Microsoft Studios lead Matt Booty spoke candidly about Halo: Infinite on a podcast, stating that the sport didn’t succeed the place it might have, and reiterating that there are plans to salvage it.
Showing on the Mates-Per-Second podcast (thanks, GameSpot!), Booty talked about how Halo: Infinite’s launch was stellar — the sport reached roughly 20 million gamers. Nonetheless, the sport ultimately began to drop off in recognition, with gamers citing an absence of fascinating content material updates.
“Today, with a recreation like Halo Infinite, delivery the sport is only the start. There has acquired to be a plan for content material maintain; there has acquired to be a plan for normal persevering with engagement. And we simply fell in need of the plan on that,” Booty stated on the podcast.
“Thanks to the gamers for sticking with us via this. We all know there may be far more demand and there may be a lot extra we could possibly be delivering. That’s our focus proper now… on high quality of life for the sport and getting on a daily cadence of content material, getting again to that,” he added.
To answer the various complaints from gamers, 343 Industries, the developer behind Halo: Infinite, has “retrenched” of their workplaces and is engaged on a simpler pipeline to maneuver content material in the direction of gamers.
Examples of those complaints might be discovered in all places on social media. Notable streamer moistcri1kal has cited 343 because the “worst developer” in the case of recreation high quality and updates, and gamers took 343 to activity over the now-cancelled plans for split-screen co-op — one thing 343 claimed wasn’t potential. Regardless of that assertion, gamers discovered a approach to glitch it into existence.
To proper the ship, 343 has just a few content material updates within the works. The primary of which, the Winter Replace, will characteristic marketing campaign co-op, extra maps, the Forge beta (which permits gamers to create their very own ranges,) and a brand new battle cross. Past that, Season 3 is confirmed to launch in March of subsequent yr.
Written by Junior Miyai on behalf of GLHF.
