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Microsoft has no plans to release more Halo games on Steam at this time

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polyh3dron

Banned
Oh the good old "No Plans" PR speak.

PROTIP: whenever someone representing any kind of company answers this regarding some rumored upcoming thing, it means absolutely NOTHING.
 
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Firehead

Member
polyh3dron said:
Oh the good old "No Plans" PR speak.

PROTIP: whenever someone representing any kind of company answers this regarding some rumored upcoming thing, it means absolutely NOTHING.
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Yeah, think there should be a title change that properly reflects what is being said. Everyone seems to be assuming the worst.

Remember those Halo Steam subs? They're not stupid. They know about them as well. They won't announce anything until E3 or something.
 
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nbnt

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FatMarshall

Neo Member
Well this sucks, but I don't trust them, especially after the Halo Anniversary debacle.

The whole reason I was excited for Spartan Assault coming to Steam was because there was a much larger chance of seeing other Halo ports being ported as well.

What the hell is the point of porting a game like Spartan Assault, which is already available in the Metro store, to Steam? The only reason I can see for it was because of horrid sales numbers on other venues.

This is extremely disappointing if true. Halo 2 Anniversary better be real though, or I'm pretty much done getting my hopes up in the world of Halo.
 
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Sub Zero

his body's cold as ice, but he's got a heart of gold
Don't they have a sub for Halo 3 (and the other 2 games iirc) on steamdb? I'm pretty sure they will all come to Steam eventually
 
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fantomena

Member
nbnt said:
No, it's not a Halo game. It doesn't play like one, it's a mobile game made for W8 tablets/phones, it's on Windows 8 store.

I really don't see the main series coming to PC, at all.
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So it isn't a Halo game because it doesn't play like one?

Halo Wars can't be a Halo game either then.
 
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Aquamarine

Member
"We have no further 'Halo' releases on Steam planned at this time"

*as of March 28th, 2014


But March 29th, 2014 they could have a plan.
 
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scitek

Member
thewhitehawk said:
Not that I wouldn't prefer to have Halo on Steam, but if Microsoft is trying to promote and get more users to use their own app store, it makes very little sense for them to release a Halo game on Steam when it's precisely the type of product that would attract new users to their own store.
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There's no way I'm buying anything from a shop/service run by Microsoft after Games For Windows Live.

EDIT: Sorry for the DP.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
No PR person is going to randomly announce a series of high profile releases. Asking a company "Hey do you want to tell us stuff you haven't announced yet?" is always going to result in the reply "Not at this time." This is like the flip-side of asking a developer "Hey will you ever do a sequel to your game XYZ?" and the developer responds "You never know!"
 
Megatron

Megatron

Member
Grief.exe said:
It's not about bringing the new entries to PC, this is about releasing Halo games with previously existing PC ports on Steam.
That would not cannabalize console sales at all.

neither Halo or Halo 2 are available on digital distribution and they both need work, though the latter significantly more so.

GFWL is shutting down in July, Microsoft promised their answer to what was to be done with Halo 2 in early 2014. Spartan Assault's Steam release, continued development of AoE II/AoM, and Ms. splosion Man's GFWL removal gives me confidence that we will see a Steamworks version of Halo 2 at the very least.
Though they might as well throw in Halo 1/3 to earn some more brownie points.
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I would bet everything I have you won't see halo 2 on Steam this year. They are expected to release halo 2 anniversary on xb1 this year. To make the game available on PC undermines that effort to use the game to sell more consoles.
 
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Firehead

Member
Stumpokapow said:
No PR person is going to randomly announce a series of high profile releases. Asking a company "Hey do you want to tell us stuff you haven't announced yet?" is always going to result in the reply "Not at this time." This is like the flip-side of asking a developer "Hey will you ever do a sequel to your game XYZ?" and the developer responds "You never know!"
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Exactly. And thanks for the title change.

So, this is pretty much non-news?
Altered Juice said:
port begging for halo still hasn't stopped?
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Port begging? Halo and Halo 2 are already on PC. And with the SteamDB subs listing Halo 1, 2 and 3; along with them releasing Spartan Assault on Steam? Yeah, this isn't port begging. This is, "Yo, we know you might be bringing the Halo Trilogy to Steam at some point. When ya gonna announce it?"
 
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Blair

Banned
Yeah if they have plans to rerelease the 360 games on xbone i can't see steam ports coming any time soon. Even if they know they would make way more money having it on both steam and xbone, it's all about getting people onto the console platform.

Could be wrong though, money is money and anyone with a brain would wager halo1/2/3 would be top of the steam best selling chart.
 
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Chettlar

Banned
Waaghals said:
I don't think they have any intention of porting the other Halo games to PC.
They don't want anything to compete with the xbox platform. The fact that Halo 2 (and possible 3/Reach) are getting Xbone ports actually minimizes the chance that we are getting PC versions.

The "ease" of the ports is irrelevant if MS does not want to.

The first Halo was ported to PC/Mac because of contractual obligation. Halo 2 was ported for purely strategic reasons (pushing Windows Vista), and SA is a mobile game already available on Windows 8.

