So I have a few suggestions for the devs of Halo Online in order to make this game interesting not only for the Russian market:
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Make the game available as f2p on every Microsoft platform: Xbox One/Xbox 360/Windows 10 PC
(Since it is using Halo 3 engine I’m pretty confident it can run on the 360 and that would show that as promised Microsoft still supports the 360) -
Release the game worldwide, some of us are quite irritated with interesting f2p being only available in countries with -Yoink- political systems, an example would be Call of Duty : Online or the future Ghost in the Shell f2p…
(A friend of mine was so angry that he decided to hack into CoD:Online and make his own version of it, if Activision had not stopped him we could play CoD:Online everywhere with no restrictions at the moment) -
Add the Halo 3 & Halo ODST campaigns to the PC version, it’s using Halo 3 engine we know you can port the stuff around, even if it’s somehow a modified version, just put on some efforts, it’s really worth it, it’s up to you to chose to make it a paid option or not, I personally wouldn’t mind having to pay for it…
(We could finally be able to finish the fight of the first trilogy on PC, some of us would be very glad, and some of us could begin it, in the end, more customers)
-Add Firefight, Spartan-OPS & coop through campaigns for 4 players, make coop through campaign only available on PC if you don’t add it on consoles, that’d be redundant with MCC on the One and available Halo games on the 360…
(Coop is a very important thing, I personally don’t really like MP except at LAN parties or split screen, so coop is my chance to have fun with people playing Halo)
-Add LAN possibilities (Even if we have to authenticate to the internet before or use blank profiles)
(Imagine a LAN of coop or firefight? Now that’d be exciting)
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Cross platform, we all play on the same servers
(Now that’d be something to show people how unified Microsoft stuff is nowadays) -
Port as much MP maps from Halo 3 as you can
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Forge or Modding tools
(You decide, just let us have custom maps in a way or another) -
Sell only cosmetic content or be really careful with what you decide to sell (Anything related to character customization could easily be sold) and solo/coop content (I think Spartan-OPS missions and H3/H3ODST campaigns could be something to sell)
As I see it, it’s a good opportunity to create a great Halo multiplayer experience for everybody.
If there’s a good echo, 343 could even have a team only dedicated to Halo:Online and another to create Halo games more orientated on the campaign and coop on the Xbox One.
I really hope some of you guys at 343 consider these suggestions, this could be the next big thing for Halo…
(If you think that’s too much work and that you don’t have enough devs for this you should contact the guys that have been working on SPv3, I’m sure some of them can be a good addition to your dev team, recruiting modders was something that have been very beneficial to Doom back in the days)