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Posted by: path1k
if they screw up multiplayer like they've already done with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary then screw itI know that a lot of you believe this is a legitimate concern, but in my opinion it's not.
Let me explain:
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary was brought out as a gift to the community commemorating 10 years of Halo. That being the Halo franchise in all. They thought nothing would be better than bringing back the original game that started it all back in 2001. The most important thing, to them at least, was to bring out the Campaign which was the main focus of the first Halo game. Sadly enough, there were many difficulties in bringing out the multiplayer side. Here they are:
1. The netcode. This one is very obvious to absolutely anyone who has either played the PC version or through tunneling programs. The lag is absolutely terrible and ignorant people would rip it apart blaming 343 Industries for it. Pretty much no one would thoroughly enjoy it. Even if they were to make a good working netcode for the game it would have been in the form of changing many things Combat Evolved elitists would have claimed to absolutely ruin the game.
2. They didn't want to split the Reach community. This one is the second most known reason. Some of you have even stated this is the reason there will never even be a remake of the original Halo 2 multiplayer for Xbox Live. Reach was already suffering so they didn't want to completely drown it out for the fans that do actually enjoy it.
Halo 2's main offering to the franchise was its Live multiplayer. 343 Industries knows that, Microsoft knows that, and the fans know that. If they were to honor anything with Halo 2, it would undoubtedly be the multiplayer. That was the main focus of Halo 2 and that's what, if anything, they would do. If they can't do the multiplayer, they probably won't even worry about anything else.
If they simply brought out a way for people to play Halo 2 multiplayer again through Live (ex. Arcade), I doubt it would truly split the player base. I think it would have pretty okay population at first, but it would dwindle down to about how it was before the original Xbox Live server went down within a month or so. A full remake of the game would probably split the player base, though. In those terms, it would be smartest for Microsoft/343 Industries to bring something like that out instead of a remake which seems to be exactly what most of you want.
I hope that helped calm some of your fears about this. Keep in mind this is all just how I see this situation. At the same time I could be wrong, I do believe this is a well educated guess as to how they would most likely handle this.
[Edited on 01.23.2012 3:30 PM PST]