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> > > > > > All maps were in the can. All game types were finished and ready to go. Forge was ready, plus or minus a handful of objects. These things are being held back for a reason and it has nothing to do with being unfinished. Have you ever heard the phrase, “Always leave 'em wanting more?” Well, that’s what this is all about.
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> > > > > Oh, so it’s not a matter of being unfinished, it’s just outright contempt for an audience presumed to be unmedicated 12 year olds who would be distracted by the next shiny object jingled in front of their faces like keys in front of an infant? Jesus, and I thought I had a low opinion of 343.
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> > > > Well, that’s not the spin I’d put on it, but it’s more or less the deal.
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> > > It is true though. 343 will get away with cutting as many corners as the community allows for. The younger the average community member, the easier it is to trick them into thinking they’re getting more when they’re getting less with lower quality.
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> > I still don’t get what the big deal is. It’s free content. And even if it was purposely cut from the game, which is pure speculation at best, it’s still free. It’s not like other games out there that deliberately cut content and then sell it back to you as expansions and season passes.
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> > So what is the point of this thread even? You’d rather pay and wait for the same content? That just sounds asinine to me.
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> If Halo 5 launched without multiplayer entirely and then 3 months later they patched it in, I wouldn’t consider that free content. The connotation of “free” is the idea that you’re getting something without charge that you would not have otherwise had. And the whole, “At least it’s not that bad” argument seems irrelevant to me. It’s like getting a horrendously crappy, under-cooked meal from a restaurant, mentioning how bad it was, and then someone saying, “Hey, there are starving children out there!” Okay? That’s sad, but my meal still tasted like crap, and it’s not what you’d expect from a restaurant.
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> I, personally, would rather them finish the game all at once and have it ready day 1, like the most successful and longest lasting Halo games have done. What they want to do with a DLC business model following that is up to them, but I didn’t particularly see the big deal with Halo 3’s model, especially with an ODST-like expansion.
No the difference is this. Your restaurant analogy is more like you buying the steak and getting this new macaroni, it’s never been in any other meal you’ve ordered yet, so here is the macaroni(warzone) but, because you are valued you will also get two baked potatoes. They will be brought out in 20 minutes. Now I know the price you payed the last time you were here was for two potatoes and a steak, and you still get both, but now while you wait for the potatoes you can now eat the macaroni. Then you complain how crappy the macaroni deal is and how you’re entitled to those potatoes this very instant, despite the fact that more than half the restaurant is content with the macaroni and don’t mind waiting. Either way, you are paying for the same thing and getting something extra and new(warzone) with the exception that the other stuff will just take time. They pretty much states all this stuff would not be out til June in my opinion. They already stated that breakout would be the main arena game promoted and warzone was their main focus, and they even announced that forge would not be ready at launch pre-release, an yet people still complain. It’s all free. If you paid for any of it I would tell you that you could have an opinion, but each update is free and so all added stuff is at 343s discretion. Halo 1, and every game before that, did not have multiplayer, and people still called those games complete. You got a campaign, 5 arena playlists, and two warzone playlists. If you spent at least 10 hours in any of it, that’s 6 bucks an hour plus more hours if you so choose, which is not that bad considering what you pay for a movie at a theater. Every update is free content, and you’re not entitled to anymore then what you were given, no matter what any game had before that. Games previously ran on hosted connections and not dedicated servers(servers Microsoft pay for) but nobody says the previous games hosted connections should be there free of charge, now do they?