We are all witnessing a death

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I was craving what I hadn’t experienced in months: Halo 3. I slammed the disk into the tray and launched matchmaking. Looking over the game options, I noticed it said (POPULATION: 14)

Fourt-f*cking-teen!!! WHAT? I’ve seen that number in the hundreds of thousands! How could it possibly have a little over a dozen people on it?

And that’s how almost all playlists were. Under a hundred, with the exception of some. Incredible… I thought this game would never see it’s death, but with the total population only being in the 6000s, I have a feeling we will see, definitely soon, it’s shutdown. A moment I never would have imagined is right around the corner.

Who would have thought that after all those Fat Kid, I Am Legend, and Cops and Robbers games that we would actually see H3 bite the dust? It’s a sad, sad day.

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The population count has been inaccurate on Halo 3 for a long time.

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It was over 20,000 a couple of days ago…

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Sad moment for me as well, but now I am going to go back to! So yah, I wanna see the population go back up! :slight_smile:

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Ive seen that before to except it had no one online so I just reloaded it it come up to 6000 as usual…

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The population counter is broken anyway. Those numbers aren’t accurate.

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Whenever I see the total counter it’s usually 20,000-10,000 and I can still find matches quickly so…

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I saw it at 23,000 the other night, so hell yeah!!!1

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I often get a low pop count too, but I am usually able to find a game. Personally, I am more frustrated that unless you have all the dlc you only have about three playlists to choose from.

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population counter is not true. Halo 3 is still very much alive and in the top 20 most played xbox live games still =)

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Its slowly dieing and after or right befor HALO 4 drops it will likely almost stop being played altogether …

Sad face :frowning:
But the more people that move to HALO 4 the better MP will be for everyone.

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The counters are wrong, though the popular is definitely lower than it used to be. It’s hard to get games in quite a few playlists now, but some are pretty much the same as they always were. Social Slayer and Team Slayer still play exactly like they did before, same sort of search times and plenty of different people in each game. You can still get games in Objective, Mythic, Snipers etc but it definitely takes a while longer than it used to. I mostly just warm up in Social Slayer then go into Team Slayer and it feels like Halo 3 is as alive as it ever was.

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As a long as i can still find ranked games, im all good. Maybe someone should plan another repopulate halo 3 day…

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It fixed and broken like it works some times but not often. One time there was actually 20 people in BTB it was fun facing and teaming up with people for five times since I got bored

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All games will eventually die. They only carry on legacys

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I have been playing team doubles recently trying to make it to 5 star general in the playlist(2000 exp) meaning 2000 wins all together. I am currently in the 1800s.

Hey im still finding fun matches.

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A few friends and I have found matches in Action Sack when it said the current population of the playlist was 6!

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> A few friends and I have found matches in Action Sack when it said the current population of the playlist was 6!

I’ve been able to find matches even when it said the population was 0!

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If had full games in rumble pit and action sack and multi-team when the playlist says there are 0 players…

So the count means nothing…

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How about we start another play Halo 3 day on this coming July 7. Sounds appropriate.