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Subject: Christmas didn't give Halo 4 the expected population boost.
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Posted by: SICKLEnHAMMER
no matter what Halo does it will never return to #1 on live for more than a couple weeks at a time. COD is king, and it will remain that way for some time. Halo had it's run. It just has to accepted Halo will always be around the #2 or #3 shooter on the market these days. Who cares though? If you enjoy playing it and can find a game, thats all you need.

Everyone saying that removing JIP, nerfing invis, balancing the weapons and adding a 1-50 ranking system will bring everyone back are complete morons. Really? You think those minor tweaks will bring back hundreds or even tens of thousands of people? LOL, right.


This. Just have fun with your game, you can still find matches easily, why do people care if it's number 2?

  • 12.26.2012 8:09 AM PDT

Who cares what the population is? If you like it, then play it. If you don't then don't, it doesn't matter what the -blam!- population is.

  • 12.26.2012 8:10 AM PDT


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Posted by: SICKLEnHAMMER
no matter what Halo does it will never return to #1 on live for more than a couple weeks at a time. COD is king, and it will remain that way for some time. Halo had it's run. It just has to accepted Halo will always be around the #2 or #3 shooter on the market these days. Who cares though? If you enjoy playing it and can find a game, thats all you need.

Everyone saying that removing JIP, nerfing invis, balancing the weapons and adding a 1-50 ranking system will bring everyone back are complete morons. Really? You think those minor tweaks will bring back hundreds or even tens of thousands of people? LOL, right.


This. Just have fun with your game, you can still find matches easily, why do people care if it's number 2?


People think it proves something about the quality of the game (whilst ignoring the next logical step that CoD must be Jesus), or they simply can't handle not being associated with the top game anymore.

  • 12.26.2012 8:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: SICKLEnHAMMER
no matter what Halo does it will never return to #1 on live for more than a couple weeks at a time. COD is king, and it will remain that way for some time. Halo had it's run. It just has to accepted Halo will always be around the #2 or #3 shooter on the market these days. Who cares though? If you enjoy playing it and can find a game, thats all you need.

Everyone saying that removing JIP, nerfing invis, balancing the weapons and adding a 1-50 ranking system will bring everyone back are complete morons. Really? You think those minor tweaks will bring back hundreds or even tens of thousands of people? LOL, right.


This. Just have fun with your game, you can still find matches easily, why do people care if it's number 2?

  • 12.26.2012 8:14 AM PDT

My new xbox live account is KING WAR710 ( Now Fazyzi)

Been playing Halo since 2001

Meh

[Edited on 12.26.2012 8:18 AM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 8:16 AM PDT

My new xbox live account is KING WAR710 ( Now Fazyzi)

Been playing Halo since 2001


Posted by: SICKLEnHAMMER
no matter what Halo does it will never return to #1 on live for more than a couple weeks at a time. COD is king, and it will remain that way for some time. Halo had it's run. It just has to accepted Halo will always be around the #2 or #3 shooter on the market these days. Who cares though? If you enjoy playing it and can find a game, thats all you need.

Everyone saying that removing JIP, nerfing invis, balancing the weapons and adding a 1-50 ranking system will bring everyone back are complete morons. Really? You think those minor tweaks will bring back hundreds or even tens of thousands of people? Yes it will.


/fixed

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  • 12.26.2012 8:17 AM PDT
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From: KaTaNaSaMuRaI09
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War Games Matchmaking had 132,000 players at same time, last night. I bet you the game's total population rose by a few 100k.

[Edited on 12.26.2012 8:25 AM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 8:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: davadude
People, HaloCharts displays daily peak war games matchmaking population, or the most people online at once. Halo Reach showed the people online all day, and Halo 3 adopted a Reach-esque approach for data collecting.

Comparing those numbers puts Halo 4 at a disadvantage. Mix that with it being #2 on the charts, and you're not really proving anything.


Fixed.

  • 12.26.2012 8:24 AM PDT

Of course it didn't I'm trying to host a custom game and only 2 people have signed up

  • 12.26.2012 8:27 AM PDT

It baffles me why people go out of their way just to point out how bad something is doing, or something.

  • 12.26.2012 8:30 AM PDT

"If you want to test a man's character, give him power" -- Abraham Lincoln

I really dont care. People said Reach was dead when it was getting 90k people at one time, and I enjoyed it for two years straight, logged 38k kills, and thousands of matches, so I'll keep playing Halo 4 while everyone else complains.

  • 12.26.2012 8:31 AM PDT

H3ITWP


Posted by: wcd45
It's Christmas day!! Perhaps people are spending time with their family rather than playing video games.


or out of town.

Too many factors besides just the 'date'.

  • 12.26.2012 8:31 AM PDT

If you're passionate about the thing you're talking about, I'll always lend an ear.

It doesn't matter. The only people who should care is 343i and Microsoft.

  • 12.26.2012 8:33 AM PDT

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Posted by: Viper Skills
Halo 4 is still number 2 on the LIVE charts. That is by no means a "failure" so go ahead and try to use population as evidence that the game sucks. It only works against your argument.

Agreed

  • 12.26.2012 8:34 AM PDT
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From: KaTaNaSaMuRaI09
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Halo 4 has 77k people currently online playing in War Games: Matchmaking right now.

It's normally 35k at this time of day in War Games: Matchmaking.

And the population peaked at 108k in War Games Matchmaking today. And is 9:42 A.M., it normally doesn't peak that high until 10 P.M.. I bet you the total population of Halo 4 boosted by a few 100k.

