Totally agree. Live service model needs to die. It’s already sitting at 3k on Steam Charts. The fact that MCC has dropped in population to cater to a predatory game service is depressing. Not sure why you’re saying it’s lower than MCC. Did I miss something?
Far as I can tell Halo Infinite is dropping to nearly 2k numbers with Halo MCC at barely 1.6k. I seriously wish 343i would focus more on MCC and forget about Halo Infinite live service. All it’s doing is killing the Halo IP and that seems like an actual fact at the moment because all the main Halo games have had a severe decline since Halo Infinite released and that includes Halo Infinite. I’ve never seen a massive decline in the entire franchise as bad as it is right now. Heck even Halo 4 came out…Reach was still doing ok and Halo 4 was widely hated by a lot of people and Halo Infinite is not holding the franchise together.
What would it change? You really think 343 would grow as a dev? They tried with MCC, H4, H5 and infinite. They failed miserably to deliver something good at launch with each of them.
We are at a point were only one solution would benefit us fans: hand it to another studio.
Instead of scrapping everything I think they should get to work on another big campaign for Infinite alongside fixing it. They could then hype it up and treat it as a sort of relaunch for the game bringing people back. As many as launch? No but enough to make an impact.
343 unless they pull a miracle in the next 6 months to two years should NOT develop the next Halo. I REFUSE to see Halo die because of greed and incompetence!
If in two years Infinite has TONS of content, and most importantly, a HEALTHY player base then and ONLY then does 343i get another shot at launching a proper Halo game! And if it takes two years just to get that content, Halo Infinite IS NOT Live Service and we were blatantly lied to!
Naw bro they shouldn’t work on any more Halo games like they need to revamp and rebuild a whole new team that can actually accomplish the damn objective
Honestly what works me is how they are still drip feeding and withholding content.
And to be honest I don’t buy the story that Co Op campaign will be ready by season 2.
If anything I have a theory that ots already ready to go, but they are withholding it to fluff their season 2 launch.
Like it sounds crazy right that they would withhold it. But to be honest seeing how they have turtled again. I think it’s either ready and they are withholding it. Or ots just completely broken and they aren’t releasing it in season 2
Yea, that’s been said plenty of times,… Yet here we are again with another attempt to make a Halo game and seriously fall hard.
The thing is this Halo was their last shot at trying to make a great game.
343 currently is drip feeding content to players. Like the game is boring with drip feed. And it was so lame to withhold playlist and gamemodes simply to fluff out their seasonal content.
Like fiesta should not have been the Tenrai event. It should have been something creative like a swords only mode with like super jumping and unlimited grapple hook. Or they could have put the campaign weapons into the game and make it a sword fiesta gamemode.
But at this point I’m more excited for the Gen9 Pokemon game, and been having a fair amount of fun with Elden ring. To be honest Halo Infinite has gotten boring. Like the cosmetics don’t even matter anymore, what’s the point for a small intro in the match.
Who even wants to buy stuff from that lame store as well. The stuff is generic as can be. They are just selling us Default colors as Coatings and think players really are going to get excited for this stuff.
And the worst part is then being silent is only making it worse for themselves. It only makes the fact that when they do announce something it needs to be concrete, guaranteed, and mind blowing. They are really setting themselves up for failure with their silence. They could just let us know how the development for Forge is going
Season 2 is two months away of it’s not delayed further, and they haven’t even gotten the hype train for Co Op going which makes me suspect it’s not going to be ready when season 2 drops. Or it’s already ready and they are withholding it to announce for season 2 filler.
Then there’s no reason engaging with you at all. If there’s literally no solution because everything is ruined and nothing can be done at all, I don’t even know why you’re here unless it’s just to complain.
All the feedback you’ve given in this post is utterly pointless because you start off by saying this was “their last shot.” Why even write feedback if your standpoint is that the game cannot be fixed?
Possibly restricting 343 maybe bringing in one solid team and stop outsourcing so much of the games would have been a good fix but as far as I finite goes, I believe the code is so beyond repair that the game itself is best to just let die.
They can’t even touch the UI without breaking 6 other things. There is so much stuff broken behind the scenes that I don’t really think they can truly fix it.
Most of the people who worked on he games code are no longer at 343 because their contracts were over. I honestly think 343 doesn’t really even know where to start fixing things because one fix creates 5 breaks. And to fix. Each of those breaks something else.
So far it looks like this game is just Halo Infinite breaks and repairs.
This Dev team seriously needs to be ripped apart and put together Ina. More cohesive way and streamline their whole team to be on the same page.
I doubt if they do make another Halo game anyone is going to be really excited. Some people make me question if they would leave an abusive relationship or stay in it because the abuser says oh no I changed trust me this time it will be different.
343 has shown that they cannot truly deliver. The whole well the gameplay is great only lasted so long but most good will with 343 in it’s current state is gone. They really need to think who really needs to be part of that team for it to work and who is just dead weight. And what have they done that created such a disaster of a game in terms of live service.
I predicted this would happen: "Now I’m sure that when Dec 08, 2021 comes around there will be a huge spike in the Halo player base. But this surge will probably drop-off relatively quickly as players return back to games that feel more contemporary. Again, leaving Halo only to a select few. "
It too late for that. It’s been over 10 years, and this is 343i third attempt to make something as good or better than the previous Halo games. All of these have fallen short of expectations. I have been a loyal fan of Halo since the first time I played CE. But given the current state of Halo Infinite we might be witnessing an extinction event for 343i.
Well, let’s do the math: (free-to-play) + PC = cheating #DisableCrossplay