Correct, the single player was pretty great. However the MP severely lacks good maps.
Not true, everything is leaning into Sci-fi these days. Fortnite COD etc
I’m talking really sci fi stuff like the old days with aliens, spaceships, laser swords and stuff like that.
(and also in a number of other places around the world, was surprised how many I saw like that) followed closely by efootball 2023 and Forza Horizon 5. Fall Guys is #4. Minecraft is #5. Always interesting to see what different people in different countries are playing.
Have you played warzone? Look at half the in game shop and tell me it isn’t pushing fantasy sci fi
What was great about it exactly, I thought it was mediocre at best?!
Infinite is not only free but much newer. The only people playing MCC are older people that grew up playing them. The days of Halo dominating are over.Answer me this: If this multiplayer is so lacking (I acknowledge it needs new content, but that is all coming), why is Halo Infinite played by tens of thousands more people than Halo: The Master Chief Collection? And how don't you see Infinite getting there when the same team that fixed MCC is the same team that's going to be working on Halo Infinite? It doesn't make sense.
Cyberpunk is resurgent and is experiencing a player boom. It's still #30 on the most played list on Xbox Live in the USA. Halo Infinite is #18. Halo: MCC isn't in the top 50.
Deathloop that just dropped on Xbox is #21 in the USA.
In Mexico Halo Infinite is #11 most played on Xbox Live. Halo: MCC is #23. In Canada Halo Infinite is #18. Halo MCC is #44.
Anywhere you look except Steam, Halo Infinite has significantly more people playing it than Halo MCC. If you look how high Halo Infinite is on most Xbox Live most played lists across different territories (change territories using the globe at the bottom left of the website and it will update the most played list accordingly) it becomes clear the game could easily have anywhere from 70-120k (if not more - meaning concurrent, so the total number of people playing it is likely a lot higher than that) people playing it collectively. Notice how many games have released, experienced player booms and then fallen off? Halo Infinite has been up and down, but it has consistently been in that top 20-25 range ever since it released.
Random: Halo Infinite is the #1 most played game on xbox live in Afghanistan
Halos did great on Xbox systems before modern warfare games took off. Halo 3 came out just before COD 4.
You can't compare a FTP title against a paid for game period. And i'd argue that if it actually did pull more than 20 million ( no reason not to believe this) then its a measure of failure rather than success. That it can't hold onto a fraction of those players speaks volumes. Where you get its doing well from i don't know, and i say this who someone who played daily until a month or so ago.
Being 35th on the most played list is not showcasing resilience as you put it for what should be MS's premier online videogame. Disney Dreamlight Valley whatever the fuck that is has significantly more players and requires a GP sub to play it. Halo HALO ffs is free to play.
They've already proved they are completely shit at it. Base game was great, if they were good at it we wouldn't be having these discussions.
Yeah it is now, great package. But it took them years to get there. Fantastic being able to dip in and out of my favorite levels for old times sake.
20 million players checked out Halo Infinite during its launch month. So, this statement is objectively wrong.
Biggest load of nonsense yet. Launch last year when the game was clearly not ready to avoid a game this year? Either way youve got the same result, and it pains me to say, the games fucked.343, I strongly believe, will significantly improve and make Halo Infinite an even better game come end of calendar year 2023 and for the foreseeable future. And it will have not a single darn thing to do with Bonnie Ross being there or not. 343 studio leadership was never the issue, time was. I would love to see which badass leader (miracle worker) exists who could have possibly gotten 343 as a studio to engineer and solve each and every single one of the challenges they spent much of 2022 solving, and who could have also made it possible for everything launching with the upcoming winter update to launch with the game by December 2021. Wasn't happening.
It was a tough balance between being an important launch game and then abruptly missing that date. Any further delay past 2021 would certainly have benefitted Halo Infinite the game, but it would have significantly harmed Xbox Series X|S as well as Game Pass. So Halo Infinite HAD to launch last year. Once they launched and all that same pressure is no longer there, I don't fault them one tiny bit for having the good sense to slow things down some and gather themselves to keep from ending up in the same position all over again. It may not look good PR wise, but it's totally the right thing to do and better for the game long term. It's far easier to delay season 3 than it is delaying a game that was meant to launch with the console after it has already been delayed a year.
And looked at another way, a delayed Halo Infinite that doesn't launch December 2021 is going up directly against COD: Modern Warfare 2 this holiday.
Nope. Xbox would have squandered crucial Holiday momentum and Game Pass's growth is very likely impacted.
It pains me to say it, but this is probably correct. I enjoyed Infinite's SP campaign, and expect there will be more content in the future, but Halo is likely never going to be the MP juggernaut it was a decade ago.
