- Gaara444
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Even with MW2's launch there was still 100k+ on Social Slayer at the time.
Also, I want proof of Bungie stating that their stat tracker was broken, since they were Hell bent to defend it every time someone brought it up on the Forums.
Reach's population started to die even when it was the most active Halo title at the time, Halo 3 didn't "die" until late into Reach's life span. It took two Halo games and MW2 (The biggest entertainment launch in media history at the time) to knock Halo 3 off from it's pedestal and right now it isn't taking any Halo titles at all to knock Halo 4 off.
Posted by: Methew
H3's population definitely did start to decline way before Reach. H3 traded with MW for #1 and #2 on the activity charts and outright lost to MW2.
Even then: Apples to oranges.
Not only was it a different time for H3, it was the popular 'it' game, but it's population counter and tracker were different from today. Hell, Bungie themselves said that it's tracker and counter weren't accurate since it guess player population from number of games played.
Hell, Bungie has even said that Reach did better than H3, and Reach was "worse" than H3.