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Subject: This feature ABSOLUTELY NEEDS to be in Halo 3 HANDS DOWN. Read why.
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

My opinion: Halo PC's multiplayer is 100x more fun because you can choose the games you want to play, and it is for fun, not rank. Learn from Halo PC!

  • 06.20.2006 4:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: Choad Master 117
Only 10% of Xbox 1 owners have Xbox Live. More than 50% of Xbox 360 owners have Xbox Live. So do the math. When Halo 3 comes out there will be around 5x as many Halo 3 players than Halo 2 players as soon as it comes out.


It's kinda hard to check those numbers considering you pulled them out of your ass.
Not only that but practically no one HAS a 360.

  • 06.20.2006 4:47 PM PDT

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So your saying b/c more people have a Xbox 1 when compared to Xbox 360 owners then the stat from OXM is false??? Please think before you post, or better yet read my previous post. Thanks.

So it seems like some of you chose to read my first posts & then pass judgement. I have some homework for the people who think that having a Optimatch would ruin Halo 3. Go play SC: Chaos Theory or Ghost Recon 2, basically any other LIVE enabled game. How is having a choice(s) a bad idea. It seems like some of you like being cheated & quiting out of games you find boring lol. What if.....stay w/ me now....what if...... you C o u l d, search for CUSTOM games.Imagine being able to choose what map, mode, max # of players, & if voice is allowed ect. Then if you want to play Ranked in MatchMaking you would still be able too.>Sarcasm>"Seems like a terrible idea huh?"<end of Sarcasm>
Imagine if you went to a restuarant & the waiter TOLD you what you were having to eat that night. Sounds cool huh?

I can only speak for myself, but having a True Optimatch would totally rock. Once again Optimatch & MatchMaking ARE 2 different things people. The more choices the player has the more enjoyable experience that player will have.

  • 06.20.2006 7:12 PM PDT
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They sholud bring back leaderboards.

  • 06.20.2006 7:28 PM PDT

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OK, yes, it is very true that I'm a dumb ass. I'm not denying that. However, isn't the whole point of a beta to increase the amount of users until you get someone dumb enough to try something you haven't anticipated.
Johnrap - Unofficial Dumbass of Halo 3 Beta

OK first of all halo has a more "true" optimatch (so you call it) then you say it does your just afraid to play ranked games, you want to play ctf more often then not just play team skirmish sure it has a rank and apparently you don't care about it so what is holding you back from playing it, you don't have to play for rank in ranked games, and if your worrying about getting too high a level to play legit games the solution is already built in for you, team skirmish isn't always CTF so when its not you just quit your level goes down you play against new players all the time you always win because they suck and everyone accept the people on your team when you quit is happy

  • 06.20.2006 7:51 PM PDT
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good point iam tired of people who quite on matchmaking because of the map

  • 06.20.2006 7:51 PM PDT

HHDDVVDDBVD 692 others

OK, yes, it is very true that I'm a dumb ass. I'm not denying that. However, isn't the whole point of a beta to increase the amount of users until you get someone dumb enough to try something you haven't anticipated.
Johnrap - Unofficial Dumbass of Halo 3 Beta

Posted by: DSHiSTaH
your ideas suck. that Hands Down crap needs to be deleted. That was the stupidest Idea i ever heard. You know how many people play Halo 2? I don't either but im pretty dam sure its a BIG number. You looked at the graphs and statistics we recieved in the past updates. say we want to play Lockout, ok, that narrows the millions of games going on to a little less than that. you'd still have to weed out the max players, and gametype. Pick Slayer, ok maybe 1 or 2 games get cut off from the list cuz no one plays anything on that map but slayer. Max players? the hell for? ok, so I have to find a game out of all those less than a million games. even if you single it down to your own country, its still a hella lot.

I see no problem with the current Optimatch. We are not playing for a rank, we are playing with people than are , more or less, at our level of skill. I don't give a dam about the ranks, but being matched up wtih people the same skill is great. The current matchmaking we have has to be the funnest, easiest, and friendliest out there. all the others pretty much suck. They should keep the system they already have and not replace it with this horrible filth.


true dat

  • 06.20.2006 7:52 PM PDT

HHDDVVDDBVD 692 others

OK, yes, it is very true that I'm a dumb ass. I'm not denying that. However, isn't the whole point of a beta to increase the amount of users until you get someone dumb enough to try something you haven't anticipated.
Johnrap - Unofficial Dumbass of Halo 3 Beta

This feature ABSOLUTELY does not NEED to be in Halo 3 HANDS DOWN.

