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Subject: H3 Population post Halo 4 launch

Hey all,

What are your thoughts on H3's population after 4 launches in November? I love the game and am hoping that it'll still be active for ranked play.

  • 10.11.2012 8:25 AM PDT

There will always be people playing this game as it's the only 'normal' Halo left on Xbox Live. Don't worry about it.

[Edited on 10.11.2012 9:47 AM PDT]

  • 10.11.2012 9:46 AM PDT

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"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

I actually don't think many people are going to leave H3 for it. Think about it: If people didn't like Reach, and Halo 4 seems to be implementing a lot of the same choices, then we'll see Halo 3 flourish for the next few years.

  • 10.11.2012 1:10 PM PDT

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It'll drop, its constantly dropping, not just because of Halo 4, but because of newer games in general. Everytime I go on, theres no more than 2500 people playing worldwide (I've even see it go as low as 300). All outdated games die a slow death, just look at Halo 2. We just gotta enjoy it while it lasts.

  • 10.11.2012 1:16 PM PDT

Halo 4 is going to be worse than Reach to me and a lot of people.
I simply cannot see people leaving for an extended amount of time to play Halo 4.

  • 10.11.2012 1:16 PM PDT

I think the halo 3 population will remain stable, halo 4 is Reach shipped in a new package.

  • 10.11.2012 1:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mythical Wolf
There will always be people playing this game as it's the only 'normal' Halo left on Xbox Live. Don't worry about it.


for once i actually agree with something you posted. It's the last of the balance between competitive and social halo. By that, i mean how it has a competitive ranking system/playlists and social playlists for fun

  • 10.11.2012 2:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: SpartanRanger17
It'll drop, its constantly dropping, not just because of Halo 4, but because of newer games in general. Everytime I go on, theres no more than 2500 people playing worldwide (I've even see it go as low as 300). All outdated games die a slow death, just look at Halo 2. We just gotta enjoy it while it lasts.
We are playing 2 different games then. I never see it go below 10,000.

  • 10.11.2012 3:32 PM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better

It may drop below top 20 for the first time in who knows...I will be playing both Halo 4 and Black Ops 2, but I plan to come back to Halo 3 in January. I'll still play campaign before 4's launch, but I haven't touched it in about two months.

  • 10.11.2012 7:49 PM PDT

Black Ops 2 I run two accounts warmup only at 1.97kdr...real is at 3.77. i'm in master division 4 league play. pm 4 clan inv...must have 2.5 kdr or better


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Posted by: SpartanRanger17
It'll drop, its constantly dropping, not just because of Halo 4, but because of newer games in general. Everytime I go on, theres no more than 2500 people playing worldwide (I've even see it go as low as 300). All outdated games die a slow death, just look at Halo 2. We just gotta enjoy it while it lasts.
We are playing 2 different games then. I never see it go below 10,000.
The population count isn't even accurate. It doesn't update properly and sometimes it says there are millions online and sometimes zero.

It used to say 125,000/24 hours on this site before bungie stopped tracking and they were around the same spot. Halo 3 has been from like 13 to 18 the last few months. Up and down, however I think it is at it's lowest point. At least from what I've ever seen and I follow MajorNelson.com

[Edited on 10.11.2012 7:52 PM PDT]

  • 10.11.2012 7:51 PM PDT


Posted by: DHTH777


The Halo 3 population counter has been -blam!- up since the Xbox update that brought the avatars.

  • 10.12.2012 10:20 AM PDT

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I actually am willing to bet that it will quickly cause Halo 3's population to surpass that of Halo Reach's.

I don't think it will effect Halo 3 too much but it will effect Reach.

  • 10.12.2012 11:33 AM PDT
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Hopefully halo 3 will stay at the population of 20k like it is right now but I think it will reach up to 50k when halo 4 comes out cuz reach will suck so people will come back to halo 3 constantly. If halo 4 sucks halo 3 will take all of halo 4s population and become popular again but thats probably not gonna happen. I don't really like halo 4's multiplayer so far what about you guys?

  • 10.14.2012 3:25 AM PDT


Posted by: jjj205


The population counter is glitched. Nobody knows what the true population is. Also, I really doubt it will go up that much.

People will still play Reach.

[Edited on 10.14.2012 3:31 AM PDT]

  • 10.14.2012 3:28 AM PDT
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing"

It'll take a hit.

  • 10.14.2012 2:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mythical Wolf
There will always be people playing this game as it's the only 'normal' Halo left on Xbox Live. Don't worry about it.

  • 10.14.2012 6:38 PM PDT