They want to use these games to sell Xboxes, not to make some money on Steam.

That said, I really want a PC version of Halo 3/Reach.
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Really? What happened?
 
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CarbonRevenge

Banned
Halo: CE still has an active online community if that's any surprise to anyone. It's still being played non-stop to this day.

I really want CE on Steam though alongside Halo 3.
 
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Chettlar

Banned
bbdude said:
Guys, we're not going to get Halo 2 on Steam.

We're going to get Halo 2 Anniversary.
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Vibranium

Banned
The best strategy hear is to ignore the fact they ever said anything and not focus on the Halo trilogy coming to PC. If it happens it happens, it's not worth dwelling on.
 
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akira28

Member
I've moved on, Microsoft. I've found someone else. They love me and I love them. And we have an open relationship. You can drink yourself into a stupor and livestream your Kinect videos for all I care.
 
derExperte

derExperte

Member
Vibranium said:
The best strategy hear is to ignore the fact they ever said anything and not focus on the Halo trilogy coming to PC. If it happens it happens, it's not worth dwelling on.
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Good idea, let's focus on Gears of War. Heck, I'd buy a Steam rerelease of only the first part.
 
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Waaghals

Member
Chettlar said:
Really? What happened?
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I'm a bit rusty on the details, but Bungie had a large pc and mac following. Many of these people very a bit angry when they let MS buy them out. Bungie had announced the game at Macworld in 99 or 2000 and essentially promised pc/mac users the game.

Bungie demanded to be able to launch Halo CE (but only halo CE) on PC and Mac at a later date. Bungie was in dev hell with halo 2 so Gearbox ended up doing the port.

Fun fact: Gearbox remade the game to be more mod-friendly and gave away the MP portion with mod tools for free if you had a valid CD-Key. Gearbox paid for this themselves.
(google Halo Custom Edition)
 
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LiquidSolid

Member
Grief.exe said:
It's not about bringing the new entries to PC, this is about releasing Halo games with previously existing PC ports on Steam.
That would not cannabalize console sales at all.

neither Halo or Halo 2 are available on digital distribution and they both need work, though the latter significantly more so.

GFWL is shutting down in July, Microsoft promised their answer to what was to be done with Halo 2 in early 2014. Spartan Assault's Steam release, continued development of AoE II/AoM, and Ms. splosion Man's GFWL removal gives me confidence that we will see a Steamworks version of Halo 2 at the very least.
Though they might as well throw in Halo 1/3 to earn some more brownie points.
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While I think bringing Halo 1-3 was definitely in the works at one point, I think that's long been removed from the agenda. I find it far more likely that they're keeping Halo 2's servers up until Halo 2 Anniversary comes out, at which point they'll say "buy an Xbone if you want to continue playing Halo 2 MP."
 
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Deleted member 752119

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They want the X1 to sell. No sense in competing with themselves by putting their big exclusives on PC also.

If they wanted to go that route, they should just stop making Xbox consoles and put out their own Steam box, or windows gaming machine that's more htpc than console, rather than having an in between box like the X1.
 
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Ark

Member
Halo 2 or even Halo 3 for Steam would be amazing. It wouldn't even cost them anything, come on already Microsoft.
 
maneil99

maneil99

Member
Microsoft's solution to Halo 2 shutting down is going to be the Halo 2 Anniversary announcement in June... They want you to buy a Xbox One. Having Halo 2 revived on Steam months before they re-release it on Xbox One? No way.
 
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Grief.exe

Member
maneil99 said:
Microsoft's solution to Halo 2 shutting down is going to be the Halo 2 Anniversary announcement in June... They want you to buy a Xbox One. Having Halo 2 revived on Steam months before they re-release it on Xbox One? No way.
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I don't really see the rerelease of a game that came out almost a decade ago as competition for a potential Halo 2 Anniversary release on the Xbox One.

The whole selling point of the Anniversary series is revamped textures/models. The demographic Microsoft squarely targets for the One is not going to be interested in playing a 'old' game with no improvements.

Halo 2 PC is going to be dead entirely in a month. People are no longer going to have access to downloading their games or playing online. Microsoft is preparing something to deal with that wave of negative PR.
 
maneil99

maneil99

Member
Grief.exe said:
I don't really see the rerelease of a game that came out almost a decade ago as competition for a potential Halo 2 Anniversary release on the Xbox One.

The whole selling point of the Anniversary series is revamped textures/models. The demographic Microsoft squarely targets for the One is not going to be interested in playing a 'old' game with no improvements.

Halo 2 PC is going to be dead entirely in a month. People are no longer going to have access to downloading their games or playing online. Microsoft is preparing something to deal with that wave of negative PR.
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Are they really going to get any bad PR? Game servers shut down all the time, the PC cummunity contantantly lashes out @ MS. Plus this backlash will be minor vs the Halo 2 XBL shutdown.
You honestly think the people interested in Halo 2 PC aren't also interested in H2:A?
 
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