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There's currently thousands of AAA games saturating the market, its so flooded studio's lose if market interests don't favor their direction, with some studio;s, if they don't build another game with limited loss in investments along with trying to add more creativity in their developmental formula in different directions.
If it does not intrigue the interests of a quota of people to keep their business alive projects fail, studio;s close or get bought.

When do you not realize the fan base is getting too old and life is to short, consider respecting the wishes of older players that simply want nothing to do with games anymore.:MCCSWORD:

what on earth are you babbleing about?

Simply put, most people already have played Halo to death in their younger years. Yeah Halo MCC got a lot of value especially during a sale, but people play for nostalgia and maybe a bit of the multiplayer but then they move back to the games they are already playing.

Some people only play the campaigns too, so whenever you see someone say "more people play Halo MCC than Halo Infinite", it doesn't really mean that everyone is playing multiplayer vs Halo Infinite where most people are definitely on the multiplayer. Even besides that, you got 6 different multiplayers to choose from so not everyone is playing every Halo game at the same time.

So yeah, with only a dedicated hardcore fanbase left (mainly in the USA), not so many casual players are staying with Halo. Maybe if Halo came back to PC sooner like around 2016 with full complete releases of Halo 5 and a not broken Halo MCC, more people would have been staying with Halo. But hard to know if things would have been different really.

-The collection is old (the MCC was released on Steam in 2019) and the most recent game is over a decade old.
-There is a more recent instalment of the franchise that is also available on Steam. (Halo Infinite)
-343i has dropped content support. They might fix bugs and other issues (lol), but don't expect any new maps or cosmetics, since the community rejected their attempt at monetising the MCC playerbase.
-There is A LOT of competition for online multiplayer shooters on this platform.
-Halo no longer has the cultural relevance that it used to have over a decade ago.

Another point is even if you get a "under a rock" person like myself who hasn't owned a halo game since the first one or some younger person who hasn't played them, they are very unlikely to play online since there are so many people who only play fps game everyday and play almost nothing else. They played halo for thousands of hours and here I played the first one for probably under 50 hours and that is it. All the bad/new players left long long ago.

It is a problem with old games. The people left playing are experts and is hard for new players or bad players to play online. Not saying I won't play any online but I won't play much. I am not much of a fps player anyways which is why I haven't played the other halo games yet. But I am a good value seeker and this is insanely good value on this sale.

For 1 month I did have access to this game in 2020 but at the time it just had reach and halo 1, I did play a few games of halo 1 online and was surprised how bad I was. I did also beat reach with no problem on normal but that game wasn't hard at all.

My friend and I can't just complete Halo2 because it has coop sync issues, tried every configutation possible, and even different PCs but the game will disconnect in the same mission every time, that's why we stopped playing this terribly done port.

Because a lot of PC gamers are kind of loners, so we don't do coop often, even though many of us actually kind of want to (just difficult to find people on the same wavelength I suppose).

I did up to Halo 3 with family then they got bored. No sync issues. No disconnects. No problems. I played the games enough when they released that it is hard going back to do the same things. The AI makes it worth it though. Old games lose player base. That's life.

i think main and lasting appeal of this game is for those from original xbox and 360 era. theyre getting older and probably have less time and/or interest in playing games in general. too busy with family and saving for retirement.

the tiktok era probably isnt even aware it exists.

still one of the greatest/influential series in history imo (Combat Evolved thru Reach). i personally love it, though time is a premium nowadays.

Because microsoft seems to care more about world whale day than the halo franchise itself?

I haven't touched it because I'm not going to risk getting banned due to getting in a match with a hacker.

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I haven't touched it because I'm not going to risk getting banned due to getting in a match with a hacker.

I never had much issues with hackers, but cheaters? very rarely but never zero... but it just that majority of the time when I'm in match making I'm always in the team that's not really good (even if i suck at least I'm trying) and up against teams of players that I swear that has probably played Halo 3 and Reach like religiously enough that you can almost smell the sweat from them. but now a days if I'm playing the Social games match making, I'm just try to do it for the exchange points just to try to earn something

Its an older game, just plain and simple.

A 2019 port of a 2014 collection of games ranging from 2001 to 2012.

The audience that plays it is there but its really just the same factor that all games must face, time itself.

Theres nothing wrong with the games even some updates like being able to use ODST weapons in Halo 3 or the sabre in forge for reach were great additions.

The aspect is that, its just time has passed. Many of us have played aspects of this game to death, even Spartan Ops too.

Even games with active communities like Team Fortress 2 which hasn't gotten a solid update (non-cosmetic anyways) in 7 years has people slowly leaving. Its a very active game but eventually, people just leave, sometimes they come back but others will leave.

World of Warcraft turns 20 this year, its not exactly the hotspot thing it was 20 years ago when fantasy was all the rage in pop culture when Lord of the Rings helmed that boom and other stuff like DnD 3rd edition was also a hot seller. Its not exactly the thing most kids want to get into like the kids in 2004 did.

We are human, we grow, we age, we die. Time passes. And like many games, even those still online today, eventually time will take its toll. For the MCC, people are still there and theres plenty to play.

I'm on my way out because the Company Formerly Known as 343i thinks I'm dumb enough to believe that a name change will change their business practices. Good god, I've seen ban evaders more subtle than this.

Tryhard sweats 4-stacking drove everyone away. Plain and simple.

Personally because I have already played them to death throughout the years. I do hop on for some Halo 3 big team now and then but that's it