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Just something regarding the 'upwards' trend of Halo 3 online players after 18 months of release.
There have been a huge amount of games released on the 360 which have at times taken gamers to many different games (I'm thinking GoW 1&2, COD4 and COD WAW), and this is a stark contrast to the online options people had when Halo 2 was ruling the roost on the old Xbox - there wasn't a game anywhere near it in terms of online capability. Many gamers (especially Xbox owners) will have had their first major online gaming experieces playing H2.
The whole 360 online gaming community has more choice of online gaming that is definitely true (see above for the games), but still a lot of the community will have played H2 as a core experience but due to this wider choice, a lot will have moved on to other games on their 360s.
BUT, put simply Halo gameplay rocks and older players from earlier in H3's life and ones from H2 are remembering this fact.
So what Halo 3 is possibly seeing at the moment is a pull back of a lot of gamers who went and played other games for a while, but without fresh new games, they are drifting back to Halo gameplay and remembering just how awesome the shield system of gameplay is with the 3 tenets of Halo gameplay (Weapons, Melee, Grenade), and also the fantastic online options which Halo 3 offers and they are thinking 'Man I love my Halo, I'm playing some more".
Myself and some of my online friends are a case in point. I played H2 to death, and H3 beta and got and completed H3 on launch day. But then I kinda drifted away, played other games, didnt game on my 360 as much as I had.
Then one day I thought "I really miss that gameplay" dusted my 360 off, hopped on live and loaded up H3. Since then a lot of my old H2 clan have also seemed to be drifting back, and we are back having teams of 6-8 online and playing the big playlists again like we always used to do in H2.
To cut a long story short, the gameplay of Halo is unsurpassed in a lot of people's eyes and a lot of people are remembering this and playing more :)