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Posted by: Darkside Eric
So basically... Waypoint is pro-vanilla?
Posted by: Sentox6
Waypoint isn't pro-anything so much as they're just anti-intelligence.
Posted by: IRISH 249
They catered to the majority of their players. Not all are/were terrible. (I fall in the terrible category).
The majority of Halo players are casual players. mlg and the likes make up a minority of Bungie customers. If you are a business, you are going to try to please the greatest number possible, even if it does alienate a few.
That's the problem: Bungie created this game from a business standpoint, not one that takes gameplay into consideration. By catering Reach to casual players (as exemplified by your story which showed that Halo 3 ranks have actual relevance to skill as opposed to Reach's, which are based on playtime alone), Bungie lost a good portion of the competitive fanbase.
As far as casual games go, Reach was no competition for larger titles such as Black Ops, MW3, etc. The end result was Reach becoming unpopular as a whole. Sheer numbers support this; Halo 3 had a much larger lifespan and a far greater population at this point in its life cycle than Reach has.