game is dead

[Erebus]

its 5pm on a saturday and only 3350 people are playing this game what a joke

[Magnum]

Publicado originalmente por Sparhawk122:

It's even deader now. Few hours ago it was at 1,300 players.

I'll laugh if COD pulls out a forge to tackle Halo in the future.

[R.A.T. Army *MST3K*]

Why do people count players so much? Is this what entertains us?

Try playing the game. I did that for a few hours today, had a great time. Didn't have to count players at all.

[Yaltiaj]

Publicado originalmente por WreckWren:

Publicado originalmente por MissingNo.:

What the hell has happened to the franchise

343i's employees happened.
This is also a result of people like the mods on these very forums (particularly the MCC ones) obliterating anyone who gave any criticism, constructive or not. Pyrocitor (for example) on the MCC forums is a big source of this.

Waypoint has this same problem. One particular mod goes on random banning sprees, false flagging users to force them to qualify for a ban, and far more. There isn't even an appeal process, or a way to report mod abuse either. 343 has completely given up, or flat out does not care about the forums whatsoever. The mod I'm talking about has been around for several years prior to the Waypoint renovation.

Originally I got on his bad side for posting an opinion he didn't like about IRL flags as emblems. He flagged it, so I asked why it was flagged then he proceeded to mass false flag all my posts till I qualified for a ban then skipped the 3 warning policy for a perma. After the Waypoint renovation my false perma was lifted, and I was catching random bans every other week some being as long as 30 days before I was randomly perma'd again for "No constructive purpose to their actions other than creating dissent within the community".

The official Discord also randomly perma banned me once they saw my GT when I was seeking a means to appeal and report the false ban and mod abuse.

♥♥♥♥ it, smite me here too. ComedicHermit is by far the worst mod I've ever run into. Keep it up 343i, just ban everybody capable of speech.

[SadakandrasKyon]

Publicado originalmente por ShronkDizzle:

Publicado originalmente por Ashflame:

YOU LITERALLY JUST PROVED MY POINT YOU BRAINDEAD. AVERAGE PLAYERS..... 3K. Sit down and stay mad.

Your point was that the number stayed the same, that's wrong. Don't gaslight. If you are agreeing with the other guy about the game being dead, that's also wrong. The game is not dead, it may have a low player count, fair enough. Low player count does not equal dead. I get matches every time I play this game and don't have to wait.

You get a lobby full of sweatlords who logically are the only people interested enough to keep playing. That, and on top of it all you also get the occasional bot due to player dropout and low player count. I'm not even mentioning how many people are using aim bots and wallhacks too since infinite's anti-cheat is a joke. I loved halo, especially
3 and Reach back in the 360 days, but that's just a sad mess. 37 matches and I'm already tired of it all. This isn't the halo I remember at all.

[acSiegemaster]

Weak necro

[Masterpeing]

2k now, this game was dead long time ago when 343 join to halo..

never listen de community.

[Source of all sparkle]

Publicado originalmente por Puppet Pal Clem:

Overwatch 2 copied Halo Infinite's trash garbage monetary system. Extremely greedy and extremely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lazy developers/game asking for insanes amount of money. I REPEAT, I cannot believe OVERWATCH 2 WENT F2P AND COPIED HALO'S INFINITES BUSINESS MODEL!!!

Looks like the businessmen want more because there is never enough. These games could take in a trillion dollar worth of profit, and it will never be enough and they will still act incredibly greedy because they want you to adapt to being a completely brainless mindless consumers.

Games are going F2P for a reason! To attract children and then program them into thinking that it's fine to spend 10 bucks on the color blue 10 different times across different Spartan models.

Overwatch 2 was a major letdown and the fact they copied Halo's infinite loser model? It says that the gaming industry is working together (even if they are losing profit) to in general increase the prices of video games, they want you to legit hand over more than 1k for their lazy titles now while reusing old assets. It's incredible. Even when these corporations are making historical profits, it's still not enough, they need more right noww!!!

Meanwhile you're sitting here asking for a finished game, and they cant even do that. Empty your pockets and then maybe you'll get a finished game. But why would they even need to try as hard when you gave them the money before they finished. And like any businessmen they will want to save costs and take as much money as possible.

I'm happy that Halo is dying, and i played Halo the day it released all the way up to Halo Reach. Halo is being used as a trojan horse to rob it's base out of money. Halo infinite wasn't created for you, it was created for the shareholders and investors. Thats why they got all their ♥♥♥♥ first and you're still here playing a garbage Halo title that acts like a cell phone game with $$$$ smeared all over it's menu and gameplay.

Damn, i can feel the frustration and jadedness of your post. You have seen ♥♥♥♥ and you get it thats for sure. What is happening to halo can be applied to many other franchises, the simple fact is the people that made halo great are no longer there. In its place is a team of mostly passionless and lazy devs and the few that actually care are brought down by the team and the management.

