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Halo 5 sales have been an absolute disaster for MS, and this has been known for months.
Halo 5 sales have been an absolute disaster for MS, and this has been known for months.
Makes sense to me that if you're being told by an exec that you have to achieve x its in the context of "because we also expect y to achieve z"
Nobody is defending the state of its MP when it shipped. Also, an expression of certainty about specific nuances you are not in any position to know anything about is not an example of intellectual honesty. Nor is chest thumping.
The question is, how much do they care if it makes 5000% in revenue?
Dude you just got on me for opinions literally in this post.
Technically everything in Reach, H4, H5 "works".
That doesn't make them good.
The question is, how much do they care if it makes 5000% in revenue?
Halo 5 sales have been an absolute disaster for MS, and this has been known for months.
We would've already heard from Microsoft if that was the case.
I dunno about the 5000% revenue stuff, but they were pretty quiet with Halo 4 for a while too. They don't always wear their sales on their sleeves.
How are you tied to 343i/MS? Producer? Accountant? Do you know the sales/expectations or are you confusing your assumptions/impressions with provable fact? You may be right in that impression, mind you, but you are presumably in no position to make such claims. Doing so seems more like a claim of being an insider with insider information...
"a few" being the key phrase. PS4 multiplats routinely outsell the Xbone across the board. This isn't conjecture, it's fact.
I mean, no shit.
Every recent decision and announcement, from the infamous Halo 5 revenue PR, to name dropping W10 in every NPD PR, to porting all exclusives to PC, to the Xbox 1.5/Scorpio/One Two/Whatever leaks all suggest that MS is not happy with the state of the Xbox brand right now.
No the developers are competent. Halo 4 & 5 were both competent games. No need to throw the baby out with the bath water.
It's the final decision makers at 343 that need to be axed.
I'm talking the person that read Halo 5's script and said "Okay this works."
I'm talking the person who looked at the redesigns for Elites/Jackals/Spartans/Weapons/Vehicles etc and said "Okay this looks kinda like Halo. It works."
I'm talking the person who looked at Sprint, Ground Pound, Spartan Charge, Random Weapon Drops, Promethean Vision etc and said "Okay this works"
I'm talking the person who read Nightfalls script, all the recent Halo novels and comics and said "Fuck the story. This works."
And finally I'm talking the person who after I assume received numerous bug reports from MCC and still said anyway "Okay this works."
Whoever the final decision makers are at 343 THOSE are the people who need to be gone.
I wonder what Crap Gamer thinks...
Hint: That may be part of it but it doesn't help when 343 has dropped the ball multiple times with the franchise. Halo 5 is a big dissapointment in my eyes and I don't think I am alone by any means. They have damaged the brand. Will it recover? It definitely can but Halo 6 needs to hit it out of the park.I could write an essay on why Halo declined since Halo 3, but alas I'm at work and shouldn't be on gaf anyway lol.
Hint: it's because of the casual player migration to other fps franchises
Hint: That may be part of it but it doesn't help when 343 has dropped the ball multiple times with the franchise. Halo 5 is a big dissapointment in my eyes and I don't think I am alone by any means. They have damaged the brand. Will it recover? It definitely can but Halo 6 needs to hit it out of the park.
I know they didn't develop it personally but they oversaw it and it is in their name. Their mess.
Edit: Fuck lol I didn't know gaf sensored even saying the name of the site. That's some Scar/Mufassa shit there ��
It's also telling how the Halo 5 streaming community died pretty much immediately after the game came out. MS really wanted it to become a big e-sports hit. Remember that god awful fake e-sports section at the E3 presser?
The hard number is completely irrelevant since they made the finding decision with a target in mind, and the game obviously underperformed. If they made X% but they expected 3X%, then they care very, very much.The question is, how much do they care if it makes 5000% in revenue?
I'm starting to think that people who don't like halo 5 see halo very differently than i do. The campaign was meh but the mutli was the best its been since at least halo 2 and perhaps ever. They were able to keep it fresh for more modern audiences, while still not taking away what made it halo, which was a mistake made in reach and 4.
she writes headlines like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdHj2WHUIAAdNYD.jpg:large
Keza MacDonald wrote this article? She's been ripping Microsoft ever since I saw her working for IGN. I can't take this article seriously since she wrote it. I mean, she writes headlines like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdHj2WHUIAAdNYD.jpg:large
Some of this stuff is probably true like Halo 5 sales numbers not hitting expectations, but until other websites back up this article with sources, I have a hard time believing a lot of this article.
Probably this is what xbox gets for porting their games to pc...
lmao, what's the problem? That's pretty funny.
Minecraft is a big miss?
Huh? That can't be right.
Quite interesting.Keza MacDonald wrote this article? She's been ripping Microsoft ever since I saw her working for IGN. I can't take this article seriously since she wrote it. I mean, she writes headlines like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdHj2WHUIAAdNYD.jpg:large
Some of this stuff is probably true like Halo 5 sales numbers not hitting expectations, but until other websites back up this article with sources, I have a hard time believing a lot of this article.
Also quite interesting.Probably referring to the fact that they spent 6 billion dollars to acquire it and it hasn't had the return they were projecting.
I was really excited when I heard that Xbox One games where coming to PC but I'm not buying games from the MS Store.
Quite interesting.
Also quite interesting.
Halo 5 surprises me cause i could swear i read that it really didn't do bad at all.
Halo 5 surprises me cause i could swear i read that it really didn't do bad at all.
Probably referring to the fact that they spent 2.5 billion dollars to acquire it and it hasn't had the return they were projecting.
Halo 5 surprises me cause i could swear i read that it really didn't do bad at all.
Hint: That may be part of it but it doesn't help when 343 has dropped the ball multiple times with the franchise. Halo 5 is a big dissapointment in my eyes and I don't think I am alone by any means. They have damaged the brand. Will it recover? It definitely can but Halo 6 needs to hit it out of the park.