Lets talk about ressurection

Games Other Halo
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We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t love this game, so I’ll skip all of the praise that I’d normally give in such a post.

Here’s what needs to happen to bring a population back to Halo 3, they’re put into a general semblance of most important to least important, however, I’m sure that that’s up to debate.

  1. Website is created
    a) Forums
    b) Stats
    c) Community challenges
    d) Tournaments
    e) Custom games group finder is created*

  2. Admin is assigned to game
    a) Updates messages of the day
    b) Restarts double xp weekends
    c) Changes 7 on the 7th to 7 on 7 on the 7th and returns it to only being active on the 7th
    d) If possible, does something on Bungie day

  3. Playlists are trimmed/consolidated
    a) Social playlists are consolidated into “Big Team DLC” and “DLC FFA”, all other social playlists are taken offline
    b) Ranked slayer and ranked objective are taken offline, focusing players into MLG

  4. DLC is made free

Above are changes that are absolutely necessary in my opinion. Although I understand that the consolidation of playlists might not be popular, I believe that the community must be compressed into a bundle of active playlists before it can re-emerge with more numbers. Below are changes that would significantly help with the revival of the game but are not nearly as vital.

  1. Gaming forums and news websites are made aware that the game is being brought back, hopefully, a big deal is made about it

  2. Recon is returned to requiring vidmaster

  3. Fire helmet is the new pre-vidmaster recon, given out through outstanding community achievement, prize winners, etc.

  4. A new map pack is developed and implemented

I think that this is something that needs to be handled by a nostalgic community and not a profit-seeking company.

Revivals are happening all over the gaming world (just look at runescape and WoW), and if we unite as a jaded and slightly pissed off community, then we won’t be left behind.

If you care, then post in the thread. If it gets large enough, then it can get noticed. Maybe if we get enough concerned people, we can get a meeting on Skype and then decide on a course of action, try to contact 343, etc.

Finally, inb4 “Wishful thinking, this will never happen”

*Basically, here’s how this would work; one would go onto the group finder section of the website and fill out a form that would include: Game type(s), map(s), time of day/days of the week, amount of players, and any notes. Then other people browsing the section would see something like “Braaains :: Spooky House :: 7:00-10:00 pm coastal time, Saturdays :: 16 players :: Bring a mic”. Players could sign up for certain custom games every week, and the host would invite the gamertags that signed up. This system would most likely at first just be a forum section, but later on could be coded in separately to make it easier to use.

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“Playlists are trimmed/consolidated
a) Social playlists are consolidated into “Big Team DLC” and “DLC FFA”, all other social playlists are taken offline”

NO!
You’re going to make the population DIE doing that. The most popular playlist in Halo 3 is Social Slayer, take that away, bye bye population.

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Although I absolutely see where you’re coming from with that, let me explain my reasoning.

The elimination of Social Slayer would force people into the more competitive MLG playlist, which features maps designed to bring out the skill in players as opposed to rewarding those that simply know where to camp and those who find the power weapons first.

The obvious problem with this is that in ranked playlists, guests are not allowed, which would push a lot of people away. The solution to that problem is Big Team DLC, a playlist which I believe would far surpass Social Slayer in terms of popularity for the more casual players, as Big Team games tend to be more, well… social. Obviously, for this change to work, DLC must be free, it’s absolutely essential. In my opinion, bringing players into a larger team, mixed objective and slayer environment would truly create a social playlist that’s “social”, as opposed to merely “unranked”.

Furthermore, Social Slayer is a stagnant playlist these days. It’s popular because people like simple gameplay, but frankly, the playlist has degenerated into the same maps over and over again, with the same things happening over and over again. It’s the center of a dying population, and, although it’s where the numbers are, the numbers will slowly dwindle away until nothing remains, wheres, if the playlist goes out with a bang, the playerbase will be given a chance to recover and thrive.

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all of this seems like it will never happen. but it is without a doubt a beautiful dream, to repopulate halo 3 back to its lory days. what we need are people whoare more than willing to do what you said after “in b4 this will never happen”. but think about it. who will implen all these changes? if this will indeed repopulate halo 3. than it will take players awaay from halo 4 and possibly future halos. which the companys wouldnt want because than no one will be buying their new games. ina perfect world this would spike halo 3 sales again from everybody who has ye tto own the game.

more people need to be reading this thread and people who can actually get something done.

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Trimming playlists sure wouldn’t be popular, especially with the veto system implemented.
The Reach system would be better, but I highly doubt any updates or overhauls will be done.
It would be nice if the Halo 4 population dropped off enough to get 343 to actually take notice of what a mess they’ve made of Halo.

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May 1 repopulate halo 3

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Social Slayer is the most populate and historical playlist on Halo 3.

And I Have a General on it…

THEN NO!

YOU CANNOT REMOVE IT

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> Although I absolutely see where you’re coming from with that, let me explain my reasoning.
>
> The elimination of Social Slayer would force people into the more competitive MLG playlist, which features maps designed to bring out the skill in players as opposed to rewarding those that simply know where to camp and those who find the power weapons first.
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> The obvious problem with this is that in ranked playlists, guests are not allowed, which would push a lot of people away. The solution to that problem is Big Team DLC, a playlist which I believe would far surpass Social Slayer in terms of popularity for the more casual players, as Big Team games tend to be more, well… social. Obviously, for this change to work, DLC must be free, it’s absolutely essential. In my opinion, bringing players into a larger team, mixed objective and slayer environment would truly create a social playlist that’s “social”, as opposed to merely “unranked”.
>
> Furthermore, Social Slayer is a stagnant playlist these days. It’s popular because people like simple gameplay, but frankly, the playlist has degenerated into the same maps over and over again, with the same things happening over and over again. It’s the center of a dying population, and, although it’s where the numbers are, the numbers will slowly dwindle away until nothing remains, wheres, if the playlist goes out with a bang, the playerbase will be given a chance to recover and thrive.

Your attempt at justifying eliminating Social Slayer is moot. Games shouldn’t force people into playing competitive gametypes. Big Team is lag city, how are you going to spike the population if you’re going to do this?

If people just want to kill and have good casual fun with no thought process involved that’s their prerogative, why are you interfering with that?

If it’s “dying and stagnant” that’s because they moved on to a newer generation, you and I may not like that but that’s the reality of it. If people are becoming jaded because Halo 4 isn’t what it’s cracked up to be they might hop back on Halo 3 or move on. You can’t blame the playlist for that. Leave it as is.

P.S: Other then eliminating Social Slayer you have the right idea, but will the community support it?

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If things get rolling, I’m in. Just leave social slayer though… I play a lot of ranked, but from time to time I love s simple social slayer game.