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> Then your boss asks you to do another task. You do it to the best of your ability. But do to time constraints you can’t polish it off the way you wanted. Your boss looks at your work and says “should have been done better” and walks away. Over the next week you are working on improving the product, and every day you give your boss an update on your progress. And every single day he says the same thing “It should have been in since you turned it in”.
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> Could you guys imagine trying your best to please your boss, and it’s just never enough. Not the slightest bit of appreciation.
I’m going to change the scenario of your analogy just a bit so you can see it from my perspective:
Your boss has asked you to create a powerpoint presentation for him to discuss in an important meeting he has in a week. For one reason or another, when that day comes you aren’t able to get it done. You had plenty of time to work on it, but all you have is the first couple slides of the presentation. So when your boss is presenting and gets to that point of the presentation, he sees a bunch of blank slides and asks, “Where’s the rest of the content?” And you say “I wasn’t able to get it done, but it’s okay because I’ll email everyone the slides as I get them done at some later date.” Eventually you quickly draw up something and mass email each slide one by one to the entire office each month to show that you got another one done. However, this is useless to your boss now. The meeting ended a long time ago, the people he was pitching to have moved on and most of the people in the office don’t even care at this point. But you just think they’re ungrateful and continue working on your presentation, thinking everyone owes you a thank you for giving them free insight.
Could you imagine if that was a real world scenario? You’d have been fired from the second you didn’t have the product complete on time. You wouldn’t have even had a chance to deliver late content. I think that’s the point that a lot of you apologists miss. No matter what content gets released, the point when it was necessary, or even desirable, has passed.
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> I’m not saying you guys have to say 343 is the best devs out there, and I’m not saying you have to forget about their mistakes. Just when someone does do something right, you thank them and show appreciation. You can’t hold everything they did wrong against them every time they did do something correctly, if you do, you will never see how often they do succeed.
Key words, when someone does do something right.
Just because you interpret something as “right” does not mean everyone else does too. Speaking for myself, I don’t hold any of their previous mistakes over their current mistakes. When Halo was released with too few playlists, I was mad that there were too few playlists. When BTB was released I was mad that it was put on the backburner and had a lineup of underdeveloped maps. The point is, you’re considering the fact that if they do something, it’s correct, when to some people, it’s not.
In some cases, just the fact that it was late, is enough to render it useless (like the presentation example I shared). Some people don’t see the effects of releasing something bad or shallow or empty or whatever until the aftermath. But we have plenty of examples with Halo 4 and MCC right in front of us. I’m not holding that over 343’s head, I’m using history to explain what they’re still doing wrong in Halo 5, but I’m only referring to the problems in Halo 5, nothing else.
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> Am I going to complain that Halo 5 is the worst Halo even and that 343 sucks every time they update the game to make it better? No, that’s stupid.
Now you’re just making generalizations. Because there are a few trolls in a forum you can’t assume everyone else thinks like that. Like you said, that’s stupid. I could use the same generalization of troll fanboys that (opposite) “boast that Halo 5 is the best halo ever and that 343 is the best every time they update the game no matter what it is!”
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> Edit: Yes, feel free to say that it should have been here at launch, but thank them for releasing it. They really didn’t have to at this point. We’ve already lost most of the infection community so now it would be getting them back.
Again, why should we thank someone for doing something the wrong way? And you might think twice about your comment about them not having to. They’re just about in desperation mode right now. Removing the region lock, all these shifty changes are all signs of the game’s population going down and 343 going into emergency mode like they did with Halo 4.
If they didn’t at least portray themselves to be listening to the community do you think that would go over well? And as I’ve repeated over and over, adding infection doesn’t mean you will get the infection community back. There are too many changes and introductions that people didn’t ask for. They are trying to attain a new infection community, disregarding the old one, and that is yet another flaw of 343’s strategy imo.
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> There are a ton of people that enjoy Halo 5. Most probably agree that these should have been in since launch. But there are also a ton of unappreciative players that feel entitled to all these features being in since launch. And you guys suck the soul out of these forums.
