Why does 343 need to swap out playlists?

Games Other Halo
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I apologize for the poll being a bit vague, but the character limit doesn’t allow for much explanation. Basically, while I’m very appreciative that 343i has added more playlists, I don’t see why they still insist on rotating lists out for new game modes rather than keeping the existing ones.

For those that have’t logged in yet today, the Social Assault playlist has been replaced by Social Fiesta. I have zero problem with either mode. I like them both in fact. I just don’t see why we can’t have both Social Assault and Social Fiesta active at the same time. I get that 343i had always intended to add Assault into Team Arena, (which timed really well considering Breakout Arena was just removed from the same list) but is matchmaking so unstable that it couldn’t handle it?

On the same note, why couldn’t we have kept Social CTF from pre-Hammerstorm? Why don’t we have Social Doubles and Snipers/Shotty-Snipers playlist? As it is, we’ve seen enough game types used in social lists up to this point that they could all be put into a complete social variety list a la action sack.

So really, why aren’t the social offerings for Arena the following:

  • Social Grifball (same as now) - BTB (same as now) - Action Sack (composed of 4v4 or 5v5 team variants of Rocket Slayer, Fiesta Slayer, Snipers, Shotty-Snipers, and Breakout, with the possibility of Covie-Slayer and others in the future) - FFA Action Sack (same as 3 but 6 player FFA variants without Breakout) - Social Doubles - Social Slayer - Social CTF - Social Assault - Social Strongholds - (6, 7, 8 & 9 could also just be combined as the social variant of Team Arena)
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We canr do it because it makes sense

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I am also getting tired of playlists being removed. It’s ridiculous. They add new content every month, add all these new playlists, but they never keep them. Its hardly “adding” a playlist if its only around 3-7 days. Team doubles, halo classic. Ctf, halo classic. Assault, another classic. Snipers, another classic. How about oddball? Still can’t believe a halo game launched without infection, a community favorite since it’s halo 3 debut. 343i is completely clueless about their fan base. All of these things should have been present at launch. Instead, 343i uses it as a way to synthetically increase the games life span. I mean 4 months into the game, and they just added gravity hammers? Lol if halo 6 is the same timed release BS that halo 5 has been, I don’t think I’ll be able to support 343 anymore

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If you add too many modes, you leave the populations in each playlist extremely thin. There’s barely any difference between Arena and Social modes, except for the extra two players. As a result, it’s pointless to make permanent social versions of every mode.

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Keep all the game modes!