I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m seeing low activity/interactions on the forums. For example I’m in the polls and there is hardly anyone voting or posting the comments.
Any ideas of how to get more people on this site/ promote it so people can know that there is a forums here on this site?
Actually it has around 500,000+ people registered and around 100 or so are active, besides today is a special day. Not to mention that the majority are either in the recruiting, Halo Xbox One, or Halo 4 forums mostly. Besides, no one is that dedicated to the forums anyways.
I really think that they could use the Halos to promote the use of the forums as it only promotes the use of its 360 version which isn’t even close to this format, and doesn’t even have a forum link. If you have seen the title updates, they should post right there: GO TO THE HALOWAYPOINT FORUMS!..
> I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m seeing low activity/interactions on the forums. For example I’m in the polls and there is hardly anyone voting or posting the comments.
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> Any ideas of how to get more people on this site/ promote it so people can know that there is a forums here on this site?
The main thing I see that causes the low activity is the lack of talkative people, and there’s a number of reasons why that is, real life, other games, lack of good people here on the forums, sour opinions of how the games are right now.
My personal opinion why I’m not as active as I was a year ago is this.
My personal opinion of the community here has soured, a lot, I’ve ran into the worst of the community, at first it was a single person here and there, then after 343i took over, and Bungie’s time ended, then more of them started rearing their heads. After Halo 4’s release, the bad apples of the community started tainting the good ones. After I got banned, my mood of the community slowly started turning sour, I started reverting back to games and communities I was active in.
These days I’ve been playing games that not only keep me busy and happy, but also have better communities. I’ve been hanging with friends in a clan, which has kept me from the forums. Not only that, but my mood and my life hasn’t been the because of events that’s caused issues that have keeped me from doing things I love, and enjoyed, I’ve had some things happen that’ll keep me busy. Hopefully my new job will get me working, thus I’ll be able to pay off some of my bills, and hopefully in a month or so be able to go back to my normal life of a gaming/military/working.
Now, as far as other people, I’m sure there’s others who are the same or similar. And then there are some of the community who are lurkers, they post when they feel like it, and/or when there’s a major event.I know a few of them. There’s some who spend more time on other sites these days because of the bad apples in the community.
The off topic thread goes quiet often lately, but I’m here!
For me, community change is a big one. Also I have a lot going on right now, not really into Halo at the moment, and there really is no information to discuss. When some information gets released my activity will probably spike up.
Well what is there to talk about, What’s new ?
Halo Spartan Assault on Xbox 360
Halo Initiation
Halo Escalation
Halo Mortal Dictata
Halo Xbox One (2014)
Halo TV Series
These things are planned
Spartan assault on the Xbox. well okay but since the game is already on Win8 it won’t be a lot of new stuff
Initiation isn’t really getting good reviews. and the community has made clear their opintion.
Escalation… okay sounds promising but we don’t know a lot about it. It already has been heavily discussed.
The community isn’t really positive about Mortal dictata
Halo (5) Xbox One. and The tv series are still completely in the dark.
Not a lot to discuss.
and The multiplayer of a game isn’t really enough to fill these forums.
The reason I don’t post too much anymore is because I am usually spending my time actually playing Halo 4 instead of discussing it.
Just not much to talk about. Everything I’ve wanted to say I have said multiple times over already. Now I can only wait and see if what I have said actually mattered.
I post when I have something to say. I usually don’t have something to say.
Like it or not, the fact that MLG dropped Halo is a BIG deal. Competitive gaming is the cultural catalyst of any video game. The big pro-gamers will compete and attract others to the game they are playing; creating an enormous wave of intermingling personalities, ideas, and styles that drive the innovation of any franchise.
With Halo 4 being dead weight to competitive players, we’re essentially falling (or have already fallen) into what I feel is equivalent to the Dark Ages of Halo. There’s a widespread lack of interest in the game, both gameplay and canon-wise. Because of that, these forums are near-dead.
Everyone’s too busy playing other games and not caring about Halo. So I can’t imagine why anyone would really participate in discussions found on the Halo forums.
