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Studio closure coming......
Hopefully being the key word.This is great news, Microsoft are building a case for something drastic and what needs to happen for the good of the franchise.
This will (hopefully) give Microsoft the data to present to 343i that they have driven the franchise into the ground in public opinion and that their feelings aren't just internal. The fan base feels the same.
GG Microsoft I'm filling it out now.
The budget for Halo Infinite was close to 1 billion I heard. They were given free range.
They can always continue the TV show...i think its time to say good bye to HALO franchise. Better make something good in the future. People were done with the franchise when they released halo 3.
The survey means MS can save face by putting the decision they may have/not already made back on the fans.343 is the worst developer who continues to get work. Have never put out a good game and ruined a once great franchise. Do you really need a survey to learn this? You could argue they would never be as good as Bungie but they didn't even try to mimic they went the complete opposite direction.
They fired the CEO, they re-located the Head of Transmedia, they gutted the leadership team, they gutted the development team leads, they dropped more than a few from the development teams, and they cancelled all talks of anything other than multiplayer for Halo moving forward.This is great news, Microsoft are building a case for something drastic and what needs to happen for the good of the franchise.
This will (hopefully) give Microsoft the data to present to 343i that they have driven the franchise into the ground in public opinion and that their feelings aren't just internal. The fan base feels the same.
GG Microsoft I'm filling it out now.
They sometimes have weird surveys like buy back games for 10%, so i would take it with a grain of salt.
But Halo could use the God of War treatment. Of course i don't mean that literally. Some kind of Halo RPG by Obsidian or Bethesda could be nice.
No matter how you try and spin this, and someone will, this is not a good sign for 343.
The budget for Halo Infinite was close to 1 billion I heard.
The survey is probably an excuse for the boss to close the studio as in: look, nobody likes you, we’re closing you down.343 is the worst developer who continues to get work. Have never put out a good game and ruined a once great franchise. Do you really need a survey to learn this? You could argue they would never be as good as Bungie but they didn't even try to mimic they went the complete opposite direction.
It was never a good sign, when you try to chase a live service mode with no content on line.No matter how you try and spin this, and someone will, this is not a good sign for 343.
The studios handling Halo and Gears are effectively surrogate mothers. I think that's part of the problem.I mean Halo and Gears of War were mega hits for the Xbox then 360. Just can't rely on that for the entirety. Not to mention online competition is so much greater now.
MS have gone through the studio with a broom, cleaned out alot of the dead wood and I have no doubt that things will improve from here on out.
The good thing now is that Halo, while it's important for Xbox, it no longer needs to hold the console on its shoulders anymore.
MS now has equal IP like Doom, Gears, Wolfenstien, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Starfield and hopefully Call of Duty. This means that 343 can now take their time and reboot the Series.
They already fired basically whole leadership of 343.I like this take. Sometimes you need a true disaster for things to change. Because MS is so conservative and can tank so many hits, even botching the MCC wasn't enough.
It can be a good thing. The aimless Wii U debacle resulted in Switch. Sometimes you gotta hit rock bottom first.
Yeah people were done with a series that still sold millions of copies. FFS that is a lame take.i think its time to say good bye to HALO franchise. Better make something good in the future. People were done with the franchise when they released halo 3.
tbh Gears and Wolfenstein are nosediving too. Elder Scrolls is taking so long to make that it's barely worth thinking about right now, and the next Fallout will take even longer than that.Look, I'm critical of 343. They deserve alot of the criticism that is going their way. The budget for Halo Infinite was close to 1 billion I heard. They were given free range. They had a very large workforce of close to 500 people. On top of that they used three support studios in Certain Affinity, Sperasoft and Skybox Labs.
That is a massive amount of resources.
They had six years to develop the game.
Those six years with over 750 employees and nearly a billions dollars delivered one campaign game and a half assed multiplayer game.
That's truly unacceptable.
On the pro side, Halo Infinate campaign was a very good game. It's the best Halo since Bungie stopped making it. They delivered on that front.
On the negative side the multiplayer was a disaster.
The amount of time that they lost by changing engines half way through was crazy.
The engine they did create was sub standard and they would have been better off to use another engine like Unreal.
However, Microsoft has recognised all of this. First 343 embarrassed them with the initial showing of the game and the whole Craig meme.
They then missed the console launch and left MS with no first party game to accompany the console. They even had all the promotional stuff tailored around it.
On top of that MS know just how much money they would had lost on that game, and just how the reputation of Halo has diminished.
MS have gone through the studio with a broom, cleaned out alot of the dead wood and I have no doubt that things will improve from here on out.
The good thing now is that Halo, while it's important for Xbox, it no longer needs to hold the console on its shoulders anymore.
MS now has equal IP like Doom, Gears, Wolfenstien, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Starfield and hopefully Call of Duty. This means that 343 can now take their time and reboot the Series.
Why are Microsoft polling the public like this on an internal decision? Surely the fate of a big studio shouldn't hinge on some randos' opinions?
The up side is no one will care if Call of Duty dies after it goes Xbox exclusive anywaysAnd some people want this company to own Call Of Duty ...
Agreed.The up side is no one will care if Call of Duty dies after it goes Xbox exclusive anyways