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> > > > > > Yep, it’s gone. This is complete bs! First it takes them over a year to put in a ranked Snipers playlist, then they take it away after just a few months?! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, tweets steps forward, one step wayyyyyy back. Screw you, 343!
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> > > > > Please be a bit more respectful.
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> > > > > I myself am not happy about it, but I’m sure there’s a reason behind it, and we will find that out in the weekly update coming either tonight, or tomorrow.
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> > > > I apologize, this was right after I saw it had been removed and I was extremely heated. It’s just frustrating when I really do try to defend 343, but they continue to do things that seem to be against what the community wants. I shouldn’t have posted anything until I was able to think of things with a more level head. I think Boxr has some really good points on why the playlist was removed and that has helped me be a little more realistic in my thinking. Again, I apologize and will delete the post.
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> > > I understand your frustration. And I try to defend 343 as well when it comes to their decisions. I always try to see both the consumer, and the producers side of things. But sometimes it’s just so difficult and doesn’t make any sense.
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> > > I’m still annoyed by not having a Social Slayer playlist. I loved having multi team, but once that was removed I didn’t know what I’d really play for smaller team based game types. I don’t really play much Arena anymore. I play mainly Firefight, Warzone, and SuperFiesta.
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> > > What really confuses me is, we wait all this time for playlists, and we get them. And the community rejoices with cheer and happiness, and then, bam. They’re removed due to low populations. Populations die over time which makes sense, it happens in every games life span, but removing things from it ultimately I feel just helps decrease player populations even more.
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> > > I’m quite surprised at the amount of playlists that are in Halo 3 still. That game is pretty empty for the amount of playlists it has. I don’t fully understand how they’ve got things set up now-a-days.
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> > > What I would propose is putting more games in a Social playlist because it’s not ranked. Because getting into a ranked playlist when you’re on the lower level tends to be a tad difficult. Thus, making wait times longer.
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> > > Halo 5 is very competitive based, so it’s hard to even enjoy a social playlist because how heavily competitive things are pushed in Halo 5. But that’s a whole 'nother topic.
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> > I saw someone mention that the low population could be due to the playlist being put in so long after the game had launched, so those who really wanted Snipers could’ve moved on to something else by the time it was finally put in. I think that may definitely have something to do with it. Also, it seems that most of the population issues really comes into play when players reach the higher rank tiers like Onyx. I personally have never had a problem finding a game in Snipers, but my rank is usually anywhere from high gold to diamond, since most players tend to fall in those ranks, that’s not really helping those higher skilled players find games. I wish there was a way to keep it in, but help the population of the higher tiers. I don’t know how this could be done while still making sure the ranks are an accurate representation of a player’s skill.
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> > I haven’t played Halo 3 in forever since it had become so difficult to find games, but I’m hoping that for future Halos they’ll go back to a system more like Halo 3 when it comes to adding and removing playlists. I didn’t get to play H3 when it first came out, but for as long as I’ve been familiar with the game, they put in pretty much every playlist you could possibly want in ranked and left them there. I personally think all Halos should have a certain set of ranked playlists (Slayer, FFA, Doubles, Snipers, SWAT, and a playlist of tournament maps, game types, and settings) I wouldn’t mind seeing others like an objective only playlist, multi team, etc, but I think those I mentioned should be a bare minimum and should be included at launch and should not be taken away.
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> I’m certain as well that the reason the population isn’t as high as it used to is because other players have moved on because certain playlists and game types weren’t in the game at launch. I’ve stuck around because I love Halo, and I want to continually play it.
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> If I recall correctly I believe that Halo 3 still has the original playlists available it had on launch. … I want to say there’s a total of 10-16 playlists still available on Halo 3. The game’s so dead I’m surprised nothing much has been done as far as that goes.
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> When 343 took over and created content for Halo Reach, they were the ones that removed some of the playlists like Squad Slayer 5v5 due to low populations. (I think) And quite honestly, despite low populations I feel like they should still remain in the game. However, I’m not sure what kind of sever resources and whatever else that ties into.
Same here. There’s definitely some things they could do better, but I still have a lot of fun playing Halo 5.
I don’t really see them doing anything further with halo 3. Which is unfortunate because I would totally still grind that game if I could find matches consistently.
I guess i missed the post where 343 mentioned taking out Snipers because this came as a complete shock to me. Had I at least known it was possibly being removed, I wouldn’t have been quite as upset. But just jumping on Halo and seeing it was gone was really frustrating. Not saying there wasn’t any warning, they’ve been doing really good with letting us know what’s in the works with the weekly update threads. I’m sure I just didn’t see it since I’ve really only started being on here pretty consistently for the last couple weeks and haven’t dug too deep through past threads.