Again, I could say the opposite. There are a ton of people that don’t enjoy Halo 5. Look at the customer reviews from any store.
I guess I fall into your description of unappreciative players that feel entitled to these features being in since launch because I don’t appreciate what they’ve given us. Just because they put a familiar name on it, doesn’t mean it’s what I asked for. So why should I be forced to appreciate something when I’m not appreciating it?
And if these type of people “suck the soul out of these forums” then what does that tell you about the remaining community? Surely most people who did not like Halo for the past 6 months have moved on by now.
Bottom line: 343 made it crystal clear what WOULD be included at launch. People still bought the game and complain that it wasn’t included at launch. Really? It’s absurd to act that way. 343 did exactly what they told us they would–stop complaining about it.
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> Halo 2 had EVERYTHING halo 1 had and more. Halo 3 had everything halo 2 had and new stuff. Halo 4 had everything halo 3 had…even reach had everything and more new stuff. Notice the trend here? Halo 5 has LESS game modes than halo 2 that came out in 2004 and halo 3 that came out in 2007… So halo 5 had jack for gametypes and many other staples missing. Sorry that I have standards? And I don’t just blindly love 343 when they punched me in the face over and over again. I’m not going to forget nor forgive. Also microtransactions… And remixes counted as full fledged new maps… I don’t. A new map is a new layout new theme and not 90% based on a existing map. Unless it’s lockout or guardian. Those maps as is we’re perfect and don’t need any changes. And after the mcc being broken for a long time… They sweep it under the rug don’t mention it at all in updates… How should I feel happy? Content? I feel robbed.
I wouldn’t say Halo 4 had everything Halo 3/Reach had cause it just didn’t. But I get your point.
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> The thing is 343 was pretty clear on what would be in the game at launch and other stuff would be added in monthly updates… no one forced you to buy the game at launch. You could have waited till the game had what you wanted in it. As far as “microtransactions” H5 has the best system in place out of most games. No game changing content is behind a pay wall and every one gets the updates regardless whether they bought req packs or not. Sure there should have been more stuff unlockable by game play. But the only way to stop this trend of adding later is not to buy the game at launch. Look at Hitman launching with like one or two missions I read somewhere and more missions will be added later… yoink that I say… not worth buying… but in H5 case I was satisfied with what the game had at launch and each update is making it better and giving me something to look forward to as I play. I hated the way you maxed out H4 in a few months flat. H5 has had way better longevity. Had a csr rank, xp rank, commendations, reqs, and cosmetics. I just wish there was more camp type achievements. The problem is most gamers just assume and don’t read so when they don’t get what they assumed they get ticked… not to mention the impatience in most gamers now a days… want it all now and for free if possible any thing else is unacceptable and will result in instant raging on the internet… each update announcement then the forums are flooded with its not good enough and they haven’t even received the content yet!!
No game changing content? Take someone who is new to the game and put their unlocks against some of the people that play this game nonstop and are lvl 149. I’m pretty sure the lvl 149 playing a game of WZ will enjoy it a lot better thanks to the “game changing content”
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> The only way to stop this trend of adding later is not to buy the game at launch. Look at Hitman launching with like one or two missions I read somewhere and more missions will be added later… yoink that I say… not worth buying… but in H5 case I was satisfied with what the game had at launch and each update is making it better and giving me something to look forward to as I play. I hated the way you maxed out H4 in a few months flat. H5 has had way better longevity. Had a csr rank, xp rank, commendations, reqs, and cosmetics.
I didn’t max out H4 in a few months lol because that’s not how I play Halo. Halo has never been about “maxing out” or achievement hunters or grinding until 343 got their hands on it. You think H5 has good longevity because you get a few new achievements to get each month? Halos of old had good longevity simply because people wanted and loved the gameplay, not a little to-do list.
Halo 5’s population is already dying so I don’t know how you can say it has good longevity. It’s redundant, shallow and incomplete.
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That’s where you’re wrong. It means more to us than just being “that simple” to let something go that once had meaning.
