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Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

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Re: Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

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Nice Microsoft paid piece

I wonder if the only way newspapers make money in the near future is by buying articles, like lobbiests buy bills?

The American people seem so disenfranchised they might let it slide, while the wealthy boys will use their money to buy goodwill.

I hope not.

Re: Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

#22
I played the game for the first time today (free on XBox Pass), and was very surprised. It positively feels like a game from the late 2000s, in every aspect, and especially in multiplayer. Boring graphics, stiff movement, cobbled together audio... I'm puzzled how it has any appeal.

Re: Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

#23

I played the game for the first time today (free on XBox Pass), and was very surprised. It positively feels like a game from the late 2000s, in every aspect, and especially in multiplayer. Boring graphics, stiff movement, cobbled together audio... I'm puzzled how it has any appeal.

The levels I saw in the tutorial felt very empty and hollow.

Like the environment artists just copy and pasted the same crates around with the same little doodads.

Just seemed bland.

Re: Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

#24

Nice Microsoft paid piece

I wonder if the only way newspapers make money in the near future is by buying articles, like lobbiests buy bills? The American people seem so disenfranchised they might let it slide, while the wealthy boys will use their money to buy goodwill. I hope not.

(Why is your post dead? I just vouched for it.)

How are we to be certain that this isn't already happening?

I have a sneaking suspicion that most of Reddit top posts, whatever Google news recommends, and any media / Hollywood / game blog is astroturfed and paid for.

Re: Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

#28

This seems well timed given the actively raging fans in /r/halo that are upset over the monetization scheme, lack of Playlist customization, already rampant online cheating, and the myriad of other technical issues. I think they managed to avoid cyberpunk levels of disaster.. but it's a bit early to call victory.

There will be loud complainers for every major game that will ever be released at this point. I've been playing it quite a bit, and sure I'd love more maps and at first the experience seemed to be given too slowly, but the gameplay itself is pretty rock solid and it's the most time I've put into any multiplayer shooter in a long time. Easily played it more than the last few Call of Duties, Valorant, and Fortnite comb…

Exact same experience for me (though I probably would have bought it either way). My sense is that the reddit vitriol is from a vocal but small minority.

Re: Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

#29
post #25

Bloomberg continues its slide. Hysterically bad marketing puff piece. I'll leave this here http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

If someone was pushing their PR to blogs, what better way to do so than tell people blogs are the most authentic?

Re: Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph

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"BOTTOM LINE - Microsoft wanted to release the latest “Halo” with the new Xbox, but avoided disaster by putting the release off to fix serious issues with the game." Judging from about 20 hours in the multiplayer (As well as the reviews that have started to roll in), It's a bit early to say they "avoided disaster". There's a lot of glitches and an unbearable amount of server desync on the online front, and many revie…

The negativity with this game is ridiculous. I have experienced 0 glitches in the multiplayer and the campaign is excellent. The issues everyone is having is with the multiplayer monetization which i dont care about since i dont spend money on cosmetics.

If you are spreading fud about glitches and the game being “broken” then find me one reputable news source reporting on these issues.

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