With all of the social additions and playlists added, has there been any positive effects on the player base/population?
I definitely like the added variety when I play… so it’s positive from a “regular’s perspective,” but I wonder if there’s been any positive changes to the overall numbers…
I’d say BTB’s population has gone up because all the 12-man players are roasting and roasting kids in BTB and soon BTB will have a Fireteam limit because people refuse to get good and/or play with a team
no one knew the numbers in the first place so know one can make the claim that it has risen or fallen
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> no one knew the numbers in the first place so know one can make the claim that it has risen or fallen
^^^ pretty much. Only 343 knows and they did say they’d adjust playlists based off popularity so until a playlist gets removed we can only speculate.
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> I’d say BTB’s population has gone up because all the 12-man players are roasting and roasting kids in BTB and soon BTB will have a Fireteam limit because people wrefuse to get good and/or play with a team
Why do you have to go there Banshee?
In answer to the Op, there is no way to know since we don’t have population counters. I find games rather quickly. I search WZFF, and Team Arena, but then again I never really had issues in that area so it is difficult to judge.
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> I’d say BTB’s population has gone up because all the 12-man players are roasting and roasting kids in BTB and soon BTB will have a Fireteam limit because people refuse to get good and/or play with a team
Why stop there? Fireteam limits for Super Fiesta, fireteam limits for triple team, fireteam limits for swat, fireteam limits for team arena!
EVERYBODY gets fireteam limits!
Seriously tho, I hate fireteam limits. And yes BTB has gone up in pop.
I always thought the most popular games list could you a ballpark figure of the population.
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> > I’d say BTB’s population has gone up because all the 12-man players are roasting and roasting kids in BTB and soon BTB will have a Fireteam limit because people refuse to get good and/or play with a team
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> Why stop there? Fireteam limits for Super Fiesta, fireteam limits for triple team, fireteam limits for swat, fireteam limits for team arena!
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> EVERYBODY gets fireteam limits!
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> Seriously tho, I hate fireteam limits. And yes BTB has gone up in pop.
Limit for FFA. only half of your Spartan will be able to play haha
since the update, i believe the populatin has grown up
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> > no one knew the numbers in the first place so know one can make the claim that it has risen or fallen
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> ^^^ pretty much. Only 343 knows and they did say they’d adjust playlists based off popularity so until a playlist gets removed we can only speculate.
I think it’s funny how 343 pushed their playlist structure for SO LONG… a full year… then they finally come out with this update that “ENHANCES (keyword) the player experience in providing tons of variety,” or whatever the update description said.
…as if they finally acknowledged that their way wasn’t any good and they actually did something the community wanted and already thought was better lol.
Hard to say considering this game doesn’t have a population counter. Halo: Reach is still getting 10,000 players every day up from 9,000, despite the servers going down for a couple days last week. I’d be willing to bet Halo 5’s population is lower than that.
What’s the actual reason why 343i doesn’t put up a population count?
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> What’s the actual reason why 343i doesn’t put up a population count?
They don’t want the criticism…
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> > What’s the actual reason why 343i doesn’t put up a population count?
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> They don’t want the criticism…
To be fair even overwatch, doom, the newer CoD games don’t show a population counter them. While I can agree they’re scared to show or even mention numbers (hard to believe them saying h5 has best player retention since h3 if they also don’t want to give actual numbers) a lack of a pop counter shouldn’t determine if a game is doing bad.
not to mention they get criticism anyways even without the counter.
343 took away the pop counter to save face after h4. We don’t know what is going on with the pop.
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> > They don’t want the criticism…
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> To be fair even overwatch, doom, the newer CoD games don’t show a population counter them. While I can agree they’re scared to show or even mention numbers (hard to believe them saying h5 has best player retention since h3 if they also don’t want to give actual numbers) a lack of a pop counter shouldn’t determine if a game is doing bad.
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> not to mention they get criticism anyways even without the counter.
Yeah sometimes the numbers don’t reflect the quality, but i just wanna know how many people are in each Playlist
There’s a megathread for population discussion, feel free to continue discussion there:
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/6e35355aecdf4fd0acdaee3cc4156fd4/topics/halo-5-population-discussion-thread/f56a5d71-6ec3-4df8-99dd-2ead7d16b5fd/posts?page=1