People praising 343 for reduced playlist scraps after all this time “fixing” the game. It was 343’s idea to shove 4 games on one disk and then they want to worry about population control so we get bare minimum playlists. I’m not satisifed at all and this is why there is little to no hype for your products anymore. H2 and H3 should be chock full of ranked and social playlists.
Give us all playlists as well as show the populations for each playlist and let the community decide what we want to populate. Then you can step in and do your job by process of elimination to reduce consistently dead playlists. But to hold back most playlists because YOU fear a low population, will be self fulfilling. Also, very reminiscent of your H5 release. Start giving your consumers more options and quit trying to control every little thing.
343 is out of touch with its player base. Your right. They stuff as much of their product into one sock as they can, with the promise of HD classic Halo at 60 fps on dedicated servers, only to ration out content as if they actually know what they are doing. And at this point it is frustrating that they have not opened up the test server to all owners of MCC. They take so much from players/consumers, and give back so little (like our money for a broken game). They really screwed up halo by botching fair starts and they are still very silent on things like party matching, and now they want to take total control of playlists. I understand that they took a poll but maximizing playlist options at the outset and then addressing population should be the way to go. Dont they already know what people play? They have information that they wont share with us about populations in current retail MCC, and that version is BROKEN. More people will play your game if you fix it. 343 is like "big brother"; they think they know best, but they don't.
How many playlists are on current retail MCC, and how many are they proposing for the update? Does it make sense?