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Subject: Halo 4 population under 100k: The death of Halo?

I actually enjoy Halo 4. More so than Reach.

  • 12.13.2012 6:50 AM PDT

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They literally screwed up every gametype.

How can anyone ruin Slayer? It's such a simple gametype but they introduced instant respawn.

It's so obvious 343i took aspects off the mainstream game (CoD). That argument about CoD not being the first to introduce progressional ranking systems, instant respawn, killcams, and whatnot isn't even valid. What's valid is that it is the mainstream game therefore they tried to attract an audience that will always stick with CoD.

If they satisfied the core fanbase and listened to competitive players, we would have a good Halo game. 343i should take notes from Activision, because in every CoD they have kept the core gameplay.

People hated the addition of equipment to Halo 3 but it still had the great Halo feel to it. When you introduce sprinting (something that should have NEVER been in Halo) and all of that retarded AA crap, there is no way the game feels like classic Halo. I don't want to play evolved Halo, because it isn't Halo anymore.

Halo has always been a competitive game, and it's just being catered to kids who would buy a game if it had Halo in it anyways.

  • 12.13.2012 7:24 AM PDT

...it isn't even under 100k. The only peak population shown that is under 100k is for today, at 10:26 a.m., during a low population time, on a Thursday.

Trolls are just getting worse.

  • 12.13.2012 7:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: NS_NEWCOMER
And I'm just gonna go ahead and call this now: inb4 some chromosome superfluous fanboy attempts the lowest form of wit by sarcastically claiming CoD was the first to do all these things. This is preemptively directed to you, whomever this moron may be: CoD may have not invented them, but it sure as hell popularized them and it's the best selling FPS in the market right now (I have no figures in front of me, but I'm feeling bold enough to extend that claim to best selling of all time).

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  • 12.13.2012 7:27 AM PDT

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Orrrr


Maybe a lot of people who play Halo have finals right now or are not on winter break yet?

  • 12.13.2012 7:28 AM PDT
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It's simple people.

There are more shooters out on Xbox now.

When Halo 3 came out, the most popular shooters were: Gears, Vegas, GRAW, and CoD 2. That was literally it. And obviously, Halo 3 was going to have a much bigger fanbase then one new franchise and three others that have been traditionally PC.

Now what do we have?
All the Halo games on 360.
MW2, MW3, Blops, Blops II.
BF3, BC2.
Gears 3.
GRFS.
etc...

The number of AAA shooters has more than doubled. Obviously, not everyone's going to play only Halo any more.

  • 12.13.2012 7:37 AM PDT

"Before you insult someone, try walking a mile in their shoes. This way, when you insult them, you are a mile away and have their shoes."

What really needs to be fixed:

-The fact you guys still cannot understand Halocharts measures peak population, not daily population.

  • 12.13.2012 7:39 AM PDT

Don't worry, you're still your mom's favorite Bnet member.

Or maybe people are too busy doing real world things to satisfy your statistical needs? WAAAAH WHY ARE YOU STUDYING FOR FINALS WE NEED MORE PEOPLE ON HALO 4

  • 12.13.2012 7:40 AM PDT

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The Death of Halo hahahahahaha

  • 12.13.2012 7:43 AM PDT

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I agree.

  • 12.13.2012 7:44 AM PDT


Posted by: davadude
What really needs to be fixed:

-The fact you guys still cannot understand Halocharts measures peak population, not daily population.


I thought there was a chart for that aswell. It records the highest number of daily players from the day before.. Well if you want the daily population right now? It is a lot lower than the charts obviously.

OT: The population by the charts... Is really starting to deplete, now going past 100k. The difference to the left and right is astounding!

  • 12.13.2012 7:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: davadude
What really needs to be fixed:

-The fact you guys still cannot understand Halocharts measures peak population, not daily population.


I thought there was a chart for that aswell. It records the highest number of daily players from the day before.. Well if you want the daily population right now? It is a lot lower than the charts obviously.


