Predictions on what will happen if infinite flops

Games Halo Infinite
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Hello, what are you predictions of what will happen to Hal if infinite is like Halo 5 and flops, not necessarily losing money, but just not making much.

I think that it will be the end for hope of Halo coming back and being great again, it been a decade of mediocre (Halo 4) and horrible (Halo 5) mainline games on 343s part (I personally like Halo 4). After I infinites flop I think hope will mostly end, but hey will make another game, but it will mostly die after that.

It just a question I’ve thought about, Halo infinite seems promising

What do you think would happen??

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I’m just going to be that guy and say I’m not wishing nothing bad on this game. 343i actually needs this man, we should be wishing for the best right now. Especially with Infinite going to be crossplatform on the PC I have high hopes.

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Let’s just send good vibes. We all know deep down what will happen if it flops… so, ~ GOOD VIBES ~

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I really hope Infinite is nothing like Halo 4 and 5. It’s clear 343i wanted to be different and leave their mark on Halo but they did it in such a bad way. Infinite has potential to be an amazing game. Even if it’s like Reach, that’ll still mean it’s a good game. Reach was good for all of us.

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I honestly think your opinion on H4 and H5 are a little off bud. Just because you didn’t like them doesn’t make them bad games. Not what we wanted for this particular franchise but objectively good games. Better than most of the crap out there now like COD for example.

What kind of question is “what will happen?”. Like, this studio goes bankrupt? Or they just stop making games? Dudes, they are going to make a metric f ton of monies whether we like this game or not. It’s Halo dude. It’s timeless. Better start adapting to the changes and embracing The Great Journey. This studio will be fine. There will be many more Halo games so stop worrying.

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There’s always hype around a new Halo game so I doubt Infinite will flop especially with it launching on PC as well. I’d be more worried about the new Xbox flopping more than anything.

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343 is forced to go back to the drawing board and either reinvent Halo again, Community pander with another release like Halo:Reach, or they give up on the franchise entirely and cut their loses.

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I have high hopes for infinite too, but that was something on my mind and I wanted to see what you guys thought. Also I didn’t mean that they would go bankrupt,t will sell copies regardless, I was wondering more what the fan base would think even though I didn’t say that well. I said that I like Halo 4, it was mediocre in many peoples eyes but I liked it. Yes while Halo is changing and I mostly like it, besides the promtheans (I probably spelled it wrong). My hopes are high.

GOOD_VIBES

Have a great day!

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They’ll keep making Halo

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I don’t think it’ll flop. I don’t think a Halo game has ever flopped.

Have they not reached fan expectations? Sure. But Halo CE and 2 set the bar so high, every subsequent game no matter how “actually good” has disappointed some fans.

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Im asuming they will just update halo infinite untill its better. Look at mcc, its good now.

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Worst comes to worst Microsoft will just have them keep going anyway, and/or set up a new studio to keep going. Halo’s too big for them to stop making the games, regardless of what the original fans might think of them.

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> Im asuming they will just update halo infinite untill its better. Look at mcc, its good now.

But first impressions are very important. Many of the games today are only good because of continuous support by the devs. If your game needs development to add in critical pieces of content or changes post-launch, you’re not doing it right. Halo 5, MCC and Battlefront 2 are prime examples of this.
Halo 5 suffered from lack of content and features. After many updates, the breathtaking Forge mode and the large amount of in-game content somewhat redeemed it.
MCC suffered from crippling bugs. After some updates 4 years later, it’s one of the best games of the decade and it’s only getting attention because it houses Halo CE, Halo 2 and especially Halo 3 at 60 FPS and because they’re coming to PC.
Battlefront 2 suffered from greedy microtransactions and lack of actual progression. It needed updates to be as great as it is now. Sure, it still has some bugs, but it’s and unfortunate side effect of the Frostbite engine (still very playable, don’t worry).
In summary, if your game needs extra development time post launch, it means it wasn’t ready release when it did.

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Seeing all these comments about how bad they think 4 and 5 are: I think the opinions of Halo 4 and 5 are pretty subjective. Are they bad? That’s up to you. Are they good? Also up to you. But just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean it’s terrible. Halo 5 came off as a disappointment because we weren’t given the story we were promised.

I see a lot of posts out there talking down about Halo 4 and 5, that they’re bad or that they’re trying to be too different. Honest question: has anyone stopped and considered that maybe they feel so different because that was the point? A lot of people keep trying to compare 343i’s vision of Halo to what Bungie made and that’s honestly stupid in my opinion. That’s like someone else being told to make art like Leonardo Da Vinci and then being upset when it’s completely different.

