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Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies

If I could change a few things in Reach, it would be....

*Get rid of yoinking and medal ( yoinking is retarded )
*Force Bungie to work again and get rid of 343's existence
* A few other things
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lol and um halo reach is literally dead for me. NONE of my friends lay it at all

  • 11.10.2012 5:35 AM PDT

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I like to listen to EMINƎM.
"You have enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something."
-EMINƎM

Been dead for awhile for me

  • 11.10.2012 10:18 AM PDT

Down to #15 and falling fast.

  • 12.09.2012 4:35 AM PDT

i think you dumb halo 4 is never going to be as good as reach and reach will not die because i got halo 4 and i played it for 3 hours and then i broke it in have and throw it in the trash even if i did sleep in front of best buy and got it for 10 bucks it was trash from the begining

  • 12.10.2012 1:49 PM PDT

is halo four better to you

  • 12.10.2012 1:50 PM PDT


Posted by: Darkspartan290


You failed English, didn't you?

  • 12.10.2012 1:51 PM PDT

Posted by: Darkspartan290
i think you dumb halo 4 is never going to be as good as reach and reach will not die because i got halo 4 and i played it for 3 hours and then i broke it in have and throw it in the trash even if i did sleep in front of best buy and got it for 10 bucks it was trash from the begining


"i think you dumb" says the caveman who managed to break a game disk after three hours - duh.

  • 12.11.2012 4:37 AM PDT
Subject: 1 More Month Until Reach Dies

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Posted by: Darkspartan290
i think you dumb halo 4 is never going to be as good as reach and reach will not die because i got halo 4 and i played it for 3 hours and then i broke it in have and throw it in the trash even if i did sleep in front of best buy and got it for 10 bucks it was trash from the begining

Speaking of dumb. By looking at your post of all people you shouldn't be using the word dumb to describe something.

[Edited on 12.18.2012 4:55 AM PST]

  • 12.11.2012 7:02 AM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies

Posted by: Oh GodLike One
Down to #15 and falling fast.

Down to #16 ... still falling, but slowed

On the UP side ... Halo 4 held onto position #2.
Which means if we plotted the life of both reach and H4 since their respective launches Halo 4 is doing better than reach.
(didnt think it would hold #2 given its lower than expected initial sales ... but there you go)

And how does COD continue to keep 4 of the top 10 places??
It must have a broad, nah HUGE, player base for it to still remain top dog without cannibalising on its own player pool.

  • 12.15.2012 1:23 AM PDT
Subject: 1 More Month Until Reach Dies

I've been living under a rock. What happens on November 6th?

lol. I'm a dodo head. HALO 4!!!

I'm still playing Reach.

[Edited on 12.15.2012 9:54 AM PST]

  • 12.15.2012 9:50 AM PDT

Posted by: gorocurt
I've been living under a rock. What happens on November 6th?
lol ... also hate to point out that over a month has past since November 6.

As for "I'm still playing Reach" ...
Your online profile shows "Online playing Red Dead Redemption" (Thieves' Landing to be precise).
And before that BLOPS2, then AC3, Manga, some H3 ... mmm, reach appear somewhere back when you first crawled under that rock.

Best check for concussion, perhaps that rock was dropped - lol

  • 12.15.2012 8:07 PM PDT

I would love to see reach fall out of the top 20 and Halo 3 emerge back in the top 20.

  • 12.16.2012 12:46 AM PDT
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Bringing in Fikst. Bringing back lmao.
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#6 In the Country.

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OMG it's been more than a month a Reach isn't dead!

  • 12.16.2012 5:53 AM PDT

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Wait is halo reach matchmaking multiplayer down?

  • 12.16.2012 8:35 AM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies

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I still play it, only for Grifball though.

  • 12.16.2012 9:23 AM PDT

Easter Egg Hunter. Apprentice Tricker/Glitcher (learning from Grumpy and Sliding Ghost).

Trying to get Waypoint to update Halo 3 stats in detail like here. Now no one can see that my Halo 3 Spartan no longer looks like my Reach Spartan.

Really want to be a Heroic member or have a title. :/


Posted by: Darkspartan290
i think you dumb halo 4 is never going to be as good as reach and reach will not die because i got halo 4 and i played it for 3 hours and then i broke it in have and throw it in the trash even if i did sleep in front of best buy and got it for 10 bucks it was trash from the begining


Are you speaking a language that sounds a little bit like English?

  • 12.16.2012 10:48 AM PDT
Subject: 1 More Month Until Reach Dies

Posted by: b1adefa1con14
Wait is halo reach matchmaking multiplayer down?

Just looks that way now that so few people are playing.

  • 12.17.2012 2:22 AM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies

Arbitor they outnumber us three to one!
Then it is an even fight.

Arbitor > Arbiter.
Arbitor = Rank above Arbiter.

A big thanks to kids that did this to 343 after they heard they get an infection game mode in halo 4 with no thought of normal playlists.