Its sad, but true.
> Like it or not, the fact that MLG dropped Halo is a BIG deal. Competitive gaming is the cultural catalyst of any video game.
Funny how to just about every single competitive gamer, MLG is the trend setter to them, and go where MLG goes…
I mean no offense to those like that, but come on, there’s more than one outlet for competitive gamers, not just MLG, and even tho you may be right that a majority of the voiceful community has left just because MLG dropped Halo, does not mean/say it’s just because MLG dropped Halo, or because they’ve given up on Halo.
Competitive gamers are the most fickle of all gamers, they’re the single most hardest people to please, and it often feels like you have to cater to them and only them, and line their game cases with gold to get them to enjoy a game.
MLG goes where they see money, I’ve seen many people point this fact out to the masses, and they often get questioned and/or ignored.
Yes I do agree the Halo 4 isn’t the single most competitive game on the market right now, and I do agree it falls short of many people’s expectations, but there as been a lot of changes to Halo 4 that are signs for a better future in Halo, one of which is the new weapon balancing system. We no longer need to wait months for them to rebalance the weapons, we only need to wait for them to test the changes, and release the changes into the wild. That’s a month or two of work vs a month or two of working on that, then waiting for other important changes/fixes to be finished and added to the TU before it’s sent off to Microsoft for their few weeks of certification.
I realize that to many of you, that feels like 343i is releasing an unfinished game, but that’s them trying to fix mistakes, fix bugs, fix slight unbalancing that they didn’t count on, things that do happen to finished games, we’ve all played games that many felt was “finished” and yet there was unbalanced weapons, bugs, mistakes, and glitches.
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Don’t confuse me with an MLG player. Lol. I’ve never been a fan of MLG or competitive Halo at all. I’m just explaining how the lack of a centralized, vocalized, and advertised competitive Halo community is a very, very bad sign. To be honest, its also an issue that barely scratches the bottom of the barrel.
All the trust in 343i, I think, is really just the promotion of a lost cause. Read this. I have absolute lack of faith in 343i’s abilities because there is evidence to suggest that Microsoft is really just using them to milk what it can out of the Halo Franchise. There is little respect or adherence to voice of the fan base, and its a serious, serious issue.
You may argue that weapon tuning and other title updates suggest that 343i is listening, and that’s all fine and dandy. However, read the post I hyperlinked above and tell me that 343i isn’t on Microsoft’s tight leash.
I hate to be the “Bungie was better for us” kind of person, but they really were. Bungie was always its own business, merely affiliated with Microsoft; however, 343i is not its own business, it is an extension of Microsoft… And by being a mere extension, it means that Microsoft’s word is law among the members of 343i. When Microsoft says “don’t release the patch until we market it and make money”, 343i has no choice to to wait for the patch to be marketed before they can release it.
Its despicable.
I always browse the forum daily but just haven’t been involved in any discussions lately.
Just not much to talk about, I guess. There has been a lack of threads to participate in discussions in, and a lot of us are busy with other things.
Gotta focus on school right now.
I am on random threads / forums and what not there is not so much to talk about at the moment i think most of us just wait to get information about Halo xbox one.
It could be that the forum is a bit over regulated too. You have to be really careful how you word a post, or a warning or ban occurs. This can tend to make the forum a bit sterile.
It’s a pity a bit more strict control isn’t used during game play. I have had the same moron harassing me for the past month in game, I have put them on avoid, filed a complaint, and this morning had to block him due to him/her sending me a abusive, filthy text. The person has a blatant racist name, which I thought wasn’t allowed.
Ok, I may have gone off topic, but there are comparisions.
> Just not much to talk about. Everything I’ve wanted to say I have said multiple times over already. Now I can only wait and see if what I have said actually mattered.
Ain’t that the truth.
I honestly think it’s because the structure of this forum is poor to begin with. I hear a lot of people don’t hang around because of how easy it is to get banned. I’m at Bungie.net more than here for those exact reasons.