Now you all know how I feel about Reach, so here we go.
IMO, one of the purposes of making CE:A use Reach multiplayer is to keep Reach alive. I mean, if you’ve seen the newest Xbox Live activity chart, Reach has fallen into 6th place, right behind FIFA 2012! To me, that’s just sad.
Reach will recieve a small population boost; maybe by about 100,000 or so players for the next few months. It’ll probably be lucky enough to knock GoW out of it’s place. But CoD and Battlefield? No. Even with the TU and CE:A, Reach will continue to decline. From my viewpoint, CE:A+the TU is a defibrillator. It’s meant to keep Reach alive as long as possible until Halo 4 is released.
TL;DR?: Reach will recieve a slight bump in population, but it’s still lolTReach, and it will go back into decline after a few months, maybe even less.
*Again, this my prediction, and it is my opinion.
I’m surprised Reach is as high as 6th.
> I’m surprised Reach is as high as 6th.
That’s actually very low compared to Halo 3. And Halo 3 never got beat by FIFA, lol.
> TL;DR?: Reach will recieve a slight bump in population, but it’s still lolTReach, and it will go back into decline after a few months, maybe even less.
This feels like the medicine man saying “take these herbs and stand on your head for a day. Then 4-6 days later, your common cold will have been cured.”
I bid you good night 
CEA is as QUOTE: “a gift to the fans, and a chance for new HALO fans to finaly play the first HALO of the series”
> > TL;DR?: Reach will recieve a slight bump in population, but it’s still lolTReach, and it will go back into decline after a few months, maybe even less.
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> This feels like the medicine man saying “take these herbs and stand on your head for a day. Then 4-6 days later, your common cold will have been cured.”
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> I bid you good night
Are you telling me Reach will gain population and start to increase all the way up to Halo 4, or not decline months after release?
I look foward to seeing which one is right. 
> CEA is as QUOTE: “a gift to the fans, and a chance for new HALO fans to finaly play the first HALO of the series”
Yes, I never denied that. But also stated it was also made to keep Reach alive.
Do you have any idea how annoying it is trying to read that with “Reach” written everywhere? We get it, you don’t like Reach. That’s fine but it would make your posts easier to read, and it would make me take you seriously, if you just wrote Reach.
> Do you have any idea how annoying it is trying to read that with “Reach” written everywhere? We get it, you don’t like Reach. That’s fine but it would make your posts easier to read, and it would make me take you seriously, if you just wrote Reach.
It’s my style. If you don’t like it, tough. If it annoys you, I suggest ytou don’t read it. So far, you’re the only person that I’ve met that says it annoys them. I figured the only people it would annoy are the Reach lovers, but again, it’s my style.
> > > TL;DR?: Reach will recieve a slight bump in population, but it’s still lolTReach, and it will go back into decline after a few months, maybe even less.
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> > This feels like the medicine man saying “take these herbs and stand on your head for a day. Then 4-6 days later, your common cold will have been cured.”
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> > I bid you good night
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> Are you telling me Reach will gain population and start to increase all the way up to Halo 4, or not decline months after release?
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> I look foward to seeing which one is right.
Bathroom is full, so I’m still here. Anyways, what was the purpose of Halo3: ODST if not to inject a bit longer life into H3’s MP while also giving the campaign lovers something till Reach?
What did Halo3’s population do around ODST’s time? Rhetorical, IRRC, it went from 600K or so in 24hrs, to the 1mill mark in 24hrs for almost 2 months, before trickling down to about 750k or so steady till Reach’s release.
What is CoD’s purpose of a “new” game but to inject another 3 months into their MP before releasing another map pack to inject another 3 months of life into their MP?.. must catch dragon…
> Do you have any idea how annoying it is trying to read that with “Reach” written everywhere? We get it, you don’t like Reach. That’s fine but it would make your posts easier to read, and it would make me take you seriously, if you just wrote Reach.
Yeah, you really sound like a -Yoink!-. Maybe your point would have some validity w/o “Reach”
> > Do you have any idea how annoying it is trying to read that with “Reach” written everywhere? We get it, you don’t like Reach. That’s fine but it would make your posts easier to read, and it would make me take you seriously, if you just wrote Reach.
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> Yeah, you really sound like a -Yoink!-. Maybe your point would have some validity w/o “Reach”
“-Yoink!-”? Ooh, I love insults. It does have validity. You just like Reach, so you will automatically dislike it/won’t even read it.
My goal is not to be loved, it is to speak my mind. If you don’t like it, tough.
Oh look, someone who attempts to say he hates Reach by saying “Reach” like a re-re. Excuse me while I go barf over your attempted trolling and then go join the rest of the Reach fans who will enjoy the new maps when they come out. Honestly, I don’t know why you speak your mind when nothing good comes out of your mouth, troll. Go back under your bridge.
> > > Do you have any idea how annoying it is trying to read that with “Reach” written everywhere? We get it, you don’t like Reach. That’s fine but it would make your posts easier to read, and it would make me take you seriously, if you just wrote Reach.
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> > Yeah, you really sound like a -Yoink!-. Maybe your point would have some validity w/o “Reach”
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> “-Yoink!-”? Ooh, I love insults. It does have validity. You just like Reach, so you will automatically dislike it/won’t even read it.
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> My goal is not to be loved, it is to speak my mind. If you don’t like it, tough.
Honestly (I’m not criticizing you BTW) there’s no point in speaking your mind if you aren’t going to even try to be taken seriously. Lots of people have certain ways of criticizing things they don’t like, but if you aren’t going to be serious you aren’t going to be taken serious. Just pointing that out.
People saying “Reach” has already got old…very fast
Come on- how can we complain about being #6 a year after release? There really aren’t any companies out there that wouldn’t mind being in the top ten this late in the game. This is also a worst case cenario right now.
This just about the first time Halo has any real competition, and this happened to be when Bungie decided to make some questionable decisions. As we can see, FIFA is a pretty big game. After all, its a high quality game based on a worldwide sport.
Now for the future. While I don’t expect Reach to end up too much higher on the list, it likely won’t drop the much either. Games like Black Ops and MW2 will almost certainly drop clear off the charts when thier sequels come out. Reach will likely be alive for another 3-4 years.
Actually its worth it as it keeps its name there for a little longer.
Yes Halo has fallen from grace thanks to more popular titles.
This is news?
> I’m surprised Reach is as high as 6th.
Same
Will this new life support hold Reach until Halo4?
Only time will tell…