This post is primarily directed to those who tell others who disagree with some Halo 5’s design choices to “sell their game.” I’ve been seeing this in some form or another frequently over the past few months. I would like to express how I feel about this attitude and how it ultimately affects every single one of us.
Let me start by putting it bluntly in that if you tell someone to “sell their game” you are essentially telling them to leave the community forever. The community that you yourself participate in and want to see flourish. This attitude will definitely have long term effects on everyone’s enjoyment of the game. It’s no secret that Halo has hemorraged much of its population over the past 3 years. I don’t understand the logic behind telling people to sell their game when we all know this to be true. The truth is that good games are made into great games by the community, and good games are made into bad games by the lack of a community. Developers are the stewards of the community. Their job should be to listen to feedback on this forum and sort through the good, the bad, and the ugly in their quest to make the franchise better. Their job isn’t to only make a game and shove it down our throats for better or worse. If you tell someone to sell their game you are falling into this mentality and damaging the very thing that made Halo an awesome game. (That’s you and me).
Take a second and imagine Halo if infection, grifball, and swat never existed. You can credit infection to the people who cooperated in Halo 2 to make the game into something the developers hadn’t thought of. You can credit grifball to the players in Halo 3 who figured out how to make “football” work in Halo. Same thing with swat. These things were created not by the developers, but the average joe. These things changed Halo from a shooter into an experience in which everyone could find something to enjoy. And I want to see that happen again