HaloDotAPI shutting down

Games Halo Infinite
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So, HaloDotAPI just announced that they are shutting down because lack of funding/financial strain. This means all current running online stats like halo.info or leafapp.co will stop working, which is a major blow to every stats interested player.

343 isn’t providing any alternative, so from 7/31 you won’t be able to track any of your stats: No K/D, no precision stats, nothing. The only thing that you will be able to see are the postgame stats and your games played overall.

For me personally this feels very devastating as I take a major part of my enjoyment of any game by tracking stats, looking where I can improve, try to kick my precision a little further and so on.

Here you can find the article from autocode and their reasoning.
https://autocode.com/halo/threads/halodotapi-shutting-down-july-31st-savehalodotapi-e3ec87e7/

How do you folks think about that? Anybody also very concerned about the lack of stat tracking or is nobody using halo.info anyway?

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what about halotracker?

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From the article:

“[343 Industries] did their best to try to support us. They are unable to move forward due to policy and compliance issues at Microsoft around how Halo player data is used.”

Policy and compliance issues wouldn’t be a problem if 343 would just provide stats like previous Halo games.

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Remember when waypoint used to track your game stats

Pepperidge farm Remembers

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HaloTracker will only be affected in terms of medals, it seems. So other stats will be unaffected.

It’s a shame. Add it to the pile of disappointments, I suppose.

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Remember when we had a service record? like… 18 years ago?

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Yeah, incredibly annoying not to be able to check people’s service record after the game. Yet another step backward. They ever explain why?

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i also remember us being able to tal to others in lobbies

Proximity chat in matches being a thing

Being able to party up with randoms after a match with a click of a button

Being able to veto maps and game modes

Having the ability to play as elites

Having the ability to customize the primary and secondary colors pf our armor

The ability to customize our emblem and nameplate

Having a xp level/rank thats not tied to ranked mode or a battle pass

Gee there’s a lot of features here that were loved by the community that are missing

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Iirc money
Gotta allocate those funds to something else

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Personally, I think stat fixation is an absolute plague for video game fun factor. Which is why I myself don’t have any problem whatsoever with Infinite having no in-game tracking visible. I’ve actually enjoyed that, given that third party trackers have existed and been reliable and pretty accessible for all the players who care.

This just sucks, though. Sounds like MS privacy policy has killed DotAPI. Not super surprising as issues like this are going to increasingly affect all of our online experiences going forward, but 343i should absolutely make it right for those players who do want to track their stats by providing a rock solid in-house solution. Again, personally I’d prefer that be a separate/companion app or site from Halo Infinite itself, but it should exist. Hopefully HaloTracker can weather this storm intact and provide players with a comparable resource for a long time to come.

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I tend to use stat tracking to see how much xp i need to level up(when i was on my inheritor grind) or to look at all the medals i earned

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I get why people like it, I used to be addicted to it myself for a ton of reasons. It just makes actually playing the game so much less fun to me at least.

But there has to be a way for players to access accurate and up to date stats, absolutely. If Microsoft privacy policies are going to make it impossible for third parties to accomplish that, 343 has to get on it.

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Litterally i’m somewhere in the Top 5 for Killionaires. I’ve made friends from these leadboards just existing. My friends actively try to be #1 in a bunch of categories.

It’s just ridiculous at this point, The things Halo players have to do to track stats. As always the ineptitude of 343i will shine through because they clearly can’t do anything right.

If they listened to community feedback this would’ve been addressed A LONG time ago but they don’t. What a joke of a game.

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Infinites got no soul

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I can’t believe we don’t have a formal API.

Halo 5’s was limited… but at least it was there.

I had such high hopes for what Infinite could have done.

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At least we have a new UI (big fat lol) for the forum that is unintuitive and pretty useless, i.e. posting links etc.

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They’re making a career leveling system with stats page

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What’s hilarious that other game forums arent as strict if you want a example look at dead by daylight’s forums you could link, add pictures and or embed stuff in your posts

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Dead by Daylight have staff to moderate the forum.

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Insert destiny 2 drifter’s ooh face here

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