I am not here to cause a civil war. This community had alreadt been divided enough. I come in peace.
While I do dislike 343 alot and find them to be a disgrace, they don’t deserve the full blame. Microsoft is the reason. Besides 2016, Microsoft demanded 343 to release Halo games yearly from 2011-2015. This affects the quality of the games as Microsoft finds quanitity more important to them. This kills franchises such as Thps and Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. Video games need timing in development. That is one of the reasons the original trilogy was successful and beloved by fans. Lack of competition is a lame excuse and disrespectful to Bungie’s work. Halo CE-3 destroyed it’s competitors while 4 and 5 are being destroyed by it’s competitors.
Halo 5 Guardians is completely different and it has thrown the majority (the claasic fans) away from it. For Halo 6 to not repeat the same mistake, it needs to satisfy both fans. It will need to make everyone happy. For this to happen, there should be seperate playlists for the classic and new gameplay formulas. This will also unite both sides instead of a civil war like the MCC.
343 now can finally be tested fairly since they were forced to ship games every year from 2011-2015. Halo 6 will be 343’s final test and will determine if they are suited to make more Halo games. Halo 5 Guardians sold poorly compared to the other games and if this keeps up, they will likely not make more games.
Unless they decide to be greedy and accept poor sales and convince idiots to buy more Req packs. If Halo 6 will have that system, expext the game to have less sales (a good amount of Halo 5 players disliked req packs). If there is no splitscreen, Halo 6 will have less sales. If Halo 6 has a bad campaign, expect less sales. 343 will rely on microtransactions to make profit. Please don’t give in to that. Halo 5 failed because it has no longevity (no splitscreen, lackluster campaign, req packs). Once the servers are dead in Halo 5, the game is practically useless and bad.
Halo 6 should not follow those mistakes and 343 must take all the time they need for this game to end their trilogy. Halo 6 will be 343’s test. If it fails, it will reflect 343 and define them as a company because to the majority of fans, they have caused enough damage. I want 343 to succeed and if I see that Halo 6 is like Halo 5, I won’t pay them -Yoink-. They will only get a minimum of 3 million sales and a low populated online multiplayer community. For Halo 6 to succeed, it most avoid the mistakes of Halo 5 and be better (regardless of whether you liked the game or not). Improvement is what we want as it is a win win for both the old and new fans.
Have a great day fans. Don’t forget to play Halo today.