>Dropped 97% of it's playerbase in 4 months
>Has less players than Halo MCC
Considering this is literally the most expensive game ever made and was once the biggest franchise in gaming history, can we consider infinite a bigger flop than even Cyberpunk?
Will Microsoft shut down 343?
Dropped 97% of it's playerbase in 4 months
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Damn. I didn't know all that.
Yep. Estimates put the game at 500 billion to make along with over 6 years of dev time.
Unironically the biggest flop in gaming history.
They call it Lone Wolves because of how few people actually play their shit game
dunno how many bought the game or how much gamepass subscriptions increased for the launch month so hard to say anything desu.
multiplayer portion of the game still seems to be in the top 5 on xbox out of f2p games
>500 billion to make
That can't be right, can it?
Im a little curious as to how many live service games actually put out profitability without fucking over the players. Maybe gacha games, and only because they start fucking you over from the beginning.
Still mad they removed asses from spartans. Even Halo 5, another steaming pile of shit got that right at least.
This makes me happy. After 15 years, they’ll finally stop desecrating Halo’s grave.
Not that user but they spent 500 million.
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Halo and COD are both dead franchises. People are tired of pubstomping games. They’re repetitive and we’ve had them for 20 years now..
>People are tired of pubstomping games.
Then why are battle royale games the most popular? Their entire spiel is playing matches until the engagement optimized matchmaking gives you a match full of shitters that you can steamroll for a dopamine rush. I think people just have worse attention spans and battle royales play into that better than a classic style shooter can. Even though it makes no sense because battle royales are filled with downtime and matches take longer
Man I wish Halo Infinite's gameplay was just in a different game, I find the game super fun to play but everything else about it is shit.
why havent they allowed the community to create maps?
Why is Microsoft not stepping in and ruining this developer? I don't understand. 4 games now and they're all failures.
Standard feature for every game since 3 is too hard please understand.
They literally did this to appeae trannies. Everybody is androgynous in the game.
Serves microsimp right, they trusted a f*male with their flagship IP.
Literally all they need is content, add some fucking maps for fucks sake, fix the fuckign customization, make weapons that aren't the AR and Pistol worth using. What is 343 even doing? wasn't the engine outsourced?
warzone is the second most played game on xbox
Halo doesn’t have a battle royale. When I say pub I’m referring to normal multiplayer type games like team death match, capture the flag, domination, search and destroy etc.
Although to be fair I think battle royale is dying as well. Warzone is in the gutter, Fortnite is for 6 year olds, PUBG feels like it was made on $500, and Apex legends is a bore.
I love it how the sprintshitters that loved H5 on Waypoint turned on them. 343 has zero support. Lmao.
Yeah on transexual prostitutes and cocaine. Definitely not on this shitpile of a game.
For me, not enough maps or variety in the maps they do have.
Yeah, pretty much. I actually find the game fun but there's just no content\progression system.
the game was clearly on a tight deadline. in a hypothetical world where quality comes first, microsoft would have let 343 release it 2022 rather than pushing for the christmas 2021 release. its understandable why they released it when they did, the xbox had already been out a year without a flagship game to support it, but unfortunately their efforts have fallen flat
AAA game dev companies are almost entirely comprised of people who are either low value workers who can't quite hack it anywhere else or people who quickly become disillusioned and start phoning things in. the few actually good devs (who are usually around from the start) eventually get tired of carrying them and leave to go elsewhere
ever notice how some companies complain that covid has made their development slow and difficult? the reality is that AAA dev studios rely heavily on helicopter middle management, social shaming and a few seniors handholding juniors through basic tasks, and once all that is next to impossible with WFH, the company basically collapses because no one is doing any work anymore. but that's not WFH's fault, because many companies have reported greater productivity during covid, and those are the companies that hire more based on merit and drive and less based on "how cheap will you work"
>shit netcode
>no game modes
>no custom maps
>cheaters
>can't even report cheaters because it offends troons or some shit
>theatre mode to record cheaters isn't even synced correctly unless they are blatantly cheating
>all the weapons are fucking shit
>the tank controls are completely broken
>cheaters
>campaign can be finished in less than 2hrs since there is fuck all content
>instead of improving the game, they stopped to work on a battle royale mode
>all cosmetics are locked behind a paywall
>you can't level up unless you beat stupid daily tasks, some are so garbage that you need to swap it out with a limited swap
>cheaters
>making excuses
Ever since 343 took over Halo from Bungie they ruined everything that made it good, can't even follow the lore so they made up shit and copy pasted from the shitty novels.
whores and kikes ruin everything
>Extremely poor quantity of maps
>Maps themselves are of limited quality and lack the variety legacy halo maps had
>Cosmetics are heavily paywalled with no good way to bypass it (season pass grind is very limited in what you get)
>BTBs were outright unplayable for 2 months.
There, that's why everyone left.
