What do you think made the population drop?

Games Halo Infinite
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From a PVE player perspective…
There’s no ability to play splt screen.
There’s no ability to replay missions.
There’s no firefight.

This means… beat it in legendary and don’t play again…
Can’t enjoy game with family, same TV… I have an 75" TV… been waiting for 10 years for this game so me and the wife can re-live our Halo 3 days of playing our favorite missions on legendary with skulls on… battling for the highscore…

Firefight… was a great way to play a quick hour of halo with a friend or family…

Some of the missions are very small… some are unreasonably long and task oriented… which would be fine if you could replay them and learn personal methods of attack…

Some of the mechanics are unrealistic, I consider myself good at halo and some of the legendary bosses were rough… it was more timing and pattern recognition than developed skill… which explains why it’s more mechanics based than skill… cant reply missions.

I don’t care about PVP… people have been crying about PVP since golden eye…

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@DarkChii01 That might be the best comment in this thread, hopefully it doesnt lock it. You know how people get with the C word.

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@Gym_Meathead circumforaneous?
I never said that… until now :x

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Content content content content
I just played three games of recharge ranked in a row.

Content
Content
Content

Stop drip feeding us.

This didn’t work with sea of thieves.
This didn’t work with Gears.
Stop ruining your own games.

Stop trying to be a game service and platform that wants to milk service based games… THAT DONT HAVE ENOUGH CONTENT.

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First off, weak playlists.
There is not option to separate ranked objective from ranked slayer.

Same thing for their “hot fix” for adding in playlists. They added in social slayer, but didn’t take the Slayer out of Objective playlist.

Also features like theater has garbage controls and runs at 20fps.

Custom games doesn’t always save your game types so you have to remake game types on the fly.

Multi-team will never be possible with the Team color system they have.

Infinite campaign suffers from the same thing MGS5 did. “Open world” at the cost of story.

Constant cross play with no turn off makes most players not want to play cuz every match is sweaty.

BTB doesn’t have definitive vehicle spawn for the heavies. So tank players why even bother playing.

Also the Wasp is the boring and too op. Banshee sucks now. Falcon or hornet was obviously the better choice

There is technically only 2 automatic weapons: AR and needler. Commando doesn’t count cuz it can’t hit poop if full auto.

The weapon sandbox is almost all precision weapons. Very boring.

Majority of the weapon are more annoying than fun to play with. Melee weapons are the best.

The BR is still the end all be all, in both campaign and multiplayer. Why pick up anything else?

No proper progression system or unlock system means no real reason to come back if the game isn’t fun.

The game isn’t fun due to lack of quality of life systems such as good UI, Better HUD, Decent radar, fun weapon sandbox, smooth weapon/Spartan animations, pre/post game lobby system, IN GAME MUTE!!!, Proximity chat especially in BTB, Etc.

I’ve stopped playing this game cuz why be disappointed and mad. I’ll wait a year(probably 2) for when it has all the bells, whistles and polish it was suppose to at launch.

2020 demo was the only working part of the game 343i had. They pulled an Anthem and built this game in 1 year and it shows. They would rather have a working store to take $20 for blue than more than 4 playlists.

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I remember people on here and Steam forums defending the player count drop. Now it is dropping even more and there’s no denying the trend.

Why there were people who felt the need to defend a game launching with a lack of content after 6 years in development boggles the mind. These apologists are why we don’t get as many good games anymore.

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@Sparhawk122 Agreed! People now think this is acceptable, and will come at you and say “your living in the past”. But in the past games didn’t have live updates and came out full at launch. It is unacceptable to launch a Halo game with 1 ranked playlist and 6 maps.

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The Xbox playerbase will also have a drop as it’s a F2P game. But also Halo hasn’t been as big since Halo 3 in the public consciousness. Halo 3 kinda transcended into Media Blockbuster status. After Halo 3 it returned to well selling Xbox exclusive franchise and then the Xbox One sold way way less so, in turn, Halo is less played too.

Now I think it’s sitting on 6th or 7th Most Played Xbox Games. I’m not sure how accurate this official list is in terms of numbers. But if it’s accurate it already shows you it’s a bigger Xbox franchise than a PC one.

