Unless the players and press begin to hold publishers accountable, unfinished games like Halo Infinite and Redfall will become the norm.
from paulsemel.com: In this exclusive Q&A, the author of five previous "Halo" novels talks about this "Halo Infinite" sequel story about Master Chief.
Halo Infinite's live service updates will be ending with Operation: Infinite set to be released on November 18, 2025.
Well good luck with the next game, been on almost all systems will help the game life and strengthen their community with fresh blood.
no MP till Halo 7, as per leak
Don't know if it'll release parallelly with Halo 2R or Halo 3R or totally after the trilogy of remakes.
Onto the next 10 year promise! When that turns out to be more Unreal slop you can drop it and promise the same for the game after.
I’m one of the 15 people that regularly play this. Oh well. Hopefully the game will retain a small dedicated player base.
Glenn Israel writes: "As of today and after seventeen long years, I am officially no longer contributing to the Halo universe. There is little more I can say for the moment, though I intend to share this particular story in its entirety when it is absolutely safe to do so next year. In the meantime, I have a message for anyone and everyone who needs to hear it.
I know that the state of our industry seems dire, but never forget that you are *free to choose*. No illusion of security nor promise of wealth or fame or power is worth trading away your health, your dignity, your ethics or values - and no one can force you to. Stay strong, take evidence when necessary, and find where you belong."
I’m really disappointed to learn there are still people/morale problems. I thought the whole point of rebranding 343i to Halo Studios was to signal that real changes had been made - not to cynically rebrand to paper over the problems.
I really hope the Halo CE remake is great and gets people hyped for the future of the series.
It's inevitable with the modern landscape. Even if some issues have been assuaged, new ones crop up all the time.
I'm willing to bet AI and the lack of regulation is causing substantial upset.
He said something very marking . We tend to complain a lot about the industry but deep down I realize that we never have we been offered this crazy amount of games all available for you to play now . You can literally play any sorts of games in 2025 . Nobody is forcing you to buy the latest COD or the latest BF . You’re more of a 8 bit cozy gaming guy there’s a whole niche of modern games for that . You like micromanaging there’s games for that . I feel like we have been spoiled so much we just stopped being realistic and thinking for ourselves . We follow trends cry about stuff online when you are the buyer you have the power .
....wth happened over there?
Does this confirm a new Halo by next year?
What did they want him to do that made him feel it was morally wrong or a insult to his integrity?
Well how about that, a name change doesn’t fix internal issues
Who would have thought
It's refreshing to see such awareness from a gaming news outlet.
We need to avoid another Xbox Live situation - hear me out. Xbox Live was great at the time, don't get me wrong, but it was also a trap. It was YEARS before Sony charged us to pay for online play. They waited, watching. Probably thinking, "this won't end well for MS". Except it did. And MS bragged about it's profits, so Sony were like, "okay then, gamers are going with this, so it looks like we have another revenue stream, whoop whoop!".
My point being, if we don't slap them down and shout it from the rooftops when they take the p!ss (see: Redfall), we'll be sending the message that we'll take it - and at that stage, that's all we're going to get, more crap.
BE VOCAL and push back. Don't play it, even if you already paid for GamePass, or you're upping their player stats and their 'MAUs'. Wait it out. They might eventually make it a good game, then it's worth your time and you can jump in... but I wouldn't hold your breath.
But, and this might be disruptive, M$ is NOT interested in competing with the great games of their competitors. They have a different vision.
They used to not be open to new IPs, which is why Bungie left. Now, they are sooooo open to any creative vision that they have zero standards for their quality. Sony outright canceled the KOTOR remake…. Would M$ ever do that?
And as long as you can get all of Xbox’s $70 games for $15/month, M$ hopes your standards will be closer to those for a $15 game than a $70 AAA system seller exclusive that Sony and Nintendo still manage to produce.
Imagine if Sony wasn’t making games, and we only had Xbox games to set expectations: they’d be telling us that it would be impossible to do what Sony does (makes games as fun as Nintendo and pretty enough to be the envy of pc gamers).
We are lucky that the industry developed differently. We’d only be luckier if M$ managed to actually compete and motivate Sony to strive even further.
These days, you find a good indie developer and keep them in your back pocket. There’s some good ones out there like Fromsoftware and Kojima, but they are the ones that won’t associate themselves with he bigger companies. I hope their fan bases keep them open, because I’d hate to lose the developers that actually give a damn.
Absolutely right Jim Ryan should apologize for Forspoken
They are already the norm. Ffs early access is a thing, wildly inconsistent, some games never even get done despite money being poured in. They demand 70 dollars, 80 or even 100 in other parts of the world. Well then we should demand they put out a working game day one! Yet we see Starwars getting near perfect scores, only after do we see sites speaking of how technically buggy it is. Wtf mention that in the review, lower the scores, inform your audience.
Also let's not pretend Redfall is getting treated fairly, cause it's not. The whole 30 fps thing was blown out of proportion, sites just further exploiting it now that it's out. Very selective about what game they throw under the bus during reviews. We've seen it many times now, so many broken games with no mentions of that fact during reviews. Then many of you start praising these sites for doing what they SHOULD be doing for every title.