When I met my now wife I was huge into Halo. I had me a little team, we weren’t that great but we had huge dreams. The only thing I could think of was being “MLG” we were in it for the long haul. We even had a house together so that we could play as much as we possibly could. Then Halo 4/getting married happened and I made an agreement with my wife that I would hang up the sticks for good and focus on building a family with her. I jokingly told her that I would quit playing so much halo and I quote “unless they by some chance remake Halo 2, I’d play again for that” Then Master Chief Collection happened. I wasn’t even following the video game industry at the time, like 0% so I didn’t even know it had released until Thanksgiving when my brother in law said those faithful words: hey man, did you hear they remade Halo 2? My wife was shocked, but she remembered what I said and went and purchased a Xbox one. I knew nothing of the so called “next gen” consoles or whatever, didn’t know their features. Didn’t care. I had it for the sole purpose of playing Master Chief Collection, I had these great thoughts that all my old friends from school would be there playing again and the sound of BRs would fill my home again. So as you can imagine the first time I attempted to play a game…surprise! broken game. No biggie, I can deal with some release bugs, it’s a Halo 2 remake for christ’s sake. These bugs never got better. I honestly feel even to this day that those funds were stolen from me. I exchanged currency for a product that I feel I never received. BUT it’s Halo, my first love. I was BACK. So I played the H5 beta. Hmm pretty good, maybe I could get back into it. So exactly one year ago today I purchased Halo 5. If my memory serves I had a pretty hard time with matchmaking in the beginning Some of my friends and I couldn’t find games together etc etc. No biggie. Then there’s HCS, oh man. Back when I was dreaming of being “MLG” that HCS… wow dream come true. Some of my favorite players from back in the day even worked with 343 on it?! wow perfect. Well here I sit one year later. I constantly get booted from lobbies/games because my fireteam has changed, ghost melees make me rage, they even get broadcasted during the HCS?! Constant server issues, outages (some have been xbox live, so pass given there) there’s radar in competitive settings, the pistol…well I have mixed feels on that. The maps in this game aren’t that interesting to me, some play terribly (ahem, stasis) most are just reskinned crappy maps from the last “free DLC” I know I can’t be alone in this because all of my favorite streamers experience the same issues, yet here we are.
Fortunately my income is not based on this game like my favorite streamers. Unfortunately I have to say farewell to what’s left of the greatest video game franchise ever (my opinion) There is nothing left for me anymore. I’m sure nobody will miss me and 343 most certainly won’t see my wallet vote when I don’t purchase anymore of their products but maybe somebody somewhere will read this and know this is why I left. Maybe I will play a game of Halo 2 on MCC as a final hoorah. oh wait. still broken.
Sorry to see you go OP, maybe there will be something better for you in Halo’s future that will bring you back again 