Now that the Next-Gen. Consoles are going to launch sooner or later this year (hopefully), my question then is: What will happen with Halo The Master Chief Collection?
Of course the game has been supported since Nov. 2014 when it was released until now with more of the add-ons/games being added to PC and now challenges and season passes, funny enough if you search on Google you can find old posts from 2014-2015 where people speculated that 343i would stop supporting Halo MCC just a few months after the release of Halo 5.
That didn’t happen thankfully, but now that we’re not only getting a whole new Halo FPS game but also a completely new console with it. What will actually happen with the Halo MCC?
Will it be left behind on Xbox One and let the PC Community do what they want with the game until it eventually dies off
Will Halo MCC get ¨converted¨ like some other games into a Xbox Series X game when we buy a XSX console and download the game?
We can just download the old Xbox One version on the new console and play it with Backwards Compability and thats it
Hopefully Halo MCC will be supported in many years forward as its the best place to play all of the different classic Campaign, multiplayer and other modes on the newer consoles. Hopefully of course Halo MCC will get new updates with new things added in the later years as well, maybe even a Halo 3A update one day? (probably not).
What do you guys think? Is it gonna get left behind with the new Generation? or will it be converted over and continued to be supported and still be the best place to play classic Halo?
The Xbox Series X will have full backwards compatibility at launch, meaning any game you can play on an Xbox One you can play on the Series X, MCC included, and I’m assuming some Xbox 360 titles as well. So don’t worry, the MCC isn’t going anywhere.
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Your memory must be a bit hazy. Support for MCC dropped off the face of the Earth as soon as Halo 5 launched and didn’t resume for about 3 years. From fall of 2015 until late summer of 2018, there were no patches or game updates, despite the game still being borderline unplayable for most. Even playlist updated dropped down to 1 or two a year at times. Throughout about half of 2016(from around April to November when Ske7ch got hired), 343 was completely radio silent on all things MCC-related. You couldn’t even get them to publicly speak the letters “M-C-C”. Then, once they acknowledged the game’s existence again, it took almost another 2 years until August of 2018 that the game saw another patch get released.
MCC will be continued to be supported for years to come. It seems MCC will be the home of classic Halo where there is still a pretty strong community and Infinite will be for modern Halo. There is still plenty than can be done with MCC. Also if that data mined number for max xp being a little over a billion, that says to me they want people playing MCC for a long time, although I have a feeling that number won’t be the max but I guess time will tell.
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> Now that the Next-Gen. Consoles are going to launch sooner or later this year (hopefully), my question then is: **What will happen with Halo The Master Chief Collection?**Of course the game has been supported since Nov. 2014 when it was released until now with more of the add-ons/games being added to PC and now challenges and season passes, funny enough if you search on Google you can find old posts from 2014-2015 where people speculated that 343i would stop supporting Halo MCC just a few months after the release of Halo 5.
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> That didn’t happen thankfully, but now that we’re not only getting a whole new Halo FPS game but also a completely new console with it. What will actually happen with the Halo MCC?
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> - Will it be left behind on Xbox One and let the PC Community do what they want with the game until it eventually dies off - Will Halo MCC get ¨converted¨ like some other games into a Xbox Series X game when we buy a XSX console and download the game? - We can just download the old Xbox One version on the new console and play it with Backwards Compability and thats itHopefully Halo MCC will be supported in many years forward as its the best place to play all of the different classic Campaign, multiplayer and other modes on the newer consoles. Hopefully of course Halo MCC will get new updates with new things added in the later years as well, maybe even a Halo 3A update one day? (probably not).
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> What do you guys think? Is it gonna get left behind with the new Generation? or will it be converted over and continued to be supported and still be the best place to play classic Halo?
MCC wasn’t supported until late 2018 and even then remained unplayable into 2019 for many people. Adding Reach was the first significant update since launch, everything else up to that point was just adding/fixing things that it should have launched with
I think MCC will be compatible on next gen consoles and supported, but I don’t think anything major or groundbreaking will be done with it when Infinite comes out. I simply think it will be maintained and tweaked.
I have a feeling it’s not going anywhere, especially after being ported to PC, as there is a strong userbase there who don’t need to worry about upgrading to a new system. It seems 343i is trying their best to create total system parity (cross-progression, updates being released on both platforms same-day, supposed upcoming crossplay). The newest game in this collection is already going on 8 years old, and the most played games (H3 and Reach) are even older with an even more dedicated playerbase. On top of all that, 343 has been releasing bug fixes, playlist modifications, and now even new cosmetic content for games that came out well over a decade ago.
In other words, these games are already insanely old and have remained active well past the lifespan of most games, despite there being so many in the series. This is largely due to their accessibility. You can play all of them in one collection on two different platforms and with the game pass service to boot. As long as MCC remains easy to download and play, and 343 kicks an update our way now and again, people will play it, because the games are really good and if people haven’t lost interest after all this time, they likely won’t any time soon.
As others have mentioned, with the Series X being backwards compatible, its release shouldn’t impact the game or fracture the playerbase. Even if they decide to release an enhanced Smart Upgrade port it would likely maintain merged multiplayer for everyone regardless of platform. As for what that port could potentially bring, I’m not sure how they could enhance these games further on better hardware beyond native 4k and 120 fps support, aside from a Halo 3 Anniversary update/DLC.