The format is already there. It has a battlepass. It has a challenge system to level the battlepass. you can keep the challenge swaps because we have challenges. It has a overall level progression system. It has a xp per game and skill system. It has a store that rotates weekly. It has a weekly rotation of event game modes. It has a pick and chose playlist system (the reason I keep playing mcc). It has a full stat tracking system showing a lot of stats.
I figured that’s why mcc got so much free content for so long, it was all just testing ideas for infinite.
See heres the problem, the way the MCC did it was near perfect for Halo that it wouldn’t encourage people t spend money on XP boosts or challenge swaps or the color white for 20 dollars.
They wouldn’t use the points like mcc. They basically would just add what’s missing from mcc. They took the challenges, battlepass and store but left everything else that people like.
Yes, but here’s something you didn’t consider… you’re a smart individual, and therefore are coming from a pov of rational and logic. Clearly you care about other people in this community and thusly want to see the game thrive.
343 has proven time and again that they’re none of those things and all the talk about the fans coming first is just business speak. At the end of the day, they just want to take their money and run. There’s no excuse why this game is like this. Even something as simple as having snipers and swat in MM is left on the cutting room floor.
Also forgetting that this game is brand new, new game engine built from the ground up. Its nothing like the older game engine that bungie has made & that they reused for the passed halo games like mcc & such. There would be lots of coding to do if we are to see anything remotely similar to mcc in this regard. The Silpspace Engine is new & with the community being so toxic to something that is still being in Beta meaning its a testing ground for improvements. We as players of the community should help 343 make good plans for the future of the game as we see it through there eyes.
Bro, if you think this game is “In beta” then I have something for you Grabs clown mask. You’re being ridiculous. It’s not toxic to call out a company and their shady business practices. What’s toxic is your gaslighting. I don’t want to hear it anymore. They don’t care the way they say they do. If they cared, this wouldn’t be the way it is right now. Your oration about the coding has nothing to do with anything. They should have just built a better system from the get go, but knew they’d get more money like this. Full stop. You don’t get to be make purposely deceitful decisions that effect the community and then give us the “I’m sorry” run around like this. They’ve done it far too many times. If you wanna go belly up, that’s on you, friend. But I don’t have the patience for it anymore. Now we know why they keep losing employees.
The only excuses I can give for them is that the game was reset at least once maybe twice during development and that the higher ups are the ones pushing for the bad stuff to make more money. 343 has people that still care and are not only in it for money. With how good mcc turned out and how much fan service and how well the actual gameplay is in infinite, I think this is just the higher ups trying to put out a game that wasn’t ready and trying to make up as much money as possible from the delay and development hell.
I don’t care who is pushing the buttons here. They’re being pushed. And 343’s history of fail then fix is old. It needed to end with MCC, but unfortunately, here we are again. Not all the blame can be dropped onto Microsoft. Design choices were made even outside of the progression and monetization there is an insane amount of unfinished and lacking content. You can’t even choose to spawn with certain equipment items in customs. You’re enabling this kind of ill-concieved, anti-player development philosophy. It’s gross. It’s unfair, and they don’t need anymore sympathy. They need to get it together. They need to make firm decisions and not go back to the board mid-development.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. A lot of the system in MCC are really great. Even if they kept the system, with new guns, different balancing to existing guns, different movement speed, climbing, different equipment, etc. The game would still feel new, even if it had much of the system of MCC in place. Sometimes a new game doesn’t have to feel totally different.
I don’t think your argument holds much water given that you can recreate SWAT in about three minutes using the custom games settings that are available right now. This is just pure laziness and/or incompetence on 343’s part.
I’m blaming the heads of both 343 and microsoft. The game has the problems and lack of content because microsoft says this game comes out now and the heads of 343 say it’s not ready but ok.
I don’t think it’s bad design choices it’s that the game wasn’t ready yet.
Going back mid-development can be good if they are given the time to catch back up, which they weren’t.
I’m not enabling the things you said, I have spoken out saying most of this game is bad. I just give sympathy to the regular people on the team that are just trying to make a fun game.
It being a new engine has nothing to do with the lack of content, it might have something to do with all the bugs but that could also just be the game didn’t get tested. Making better playlist and basic game modes doesn’t need major coding, you can make a game mode in five minutes if the game actually saves it and doesn’t crash.
We aren’t being toxic, we are upset and being vocal about being given a unfinished game (that is not a beta) with a pimped out store and predatory microtransactions.