Posted by: tsujen
Because of COD, the most popular games out right now, yet it still held spots in the top 5 games played for almost 2 years with around 300-500k players per day.. People who say reach was a huge failure fail to realize how good the game actually did, sure it wasn't the best Halo game but it was still a good game what got a lot of players.
Well, not just COD (know that is the biggest jealousy point with reach ... but still).
Also beaten by sports titles, FIFA 12 and now FIFA 13.
(a new FPS beaten by a sports title - WTF).
And dont forget Minecraft ... hardcore stuff that it is.
Guess bungie tried to claim that ground with forge, but?
The fact is, that people pre-ordered reach on record numbers, and then brought even more copies as first-day releases - all thanks to the hype machine that is bungie ... and yet the online numbers dropped to 1/6th within two weeks.
Good games dont become uninteresting in that short a timespan. People were disappointed, bored ... and back to the OP's point, there was/are better games.