Halo MCC multiplayer is kinda dead at this point. While Arena is fairly active, other game types are dead and individiual selection for games (rather than 3 and reach) and modes take a long time. I think a fix for this would be to make Halo MCC free to play. The game probably made the money it needed to and probably doesn’t really make that much money anymore. (Just a guess, if someone has something to show otherwise, I would love to be enlightened.) Support for it is also done by a small team from 343 now, as the main focus is on Infinite. I think when it’s made FTP, they should give small pieces of exclusive customization to people who bought it, so people don’t feel scammed. Though, the game is rather cheap and I don’t think anyone would feel scammed anyway. This would help make the game active, and I think it would also help with Infinite aswell, since if MCC was FTP it would bring a chance to hook new people to this series, and that would benefit Infinite.
Multiplayer is still well populated.
Also if 343I did this it would obliterate Halo Infinite since all the armour is free and there are no microtransactions.
Over 100 Multiplayer maps.
6 diffrent COOP campaigns
Firefight
Spartan ops
Same applies to Halo 5 guardians at this rate.
Arena is well populated, the others are not.
Also, I don’t think it would obliterate Infinite, MCC has a lot of outdated games, that’s the reason why it couldn’t keep an active playerbase, even when it sold a lot at first on steam.
I think the content would encourage people to play Infinite.
At this point MCC seems to have more of a population than Infinite. Heck if it weren’t for Infinite MCC would still be the most populated Halo game right now, I’d be willing to bet it still is after all the constant lying 343 has been doing with Infinite.
NONE of the content on Infinite encourages people to play it because it’s ALL paywalled to some degree. Not to mention Halo Infinite is bar none the worst Halo experience a player could have right now.
I agree making MCC F2P would kill Infinite, because MCC is the superior game/experience, hence why people are going back to it. However there are some people who feel so turned off from Infinite they dropped the franchise as a whole.
IMHO Halo MCC is “NOT DEAD!” My Halo MCC Server always has somebody on my server. Granted MCC may have some low population at times but in generally speaking it is busy. But I will tell you there are more players playing in MCC than in Halo Infinite IMHO. But if and when 343i gets their act together getting Halo Infinite fixed I will be play Halo MCC instead, I don’t need the aggravation Halo Infinite has give’n me when it comes to the “CUSTOM GAMES AREA!” In Halo Infinite! 
Side Note: I don’t think Halo MCC should be free to play. Sorry 
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Agreed. Though I am afraid that, if MCC goes free-to-play, many things will get paywalled just like Infinite, and I really do not want that.
MCC does not have a bigger population than Infinite.
I would vote no to this. Free to play games have way more cheaters and toxic players IMO. They have nothing vested so they don’t care if they get banned and can just keep making accounts. There is way to much content in MCC for it to be free.
Being on Xbox Game Pass it basically is FTP except without the negatives.
I don’t see how MCC going F2P killing Infinite is a big deal if Infinite is truly disliked, if anything that gives 343 the motivation to make Infinite good to compete over MCC, I would personally love for more people to play MCC and if making the game F2P gets more players then sure
343 knows how financially suicidal microtransactions in MCC would be for them, considering they specifically stated that MCC will never have microtransactions, they know this fact all too well.
Alright, prove it. Prove that Halo Infinite, a game that lost most of it’s playerbase in under a year, has a higher population than a game that came back from the dead and became a fan favorite.
From Xbox home screen open the Xbox store, scroll to games and hit X, scroll down to most played and hit X again. Now from my understanding this list goes by server population or something to that effect. Halo Infinite right now is at #11 and MCC is at #47. There was a time that MCC fell of the list all together when Infinite first launched. It as sense made a come back of sorts. MCC used to be placed in the mid 30s so while some have come back it isn’t near enough to be more than Infinite. But I still wouldn’t want to see MCC go free to play. It seems to me that games that players have to buy have a better player base than the free games.
That’s because F2P games are low quality scams. Any game that goes F2P isn’t trying to make the game better for the players, it’s just looking for new ways to leech off players wallets with less and less actual effort put into the game design.
oh jeez, it’s bad enough Infinite is free to play, mcc fine as it is, and no way would 343 waste time making it f2p and have even more backlash.
Since players can buy the Master Chief Collection on a per-game basis, a free-to-play model without microtransactions could work. Many games treat free-to-play like a demo, and a single purchase expands what they can do, this format would work well. I could see something like, only multiplayer being accessible or only a particular game’s multiplayer. Combat Evolved is so simple and would be a great free option, while games like Reach and 4 are a bit more intensive and players might not have incentive to upgrade to a firm model. Some games have a weekly rotation of characters or gametype, though I imagine doing that with a Halo title’s multiplayer could be more frustrating than it is accessible, especially with install sizes.
I agree, at this point MCC should be free to play since it was released what, 8 years ago?
I’m not sure what you’re referring to as being paywalled - does 343 exclude certain maps and/or game types from normal gameplay? That’s really messed up if it’s true.
As for population on the MCC I assure you there is no lack of players, even in FFA I tend to find games quite quickly.
No I don’t think Halo MCC should be free. Hell we did not even get a Custom Game Browser till April of last year!
Now if you say Halo MCC should be free, well who is going to to host the game? We don’t have any dedicated server software and that really sucks!!
Do you really think Daddy Gates/343i is going to host the MCC server’s for free???
I DON’T . . . . . . THINK SO!! 
So that is why Halo MCC is will never be free. Now I can see Daddy Gates/343i lowering the price for MCC but that’s about it.
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No, I was talking about cosmetics. You know, the things you clearly do not care about.
Drop it already. No one cares if it doesn’t help gameplay.
Probably not at the time, but it does goes in that direction
The game barely came out 7 months ago and with its season 2 released few weeks prior the game already have a player count of less than 6k on Steam (MCC have an average of 3.5k) and is not even in the top 10 most played game in the xbox store. Considering the game lost around 3,000 players in less than 2 months it is more than possible the game will have a lower player count than MCC in 1 or 2 months without any substantial update