Halo Insider MCC Flight One - Recap

Jebsquared wrote:

I find it a bit surprising that 343i didn't expect people to play the flight so much, given that the announcement of the MCC coming to PC resulted in the fans sending them pizzas. If they were that excited about the mere announcement, they'd be even more excited to play the flight.
Either way, it's good to hear that flight 1 was a success!
Looking forward to flight two!

It was mostly that there wasn't much to play in the flight, so with the ratio of sessions to number of active players being higher than they had predicted, they were surprised

Semi-pro CS:GO player here, big halo 1 fan wana make the switch when it comes out.. I don't have a problem telling you the game is -Yoink- if it is

FW Superderpy wrote:

Jebsquared wrote:

I find it a bit surprising that 343i didn't expect people to play the flight so much, given that the announcement of the MCC coming to PC resulted in the fans sending them pizzas. If they were that excited about the mere announcement, they'd be even more excited to play the flight.
Either way, it's good to hear that flight 1 was a success!
Looking forward to flight two!

It was mostly that there wasn't much to play in the flight, so with the ratio of sessions to number of active players being higher than they had predicted, they were surprised

I wonder if a minority tipped that number. A few super fans playing hundreds of times making it look like engagement was way up.

Desmond373 wrote:

FW Superderpy wrote:

Jebsquared wrote:

I find it a bit surprising that 343i didn't expect people to play the flight so much, given that the announcement of the MCC coming to PC resulted in the fans sending them pizzas. If they were that excited about the mere announcement, they'd be even more excited to play the flight.
Either way, it's good to hear that flight 1 was a success!
Looking forward to flight two!

It was mostly that there wasn't much to play in the flight, so with the ratio of sessions to number of active players being higher than they had predicted, they were surprised

I wonder if a minority tipped that number. A few super fans playing hundreds of times making it look like engagement was way up.

They would also have that specific info. Just as they could tell how many times each individual person played the flooded playlist during that challenge last fall.

Did the flights start? Oh my gosh let me check my email!

InnerHealer8414 wrote:

Did the flights start? Oh my gosh let me check my email!

The first flight ran from the 28th of last month to the 1st of this. Had <1000 people so 95% didn't get emails.

I love Halo Flights. I'd love to be a part of one someday.

So many good things to hear. I can not wait for this next flight guys. Every update i hear from you guys just puts a big smile on my face because it means that we are another step closer to experiencing this awesome beast of a game on PC. Keep up the great work and hey my schedule is wide open just saying ;).

KILLTHIS354 wrote:

i do have one question, how many flights are there going to be?

Probably as many as 343 feels they need before Reach is in a stable enough state to be released to retail

Jebsquared wrote:

What I want to know is: how many people have signed up for the insider program? I have a burning need to calculate my odds of getting picked for fireflight, but I can't do that until I know how many insiders there are.

The most detailed number we have is 'tens of thousands'. "Roughly 20x as many people this time around" would mean ~20k people, out of 20k-100k I'd assume. Whatever the case, I wouldn't put too much thought into it; if you get picked you get picked, if you don't you don't.