  • 06.20.2006 7:55 PM PDT
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If we had what you called "a real optimatch" the only map that you would be able to find games for would be lockout. Hardly any other maps would get a play. I love the current optimatch. It's always different, and if you don't like it, play a custom.

  • 06.20.2006 7:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: DSHiSTaH
Posted by: Eddie metal head
If we had what you called "a real optimatch" the only map that you would be able to find games for would be lockout. Hardly any other maps would get a play. I love the current optimatch. It's always different, and if you don't like it, play a custom.


I said the same thing. my words exactly.
whoops sorry man guess i should read ahead a bit :)

  • 06.20.2006 8:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Choad Master 117
Well I'm glad to see you guys are so sure of yourselfs. I mean you can never be wrong if you genuinely believe what you say right? You can choose to believe the stats I provived or choose not to. Unlike most of the people on these forums now, I do not sign in to make up lies. What I say is true. They are not my opinions which you can disagree with all you want, the provided stats are FACT, thus making them true. 10% of xbox 1 owners have Live, more than 50% of 360 owners have LIVE. It's true. So logically Halo 3 will have way more players (on LIVE) than Halo 2 ever has. I'm not trying to cause a fuss, just providing the readers of this thread the truth, sorry if anybody had their feelings hurt.:(

As for the source, go out & buy the Official Xbox 360 Handbook thingy. It's from the editors of OXM. The stats are in the article about how Online gaming is growing, the Playstation HUB service among other things.-Peace

And theres a hell of alot more xbox 1 owners then xbox 360 owners so these stats are uncomparable.

  • 06.20.2006 8:02 PM PDT
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BTW. Halo 2 doesn't have a real optimatch because Bungie was rushed and didn't have time to put it in. They intended to, but couldn't. I don't remember where Bungie said it, but they said it a while ago. Probably near the game's release.

[Edited on 6/20/2006]

  • 06.20.2006 9:27 PM PDT
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57 percent of xbox 360 owners have XBL SOURCE= microsoft's peter moore at microsoft e3 conference ... obviously not out of the -blam!- it seems

  • 06.20.2006 10:03 PM PDT
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Forget about the haters here. People in the Halo community wish to have a secondary option added to the game. We purchase the game, the console, and have subscriptions to Xbox Live, and we have a right to ask for features that we would like. If you don't like the topic, then don't read or comment it.

Halo 3 NEEDS a true Optimatch system. I for one LOVE playing custom matches, however, there is no way of finding one. The problem is the inablity to search for custom matches.

As for the people who complain that there would be too many matches in the list... Who cares? I don't see a problem w/ that. The more matches around, the better. Besides, we are not saying that we ONLY want the true optimatch system, we are asking for an implementation of BOTH. If you don't like the system, then don't use it. Just use standard MM.

Some people complain that the community will dry up. Not true. If a game is good, people will play it. Halo 2 has GREAT gameplay. That is why people play it. Most do not play it for the rank. How can I prove that? Bungie has been creating more and more non-ranked playlists. Team SWAT, an unranked playlist, currently has the highest amount of players on Halo 2. So, that argument > /dev/null.

If anything, GOOD players have been leaving Halo 2 for other games, because of the lack of a true optimatch system.

Has there been an official word from Bungie that a true optimatch system will be in Halo 3? And, if they do implement it, they MUST make it so that people can join while a match is playing, and NOT force them to enter a new match and force them to wait for a host to start it (Like in MechAssault 2, which IMO ruined the online gameplay).

  • 07.14.2006 10:19 AM PDT

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That's what custom games are for. Wait, you can only play with friends. I wonder how long it would taake for Bungie to take custom games so that it is open to the public, not just your friends, but still make it so that you can close it.

  • 07.14.2006 10:57 AM PDT
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Well Frankie said that people have been working on having more options in online play, so that is a good thing.

  • 07.14.2006 11:00 AM PDT
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i reckon we should be able to optimatch for customs

  • 07.14.2006 11:31 AM PDT
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im not going to be mean i am just saying bungie probolly wont read this........ LOL but this is a VERY good idea. I hate that cuz z of the maps and game types and crap LOL

  • 07.14.2006 12:08 PM PDT

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