Had great potential until it turned out the beta wasn't just a beta but the actual full fucking game.
sorry i only play soulful Halos
I dunno, i just think that Halo is kinda tired franchise. Has anyone really cared about it after 3? It's just kinda weird that it's still going
that wasnt the point i was making, the blame lies with the execs/management rather than the actual drones doing the work
The initial popularity of infinite shows it still has plenty of appeal, they just dropped the ball massively.
One of my friends staunchly proclaimed "HALO IS BACK" till they never bothered to fix any of the problems and there was a complete content dearth for almost half a year straight.
i thought i cared when halo 4 came out, then soon realised it would never live up to the OG trilogy
>Halo fans have gone back to play the classics again
Lmao that didn’t take long
Halo was never good.
its like they took everything fun out of the old bungie games
Leave the multiplayer FPS genre to me.
>instead of being a soulless killing machine
>they turn masterchief into a simp for cortana
when you have retards at the top that never cared about the series and just want a paycheck this is what you get. Not a single person cares about the series in the upper level, who knows what the new hires even think.
They are simply bluepoint with a bigger budget and more trannies. Its funny because even the Russian modders that made dewrito cared more about the series.
>when you have retards at the top that never cared about the series and just want a paycheck this is what you get
surely its been that way since the 80s, i cant understand why its only the last 10 years where these management types have been getting everything wrong. what part of the game dev process is so vastly different now?
>launches with less multiplayer content than any other Halo ever
>tiny handful of maps coupled with tiny handful of game modes means you end up playing the same thing over and over again
>maps are also almost entirely shitty cramped three-lane affairs
>finally made Bigger Team Battle but also completely butchered it with the shitty escalation system that means heavy vehicles are basically nonexistent
>BTB maps also shitty lane-based garbage that somehow manage to feel too cramped and too open at the same time
>vehicle gameplay is atrocious as 95% of the maps have no room to manoeuvre thanks to muhh lanes (which are generally so narrow that the Scorpion literally cannot turn around in them)
>on top of this the monetisation is absolutely horrific
>emblems dumbed down and stripped out to be sold as microtransactions
>armour colours dumbed down and stripped out to be sold as microtransactions (oh and they aren't transferrable between the armour types, better pay up again!)
>99% of armour pieces locked behind microtransactions
And then they spent the next six months after launch doing almost literally nothing, and so far their grand announcement for Season 2 is that they're adding two (2) new maps. They somehow managed to get the gameplay (mostly) right and fix the art style and then proceeded to fuck up literally everything else so badly it reads like a hyperbolic Yea Forums doompost, there was absolutely zero chance that Infinite wasn't going to crash and burn.
I hope the IP is given to literally anyone else or finally burried like it should have been when Bungie left.
Did this stuff happen twenty years ago?
>release a F2P game with no direction for content
i want to know what a day at 343 even entails
lol
20 years ago games would release with much more content despite hardware limitations and not having anywhere near the same budget or staff.
Yes it took the entire GDP of Ireland x6 to make a video game
I would play the game if it worked.
But since one of the latest patches it just won't start anymore, so.
All they had to do was release a good forge mode at launch, and let the community create maps and modes that they could then feature.
Then 343 would just have to add content like weapons, map assets etc over time and i'm sure people would be more happy to purchase their cosmetics.
we need NEW FRANCHISES
NOT CONTINUATIONS OF SHIT PEOPLE USED TO BE FOND OF, AND ARE NO LONGER
MAKE NEW GAMES, NOT REHASHES OF HAS BEENS
Troons are some of the biggest perverts, they always sexualize their characters
The industry has lost the ability to make anything new, everything is design by committee now. From the perspective of an average AAA wage slave its much easier to just work on a pre existing IP and collect your pay check than constantly stressing in overtime trying to invent something new, ultimately you're just going to make an open world GAAS game either way.
Witcher 3 downgraded and Final Fantasy XV took so long developing its landscapes that they forgot to make the game.
God I hope
You haven’t been able to pubstomp in cod for years. At least since black ops 3 because of the extreme SBMM
I did the entire Single Player campaign and every Far Cry-style outpost thing in it. It's absolute fucking dogshit. Like they took the gameplay from Halo, added a grappling hook, and then copy-pasted the same 2 situations 100 times. It's just unbelievably repetitive and stops being fun after like 3 minutes.
>Why'd you finish it then?
Bored working from home and needed something mindless during conference calls.
I know this thread is about the multiplayer, but I think the dogshit campaign is another reason people just aren't playing it at all. At least with MCC you get good campaigns.
Halo Infinite's campaign is so bad it makes 5 look like a masterpiece. Anyone who says it's good was wearing nostalgia goggles as far as I can tell.
It's important as game developers for us to disconnect male gamers from each other as much as possible and keep them from forming up any kind of parties, so they don't gain the kind of power they had in the GamerGate era that allowed them to harass and disenfranchise women.
No ability to even replay missions. Seriously give any Halo fan a fucking level editor and they'd be able to make a better campaign within a month. And the gameplay was copied directly from every other Halo but with a grappling hook, so what the FUCK did they spend their budget on?
halo... had an hard life...
>That whole last paragraph.
Oh, you're just out of touch. Gotcha.