343's PSA To Halo Fans: 'Please Don't Attack And Accuse People In This Community'

Well thats not true, feels like there more people to hype it up then develop for it

I've enjoyed Halo Infinite a bunch since launch. Guess that means I got a check coming my way? I'm waiting 343!

While it's certainly true that influencers will see money come from publishers to promote their game every now and then, it doesn't automatically mean anyone that likes something someone else doesn't is being paid to talk nicely about it.

I believe that they could release a Halo kart racer or Halo fishing game, and "die hard fans" would defend them and say they're great additions to the Halo franchise.

That's the problem, Halo has reached cult status. It doesn't matter what kinda trash get added to the franchise, fanboys will defend it.
When in reality, Halo hasn't been good since 3, maybe 4.

Pretty sad that people can't say they enjoy a game anymore without getting abuse. Similar thing happened me on reddit for saying I was loving the game still. Let people enjoy what they enjoy.

The paid in asterisks bothers me. It is almost like they're saying there's something else, or they're not technically paying but still being compensated.

343 Halo and Paramount Halo are terrible. At least we still have the Bungie Halo and the MCC - a much better experience.

@Rural-Bandit as a new Halo player binging every Halo game over the last few months, I have to agree with Fishticon. The bungie halo games were dark, mysterious and frustratingly good when playing at higher difficulties. They had a point A to point B and it ended great.

The 343 halo games felt like flipping the coin on the series. They feel like generic action games with master chief splattered there. The forerunners' guardians and knights make no sense. The rampaging Cortana and other AI angle makes no sense either, and Halo 5 is like playing a wild goose chase with no clear indication of who's in the right or in the wrong.

Perhaps you played the original trilogy many years ago and don't remember how great they are and got accustomed to the newer Halo games. But, as the player statistics of HI have shown, even after season 2's launch 2 weeks ago, you are in the minority of Halo fans that actually like the last 3 entries.

@Savage_Joe @Rural-Bandit Yeah, even with the uptick in players on Steam, HI still only has 6k players, which is about 2k more than MCC, and HI is down to tenth most played on xbox most played US. For a F2P Halo game, that's really bad overall. Clearly the community are still unwilling to stay.

And this has been a common story for all 343i Halos (and slightly true of Halo Reach too). The shift in MP gameplay alienates the older base, and fails to create a new one, and this is compounded after 10 years and 3 games.

While this is all ok for those fans who enjoy the recent games, this is bad for the community because they get broken up and move on to other games, it's bad for MS because of loss of revenue and a desperation to maximise the revenue, and it's bad for the dev because they get the pressure of having to please both the angry executives and the angry gamers.

@InterceptorAlpha Influencers don't always get "paid", they usually get "perks". Kinda like how Reviewers were never paid, but they most certainly could get blacklisted.

I see a lot of games having a lot of infuencers and social media types shilling for them. Halo is not one of them.

Alot of people hate on 4 & 5 but they were actually my favourite in the series (didn't play the multiplayer) have no interest in infinite though

I'm (mostly) enjoying Halo Infinite.

Yeah, more content would be nice... and I'm not too enthused about the season 2 additions (apart from King Of The Hill, which I'm enjoying a lot).
But... The core multiplayer game is still a lot of fun (for me).
I haven't always got on well with Halo MP, but I've dug Infinite enough that I've already played more MP hours on it than the other Halos put together.

And, no, I'm not a 343 or MS shill.

It's a shame that so many people seem unhappy with the game.
There are definitely SOME valid concerns...and it's definitely ok to have a friendly open discussion about what works and what doesn't.
But... it does feel like gamers expectations are occasionally unreasonably high (and the same can occasionally be said for gamers sense of entitlement).
This isn't just with regards to Halo, but generally speaking.

Trashing devs and making unfounded accusations towards content creators seems to have become normalised... and that's a pretty sorry state of human behaviour.
Aim higher people... we can be better than that 👍

Never understand why people who don't like things means they have to be so verbally aggressive towards people who get enjoyment out of the same thing. It works the other way too with people who like stuff telling others they are wrong for not liking it. I think it comes down to people feeling their personal opinion of stuff is some kind of fact and they don't understand the difference between the two. I would like to think this is younger people who know no better too but the sad reality is many adults 40+ still act this way

Hold up… so am I to understand that websites and streamers are not sent exclusive promo kits in an effort to hype up coverage of the game?