I think they are doing it for content. Whenever games get dry on content, ‘game is dying’ content always surges.

Because they likely have at least one more "big" update planned for this fall once they have all of the QoL things like the Match Composer in place.

hahahaha

Well put

VERY WELL said. I feel like the concept of minimum viable product has absolutely infiltrated the live service space and the players have suffered and suffered. You are correct I think with all of this.

agreed

@@BBKDRAGOON It is 100% about achieving that minimum viable product. It always has been to an extent. But things like fervent brand loyalty, the ability to patch games post launch, early access, kickstarter, etc have proven to studios that "minimum viable product" is an envelope they can push until they're practically releasing grey box versions of their games... Game development has always been about reaching gold for as little money as possible, it's just now the Executives in charge know "gold" can just mean anything really so long as there's enough there to fool players into paying for it.

Analogy: It's like a big team is painting a large house. On the last coat the boss pulls all the ladders down, packs up the paint sprayer, and tells one guy to do the last coat with a brush.. It takes more time and ends in a horrible finish.

Halo hasn't been even mentioned by name in any of their showcases in the last two years, the Halo TV show didn't even get a mention ahead of season 1's release (maybe they knew it was hot trash before it aired), and they also cancelled the Halo battle royale. I doubt they'll mention Halo in the upcoming showcase either. By all intents and purposes, Xbox has accepted that 343i has absolutely destroyed Halo's brand and reputation, and they're just moving on with promoting their newly acquired studios instead. They're now just trying not to draw attention to how much of a dumpster fire their studio turned their best franchise into.

I knew as time went on this would be the last Xbox console i purchased. Spencer should step down.

The PS5 just has so much more to offer. Longtime Xbox fan but I made the switch. So many awesome Sony exclusives to explore.

@@E_Chapthe only thing stopping me from going to ps5 is its price hike on online services that’s been unchanged since ps3, and lack of backwards compatibility (ps now is laughable)

I miss prime bungie

Yea I just don’t think it’s that good a game. At least not for Halo. I’ve had fun moments in Infinite, but for the most part it just doesn’t remind me of how I feel when I play the bungie games even now. I have so much more fun in Halo 3 especially, but any of the old games. Funny enough, but I actually really enjoyed Halo 5 multiplayer. I don’t think Halo should be like Halo 5 and I much prefer H3, but if H5 had a different name than Halo, it’d have been better cuz I think it was a good game when separated from Halo. But H4 and Infinite just kinda suck imo

Agreed

Congratulations

Yea not fun at all

bleh the game is not that great halo 3 is better. 343 has fucked up 3 times halo 4 halo 5 and now infinite. In the same timeframe we got masterpieces Halo 1 to reach. Remember loading up Halo Reach ALL CONTENT is there at launch thats what 343 needs to do feature complete day 1

same i moved on unless friends wanna play. Halo is my favorite franchise so to see 343 KILL it has been very sad. It has gotten so bad the general public dont even remember or play the older games

I'm still not over that!

halo infinite wasnt at peak its missing a lot of things match composer etc

Halo 7 needs to succeed without having these annoying microtransactions and battle passes, I can't stand them. Hopefully they don't screw this up.

bruh its over 3 dead games they dont know what makes a good halo. Hire the DOOM devs fuck it

Yeah the social element is very lacking, I agree it has such a fun sandbox and when it works feels really good.

I just hopped on Infinite a week ago after dropping it for over 2 years. I’m having a blast with the BTB, but I understand that some of the modes are boring when played alone. The heavily objective based modes are only fun if you are playing with and against players who know what they are doing and how to communicate. In terms of the social element, them not having split screen and campaign 4 player co-op from the get go did hurt them a lot. I think the open world campaign was too ambitious, and no one asked for that. Most games that are actually well done open world games don’t have the best multiplayers. It was just too much over-sell and under-delivering. I’m sure that had a lot to do with the cooperate leeches. You can see a trend with OW2 promising an open world campaign, then as soon as they get what they want, telling everyone they are cancelling the campaign. I’m afraid that other games are going to do this too. Lying to their fan base for upfront money, which is why Halo promised everything one could want, but wasn’t realistic. Multiplayer wise, it’s better than most Halos except for H5 and Halo Reach, and you can argue that its in the same class as them, because the forge mode we have now is better than ever. You know, back in the day, in our childhood, online multiplayer wasn’t as dominant as it is today. Back then it was all about LAN parties, split screen, co-op, and custom games. So many games now don’t have any of that, because they lose money that way. Think about it. We talk about how many players the steam chart shows, but if Halo still used the same old formula, less people would own Halo, because their cousin owns it, and they can just go play at his house on split-screen. So we are using double standards when we talk about the old ways, and then talk about how the numbers are down. I’m not saying this to excuse Infinite of their atrocities, but we have to understand that in this age of gaming, our standards are a lot higher than they used to be. We may want a finished product at launch, but you guys realize that if that was the case, Halo Infinite wouldn’t have even been playable for the last 3 years??? I would rather play a beta state game than wait 3 extra years for a game to be finished. Then people talk about the live service model, and we know its a grimy corporate model, but you guys do remember that games that came out in finished states rarely ever had things added, or had balance patches right??? Some of the best games have been live service models. So I do not think Halo Infinite had a rough time due being a Live service game with micro-transactions. I think that the generation that grew up with Halo is older, and back then not everyone could have their own gaming system. Now kids these days all have gaming systems and are growing up with different games. Our fan base how it used to be cannot compare with the numbers of the younger generations. I think Halo simply lost it’s identity trying to pander to the younger generation. I do think that Halo should adapt and evolve to attract the younger generations to some degree, but attempting open world campaign was outside of it’s core identity. The game has finally gotten back around to what a Halo game should be, but it just needs more players. I do however think that saying the game is dead doesn’t help the game gain more players. For two months I considered if I should come back to Halo, and I almost didn’t because of people saying the game was dead, or that anti-cheat caused rampant cheating, micro transactions, etc. I noticed that I played a couple games that used Easy anti-cheat, and they didn’t have major cheating problems, so I looked up multiple arguments on the whole anti-cheat, and found out that both of the anti-cheat programs have strengths and weaknesses, but that Easy anti-cheat is far better at being able to report and ban, which is half the battle with cheaters, and that most games that use it start off bad, but end up banning most cheaters not long after. So I haven’t run into any cheaters the past week, but I haven’t played ranked yet, so we’ll see. Could run into one today for all I know. Anyways bud, try the game out first, then if you aren’t feeling it, don’t play it anymore, but give it a chance. I’m glad I did.

