Seriously like every game i have atleast one person quit. I have never been so frustrated with a Halo game before but infinite drives me nuts with all its problems.
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Part of it is because of the terrible challenge system. People will quit because they’re looking for Oddball, or CTF or whatever. The other part of it is probably there’s really no downside to it. Since the game is FTP, if their account gets banned for quitting they can just make a new one.
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That and the ban is too lenient. It doesn’t track a quit until after that match has concluded. For example during the tactical ops event, I probably quit out of 12+ games in a row looking for manglers. Managed to finally get them, complete my challenge, and play a normal game before the ban caught up to me… for a mere 5 minutes.
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I want to laugh, but it really isn’t funny at all. Do you think the dumb BP might have something to do with it?
I’m sure there are other reasons as well, but 343 idea of challenge especially using RNG wasn’t a bright move at all.
Welcome to every other non-Halo game for the past decade (or two). Halo was one of the last (only) FPS games left that actually expected you to play your matches, and gamers as a whole do not tolerate that (anymore). They expect to be able to quit whenever they want for whatever reason, and if you make them face any repercussions for it they’ll just quit playing the game entirely.
It got even worse with the Xbox One and PS4, because MS and Sony made the absolutely insane decision to allow infinite online-capable accounts on a single console, completely removing the ability for devs and publishers to actually punish people meaningfully outside of hardware bans - which they won’t do for 99% of issues.
Unpopular Take: I chose to blame the individuals who “ready up”, load into a match, and just stand afk until booted for idling. I feel bad for the devs taking flak for people getting distracted after launching a match.
It’s not 343’s fault people load into a match, then don’t play it. It’s the individual’s fault for trying to farm XP illegitimately.
If you’d like to blame 343 for anything, make sure it’s something they can fix, such as methods of XP gain, challenge changes, progression systems, or other things under their control. They don’t MAKE people play, they make people WANT to play. Or not want to.
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