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Not surprised, it doesn’t really feel like a halo game. Single player was sort of fun, but not worth replaying. Halo hasn’t felt like halo since the original team left, so I’d call it generic fps at this point.

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I never played any Halo game. Which old Halo game is worth playing? Are there some good PC versions or maybe I should emulate OG XBox?

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Halo master chief collection is what you want. It has all the campaigns for 1-4 + reach & odst, they also remastered the older ones. When you play them all back to back you can really see the drop at halo 4, which was the first non Bungie game.

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Thanks! The game is on sale right now so I picked it up, I’ll dive into it soon

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Incredibly misleading and click bait article. The game still has over 6000 concurrent players daily, which is more than enough for an online game.

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That’d be good for an indie game, but for a AAA, free to play Halo game? That’s almost nobody compared to what they should be pulling. BF 2042 is beating it, even if by a slim margin, and it wasn’t even made free.

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Makes you wonder is they’ll kill MCC to try and push players to infinite which has much more monetization.

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From what remember from splitgate once that game started to bleed players it quickly reached untenable numbers, especially for a big ip like halo. But I agree I’ll pay more attention to the articles when they make similar claims.

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I’d argue it’s misleading because they are using Steam numbers for Halo. 90% of the people playing are probably on Xbox.

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21 points

They flopped hard. The game lacked content, ran poorly, and had one of the most aggressive monetization I’ve ever seen. They sold armor color palettes for $15, and doubled down hard after community backlash. The game launched without singleplayer, and when it did the singleplayer sucked.

It sucks that this was supposed to be Xbox’s killer first party title, but the devs were just totally incompetent.

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Did they ever launch campaign co-op? My friends and I had fun playing season 1 of the mp but Jesus Christ, did the game get boring fast.

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Online co-op, yes. Split screen was scraped altogether.

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Skins are not agressive monetization. locking weapons and abilities are.

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The prices are outrageous though and there were virtually no rewards for free2play users.

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The article doesn’t take into consideration that you can get Halo Infinite multiplayer from the Microsoft Store as well. While there’s no way to tell how many people are on it since MS Store numbers aren’t public, I’d imagine it being somewhat significant as Halo Infinite campaign is on PC Game Pass.

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Halo Infinite is no Battlebit. Thats for sure.

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