Actually it’s the sweat based matchmaking. Every game nowadays has to be played like a job. Lol.
I stopped playing for a month. Just came back. Turned it off again.
Get rid of the SBMM.
It was CoD. Specifically CoD 4 that did it; it introduced the modern “Grind and Unlock” things treadmill and it was widely popular as it was combined with really good gameplay. It took a few games, but people started to conflate “Progression” and “Unlocks” with “Fun” and “Gameplay” and Devs/Publishers realized you could have a really crappy game but as long as it had that hint of FOMO and progression people would still play it, even spend money on it.
So Devs kept reinforcing this idea of the unlocks and progression being the “content” and the “fun”. Now you have two whole generations of gamers who know nothing but this system, so when you have a game that comes along trying to rely on the “It’s just fun and competitive” flavor they reject it and start complaining about every little thing, even if it isn’t true or not related to why they don’t like the game.
Infinite is probably the best or 2nd best Halo in terms of pure fun and gameplay, but because it doesn’t have progression or unlocks like people have come to associate with “fun” people don’t like it.
EDIT: And a lot of the complaints people seem to have revolve around the idea that Infinite somehow doesn’t have “Enough Content” and 343 is “Ripping Us Off” acting like somehow 343 stole from them, ignoring that Infinite is F2P and as far as F2P go it is fairly beefy in offerings especially for a F2P game that is less than a year old. Other F2P games like APEX, Warzone, Splitgate etc. took a lot longer to get going or launched with even less content than Infinite did and had worse shops etc. But people ignore that to have their “343” complaints.
too true and too real my guy! it’s been painful to the point i mostly play games from like 10 years+
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