At this point theres really no use in lingering to complain, myself and many others have said everything we need to. Their choices were by their hands, however they precieved it would go, obviously it didn’t go.
It doesnt matter what is said, what matters is the action taken to fix it.
The issue is, this is exactly the situation 343 should have avoided because Halo 4 and 5 both suffered from this exact situation.
“The games eventually got better” yeah…but by then, most people moved on.
This entire aspect of games as a service is overwhelmingly more destructive to gaming than beneficial.
If businesses believe that following the mobile model is a good idea, well thats their choice, the harsh reality is, the money may come, but the falloff is far greater than they manage, more of these mobile games come and go only to die before you or I even knew they existed, applying that model to the console or major games market, yeah you can say it nets them money, but look how quickly its falling apart.
IPs fallen into this will eventually burn away trust, people wont give companies even a chance, by name alone. Hell remember EA and Anthem? I remember how hyped everyone was, they said it would rival destiny. Yet for all its reasons, I told my friends these exact words.
“I won’t play, why? Because its EA, they are incompetent and will screw it up, its basically their MO.”
They said, that wasn;t fair to bioware, it was not fair to judge it.
Oh, it doesnt matter what they said, because EA was stll EA and proved me and several others right. There are people who will outright now even give EA, Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, etc any measure of a chance again because they continue to prove themselves, unable to do the most basic of junk.
And we are heading for a boiling point. People are more aware of this, junk, this type of speak, and its a case where they need to choose their actions carefully.
EA is in such a mess, DICE has more or less hit a point of no return after BF2042, they are going to lose their license to star wars games soon after the fallout from SWBF2 back then, and even their cash cow sports games licenses are under review.
Its all fun until the gravy train stops.
And whats more, the type of speak, doesnt even hold water, its like dude, I can look at smaller companies here in the States putting out games far better than the quality these larger older ones can and the fact they dont have the marketing departments to do this, they have to put in that extra effort. Hell…Nintendo can still do junk right too, and if a game like smash bros utimate had to be made with such an astronomical budget and go through untold legal department hoops just to get various characters from other companies (including microsoft here, with the minecraft characters and Banjo-kazooie from rare) I dont want to see excuses if they can put out a full game and their only monetziation was the DLC characters and the option for themed costumes on the mii fighters.
I don’t see them making excuses when they can still succeed and have an astronomical budget.
Maybe people have just seen this enough and with fire catching in other companies, this is just a boiling point.
But hey, 343 taking action ASAP, I can give them that, but there are things they really have to do.
I mean you want a case of total disaster and sheer arrogance?
Look up the World of Warcraft community council. That is a case of rock bottom attitude set for self sabotage.