Just want to say that VVonderboy is killing it in this thread. Couldn’t be more on point in almost every way and doing it in a respectful manner. Kudos
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> Just want to say that VVonderboy is killing it in this thread. Couldn’t be more on point in almost every way and doing it in a respectful manner. Kudos
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Haha thanks guys.
Just my opinions of course, but I do put a lot of time into them.
I made a 4.5 hour review of the beta and a similar one is coming for H5 I fear…
I love players who care about the community. The ones who don’t roll over and show their stomachs in the face of badness in general. In this case it’s 343 not realeasing content when they should have.
Don’t get me wrong, Halo 5 will be a great game after 343 realeases all content. Oh, and that player I was talking about? VVONDERBOY for president 2016.
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> Just want to say that VVonderboy is killing it in this thread. Couldn’t be more on point in almost every way and doing it in a respectful manner. Kudos
Scrolls back a page. Reads his posts.
Dude, -Yoinking!- understatement of the century right there.
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> I love players who care about the community. The ones who don’t roll over and show their stomachs in the face of badness in general. In this case it’s 343 not realeasing content when they should have.
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> Don’t get me wrong, Halo 5 will be a great game after 343 realeases all content. Oh, and that player I was talking about? VVONDERBOY for president 2016.
That’s how I see it too. It’s one thing to like Halo 5, nobody is saying you can’t. But the game isn’t perfect and it’s taken 7 months to get to where it is today and yet there are still problems. Can you imagine what Halo 5 would look like if the people who say they love the game had free reign? Would we have gotten new (ie old) gametypes back? Would we have gotten a refined color palette? Would we have gotten anything that has made the game better piece by piece? Given how much people who “complained” about things like Infection, Grifball, UI changes and so were flamed and called ungrateful I have my doubts. Like it or not, the people who have complained at this point seem to show more concern for the longevity of the game than the people who seemingly love it.
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> That’s how I see it too. It’s one thing to like Halo 5, nobody is saying you can’t. But the game isn’t perfect and it’s taken 7 months to get to where it is today and yet there are still problems. Can you imagine what Halo 5 would look like if the people who say they love the game had free reign? Would we have gotten new (ie old) gametypes back? Would we have gotten a refined color palette? Would we have gotten anything that has made the game better piece by piece? Given how much people who “complained” about things like Infection, Grifball, UI changes and so were flamed and called ungrateful I have my doubts. Like it or not, the people who have complained at this point seem to show more concern for the longevity of the game than the people who seemingly love it.
Dr. Halsey, you are awesome. My thoughts exactly. If people had free reign over this game it would remind me of Duke nuke em. Over 12 years to make and still flopped.
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> I made a 4.5 hour review of the beta and a similar one is coming for H5 I fear…
And that is why we respect your opinion.
It’s easy to just like something and ignore the problems with something, and it’s easy to just hate something and wash your hands of something, call it dead. But when you’ve looked at the situation, and took all the experiences and collected them in to a well thought out opinion that is expressed with the goal of improving the Halo and community experience for everyone, you should be praised for that, not condemned like so many like to do.
Everything good with Halo 5 came from the community. From our opinions on Halo 4 to Halo 5’s release state, we did that. If more of the community stood together during MCC, and even today, the game would have been a bigger issue for MS and 343i.
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> Bottom line: 343 made it crystal clear what WOULD be included at launch. People still bought the game and complain that it wasn’t included at launch. Really? It’s absurd to act that way. 343 did exactly what they told us they would–stop complaining about it.
VV0NDERBOY has made a lot of good points. In my opinion, I would vote for him as president. On the other hand just because they made it crystal clear doesn’t make it right. We all want to see chief’s story. Some of us have been with him from the beginning and want to make sure they do him justice and thats why we bought the game. You’re entitled to your opinion like the rest of us but this really isn’t the praise 343 forum. that’s 2 posts over. lol
I was only making a joke and trying to show how ridiculous some of these things get. Don’t take offense. This is just another game and not life. that goes for everyone. Masterchief has an amazing storyline that keeps alot of us on our seats wanting more. Whether its books or games, some of us want more. We want more in our games when we buy them and we want more for our buck.