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Posted by: Zomechin
If you make a Halo game every year or every two years, Halo will be more popular than it would be if you made one every three or four years. CoD became widely loved because of its casual gameplay and "realistic" setting, yeah, but it's massively popular because of the massive amount of content it dishes out through the years.
It's of the reasons why Battlefield is nowhere near the popularity levels of CoD.
At least that's what I believe. Perhaps I'm wrong.
Far too tired so I'll make this short.
If you make a Halo game every year, they're going to be half assed, terrible, flawed more than they should, rushed and by the time things start get interesting and people start figuring the game out the new one will be around the corner.
M$ is not interested in CoDs yearly release regiment to make Halo "more popular" they're interested in it for the quicker profits. With yearly releases, they'll also keep dumbing the game down more an more to appeal to a wider audience, for the quick buck. And lets be real here, what Halo "needs" is not to keep dumbing it down, its already to such a low point I honestly don't see how it can go lower.
What makes a game popular is actually making the -blam!- game a GOOD -blam!- game, along with marketing and hyping the -blam!- out of it and having it live up to the hype (or even remotely close).
That will make a game -blam!- popular beyond belief and people will continue to play it years after release because its ACTUALLY -blam!- GOOD and has replay value.
Releasing half assed pile of trash games every year will not make the series more popular.
Besides, I don't know what CoD players you know but when I was playing Blops (first CoD game, though thats kinda irrelevant) they weren't too happy about 1-3 month map pack release, with terrible maps and the "same game every year" (which I think is dumb an bs, games in the same series will generally be the same and you know they still buy the next game anyway).
It dishes out a ton of crap content simply to sap as much $ as possible out of their consumers. Even when MW3 was right around the corner, they continued to dish out map packs for Blops.
I don't find the CoD players too happy with all the frequent content it pushes out.
Edit: That wasn't that short :/ and now I am going to bed.
[Edited on 12.19.2011 2:16 PM PST]