RIP HALO

[Rhila]

keep complaining about the game dying and act blind about some major issue.
gunplay is bad. very bad compared to other games like Destiny 2 or Apex

[arroutado]

Destiny 2's gunplay is crap. Don't compare, please. Halo have multiple tools, and most important, a grasp.

[flame from Halo]

Publicado originalmente por アウトコールド:

You must not realize this but there are 1,000s of games people could be playing at any given moment and 4,000 people playing the game game is a lot.

Fortnite has a reported 252 million monthly players, with a 25 million player peak in a single day. If 4,000 is a lot then what is several million?

Edit: No Man's Sky, a game released in 2016 that had a worse launch than Halo Infinite, has around the same players on steam almost 7 years later. Halo Infinite, with its outsourcing, had a reported 1,200 people staffed to work on it where fewer than 40 people [at its peak] worked on No Mans Sky. One company gave the game the post-launch service it needed, the other did not.

[KairoTheExpert]

Publicado originalmente por Erebus:

its 5pm on a saturday and only 3350 people are playing this game what a joke

For a dead game, I can find games rather quickly

[всё хорошо]

Publicado originalmente por flame from Halo:

Publicado originalmente por アウトコールド:

You must not realize this but there are 1,000s of games people could be playing at any given moment and 4,000 people playing the game game is a lot.

Fortnite has a reported 252 million monthly players, with a 25 million player peak in a single day. If 4,000 is a lot then what is several million?

Its also a completely different game? Created to cater to the once rising BR genre? Shooting guns is the only similarity lets be real.

[Buge]

Publicado originalmente por Osiris:

Publicado originalmente por Falleax:

I think a better way of determining whether a game is dead or not is by looking at how the community acts and how active it is outside the game. Look at both the MCC and Infinite forums on Steam and it's nothing but slow paced complaining/bootlicking.
There's no fun discussions, barely any off topic funposting, nobody is happy. That to me is the surest sign of death.
Compared to the TF2 forums, which is bustling with activity despite there being no significant content update in years and the game being flooded with bots and hackers.

TF2 lets you mod the game as you want and create your own servers from scratch. TF2 is also a social game with guns where you can mod.
In addition it's a friendly community like Halo was before 343i came along. From the 4th on it was the tear and they continued to make Halo a competitive game and remove the social function: Halo 5 and Infinite are perfect ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ examples.

I think Crowbat's video explains it better but TL;DR: Halo was a party game with Guns then a competitive ♥♥♥♥ with the coming of 343i

People love to forget how competitive the early Halo games actually were. Forgetting MLG are we?

Ive never understood these weird strawman arguments where people try to claim Halo was always a social roleplaying game. You're just wrong.
It is objectively and inherently, a competitive arena based shooter... Just because you let social features make you forget that doesnt change it. What did you think you were playing dress ups with the other players? You're competing against them to win in PvP.

Its really not crazy. Halo infinite has a mountain of problems. Including 343 trying to turn the game into a tournament simulator.
But there's nothing more baseLESS than saying "halo wasnt competitive"... Sorry mate but thats ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded.

[flame from Halo]

Publicado originalmente por DairyDeluxe:

Ive never understood these weird strawman arguments where people try to claim Halo was always a social roleplaying game. You're just wrong.
It is objectively and inherently, a competitive arena based shooter... Just because you let social features make you forget that doesnt change it. What did you think you were playing dress ups with the other players? You're competing against them to win in PvP...

...But there's nothing more baseLESS than saying "halo wasnt competitive"... Sorry mate but thats [badwords].

It could be considered competitive by many peoples' standards, but I have never seen or played it as such. I started with CE and have thousands if not tens of thousands of hours in the Halo series.

I have played competitive at most 3 times in that playtime. My hundreds or so odd friends that I played halo with on pc/steam/xbox did so primarily in a casual fashion, with only 5 or fewer that played it in any way competetively. Every time I booted up halo to play with friends I never did it to try to beat my friends or score higher than them in the game modes, it was always a medium to enjoy and spend time with friends.

Edit: Compare this same statement to Apex, where much of my time on that is only really enjoyable if we do well/make it to the top 5 teams. If me and my friends boot up fatkid on MCC it doesn't matter if we go 2-30, it was still a fun game of Halo.

[Jes]

Ive always been about call of duty, for choice in FPS. never was a huge fan of any of the halo games, played a little through out the years tho. My bf was a HUGE fan of halo since the beginning. We recently started playing halo infinite together, on PC (steam), and i think the game play is great, comparable to other shooters. i havent had any issue with servers, or players just dipping. not anymore then any other video game. as long as i can log in, join a game within 1 minute and play all the way through thats all i need. Honestly, who gives a ♥♥♥♥ if its not as popular and has less players then other games? games that are attracting the masses general have the most server issues.. and like other posts have said, this game is not "dead" i'm a new player. maybe saying this game is "dying" may be better. because all games eventually do. but im wondering what issues does the low player count even impose on your individual game play??? enough to post this comment LOL