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Posted by: Dattebayo
Ok, obviously as someone stated before the BR will not appear in Reach, because major plot holes, and heh who wants that? *looks at Halo Wars*
Now, you said the BR is an overpowered weapon that "pros" worship (not your exact words), but look at it from our point of view (when I say our I mean the MLG community) we despise it when we get killed by a rushing AR player. We hate it that we get tbagged because we couldn't four-shot a rusher (mind you four-shots don't exist in regular settings). I'm not saying we hate the Assault Rifle, I for one love it. It brings back memories of playing Halo: CE with friends, it's just we prefer the battle rifle over the assault rifle because it's a lot more.. Helpful.
Scenario time: Standoff, CTF. They are pulling the flag, and they are heading to laser. You respawned your camo, but don't have an AR, you go over to laser to stop the flag attempt, you AR one guy and melee him, your one shot and you try to stop the flag, he's already at his rockets and you try to AR him from laser. It won't kill him, unless you have godly grenades.
We "pros" want to play the game for fun, but we also want to win. Halo 3 is a competitive game (no, not hardcore like MLG) any game with conflict in it, and a desire to beat the other team/players is competitive. Once again, no I am not saying I hate the AR, the BR is very helpful in other environments. It isn't MLG's fault for making the BR more popular, if anything they helped the game become more popular. I'm not saying everyone would not have bought Halo 2 if it weren't for MLG, they ujst helped Halo. By looking at the playlist population, "pros" and Hardcore players are the smalles percentage of the community. Sociall Slayer at most times contains nearly half of the online players. Most people just play to play. Even if all teh MLG community dropped out of Halo, the game would only be down a few thousand players.
You also have to see it form our (the people who just play) point of view. The BR is used non-stop. There are multiple playlists with only BR starts, and every other has BR starts in it. Anyone who prefers another weapon rarely gets to use it, on top of all the issues i listed with the BR in my OP.
How do you rarely get to use other weapons? You spawn with an AR in all slayer gametypes. If you just play to play it shouldn't matter if your getting -blam!- on. There are plenty of other weapons on maps than the BR.
Also, just because people play social doesn't mean they don't like the BR. People who play just to play probably still want a balanced game to play.
If you were to consider the hardcore community the people in the hardcore playlists its a little less than 20% of the population. Every social playlist aside from social slayer does worse than every ranked and hardcore playlist generally. Sometimes squadbattle does worse than SBTB, but that's it. The bad thing about considering player demographics via playlist populations is that you don't know how many players are in custom games, you don't know what type of players have guests and are forced to play social, you don't know what type of players haven't bought the maps and can't play their favorite playlists, or are just messing around in a new or different playlist.
At peak hours there are around 9,000-10,000 people in the MLG playlist. Considering custom games are a huge part of MLG, especially because that's all that could be played since Halo CE up until April 2008, and that not everyone can be on at the same time, there are more players than you think. This can be said of any playlist though to be honest.
Although, I don't think its a good idea to speak for an entire group, especially one as large as you are claiming to represent. Your saying most people play just to play and right now you are speaking for a majority of the Halo population then? I doubt there isn't a large group of people who play just to play that disagree with you.