Posted by: Darkspartan290
i think you dumb halo 4 is never going to be as good as reach and reach will not die because i got halo 4 and i played it for 3 hours and then i broke it in have and throw it in the trash even if i did sleep in front of best buy and got it for 10 bucks it was trash from the begining
Lol.

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Posted by: Darkspartan290
i think you dumb halo 4 is never going to be as good as reach and reach will not die because i got halo 4 and i played it for 3 hours and then i broke it in have and throw it in the trash even if i did sleep in front of best buy and got it for 10 bucks it was trash from the begining


Everyone, take note.

This is a game dev's target demographic when they design games. This is why all your games are so easy and have <2 year lifespans.

  • 12.17.2012 7:55 PM PDT

Posted by: Arbitor 259
Posted by: Darkspartan290
i think you dumb halo 4 is never going to be as good as reach and reach will not die because i got halo 4 and i played it for 3 hours and then i broke it in have and throw it in the trash even if i did sleep in front of best buy and got it for 10 bucks it was trash from the begining
Lol.

  • 12.17.2012 9:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: VacuumNewt96653
man...who ever said it was going to die.people still play halo 2 on campaign and machmaking


Halo 2 doesn't have matchmaking you derp.


About 10 people are still connected to halo2 on xbox live.

  • 12.18.2012 12:10 AM PDT
Subject: 1 More Month Until Reach Dies

Epic Monkey!

Good thing my Reach disc broke.

  • 12.18.2012 4:42 AM PDT

Posted by: MAL J 7936 mj
Good thing my Reach disc broke.

And the prophesy came to be ....
"Reach disc broke" == "Reach Dies"

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  • 12.18.2012 5:47 AM PDT
Subject: 3 More Months Until Reach Dies
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343 was given a valuable piece of marketing information in the implementation of the Reach Team Slayer title update. The TU update was designed to reduce the effectiveness of armor lock and invisibility among other things and while highly skilled purist hailed it as a great improvement because it reduced the effectiveness of the less skilled players that used special abilities the segment of players that Team slayer served did not see it that way. When the refinements were offered the on line players of the Team Slayer format clearly rejected the change. The rejection was so dramatic that the administrators said that they were blown away to use their own verbiage by the response. Even with the implementation of bonus points of various forms designed to improve the participation rates Super Slayer only pulled about 10% of the head count that the Classic Team Slayer produced on a regular basis.

Halo 4s creators having every good intention of improving the game obviously listened to some excellent first person shooters advice during the development cycle. Universal complaints from outstanding players were addressed. Great on line players gravitate to halo platforms that emphasize sniper weapons, head shot kills with DMRS etc and resent the use of special abilities and super weapons that new players and those of moderate skill levels can use to partially compensate for their lack of professionalism.

Halo 4 has implemented changes that are designed to favor behaviors that skilled players prefer. Weapons are given in the form of ordinance drops as rewards for kills and weapon show up at random fixed points. There are plenty of new and interesting weapons but items preferred by the new or casual players while not eliminated outright are dramatically less effective or much harder to come by.

We now have the irrational battlefield assumption that grenades cant be picked up off the ground from fallen soldiers without a special ability, jet packs that don't really fly anymore, invisibility that isn't really invisible when promethean vision is already a highly effective counter measure, plasma pistols that drain very quickly when powered up effectively making the noob combo harder to pull off, needlers that only fire about 3 times before they are empty etc and it all has a net result that favors the highly skilled players in EVERY play format. The problem with all this is Halo needs to serve multiple market segments. It needs to attract new players, retain casual players that like the game but don't have 30 hours a week to devote to video games and hard core gamers. The best way to do this by offering pro, snipers, swat and arena to those with plenty of time to devote to the art without upsetting play formats that serve the new and numerous casual players.

In the end what I think or any of the other guys on this forum think is immaterial. The extent to which Halo serves or fails to serve important market segments is the extent to which Halo will succeed or fail longer term. In marketing the initial boost of sales called an inaugural sales spike that appears when an anticipated product hits the market gives the surface impression that its doing well but the retention rate is everything. When you look at the online populations for Reach after being out two years and then look at how fast Halo 4s online player count is dropping its likely that Reach is or was a stronger game. In fact if you superimpose the deterioration curve of the previous Halo issues on where Halo 4 is now then its going to fall to a baseline way short of Reach. This IS a problem. I hope that when 343 works on Halo 5 they don't forget the marketing lessons that the Reach TU update should have brought home.

Make no mistake about it the Noob is A key to any games success because they are the growth segment.

  • 12.18.2012 8:44 PM PDT

Posted by: st3ven9640
Everyone, take note.

This is a game dev's target demographic when they design games. This is why all your games are so easy and have <2 year lifespans.

Activision have that exact clause built into its contract with bungie.

New title release every 2 years.

  • 12.19.2012 4:25 AM PDT