Sorry for your impatience and misplaced feeling of betrayal that is.
> What is wrong with what he said? All of it is true. The casuals are slowly turning every game into an easy killing everyone gets a trophy type of game.
Here we are. The day I knew would come. The day where people blame the changes in “their” game on casual players.
I’ve spent time on the forums of dozens of different games and whenever a sequel comes out that made a few mechanical changes to the gameplay, this is the argument you can bet money that you will see.
It is an inane argument. At least 90% of the playerbase of any game is made up of “casual” players. The definition of “casual” seems to be dynamic and changes to fit a specific person’s description of such. A “casual” player is always someone who plays the game less hours a day than you do, or hasn’t been a fan as long as you have. It isn’t fair to blame the majority of the playerbase because they are the ones that buy the game in the first place. They are the ones that provide the money for games like these to even exist. If you want to blame “casuals” for messing up your game, feel free to fund the entire creation process of the game yourself so that everything is made to your liking.
In other words, stop blaming “casuals” for the destruction of games. The game wouldn’t exist without them, the population of Halo wouldn’t be a fourth of what it is without them, and without them you wouldn’t play because everyone would be the same skill level as you are or better. Times change, games change, and clinging to a feeling of nostalgia will not help you adapt to what the future holds.
> When Halo 2 came out, I used to check back on Halo CE to see what people thought of the game. Well, it turns out many of the people there said they felt betrayed because of the new unbalanced mechanics. “The magnum sucks now! IT WAS HOW I PLAYED! Now the stupid default gun can kill people in 4 shots! BROKEN!”
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> When Halo 3 came out, I used to check back on Halo 2 to see what people thought of the game. Again, it turns out many of the people still playing Halo 2 said they felt betrayed because of the new unbalanced mechanics. “Stupid BR is now the best gun in the game and I don’t like dieing so fast! Everything moves too fast and now there is no room for hardcore players, casuals are moving in!”
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> When Halo: Reach came out, I used to check back on Halo 3 to see what people thought of the game. Once again, it turns out many of the people still playing Halo 3 said they felt as if Bungie has let them down and betrayed them because of the new unbalanced mechanics. “No more BR? Now we have a stupid DMR with bloom that takes skill out of the equation and replaces it with randomness! Not to mention the armor abilities that slow down the game. If you don’t have armorlock, you can’t win!”
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> And now, with Halo 4, I can look on these forums and see people complaining once again about the mechanics of the game. They complain about how they are unbalanced, they complain about how they feel betrayed and unheard, and they complain about how they wished all of these issues would be fixed. Apparently 343i, the company who is implementing a TU earlier than any other Halo game, doesn’t care about the issues their game has. Apparently they will NEVER fix any of the issues present and are only in this for the money. It has been a total of 2 months and we have people listing all of these problems.
If you don’t like the new changes, I’m sorry. I’m sorry you feel 343i didn’t specifically cater to your needs. I’m sorry you believe that because this game has been out for just two months and 343i took a vacation that 343i is obviously not listening to the community. I’m sorry you think this game is a failure because it isn’t an HD copy of Halo 3.
However, know that you are only entitled to your opinion. That’s all. Nothing else. You can scream that the community obviously hates the game, but you must realize that this is a delusional view of things. Less than 1% of the entire Halo 4 community uses these forums. When someone has fun with a game, they play it. When someone wants to complain about it, they visit the forums. Since the hourly population of Halo 4 is usually inbetween 90k-110k, I’m assuming that the 500-1k hourly population of the forums is in the minority.
You may also believe that you were cheated out of the money you payed for this game. Well, not only are you in the minority with that opinion, but you have non to blame but yourself if you were skeptical. You could have rented the game when it came out to get a feel of it and see if it was what you wanted. You could have let a friend buy it and played with him to see if it was everything you imagined. You could have even waited for reviews of the game to poor in from professional critics and Youtube channels. In any case, you bought the game and you got what you payed for.
Feel free to voice your opinions, but please, don’t pretend as if this game is ruined or the creators have betrayed your trust just because changes were made that you don’t like. It is inherently obvious that tens of thousands DO like it, even if you are not one of them.
P.S. I wanted to post this in the color blue which is easier on my eyes to read, but in order to cater to the “casuals” of the forums, I will post it in default color. Sorry hardcores.
P.P.S. My last P.S. may have contained some snarky sarcasm.