Surprisingly enough the social slayer population went up to 1000 and even higher during the last week.
Now it is struggling to get past 900.
Anybody else notice this?
I thought that the population tracker was broken, but if it is really only 900 then that’s depressing. In its prime it had like 50,000
Reach and Halo 4 don’t pull half of that, if my memory serves.
The population counter indeed is not accurate these days, so it probably pulls more players in.
> I thought that the population tracker was broken, but if it is really only 900 then that’s depressing. In its prime it had like 50,000
yeah man I felt it this weekend. Every match was an utter mess. Then when a match was found either half my team had quit already, I’d being going against a full party, or you guessed it, I’d get an entire team of afk guests.
I really don’t know why but in the past month or so I’ve felt the population drain even more and it’s definitely preventing me from enjoying the game.
I’m playing now social slayer now around 1700 on it!!! Over 7000 total playing halo 3
> I’m playing now social slayer now around 1700 on it!!! Over 7000 total playing halo 3
The population counters on Halo 3 aren’t correct.
> > I thought that the population tracker was broken, but if it is really only 900 then that’s depressing. In its prime it had like 50,000
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> yeah man I felt it this weekend. Every match was an utter mess. Then when a match was found either half my team had quit already, I’d being going against a full party, or you guessed it, I’d get an entire team of afk guests.
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> I really don’t know why but in the past month or so I’ve felt the population drain even more and it’s definitely preventing me from enjoying the game.
I guess just be thankful that people still play, I know I am.
Despite the population counters being incredibly inaccurate. There has definitely been an influx of players, and I have been enjoying it greatly! 
The population seems to have stabilized around 5000ish players.
Of course, this is off the never-will-be-fixed population counter…
It’s the same deal with Reach right now, and it is just plain ridiculous.
Has Bungie or 343i ever issued a statement about these counters? 
Doesn’t seem too hard to fix… Seems like they’re doing it on purpose.
The population counter has been broken for ages, we don’t know what the population in the playlists is.
there is a lot more then it shows I know that… I find a mat pretty fast at all times of the day weather it says 900 players on or 7000 and I also find matches in playlists that say “0 population” pretty fast…its broken and im pretty sure 343 just does not want people to see that Halo 3 is starting to get busy again while the garbage HALO 4 is dying at a very rapid pace.