Nobody apart from Microsoft/343 have the actual daily player count. These charts all show the most at ONE moment, which is probably taken in a few hours. During EU hours there are usually about 50k people online at once, US gets a lot more.

  • 12.13.2012 7:50 AM PDT

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Or maybe people are too busy doing real world things to satisfy your statistical needs? WAAAAH WHY ARE YOU STUDYING FOR FINALS WE NEED MORE PEOPLE ON HALO 4
This.

  • 12.13.2012 7:56 AM PDT

It cant just be one possible moment. If a higher population shows up, it should replace the previous result (unless youre talking about time zones, those should also be included in the results aswell). Unless you mean unique users?

Then again I have no idea if its 100% accurate. It can only give a brief outlook.
Posted by: davadude
Nobody apart from Microsoft/343 have the actual daily player count. These charts all show the most at ONE moment, which is probably taken in a few hours. During EU hours there are usually about 50k people online at once, US gets a lot more.

  • 12.13.2012 7:59 AM PDT

http://i.imgur.com/fsISj.png

You're all arguing about this as if it's the most important issue in the world, but at the end of the day...

  • 12.13.2012 8:23 AM PDT

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I am so tired of seeing threads about Halo 4.... Nothing is positive...

  • 12.13.2012 8:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: SpecOps0
It cant just be one possible moment. If a higher population shows up, it should replace the previous result (unless youre talking about time zones, those should also be included in the results aswell). Unless you mean unique users?

Then again I have no idea if its 100% accurate. It can only give a brief outlook.
Posted by: davadude
Nobody apart from Microsoft/343 have the actual daily player count. These charts all show the most at ONE moment, which is probably taken in a few hours. During EU hours there are usually about 50k people online at once, US gets a lot more.


It is. It's easy to find the highest daily population for one moment by indexing Waypoint every 15 minutes, like HC does. The actual playercount has no API access point nor method of gaining.

  • 12.13.2012 8:47 AM PDT

Posted by: puck88
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Garem is a hero, you autistic.

TF2 has around 70k. You don't see that dying do you?

  • 12.13.2012 8:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: annoyinginge
You're all arguing about this as if it's the most important issue in the world, but at the end of the day...

Saved.

  • 12.13.2012 8:49 AM PDT

>100,000 people on at one time in the middle of the week
> Ermahgerd gaiz Haloz iz dying!!!!11one

Idiots.

  • 12.13.2012 8:55 AM PDT
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Posted by: EChondo
If it's not broke, don't fix it.

They obviously don't know the golden rule. EA/Dice broke this rule and now look at BF3,
BF3 is a huge success especially because Dice still supports the game with patches and DLC. A year later, the game still has around 40,000 gamers on PS3, 30,000 gamers on the xbox. Even beats Halo 4's population sometimes.

Halo 4 would be more popular if it had a rank system like Halo 2 to begin with.

  • 12.13.2012 9:14 AM PDT


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Posted by: EChondo
If it's not broke, don't fix it.

They obviously don't know the golden rule. EA/Dice broke this rule and now look at BF3,
BF3 is a huge success especially because Dice still supports the game with patches and DLC. A year later, the game still has around 40,000 gamers on PS3, 30,000 gamers on the xbox. Even beats Halo 4's population sometimes.

Halo 4 would be more popular if it had a rank system like Halo 2 to begin with.

First think about this: when Halo 4 has less 40k players at a time, BF3 has less than 5000.

  • 12.13.2012 9:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: RETROGHO5TY
TF2 has around 70k. You don't see that dying do you?


5 year old game vs 1 month old game.

  • 12.13.2012 9:17 AM PDT

Lol

Halo is already dead. The moment when they decided to make Halo into a modern warfare shooter clone with a sci-fi skin and took away arena style elements is when Halo officially died in all but name.

  • 12.13.2012 9:19 AM PDT

Stop trying to rationalize this. The population is low because the game sucks.

You think black ops 2s population is low right now because its finals week? No.

  • 12.13.2012 9:19 AM PDT