I can say for one that I’m ok with the changes, the toggable Sprint in Customs is tolerable, should I think it should have been expanded to Matchmaking for certain playlists, yes. But I can’t complain and I won’t because of the fact that this is the way the game industry is going.
But what isn’t suprising is the amount of uproar from the stats. People are saying the 11% is a lie, however not everyone knew about the HFBP. I even didn’t and hell I didn’t even get to play the damn beta because I just got an Xbox One last week. The people that played the beta and then stopped because they didn’t like the gameplay likely didn’t participate in it, or care to because their mind was made up. The people 343 likely listened to are the ones that played the beta in the duration that it was available. The ones that couldn’t participate in the feedback program I understand them, however there will plenty of websites that linked back to the feedback program that you could have easily set your region to either the US or the UK because I know people that were in countries that were supported by the HFBP did that just to get their feedback through.
Even IF the feedback was limited on the forums to the Halo 5 Feedback Thread that Snickerdoodle made, the feedback there was likely taken first priority. Polls posted here that linked to other strawpolls or whatever poll was available could and certainly did have people abusing the poll, F5ing and voting yes or no multiple times. Even the poll on Team Beyond I don’t even think was acknowledged because of the fact that yes, that is a Halo Community that has grown (I know, I’m a part of it) but because there is no connection between that forum and 343 and Waypoint most certainly is the main source of feedback. Also taking that factor in that Team Beyond has grown very negative since I’ve been there and I most recently left that community last year.
Also taking into consideration that the community is split 50/50 between Sprint. 343 is not going to not include Sprint because one crowd doesn’t like it. That’s not the way a Game Dev works, if Sprint was taken out, people that liked Sprint would probably leave for another game or would have come and addressed their viewpoints on the forums. If Sprint is in the game which in matchmaking it obviously will be, people will leave. So either way the community is at a loss from both sides.
A Game Dev will make their game for people who are going to play it, not for people that won’t. Many of the Old Halo Community (Bungie Wise) will leave and likely 343 will be ready for that, but also they are going to be ready for whatever new Halo fans they get. Yeah I know I’ll get the people like you are whats killing Halo, and you’re not a true Halo fan if you accept everything from 343. Actually however that’s a complete lie and I will tell you that through my moniter. People who accept 343’s changes and like the way Halo 5 is going are not killing Halo. It is the community itself that is attacking those individuals that like Halo 5 and are accepting of the changes that are killing both the community and Halo itself, because they are not respectful of those individuals and their opinions and views. However with the true Halo fan insult, A true Halo fan or diehard fan of the series I should say, has dedication to the franchise and likely has every single Halo game in their possession. They enjoy a new Halo because it’s what’s enjoyable for them.
Halo will likely die out because it’s Era has ended, Halo’s Era was 2001-2010. Every game changes whether you accept it or not and it will survive because of the people that play it. Many Halo fans will leave the franchise because they aren’t comfortable or accepting of the changes. However unpopular Halo gets, it will survive because of the new Halo fans that come into the franchise. Old fans leave and New fans come into the fold, that’s how it is.
My opinion the the Post Beta Stats is that I’m content with it, I buy every Halo game regardless because yes I am a die hard Halo fan. You can say I disliked Reach and Halo 4 but I still liked those games for what I enjoyed them for.
That is all…agree or disagree, the way this community has devolved, it matters not to me. However this is my voice in the Halo community and nothing changes that.