At the time I play (while US is asleep) there are always over 10k people playing. I’ve never seen less than that, and yester day, I saw between 10k-11k, but it obvoisly grew with the time.
But now that MW3 came out, when here were I live is morning, the population is always between 80k-100k , but today that MW3 was released, I saw that Reach had only 36k people online.
I’m referring to the <mark>playing now</mark> counter, not the 24h counter.
Discuss.
It’s a popular series, but given the user reviews,they’ll be back.
it always bounces back, give it a week when CEA comes out.
Halo CEA has over 500k pre-orders, of course it will bounce back; people can play Reach’s MP with the Anniverasy disc.
But this week the population will be pretty low.
> At the time I play (while US is asleep) there are always over 10k people playing. I’ve never seen less than that, and yester day, I saw between 10k-11k, but it obvoisly grew with the time.
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> But now that MW3 came out, when here were I live is morning, the population is always between 80k-100k , but today that MW3 was released, I saw that Reach had only 36k people online.
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> I’m referring to the <mark>playing now</mark> counter, not the 24h counter.
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> Discuss.
Nope. The population stills seems strong, i think it was faster MM today i must say. I was in then out of games. Not alot of Boosters or high ranks which was a good thing.
Really don’t see that big of a difference. I’m already seeing people are hating that 60$ MW2 map pack. I knew they would.
After a few weeks they would return, even without considering Anniversary.
In the end, Halo is a machine. It doesn’t really stop.
I’m loving BF3 right now but its just to fill some time in until CEA.
There are two kinds of gamers.
Gamers that flitter around like butterflies to the newest games that come out, and will play a game only until the next new one is released.
And gamers that really make a connection to the story line of a franchise and stick with it. The ones who will always play it no matter what.
Halo will always have its hard core fans. And if the butterflies want to flitter to MW3, let 'em.
I’ve been running my group for almost two years now, we started and remain a Halo only group. One thing I have noticed from a lot of other groups / clans that started Halo only is that they are giving up on Halo and becoming multi-game multi-platform just for the sake of increasing membership.
Well,it takes a lot more to say you’re a “such and such” clan than just slapping a forum in your clan for people to talk about the game.
My point is, I don’t think the days of Halo only groups / clans, mainly Halo only players are over.
We have Halo CEA in a few days, and in aboput a year Halo 4.
Halo and Halo fans are here to stay 
There’s only 62 players in Squad, 94 in the beta, 80 in Arena and 108 in MLG. Oh darn… all the good playlists are nearly ghost towns -_-
It honestly doesn’t surprise me though. Reach is a rather bad Halo game… I wonder How Halo 3’s doin’.
> There’s only 62 players in Squad, 94 in the beta, 80 in Arena and 108 in MLG. Oh darn… all the good playlists are nearly ghost towns -_-
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> It honestly doesn’t surprise me though. Reach is a rather bad Halo game… I wonder How Halo 3’s doin’.
Turning over in its grave.
> There’s only 62 players in Squad, 94 in the beta, 80 in Arena and 108 in MLG. Oh darn… all the good playlists are nearly ghost towns -_-
> implying those playlists had high populations to begin with
> implying those playlists were good to begin with
Positive correlation: the better playlists have higher populations. BTB and Invasion outdo competitive gametypes every time. Doesn’t thay say something about the fanbase?
Did all the SWAT and Lolivind Dead kids leave? That was a good 25k players already.
Lol even a lot of the CoD fans are saying mw3 is crap. It’s garbage.
> Lol even a lot of the CoD fans are saying mw3 is crap. It’s garbage.
Play a coupla games on my friends XBOX. Its actually a pretty good game, but it is completely unnecessary to buy it when BlOps and MW2 are EXACTLY the same.
> > Lol even a lot of the CoD fans are saying mw3 is crap. It’s garbage.
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> Play a coupla games on my friends XBOX. Its actually a pretty good game, but it is completely unnecessary to buy it when BlOps and MW2 are EXACTLY the same.
Exactly.
Bought it and played it last night. It’s almost a carbon copy of MW2 with updated graphics, weapons, killstreak rewards, and perks. The only other thing this game serves as, was a vehicle to release Elite. Personally, I like variety. It keeps things fresh, and gives perspective on other games. It’s not a bad game, just nothing really groundbreaking.
Oh, and Activision already announced that a new CoD title will be released in 2012. Go figure.
Because people aren’t allowed to try new games and play other games.
True Halo fans will not be going anywhere in the first place, and the others will be back soon.
I absolutely hate COD and MW. I would rather go to the dentist then have to play any of them.
Yes, I have tried them. There is a lot of crap that goes on in those games, so they won’t be getting my $60.
I prefer the fact that I can play with the same weapons that every else can from day one.
Hopefully Halo never goes down the same road as those games have, otherwise I will not be buying 5, 6, or any others.
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