​@@Eastra3 well said, and I haven't run into any cheaters since they added Easy. I played earlier this week, but my home internet has been acting up. I didn't grow up with the series, got into it when MCC came to Stam on PC and I've been playing Infinite since the flights on laptop mouse and keyboard. I like to make posts to r / halodripfinite and some of HALO twitter, but I solo queue, I'm the only one of my friend group that plays FPS, much less halo. I talked to my high school age cousin at Mothers' Day get together about HALO Infinite and he said that he's more keen on Valorant and Apex than HALO, plus that the botched launch and lack of modes didn't appeal to him. I like halo, i like Rythaze art on twitter too. Hopefully, things improve. I think Infinite needed to happen the way it did in order to weed out the old guard.

​@@adri.progression Yeah, I understand where your cousin is coming from, because we all felt like that. It's why I dropped the game for two years. I can't speak for Apex, but Valorant has 4 game modes, and 3 of them are just variations of the main mode. Halo has a ton of good objective game modes, which is why I've been enjoying the game, but I do know that at launch, most of it's iconic objective game modes were missing.

agreed its gotten so bad i would rather go for a long run or walk

Thank you very much, kind of you to say! I hope your week is going well and your music is awesome!

But bigger player base on xbox, mcc is not even on the top 40 on xbox and infinite is on the top 20

@@kivinrepoio9288 says a lot about how bad Microsoft have been at releasing games for the Xbox if something like Infinite is in the Top 20, but while it's in the top 20 it's predecessors made by Bungie were always in the top 3-5. Horrid game.

On Xbox you don't need Xbox live gold to play infinite, but you need it to play MCC. To me, that's a factor, because it is the reason I play infinite over MCC

If a difference of like 300 players 😅

@@ZyradosPlays yeah, between a game made not even 3 years ago and some games released in 2010 and older 🤣

lets revive MCC and show them we want bungie like games

i didnt you got low expectations if you did or you didnt play PEAK Halo 1 to reach at their peaks. If the game launched how it is now I think the game woulda survived

@@StevoStaple I started playing Halo in 2003.

@@frost_6836 yea so u know 343 can do better

Na the PC community will ruin it with their hacks. Halo 3 was peak on the 360 lets just leave it as that.

then no one WOULD play 343 halo lol cus it would be superior

lets hope final shape is good im losing faith in bungie now as well

firefight NO HILL I want in matchmaking

@@StevoStaple yessss oh my and solo Que it

@@spadschannel999 hell yea i will defs come back if they add classic

3 failed games from 343 i would not bother waiting for next one

we're getting too old for this lol

we gotta keep telling them til they realise

And I'm tired of these battle passes and microtransactions every time.

thanks for watching!

thats the issue Renegade every 343 game has potential and they take too long to get it good over 200k players i believe they messed up not launching feature complete again

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As a Floridian I can confirm

Needs more gators

Needs more snow birds

So, as a person in NY state... all I'm hearing is that the shit still has not hit the fan yet.

they did not nail it bro fuck all content after release just like bf 2042

2042 is crap tho

the game is so mid

Ok, doomer

agreed halo bungie was masterpieces esp Reach that last mission was so haunting and i love how it ended where halo 1 began. Why cant we get halo reach customisation, Halo 3's ranking system and ODSTs atmosphere in one halo game

agreed agreed agreed if bungie the original bungie was working on this it would be a banger

fr wtf

fuck it put it on ps5 too if more players play MCC i will be happy

Bullshit

@@longinus4617 hope youre right. I had a ps5 and sold it cos it just wasnt for me

cus 343 took their sweet fucking time finishing it #fire343 and hire someone good like ID

agreed and i see u got the original xbox logo so you mustve been playing since around then as well. 343 Halo is pathetic

we went from halo ODST to this shit

I still can't remake mine, no Gungnir shoulders

Nothing is better than what 343 makes. They should stick to the mcc and just take care of actual good halo games as they are not capable of making anything half as good as bungies halo.

@@evdoggster FR 343 halo is like waiting for someone to improve but they keep failing at everything ive tried to like 343 Halo but they arnt doing enough

Never did.

ur part of the problem do not spend money to them

which stopped support

if we were in a good timeline MCC would still have more support custom game modes etc more stuff like halo online

yea no shit like the game needs more vehicles and weapons. Halo finite honestly the whole thing is just a mess. All the old halo fans and new fans were hyped for infinite and they dropped the ball again. Why the fuck is plasma rifle, brute shot not in the game wtf? Spiker as well brutes are literally in the game. Makes me so angry these idiots hold one of the greatest IPs

sounds like your coping. Once the bad bosses left they still aint doing shit to improve it faster .... halo is fucked. Xboxs new mascot is COD now RIP Halo 2001 - 2010

It's not being used bc the game is dead.