EDIT: So, after I had taken the time to cool down after a tiring, sleepless night and long morning while now being well rested I have taken the time to read over my post, and I sure am angry in it. I advise you all to take this with a grain of salt, and in the posts that I had made to follow do the same. I apologize for sounding so grumpy and acting on it. The only reason I can give for sounding grumpy was because I was, in fact, very grumpy. However, I do see a general misconception that is obviously my fault in regard to this thread: This isn’t me -Yoinking!- about how I wish Halo was different- it is about me wanting more from a “Title Update.” You see, I am bothered at this update because it doesn’t feel like what a Title Update should be, and they shouldn’t build up so much hype around it as such. I do have my opinions on Halo, and I sure sounded pompous many times through my thread and posts about it, but that IS NOT what this thread is about. It is regarding the lack of communication, and then vague alluding to types of communication done by the industry.
I did think of completely removing the thread, but I am not one to simply remove everything because I made a mistake in my anger and made an -Yoink- of myself. We learn from mistakes, we shouldn’t be ashamed of them. However, and this is what I want to make very clear:
I apologize for anyone I bothered or may bother with this thread.
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Howdy folks. I’m seeing some complaints about complaints here; people are getting mad at those who are saying this title update, for lack of better words, is terrible. Why? Why are you people nagging at the people who are absolutely right? Why are you defending 343i at all? It is quite obvious that Halo as a competitve online multiplayer experience has been successfully destroyed. Have you looked at the population statistics? 343i sometimes addresses claims that the population is low with “enthusiasm and optimism,” but it is clear as day that it is just a facade to bring false hope while their grimacing faces shine clearly through this lie. They know as well as we know that the game is a failure(in terms of multiplayer), although sales prices would definitely harken an argument, but population doesn’t lie.
My point is this: 343i’s multiplayer team is a group of people with a job, and that job is to create a great online Halo experience for all. When you have a job you do the best you can at it. Giving them a break because “they have so much else on their plate” makes you all sound like ridiculous teenagers who have never tried their luck at anything but makes excuses for your lack of success in whatever you deem as your life regardless. Life fact: when you do something, and you don’t try to be the best at what you supposedly do then you are a sorry excuse for a person. 343i may be trying to do their best, but their best isn’t certainly enough.
This Title Update addresses bug fixes. Bug fixes. Are you kidding? That is what a hotfix should be for. Not a -Yoink- Title Update. Nothing has changed. Nothing. The Boltshot was rebalanced. Neat, I’m pretty sure I could have rebalanced that after two days of testing it. It wasn’t hard to figure out it had too much range. Guess what hasn’t been rebalanced? The rest of the game.
I was a semi-professional Halo 2 and Halo 3 player. I know how Halo multiplayer is supposed to feel, because I was there at the top of the food chain at the peak of its career. Halo is now a 40 year old going through its midlife crisis and I don’t think it is going to make it out alive. I picked up Halo 4 for the first time in a couple months the other day and boy am I still amazing at Halo, albeit rusty. But, I put it down after 3 games when I realized that it was a clunky, out of shape game in which its grandfather puts it to shame in the field of metaphorical fitness.
343i’s multiplayer team continues to prove their incompetence for their entire company and publisher when it comes to online multiplayer design. I, myself, own my own blossoming company and if for a second I made the same mistakes that they have I would find myself in dire trouble of a financial crisis. Bringing a man like Bravo on to the team was the best decision they have made, but this Title Update was what a lot of the original fan base was waiting for and it is nothing short of a shot through each and every one of our hearts.
You may say,“Brent, give it a chance.” I appreciate your optimism, but it is naive and childish. I gave Halo 4, as a fun and competitive multiplayer game, a hell of a chance and it certainly blew it. It hurts, you know. I’ve bought every piece of Halo fiction, special edition of the games, and bought some novelty items. I, besides being a highly skilled competitive player, am a Halo fanboy through and through, but I won’t be buying another game. Which is actually pretty upsetting considering I thought this Halo game’s campaign was the best in the series. They did an amazing job with the singleplayer, and I’ll never take that away from them. However, it seems as though they won’t fix this broken multiplayer system and for that I am upset.
tl;dr: There isn’t a tl;dr. Read my post. Learn to love reading or accept that you have missed out on a wondrous entertainment[Edited as I deemed what I said before offensive]. Reading isn’t a dead form of entertainment.
If your post had more spaces i woulda read it.