[Edited on 12.26.2012 8:43 AM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 8:39 AM PDT

How come nobody ever links Call of Duty's numbers?? How many people are playing Black Ops II??

  • 12.26.2012 8:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: Opt1mu5Pr1m3 15
How come nobody ever links Call of Duty's numbers?? How many people are playing Black Ops II??


How come Halocharts, 343i, and Microsoft don't show UUs(last 24 hours), how many players online in Halo 4 for everything (not just Matchmaking)? if 343i/Microsoft and Halocharts did that, I bet you it would be showing 200k players for Halo 4's peak, and 1-2 million unique users every 24 hours.

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  • 12.26.2012 8:46 AM PDT

I got my Recon for the '08 VDay tournament for second most kills; 2671.

I didn't "earn" it via VidMasters.

Halo 4 sucks.

  • 12.26.2012 8:46 AM PDT

If I ever get AIDS, I'm going to sleep with another AIDS person so my AIDS cancel each other out, or I'm going to make the AIDS I already have worse.


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Posted by: SICKLEnHAMMER
no matter what Halo does it will never return to #1 on live for more than a couple weeks at a time. COD is king, and it will remain that way for some time. Halo had it's run. It just has to accepted Halo will always be around the #2 or #3 shooter on the market these days. Who cares though? If you enjoy playing it and can find a game, thats all you need.

Everyone saying that removing JIP, nerfing invis, balancing the weapons and adding a 1-50 ranking system will bring everyone back are complete morons. Really? You think those minor tweaks will bring back hundreds or even tens of thousands of people? LOL, right.


This. Just have fun with your game, you can still find matches easily, why do people care if it's number 2?
We don't care it's number 2 we care it's a piece of -blam!- game that tried to be #1 by copying Call of Duty.

  • 12.26.2012 8:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: Aang the Avatar
Posted by: SICKLEnHAMMER
no matter what Halo does it will never return to #1 on live for more than a couple weeks at a time. COD is king, and it will remain that way for some time. Halo had it's run. It just has to accepted Halo will always be around the #2 or #3 shooter on the market these days. Who cares though? If you enjoy playing it and can find a game, thats all you need.

Everyone saying that removing JIP, nerfing invis, balancing the weapons and adding a 1-50 ranking system will bring everyone back are complete morons. Really? You think those minor tweaks will bring back hundreds or even tens of thousands of people? LOL, right.


This. Just have fun with your game, you can still find matches easily, why do people care if it's number 2?


People think it proves something about the quality of the game (whilst ignoring the next logical step that CoD must be Jesus), or they simply can't handle not being associated with the top game anymore.

SOMEBODY WHO GETS IT?! NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR CAPS LOCK!

  • 12.26.2012 8:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: omg a bannana
We don't care it's number 2 we care it's a piece of -blam!- game

Calling H4 a piece of -blam!- is hilarious.

Games that actually ARE pieces of -blam!- can only wish, dream and hope to be as "bad" as H4 is. Games like Big Rigs, Aquaman, Superman 64, etc.

that tried to be #1 by copying Call of Duty.
Even though many of these features were in games before CoD.

Even ignoring that: I've seen the consequence if you don't stay current or relevant with your gaming mechanics: Irrelevancy.

HI MLG PLAYLIST!

  • 12.26.2012 8:53 AM PDT
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From: KaTaNaSaMuRaI09
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Posted by: omg a bannana

Posted by: Aang the Avatar

Posted by: SICKLEnHAMMER
no matter what Halo does it will never return to #1 on live for more than a couple weeks at a time. COD is king, and it will remain that way for some time. Halo had it's run. It just has to accepted Halo will always be around the #2 or #3 shooter on the market these days. Who cares though? If you enjoy playing it and can find a game, thats all you need.

Everyone saying that removing JIP, nerfing invis, balancing the weapons and adding a 1-50 ranking system will bring everyone back are complete morons. Really? You think those minor tweaks will bring back hundreds or even tens of thousands of people? LOL, right.


This. Just have fun with your game, you can still find matches easily, why do people care if it's number 2?
We don't care it's number 2 we care it's a piece of -blam!- game that tried to be #1 by copying Call of Duty.


You've been crapping all over this game since it's first info blowout. Why did you get it?

[Edited on 12.26.2012 8:55 AM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 8:55 AM PDT

If I ever get AIDS, I'm going to sleep with another AIDS person so my AIDS cancel each other out, or I'm going to make the AIDS I already have worse.

Just because those games are worse than Halo 4 doesn't make it not a piece of -blam!-.
Posted by: Methew

Calling H4 a piece of -blam!- is hilarious.

Games that actually ARE pieces of -blam!- can only wish, dream and hope to be as "bad" as H4 is. Games like Big Rigs, Aquaman, Superman 64, etc.

that tried to be #1 by copying Call of Duty.
Even though many of these features were in games before CoD.
Really? Name some with all of those that are in Halo 4.

Also there's no MLG playlists in Halo 4....

[Edited on 12.26.2012 9:00 AM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 8:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: omg a bannana
Just because those games are worse than Halo 4 doesn't make it not a piece of -blam!-.

-blam!- or perfection.

Good forbid that there's ever a middle ground. Such as "Great game with some rough spots."

  • 12.26.2012 9:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: Methew
Posted by: omg a bannana
Just because those games are worse than Halo 4 doesn't make it not a piece of -blam!-.

-blam!- or perfection.

Good forbid that there's ever a middle ground. Such as "Great game with some rough spots."
It's not a great game with some rough spots, the entire thing is basically bad other than the few core Halo mechanics they left in the multiplayer.

  • 12.26.2012 9:01 AM PDT