My personal opinion has always been that 343i purposely made their Halo feel different because they didn’t want everyone to think that they thought they could simply just fill Bungie’s shoes. So they made their Halo vastly different to show they can do something interesting that had the feel of a modern day shooter but also was still Halo.

But of course art styles are going to change. The artists are probably different people, the story leads are different people, the people behind the music are all different people. We don’t have Marty or Michael anymore, that’s just how it is. If they come back; awesome! If they don’t, oh well.

As for whether or not Infinite will succeed? Well, that’s up to us. How we receive the game will tell if it succeeds or fails. I have high hopes for it because I really don’t want it to fail.

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the only way I can see Infinite being truly successful is if they embrace what made the original Halo1 campaign so monumental while broadening the scope of that with it now being a larger world type thing. The first game is still just as breath taking in it’s delivery and I don’t think this carried over to any of the sequels despite how they were still decent in their own way. A sprinkling of what made Halo3 excellent at times like the it’s vehicle combat would be advisable given it looks to be a much larger world now but lets please not take the Far Cry route as Halo deserves it’s very own feel. Maybe like Gears 5 but with stuff dynamically occurring

I think the game will be good because it has to be but 343 needs to understand just why in the first place the Halo1 campaign was so beloved

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If it flops, 343i will just have more opportunities for improvement.

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I would seriously hope this game is not only well received but well received for good reasons. I am probably in the minority here but I don’t have high hopes at all. I’ve been burnt 4 times in a row on 343i’s Halo now. (Halo 4’s awful multiplayer and graphical design, Halo 5’s awful campaign and just meh multiplayer and they kept the ugly design, the MCCs terrible, horrible, no good launch and now Halo Reach’s butchered re-packing version with glitches, a terrible armor unlock system, even though they nailed the customization, TU settings and DMR starts and audio problems)

That all being said, the design in the early looks does give me some hope. For me, I am almost unwilling to even chance this game. This will be the first one I wait 2 plus weeks for full and thorough reviews before I bother even trying it out. Because I’m tired of getting all hyped and getting burnt. It’s hard, because this one is really appealing to my nostalgia for the Halo 3-Reach era but I can’t let my wallet keep taking a beating for stuff I end up not even liking enough to sink more than just a paltry few hours into, because for me, coming up, Halo was supposed to be a game that was a good experience you could count on to enjoy for like YEARS. I still play 360 Reach.

Most people I actually know personally already have given up on the franchise as a bygone relic from a different age that’s trying to compete with powerhouse franchises that either never strayed so far away from their core while still evolving like COD, or newer, younger powerhouses like Apex, Fortnite, etc.

So given that the deck is stacked and their back is against the wall here, I think we all know what’s up. People are hungry for the next Halo. It’s timed with the next gen console. It’s gonna take in some serious money, but if it flops, it’s going to spell either the end of the franchise or maybe the beginning of the end. If they don’t can it outright (assuming it sells well enough but it gets critically shredded) then there may be one final chance to get it right with a potential Halo 7 and the sad reality is that if they get that chance, and limp on to Halo 7, even if it’s good, it might tank because of critical reception of Infinite. So a lot is riding on Infinite’s shoulders. It has to both harken back to the Halo of old and look forward to the future, attempt to reunite a fan base, please both old fans and newcomers, and do well enough critically and commercially to AT LEAST get one more game in. And I’m really hoping they realize those things are the objectives and not just pure graphical and gameplay performance for the sake of the stupidly named “Xbox Series X.”

This is almost going to have to be simultaneously a Halo:CE and Halo 3 at the same time in that it hits critical nostalgia receptors while also being re-inventive while chronologically following up Halo 5. I’m afraid that with such high buildup and hype it might suffer disappointment no matter what happens.

For the sake of one of my favorite game franchises, and the one that got me into gaming, I really do hope they stick the landing, and stick it well enough to justify not only my purchase of Infinite but also 7,8,9, etc and get it back to the days when I could just get it on day one and not worry if I wasted my money or not.

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I hope it doesn’t to be honest, I love the whole series, and have even watched the movies etc.

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I highly doubt it will flop. But these threads with titles like these and questions like these always make me laugh. Thanks for the laugh.

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I’m not sure flop particularly means anything in the context of games that are part of Game Pass. It may end up with light content launch and average reviews but just like Sea of Thieves, Game Pass would allow it to grow over time.

Maybe this is partially why Game Pass exists, so that rocky launches aren’t the end for games?

I personally think Infinite will do well.