We were promised Halo Infinite was the ONLY Halo game for ten years. Any new Halo projects are fine as long as they are directly linked with Halo Infinite itself and not separate from the game. A 10 year plan needs to make Halo Infinite a TRUE live service game. If 343 during ten years can master the live service model with Infinite, that will open up possibilities for the next Halo by 2031, but there are TOO MANY things Infinite needs to flourish to even consider another title taking energy and time away from fixing a broken launch!
Infinite has unbelievable gameplay and overwhelming potential, WE WANT a 10 year game, not to abandon a poor initial plan but to FIX it, EXPAND it, and FUFILL Infinites potential FULLY! Credit to 343, Forge looks absolutely legendary (please donāt microtransaction Forge pleaseā¦please) and although Iām not happy Season 2 is six months, it is a majorly better effort then the first season, but we need FAR more content in Infinite and a new game would halt that progression like a brick wall.
People who complain frequently about Halo Infinite LOVE Halo and more importantly Halo Infinite. They wouldnāt take the time or expend any energy if they wished to see it fail. Thin skin to constructive criticism will only hurt your brand! 343i this is EASILY your best Halo game but the mistakes Halo Infinite made CANNOT be repeated if Halo ever wishes to recapture its legacy or maintain popularity. Abandoning the game for another project would demonstrate a lack of follow through and commitment for a community who has waited over half a decade.
Please the hardcore Halo fans first and foremost, because your broader audience will come because of these people and ONLY these players! Satisfying everyone satisfies nobody!
Everyone is up in arms about it, but has anyone stopped to think about what Jez actually said?
He said," 343 is working on a new project that isnāt related to Halo Infinite"
Not a new game, just project.
And if it is a game, who is to say it isnāt Halo Wars 3? Or simply just another campaign DLC?
I think you need to really ease up a little bit and relax. Its not going to be a Halo Infinite replacement, its likely to be Halo Wars 3, an Anniverssary edition or something else.
Maybe they should pour more of their resources into fixing and getting core features like Forge into Infinite before even thinking about splitting off on another project? I donāt know how credible such rumors are at the moment but Iād be upset if they started hinting at divided their resources and focusing on another project.
Iām game for more Halo stuff, but Infinite is one of many on the list of modern AAA ālive serviceā games that needs to be much more polished and completed before dumping it and moving on (just like rumors and hints surrounding BF2042ās future).
Nah the real funny thing is that everyone still thinks that they said Halo Infinite was going to be a 10 year gameā¦what was actually said was ācreating Halo Infinite as the start of the next 10 years for Halo and then building that as we goā. Also any plans for new games or DLC are literally just in the planning stage.
I agree insofar as that 343i needs to clarify whether the upcoming project will have any serious bearing on plans for Infiniteās ongoing development and support. If it does, then fans have a very legitimate cause to be up in arms with 343i having delivered an arguably half baked game in Infinite and then leaving it in a state of shambles to take another crack at a fresh mainline Halo title. However, as others are saying here, itās more likley that the upcoming project isnāt directly related to Infinite and wonāt drastically affect the course that game will take in expanding and improving over time.
So, I do agree that 343i needs to at least alleviate the concerns of fans by clarifying on that point. If they canāt or wonāt do that, then Iāll be more worried.
Iām not against a new Halo game in the next ten years, as long as it uses Infinites engine Slipspace or adds Unreal Engine 5 and expands on the content in Infinite. What Iām against is a new project taking time and resources away from an incomplete product.
Yeah.
I donāt recall anyone saying that Halo Infinite was the only Halo game for the next 10 years.
Although, I do think that the reason they separated the MP from the campaign is so they can keep milking the MP while dropping mainline campaigns alongside it
Im going to go ahead and assume based on your response you dont quite understand software development. Throwing more bodies at problems doesnt help fix things faster for the most part. Its not how it works.
Theyll have different teams working on new titles, and new Halo content.
If you honestly believed that halo infinite was going to be a 10 year gameā¦I have swamp land in tunizia to sell youā¦real cheap tooā¦
Look at other games with ā10 year plansā
Fallout 76
Anthem
Destiny
Desinty 2
Infinite was never going to last 10 yearsā¦hell the population has decreased by almost half only six months in and by the time we get things like campaign co-op and forge Iāll be surprised if it isnāt all but abandonedā¦
I could not have said it better myself. Whatās truly frustrating is how GOOD 343 has become at making multiplayer core gunplay, and how BAD they are at creating content and polishing the rest of the game
It is really frustrating! Iāve not loved the core gameplay experience of a Halo game this much literally since Reach, but the live service trappings, which most legacy Halo fans didnāt want in the first place, are poorly done even by the standards of other F2P games. And the content production pipeline which was advertised for literally years (since Slipspace was announced, at least) as being seamless and super fast compared to older games just hasnāt been, so far.
I think this game will become something really wonderful over time like MCC eventually did, but itās hard to express how much of a shame it is that so much has been holding it back since launch and most of itās not changing for the foreseeable future.
Halo Infinte is literally Halo 3 with sprint and clamber.
They would have landed at that sweet spot eventually.
But yeah more content would be nice.
Forge, Anti Cheat, Localised Server settings: would be a great start.
There wonāt be a new Mainline Halo Game for at least 5-6 Years unless the Code for Halo Infinite is completly broken.
The Industry has changed. Devs donāt like to split their Playerbase within their own Franchise. More and more Games tend to become more of a Platform.
The only Franchise which is still doing both simultaneously is COD, because their Audience is enormous. But even COD has Warzone as a Platform.
The only Game is see 343 could be working on is something like a āone and doneā Spinoff without any MP Experience, which Iād be fine with.
But as MP goes, 343 will build upon Halo Infinite.
Listening to this video it isnāt clear what kind of project they are working on, just that it isnāt Infinite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhrbkhj0VY&t=11702s
The only game project they could possible be working on that isnāt related to Infinite would be Halo Wars 3, a Halo 5 PC port, or some possible spinoff along the lines of ODST.
While my post history is just criticism and disappointment I do agree with you OP in that I do want Infinite to get the love it needs that it didnāt get at launch but I think to bring the fans back it would need a relaunch, and not too far into next year. If it doesnāt then I think they need to scrap and move on.
Its a tough spot to be in, there was simply too much time between 5 and Infinite, Halo really should be every 3 years. The ten year plan is a fad that no company that stated it before release has successfully done, the only games that did didnāt plan for it, but just kept the ball in the air. 343 canāt get the ball off the ground in the first place.
If they somehow recaptured an audience then sure, we really need a āno mans skyā style turnaround though, they canāt ditch because as you said itās a major commitment / trust issue, but if they get it up and running properly they canāt linger either, imo ten years of a good game is still lingering.
As for a rumour threatening Infinite it will just be other side projects, maybe like 18 months after launch rumblings would seem plausible, not 6 months.