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An apology is an apology, but that doesn’t automatically make it sincere, especially in an industry such as gaming where things can be fixed so easily.
Okay, so Franky admitted they made some mistakes… Though he didn’t specify any. Sounds like he said sorry just for the sake of saying sorry in an attempt to please anyone who is frustrated with the game; aka, that huge population that still wasn’t come back since Reach. Or that huge population that will never be created because Halo no longer brings anything new to the table.
Halo had a distinct style a of play, and reason to play.
Balance and Winning
It also had RANK (true skill). Whether you want to admit it, visible true skill did wonders for Halo.
Social and Rank
Now it’s turned into a broken game with no valid reason to attempt to win games.
Back to Frank’s apology, the saddest part, is that it sounds like the only thing he was sorry about was not being able to get game breaking beverages like liquified potatoes in the game to go along with the other ones that already make most of matchmaking unplayable.
Frank, come apologize for the specifics, and then we’ll accept your apology for whatever it’s worth.
> especially in an industry such as gaming where things can be fixed so easily.
I laughed at this.
I laughed so hard.
> in an attempt to please anyone who is frustrated with the game; aka, that huge population that still wasn’t come back since Reach. Or that huge population that will never be created because Halo no longer brings anything new to the table.
It’s painful to watch people defend the game still even though the man in charge of Halo admits it’s bad.
This is what happens when you hire people from Infinity Ward and Treyarch and let their voices be louder than an already existing, ready to buy fan base whose majority didn’t like Reach in the first place. The mistakes that were made? Copy-paste ad nauseum from the highest selling, most played shooter on the market. Something that Halo used to be. The mistake was thinking that by mimicking those gameplay mechanics you would steal their fan base and money. Sure, people voted with their wallets in their initial interest of the game, but look at it now. More people play Medal of Honor Warfighter I bet. I heard MLG dropped Halo because of the whole -Yoink!- Gaming deal. That’s a shot in the foot that already has a hole in it.
But no, no matter what you tell people, some of them will sit there digging in their heels and deny any wrong doings. Everyone stopped playing: “That doesn’t matter, as long as I can find a game I’m happy, the number of people playing doesn’t matter at all”. They copied Call of Duty: “No they didn’t, these things aren’t exclusive to CoD, they just copied everyone else (who already copy CoD)”.
This is twice that Halo has failed on a main entry. Sure Frank O’Connor can promise me that Halo 5 will be better and I might even buy it to see if he is right but at this point will anyone else? Halo’s population will never return to it’s full strength ever again. It’s done, over, the damage has been dealt. MLG picking up CoD is just further solidifying it’s chokehold on the shooter world. Next generation is just going to be the same story different hardware.