Why Halo Infinite isn’t Gold yet?

Sparhawk122 wrote:

Plastic Hassle wrote:

A little early for gold. Taking a quick look:

Halo 4 = September 26, 2012 (gold) / November 6, 2012 (release)
Halo MCC = October 17, 2014 (gold) / November 11, 2014 (release)
Halo 5 = October 7, 2015 (gold) / October 27, 2015 (release)

Also, I expect there will be a large day one patch to be downloaded.

Halo 5 went gold the latest and was the worse Halo game. Maybe there's a pattern.

Sparhawk122 wrote:

BitBowmanator wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

Plastic Hassle wrote:

A little early for gold. Taking a quick look:

Halo 4 = September 26, 2012 (gold) / November 6, 2012 (release)
Halo MCC = October 17, 2014 (gold) / November 11, 2014 (release)
Halo 5 = October 7, 2015 (gold) / October 27, 2015 (release)

Also, I expect there will be a large day one patch to be downloaded.

Halo 5 went gold the latest and was the worse Halo game. Maybe there's a pattern.

One instance does not make a pattern. Another example is the witcher 3 https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-goes-gold/Arguably one of the biggest games this gen and that went gold one month before release. There does not seem to be any specific pattern to when a game goes gold and should not be used as a factor to doubt the game's progress.

I remember The Witcher 3 release. The launch was a mess and it took three or more months for them to fix some serious bugs and improve the graphics that they had downgraded from their gameplay reveal at E3.

BitBowmanator wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

BitBowmanator wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

Plastic Hassle wrote:

A little early for gold. Taking a quick look:

Halo 4 = September 26, 2012 (gold) / November 6, 2012 (release)
Halo MCC = October 17, 2014 (gold) / November 11, 2014 (release)
Halo 5 = October 7, 2015 (gold) / October 27, 2015 (release)

Also, I expect there will be a large day one patch to be downloaded.

Halo 5 went gold the latest and was the worse Halo game. Maybe there's a pattern.

One instance does not make a pattern. Another example is the witcher 3 https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-goes-gold/Arguably one of the biggest games this gen and that went gold one month before release. There does not seem to be any specific pattern to when a game goes gold and should not be used as a factor to doubt the game's progress.

I remember The Witcher 3 release. The launch was a mess and it took three or more months for them to fix some serious bugs and improve the graphics that they had downgraded from their gameplay reveal at E3.

I remember it differently and if it did launch in such a poor state, it not seem to affect the critical or commercial success of the game.

Sparhawk122 wrote:

BitBowmanator wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

BitBowmanator wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

Plastic Hassle wrote:

A little early for gold. Taking a quick look:

Halo 4 = September 26, 2012 (gold) / November 6, 2012 (release)
Halo MCC = October 17, 2014 (gold) / November 11, 2014 (release)
Halo 5 = October 7, 2015 (gold) / October 27, 2015 (release)

Also, I expect there will be a large day one patch to be downloaded.

Halo 5 went gold the latest and was the worse Halo game. Maybe there's a pattern.

One instance does not make a pattern. Another example is the witcher 3 https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-goes-gold/Arguably one of the biggest games this gen and that went gold one month before release. There does not seem to be any specific pattern to when a game goes gold and should not be used as a factor to doubt the game's progress.

I remember The Witcher 3 release. The launch was a mess and it took three or more months for them to fix some serious bugs and improve the graphics that they had downgraded from their gameplay reveal at E3.

I remember it differently and if it did launch in such a poor state, it not seem to affect the critical or commercial success of the game.

Because the graphics even though downgraded still looked great. And the bugs did not happen to everyone.

However there was a downgrade in comparison to the E3 gameplay presentation.

Do you think Halo Infinite will look much better then what has been shown. Personally I highly doubt it.

Sparhawk122 wrote:

AzCoyotes195 wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

The game needs to be delayed in my opinion. Obviously it is not even remotely close to being ready. Nor is it worth it to buy an Xbox Series X for this ugly looking game.

Yeah the graphics were pretty alarming to say the least and I would rather them just delay the release until everything is good to go. Since we're in the middle of a pandemic and they're forced to work from home they now have a reason to push the release date back.

Because of this pandemic things like shipping will be slower. So it will be interesting to see when they do go gold.

GottaGetItOn wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

GottaGetItOn wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

GottaGetItOn wrote:

Games usually go gold about a month before release. Unless you know something I don’t, we still have 3 or so months before release.

2-3 months is when games go Gold. Because that's when the physical copies get made and start getting shipped out to stores. Anything under 2 months means logistics nightmare.

This is incorrect. You think stores get physical copies of games 2-3 months in advance?

They get manufactured. Packaged and then ready to be shipped. Very hard to do all that within 1 month. Definitely when shipping worldwide. Two to three months is the standard for going gold. As soon as you go gold manufacturing commences.

Just curious. Have you ever worked in retail? Lol

That’s just false. Two examples:

Ghosts of Tsushima went gold on June 22nd and released on July 17th. Under 4 weeks...

Borderlands 3 went gold last year on July 31st and released on September 13th. Under 6 weeks...

There’s not much in the way of “manufacturing”. They write the game on premade discs and package them in premade boxes.

SkiddyCornet416 wrote:

GottaGetItOn wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

GottaGetItOn wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

GottaGetItOn wrote:

Games usually go gold about a month before release. Unless you know something I don’t, we still have 3 or so months before release.

2-3 months is when games go Gold. Because that's when the physical copies get made and start getting shipped out to stores. Anything under 2 months means logistics nightmare.

This is incorrect. You think stores get physical copies of games 2-3 months in advance?

They get manufactured. Packaged and then ready to be shipped. Very hard to do all that within 1 month. Definitely when shipping worldwide. Two to three months is the standard for going gold. As soon as you go gold manufacturing commences.

Just curious. Have you ever worked in retail? Lol

That’s just false. Two examples:

Ghosts of Tsushima went gold on June 22nd and released on July 17th. Under 4 weeks...

Borderlands 3 went gold last year on July 31st and released on September 13th. Under 6 weeks...

There’s not much in the way of “manufacturing”. They write the game on premade discs and package them in premade boxes.

Huh?

As far as I know discs are pressed not writed. There's a Press Model and a Stamper does press them.

CptOliver83 wrote:

At this point, after many years in development, Halo Infinite should have been Gold by now and Xbox should focusing on marketing and creating hype around the game until launch day.

Instead, they are now dealing with a MAJOR graphic problem. We don’t know what happen durring development, but we know the Halo Infinite presentation has damaged both Halo and Xbox brand.

Worse, Halo Infinite was supposed to be a Xbox Gamepass seller, but it’s doing the exact opposite at the moment.

We, THE FANS, would appreciate CLEAR explanations of your vision and what’s the state of the rest of the game and what we should expect for the future of Halo Infinite.

Please set expectations 343i

Best Regards

AzCoyotes195 wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

AzCoyotes195 wrote:

Sparhawk122 wrote:

The game needs to be delayed in my opinion. Obviously it is not even remotely close to being ready. Nor is it worth it to buy an Xbox Series X for this ugly looking game.

Yeah the graphics were pretty alarming to say the least and I would rather them just delay the release until everything is good to go. Since we're in the middle of a pandemic and they're forced to work from home they now have a reason to push the release date back.

Because of this pandemic things like shipping will be slower. So it will be interesting to see when they do go gold.

Yeah definitely. I feel they're under a lot of stress from Microsoft and Halo being a launch title for project x. I feel like they're in a Halo 2 like development where they have all this ambition and plans with the game but just with the way the world is right now they can't quite accomplish it all which sucks.