But it also shows that Halo isn’t The big dog any longer.

The games ahead are Fortnite, Fifa 22, GTA V, Warzone, Roblox, Forza 5 etc.

Halo 3 was the biggest selling game of 2007. Halo hasn’t gotten closest that since.

Essentially it even sitting at 6th or 7th Most Played Xbox Games is impressive considering it’s going against the current juggernauts listed above. It’s never gonna beat out GTA or Call of Duty. Kids want to play Roblox, not Halo.

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I was the 10th player to hit 100 million xp in halo guardians, which means i played a lot of the previous title. i thought Infinite was going to make a leap forward, but they took several jumps backwards. Infinite is a poor game considering the time they spent making it. 343, you guy release the campaign with out the co op feature??? wtf are u thinking??? poor weapons, poor vehicles( mainly the rocket hog, what a piece a crap. It shoot bean bags for gods sake)

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Desync, Lag, Hit registration due to connection issues. Missing gamemodes that should have been there since the beginning like infection, elimination, warzone, firefight. BTB not working.
Ranking system that favors cheating with smurf accounts and so many other issues.

Now add also SBMM in social to the issues and there you are, people move on.
I reached SR152 in Halo 5. I wasnt active in the Forum.

Now im playing Halo Infinite but it feels like i spent more time in the forum than playing halo infinite.

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You can see everyone here is passionate about Halo or they wouldn’t be on here posting. Some fans see the truth that Halo is dying and other fans don’t want to believe it. There is a rare bunch out there that defend the game and think this is acceptable for a AAA game after 6 years of waiting.

We all thought they were testing playlists, armor and progression in H5 and MCC, but obviously they weren’t.

In the next few weeks most players will finish their battle pass and hav to wait until May for another one.

I appreciate the update 343 but its not enough. If you want your player base to stay we need to at least make this game playable.

I tried playing again today like I do everyday. My first game I crashed. The second game had horrible ping servers and desync. And the third game my teammate crashed. That was it for me for today, I’ll try again tomorrow. But the game feels more and more like a chore to play, I really dont want to give up on it. But as Dr Disrespect would say “I’m just not having fun.”

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This Halo was meant the be the return to form for the series. Instead i’ve been left with the first FPS in years that leaves me physically frustrated after every match.

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its bleeding players for 100 different reasons personably i hit level 100 3 week in and slowly stopped playing i have another 20 issue but none of those would stop me playing its just i dont feel like playing for fun when i have other games that already do that

which is funny because i go back to play halo 5 all the time i think its just personal taste mentally im still at the halo 5 beta

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Halo Infinite really is an immorally massive regression from Halo 5 in every aspect. Everything that it offers is just awful, from the downgraded gameplay and art style to the incredibly financially and psychologically hostile multiplayer with lots of bugs and issues, and the really overhyped and boring campaign with a terrible open world approach, I could go on and on and on!! At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if even Asphalt 9 overtakes it in popularity!

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Maybe because the game is literally unplayable and they ban players for their game crashing even though they have a pc that can easily handle this trash excuse for a halo game.

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Elden ring really set me up for a higher standard of expectations now. Halo Infinite can’t compete with that gold standard of delivering

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Desync, poor ranking system, poor playlist, poor progression, poor challenges, lack of content.

Also, poor updates/fixes.

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No content, bad gameplay, broken aim assist for both pc and console, half the weapons are useless, abundant cheaters, desync, lack of maps, no classic maps, half finished campaign, no lobbies, no custom game browser….the game is STILL in a half finished state. No wonder most of the community bailed. 343 is still making “work/life balance” excuses as if that’s the problem of the player….take it up with management. You guys decided to do live service garbage instead of releasing a finished product. “Live service” should entail more than just couple of cash grab skins being released every month. Fix the game and you might see some people come back.

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I’m playing AC Odessey right now and its open world blows finite out of the water

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It’s genuinely not fun to play. Challenges make the game feel like a chore. Playlist diversity just is not there. I log in on Tuesday to see the shop reset and see if the weekly reward is even worth going for, and if not I’ll play a different game that so feel rewards and values my time as a player for the entire week.

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