didn’t keep me from these forums. I went into the GDC thread that’s gotten over 120 pages, which made my jaw drop. There are people who defend Halo 4, my sister, defends it against what I say. Halo lost it’s community with Halo 4, people that were unsatified, traded it in, sold it. The remainder of the community is on these forums, it’s the 30k, 40k people that still play it. Now we have AGL, UMG who are trying to revive competitive Halo, UMG soley hosted COD tournaments and for them to pick up Halo 4, for me, thats a miracle in itself. It tells me, it tells people or it should tell people that Halo hasn’t been given up yet, and some of us aren’t going to give up on it. Halo has always had something, for the casuals, and the competitives. We have developers in 343 that have played Halo, but have never worked on it. The Mods had a point in one thread, where they had stated, if you want a Halo 4 to look like a core Halo game, then show 343 by going back and playing the previous Halos that had Halo’s core. APK(I think he said it), stated that attacking 343 isn’t going to do anything, and said to look at THC and not do what they do.
If people want a Core Halo, a proper sequel to Halo 3 in terms of matchmaking, people have to show they want it, the community has to make a movement, to tell 343, express to them that this isn’t the Halo we have known, but this is. Halo 3 had a beta when Bungie released it, that alone turned Halo 3 into s game that reigned for 4 straight years, not only because of Bungie, but because of the communinty that helped form it. Reach wasn’t a successful Halo game, people know it and now Halo 4 is trailing behind a title that was released 2 years ago. I don’t want Halo to fail, none of us do. But the community expressing themselves to 343 is what alone will make Halo 5 a success. The community working with not only the ex-Bungie devs but the devs that have come from different franchises to work on Halo 4 will shape Halo 5. That GDC thread alone expressed what dissatifaction people have with Halo 4, and recieved over 200 thanks I believe. People want a beta for Halo 5, people have to express that. Look what the WoW community, they work with Blizzard. Blizzard was going to reset Valor Points in WoW and they didn’t because of the community. It’s the same with Halo 4. People want the traditional Halo experience, people want a Core Halo, then express it, play Halo 3, go into Ranked, go into Social. Halo 5 being a success is what will bring the community back that was lost. It’ll bring Halo back to MLG, which is what some people want. It can even fix Halo 4, and bring it back to life, but not without an attempt from the community itself.
It starts with the community, it starts with the fans. It starts with expressing the want for a Core Halo experience and if playing the original trilogy or even Reach is how to do it then so be it. It’s not “Help us Help you 343”, it’s not “Trust Us” Its the community working with the Game Dev to bring their game back to life.
It starts with everyone.