Halo: The Master Chief Collection has ended up getting an almost 10-year update cycle after its rough launch back in 2014, and a new developer message is hinting that work on the game might finally be wrapping up in 2023.
Doing the rounds on social media is a 'thank you' message posted by some of the folks who've worked on Halo: MCC over the years. The message reads "Finished the fight, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, 11/2014 - 07/2023", with an additional accompanying statement:
"Your dedication, teamwork, and commitment to excellence have not gone unnoticed. Together, we have achieved a significant milestone, and it's all thanks to your hard work and determination."
As you can see by the reactions here, this is starting to fuel speculation that it might finally be the end of the road for Master Chief Collection updates. The project's last big update landed back in July - matching up with the 'end date' of this developer thank you card.
As of yet, 343 Industries hasn't come out with any sort of formal statement on The Master Chief Collection or its future, but you'd think that at some stage, development has to wrap up on this mammoth project. Halo Infinite is now really hitting its stride too, so focusing more on 343's latest Halo release could well be the plan moving forward.
Anyway, we'll be sure to provide an update on this if we get an official announcement on the end of the road for Halo: MCC. In the meantime, it's probably best not to expect further updates for Xbox's long-in-development Halo collection.
Are you still playing Halo: The Master Chief Collection these days? Discuss down below!
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What more could you do to the game if they are ending updates for it? It's been around since xbone launch
But like what more can they do? They literally turned every stone with MCC. It is complete and good. Can't a game be complete anymore?
As others have said what more can you do? Short of the impossible which would be adding Halo 5.
The player base is likely not there either. A small dedicated group of people. Nothing compared to Infinite or other FPS games.
If you haven't been playing MCC and jump in multiplayer, prepare to get wrecked. The only people on there are regular players and very good! haha
Sometimes teams need to move on to work on something new.
To give us a new Halo campaign and other new Halo things.
Can we play that Halo 2 demo of the earth battle yet?
It already has all the content from all the Halo's prior to its release, including all the MP content and more besides. I guess the ONLY thing they 'could' do is update the Visuals but unrealistic
The purpose, as I see it, is to keep those old Games playable on modern hardware - even via BC as the OG/360 era games are no longer (or will be soon) able to offer Online play - game 'preservation' of a sort.
There can't be much more to add - other than more 'recent' Halo games into the package in reality and if its in a 'good' state, then it doesn't need ongoing work and move on to 'new' projects. Its not as if they can't 'update' something if it goes wrong in the future...
Single best compilation in all of gaming in my book. Started rough, but finished insanely strong. Look forward to continuing to play this for many years to come
my nephew and i are enjoying the campaigns big time.
@Scummbuddy I'm wondering that too, it's been a while since we last heard it was being worked on.
I remember when the game came out in 2001. My uncle had bought it and he wanted for us to play together. We were both completely blown away. Fast forward to 3 weeks ago and we have started playing the game with my son in coop. Thank You Bungie/343/Halo for all the awesome memories and here is to many more in the future.
I'm an Xbox owner since 2005. All these years never touched any Halo game (as a Battlefield junkie). Yesterday downloaded Halo: MCC and started Reach. I'm expecting a nice journey for all these games. Yeah, it's a bit rough on Series X because they're old but love the storyline (I have almost 10 hours on Reach).
You can only play the Halo 3 and ODST campaigns co-op cross platform. I would like to play all of them with my son who has a PC. Why was that never implemented?
Otherwise a great collection of games. Arguably the best anthology.
Did they ever fix the messed up audio on the first game? I had never played it before and figured HD on my projector with nice speakers was gonna make it worth waiting 20 years but when I went to play it I could barely hear the dialogue over the music during the opening cutscenes.
Looking online I saw that it was a known issue that people were waiting for a fix for. And I also found out then that it was based off the PC version and the classic graphics setting is missing some graphical flourishes that the Xbox original had. So I hope they fixed all that or at least the audio since it really detracts from the experience.
And frankly after deciding to just play the original version on my OG Xbox and finding the experience much more pleasant I wish they would have just added 1 and 2 to backward compatibility and let us play them that way.
@BAMozzy Did it add the Halo multiplayer map from Windows Vista release? Believe it has a flamethrower as a weapon in it. Map was PC only release.
@GuyinPA75 I don't know - I don't play Halo MP - I just know they added each 'game' and their MP Maps and from an 'Xbox' perspective, it would seem 'Complete' and other than bringing something, new - which that Map technically would for Console gamers if they haven't added it already, then with Forge and everything else in that '10yr' old game - although dates back even longer with 'Halo: CE' in OG format, not Anniversary, it would seem complete!
It would seem to be a 'complete' package, basically 'everything' from the original games that Console gamers (at the very least) remember as a 'compilation' of a decade of Halo games that released on Xbox and Xbox 360 - now 'obsolete' hardware effectively. The servers are turned off so you can't play those MP Maps unless you play on Halo:MCC. That map was 'never' on Console to 'lose' access to...
Now you have 'every' Halo game and the Content from OG Xbox and the 360 era all playable and 'preserved' in the Halo:MCC so every Halo game is playable - inc its MP on XB1/Series Consoles.
@ParsnipHero sadly this true . it’s pretty wild a collection of 4 legendary halo games (1,2,3,reach) isn’t as active today as they were back then , i’d thought halo (especially mcc) would be timeless
@nomither6 we’re either fickle or have no time to play. I know I fit into the first category. I play Infinite now.
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