TL;DR: We all deserve a say in what goes into Halo 4, not just one group of people.
Honestly, I’m quite tired of most everyone thinking that the group the belong to knows everything and anything that they don’t want to be in Halo is a bad feature and will ruin the game. Each individual group thinks that they alone have the answer to Halo’s future, when they in fact don’t.
Halo belongs to every Halo fan, not just those who have the loudest voice or the most amount of followers. 343i realizes this and is adding things for the casuals, the competitives, the classic Halo fans, etc. There are elements in Halo 4 to please all of you, so what’s with all the complaining?
Halo 4 WILL have a Classic playlist, 343i are Halo fans to, and although they are adding features to make Halo more relevant in the market, that doesn’t mean that they have forgotten about the features that made them fall in love with Halo in the first place. They have said that any new features will be non-existent in the classic playlist, and those that have played Halo 4 have said that the core gameplay feels like Halo 2/3, so the classic playlist is looking like it will have a good turnout. Stop complaining about how 343i isn’t just giving us Halo 2 in a new box (I have seen multiple complain about that).
The addition of armor mods and specializations has been a feature that the competitive community has targeted as of late. Saying that they will “ruin Halo”. This is not the case. Simply because 343i adds a way for us to change the game slightly to fit our playing style doesn’t mean that they haven’t put in countless hours of playtesting over the course of the closed Beta in order to ensure that such features are balanced. 343i has the Cortana Web, which tracks pretty much everything that happens in the closed Beta, who killed who, what AA they had, what armor mods they had, etc. If something was overpowered they would know, and try to fix it. There will also be a competitive ranking system. Many will complain that the ranking system is invisible to others, but that was never confirmed other than some guy saying that Frankie said that it may or may not be invisible to others and they were still looking into all their options (if my memory serves me correctly).
Everyone deserves something in Halo 4. The classic fans deserve at least a playlist, the competitives deserve at least some sort of competitive ranking system, and the casuals deserve something in the game as well. I am certain that there are many more groups who are thinking the same way as the 3 I mentioned, but these 3 have been the ones most active on the forums, so I focused on them.
I realize that everyone is going to like/dislike a feature when they see it, there’s no way around that. But they should still wait and play the game before deciding that it is the worst thing to happen to Halo ever, as they never know how the feature will effect the game as a whole. Feel free to make threads about how you are concerned about a certain feature (except if there are 5 bajillion other threads about it), but no one wants to listen to you rant on about how a certain feature, that you haven’t even tested in the full game yet, is going to ruin Halo and make Halo 4 a horrible game.
