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Subject: The end of Halo

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Many Halo communities are about to come to a complete halt, and most of them will die.

ForgeHub? Xforgery? With online file browsing freezing these websites will cease to exist. Stat tracking sites like Halo Tracker? Meta Halo? With no API keys these sites will freeze. What of the custom content community? What of indie Halo communities out there? 343 is essentially monopolizing everything and forcing us to go to their inferior stats and subpar forums for custom content.

With Bungie officially leaving Halo and 343 taking over the reigns, it makes me wonder who we're leaving in control of the franchise. Not only has 343 infested Reach with the most controversial title update to date, but they've been poor stewards thus far and they've left most of the community in the dark.

Despite my personal opinions of what Bungie has done with Reach, the game was in much better hands when they were in charge. We're losing literally 90% of the features that we've become accustomed to. And then 343 expects us to shell out money for a new Halo product when we've seen nothing other than regurgitated content and their word to go by?

Reach isn't the only thing that's falling; Halo is about to go into a dark, dangerous hole, and I don't think Halo 4 is going to bring it out.




[Edited on 02.05.2012 8:18 PM PST]

  • 02.03.2012 8:47 PM PDT
Subject: March 31st marks the dark ages of Halo

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  • 02.03.2012 8:48 PM PDT

This is actually the stupidest thing ever posted on B.net:

Posted by: the omega man117
Why does everyone hate Halo 2? Maybe its because its the worst game ever next to mario.

I feel the same way to be honest.

  • 02.03.2012 8:49 PM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.

Agreed. We're losing everything we're used to. I just hope 343i keep some things.

  • 02.03.2012 8:49 PM PDT

The Internet is an empowerment tool that's agnostic; it doesn't care about race, gender, or age.

I hope H4 is good.

  • 02.03.2012 8:52 PM PDT

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^ OH, IT WILL BE.

BELIEVE THE HYPE.

  • 02.03.2012 8:53 PM PDT

the gun pointed at the head of the universe

I read it in one of those epic movie trailer voiceover voices: "This year..."

But yeah, I don't trust 343. They try to appear like a bungie-clone.

  • 02.03.2012 8:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: Horse Repairman
RC RuNz the internet. Like the superintendent.

Posted by: SouthPoIe
Clone is an internet God.

Posted by: DerpRoids
RC Clone is the anti-thesis of a lurker.

343 hates branch communities.

I won't be surprised if this is the end.

  • 02.03.2012 8:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: RC Clone
343 hates branch communities.

I won't be surprised if this is the end.


They're essentially monopolizing everything.

  • 02.03.2012 8:55 PM PDT

:(

  • 02.03.2012 8:56 PM PDT

Name's John. I'm a 21-year-old firefighter/EMT from lolhio who doubles as a die-hard Halo fan. I've been enjoying the franchise since 2001. My favorite iteration of Halo would have to be Halo 2 simply because I never got to experience the joy of a full-on Halo: CE LAN.


If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Oh yeah, and boot Zome.

Not looking forward to it.

  • 02.03.2012 8:58 PM PDT

Despite the fact I share some of your concerns...
Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
Not only has 343 infested Reach with the most controversial title update to date
Out of curiosity... waaat? I thought you folks liked the Title Update?

  • 02.03.2012 8:58 PM PDT
Subject: The end of Halo

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Posted by: burritosenior
Despite the fact I share some of your concerns...
Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
Not only has 343 infested Reach with the most controversial title update to date
Out of curiosity... waaat? I thought you folks liked the Title Update?


I actually don't. Bleedthrough screws up too much of the sandbox.

[Edited on 02.03.2012 8:59 PM PST]

  • 02.03.2012 8:59 PM PDT

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But bleedthrough has been a thing since teh beginningz.

  • 02.03.2012 8:59 PM PDT

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Posted by: HarryTheChin
But bleedthrough has been a thing since teh beginningz.


Reach wasn't built for Bleedthrough.

  • 02.03.2012 9:00 PM PDT

R.I.P community sites.

Halo 4, lol why so dark 343? I thought they were working on this game for years, yet the only thing we (the community) has gotten is a CGI trailer and confirmation of Halo toys (Hint: no one cares about the latter) The series is being milked and turning into a CoD, starting with ODST, and how dark 343 is shows that they want to build hype so (stupid) people will buy it.

I give it 2 more months before we see anything about Halo 4.


Sad seeing a great series fall into a fiery pit filled with -blam!-.

[Edited on 02.03.2012 9:02 PM PST]

  • 02.03.2012 9:01 PM PDT

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Any inferences whether or not H:4 will have it?

if it does, wut do?

  • 02.03.2012 9:01 PM PDT


Posted by: boomdeyadah
R.I.P community sites.

Halo 4, lol why so dark 343? I thought they were working on this game for years, yet the only thing we (the community) has gotten is a CGI trailer and confirmation of Halo toys (Hint: no one cares about the latter) The series is being milked and turning into a CoD, starting with ODST, and how dark 343 is shows that they want to build hype so (stupid) people will buy it.

I give it 2 more months before we see anything about Halo 4.


Sad seeing a great series fall into a fiery pit filled with -blam!-.

Agreed, except ODST was awesome.

  • 02.03.2012 9:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: HarryTheChin
Any inferences whether or not H:4 will have it?

if it does, wut do?


If H4 is built for bleedthrough then it's built for bleedthrough. But Reach's shield mechanics and weapon sandbox are completely different. Simply popping shields differently doesn't make everything okay.

  • 02.03.2012 9:03 PM PDT

Posted by: THRILL606
Agreed, except ODST was awesome.
Never said it wasn't.

  • 02.03.2012 9:04 PM PDT

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Gotchya.

  • 02.03.2012 9:04 PM PDT

Another that is making the series fall down this fiery -blam!- hole is the constant "server maintenance". Personally isn't helping 343 as the new stewards when there are 5+ problems throughout a week.

I think there have been more servers problems 343 has since the transition than Bungie had in like 2 years.

  • 02.03.2012 9:08 PM PDT


Posted by: boomdeyadah
Posted by: THRILL606
Agreed, except ODST was awesome.
Never said it wasn't.

It might've been better as a stand alone game though.

OT: 343 just wants everyone to use their sucky forums and once everyone from Bungie.net gets banned for speaking their minds on that forum, we will have no where to go.

  • 02.03.2012 9:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: THRILL606

Posted by: boomdeyadah
Posted by: THRILL606
Agreed, except ODST was awesome.
Never said it wasn't.

It might've been better as a stand alone game though.

OT: 343 just wants everyone to use their sucky forums and once everyone from Bungie.net gets banned for speaking their minds on that forum, we will have no where to go.


There's still private groups.

inb4 underground movement.

  • 02.03.2012 9:10 PM PDT

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Quite honestly, if 343's waypoint site were to have private groups similar to how b.net has them now, I would probably switch over :P

  • 02.03.2012 9:12 PM PDT