To be honest, I never thought I’d say this, but they should just scrap everything. At this point the game not being released is by far the best option. Just scrap it. Take the loss, start from scratch, and try again. Infinite will not gain any good reputation, Halo will soon be a bargain-bin title and the series is lost in the void.
A good game will garner hype for years to come, a bad game will destroy the series as a whole.
I’ve never seen a game recover substantially from a 6-month development time. Postpone it indefinetly and start with a fresh approach. As an example;
Activision-Blizzard suffers the same fate each alpha and beta launch of their WoW-expansions. The drones scream “It’s beta, it will be fixed. Dude, trust me”. Still after launch the game suffers the same problems as the beta did. Too many games have gone down that path.
Star Wars now is almost but forgotten aswell. Disney will not make Star Wars their priority anymore because people just ain’t buying it.
This will happen to Halo aswell if this releases, but in a much faster rate.
To me it’s not very comforting to know that alot of the development time and money will go to waste. Maybe next time they’ll spend money on what matters. Rehiring some of the old guard, maybe look at old art and direction. I’d start with O’donnell of course, but what would I know…
I’m sorry if you feel that this is a very cynical post, and I sincerely mean this. I would have no problem posting this with my face and name. This is not a trollpost or anything of the kind. I say this just because I care that much for the series.