This Could Be The End... 

Simple edit for the news today, I know I don't cover Halo news much anymore, but felt this had to be talked about. Anyways I am working on a great call of duty 4 video with lots of nice editing, itll be out later this week or next week :)

I hope 343 closes for good. The devs are fine but I will never trust the management from that studio ever. They burned through all the good trust of both the fans and their employees.

You know for years I come on RU-vid and I've been completely blown away by the work of the Halo fanbase. Even just this past week that guy came out with those amazing remakes of the CE cutscenes. Microsoft needs to hire these people and give Halo to them. For the last decade+ all Halo as a franchise has had going for it is it's fanbase. The knowledge, skill, dedication, and love I've seen so many people put into Halo in their own way is beyond impressive and it all reminds me of why I fell in love with Halo in the first place. These people GET Halo. The reason the franchise has gotten to this point is because they put the wrong people in charge and they lose focus of what made Halo so great. It's time to turn the franchise over to the fans as much as possible.

What sucks is the higher ups that put Infinite into this position left scot-free, leaving the employees to clean up the mess and then get fired.

It's been an honor, fellow Spartans. Least I have MCC.

343 could be turning into a franchise manager. Halo might be outsourced to another company like Certain Affinity with 343 managing it all. folks who have left 343 today shared this privately.

Joe was an undercover agent sent over to give false hope that the game had a future, they knew if Joe could get peoples hopes up they would spend money on the FOMO monetization system they built. Now that the game has been out for a year all the promotions they had set up are over and the playerbase has bottomed out they are gonna cut the strings and run off with the money they made from the hope heads. No season 4 no campaign dlc no BR.

This is wild and sad. Makes me wonder what's going to happen with MCC also.

Infinite has been on life support since they released the broken desyncy beta build as the official build with a poverty level of content for 13 months till they let people make their own content

Losing 60 to 120 developers is completely insane. That could be as many as 1/4 employees.

Thank you bungie for everything... truly.

I really hope that Infinite is done for, but I do hope that the franchise is not. Infinite has problems in the root of the game that cannot be fixed, but I believe if another company took over Halo and made a new game, they can make Halo as good as it used to be. That's just me being optimistic though.

They had a decade. Wait, is forge mode considered a single player thing or a multiplayer thing? Time for the next Halo? I picture 343 Studios looking stressed out trying to manage Halo. With bags under their eyes and smoking cigarettes.

343 had this coming since 2012. Hopefully Microsoft put together a new team who actually know and understand what made Halo great in the first place.

There is for sure never gonna be another halo game. Microsoft is done with it since it does not make enough profit. I think the live service will be completely dropped by the end of this year

The best feeling 343 ever gave me was Meh after releasing Halo 4 an entire Decade ago, it never went uphill after that and now we’re here to the point they should never touch a Halo game again. 10 years, meanwhile Bungie had a steep uphill making Halo 1-3 in the same time frame.

this has the potential to be good, maybe another company takes the mantle of responsibility and turns things around?

Halo was fun at one point, wish people cared enough to treat it like a video game. They should make one more after infinite, keep the gameplay identical but give it a new engine and better servers and keep pumping content into as frequently as every other game does

R.I.P Halo 2001-2023 💔 An franchise that truly changed my life for the better and my favorite franchise of all time.

MS is catching up to what was obvious to me and other hardcore fans 10 years ago - 343 is an incompetent developer and they will not ever make a great Halo game. 343 needs to be shuttered and Halo should be turned into an IP licensed to other devs, similar to something like Star Wars. Bonnie Ross, Frank O'Conner, and Kiki Wolfkill killed Halo.

“We don’t know but let me clickbait as always “…

Halo fans when Microsoft actually starts firing 343 staff (this is what they asked for)

Halo Infinite will never recover, the writing has been on the walls.

As a playstaion User I hope they don't kill halo infinite it has potential just get the right people

I dont think halo is dead. Im pretty sure microsoft is firing 343 and giving it to another company. I hope that happens because I really want this franchise to continue (mainly the campaigns)

Live service elements? Theres people working on the live service ?

And there is Bethesda asking themselves wtf just happened and omg wtf?!?!?! Not good. Not good at all. Todd Howard is probably having a heart attack. Also. All 343i needs to do is start flooding socials and ranked lobbies with forge created maps. Let the fans keep the game alive. 343 can just release a new battle pass with skins. That's such easy work for them right. Just make skins 343 and let us make the maps.

This is the direct result of greedy corporatism. Milking the fuck out of everything and nothing matters except maximizing cost effectiveness. And that's why older titles reign superior in every way

Franchising!!! Everybody!!! Franchising!!! Do what Warhammer does! Before you guys say that Halo is dead- Maybe Halo Infinite is. I hope it is. Because they need to reset. But consider the franchising angle. Please. Think of how everybody felt when COD Infinite Warfare was released, vs. the reaction when MW19 was previewed. They fucked up their opportunity.. But other people can still have theirs

Its over. Wishing you all the best with your channel. You've a good mind for content. I'm sure whatever you pivot over to you'll find success.

343i needs to close the name alone has a bad reputation of incompetence, and if Halo were to be salvaged, the multiplayer is the way to go, I rather they bring back the Spartans Ops as a form of storytelling and give Master Chief a break before they can rebuild Halo up again.

Truth be told it probably was over when the Halo 3 servers ended.

Fuck me man, just when season 3 looked like the start of the resurrection of the game. I still really enjoy the gameplay, but I can’t see myself only playing for that.

10 year plan.

I cant see that they will cut season 4 or cancel Halo Infinite altogether. That makes no sense unless they have something to replace it with. And if that replacement isn't a new Halo game, or at least a traditional one, then where do those players go. They risk damaging the brand even more than it is already. My bet is they are refocussing on MP, cutting all unnecessary expense on anyone not focussed on that, will get Halo Infinite MP feature complete with a progression system and whatever else is missing over the next 18 months / 2 years, and then either expand again or ship the campaign off to another studio.

I hope Halo Infinite gets canned sooner rather than later so we can move on from this dumpster fire and start focusing on a game that isn’t the result of 6+ years of utter 343 management incompetence

And there goes our dlc continuation

Keep in mind team fortress 2 is still kicking despite the devs. The mantle of responsibility wasn’t meant for 343 but the community. Give modders some time. We did get a good update for mods recently.

Even if Halo gets put on a smaller workforce/crew, I still got a lot of faith in the game and franchise, Warframe started at a really bad with no sponsors or anything to work with being the first free to play game back when the companies DE proposed to laughed in their faces at the idea of “Free to Play”, thinking it would fail, but the fans helped boost the company and game, while the company itself ran on less than 70 or so workers, so lest people to toss ideas for and more focus on what can help their game as the fans helped them in keeping them running, next thing we see is Warframe getting jaw dropping-ly good quests such as Second Dream which seriously spiked the player base count.. Halo CAN have that redemption, we saw similar with MCC where the right people came in and helped as fans of the franchise themselves, Infinite needs to get that kind of thing going where they can bounce ideas between workers who too are fans of the franchise, you can’t have people who aren’t fans working on a project continuing a certain IP, we saw what happened to Velma and these other shows where the writers actively hated the IP they worked on….

"Halo. It's finished."

The end? You mean "The end of Halo Infinite going into the wrong direction". Finally.

Right from when Halo 4 was released it was clear that the biggest problem at 343 was the management with them changing the game so much to try and appeal to non Halo fans, and the dumbest thing In all of that was Halo at the time was still one of the most popular FPS games in the world and they alienated a significant portion of the player base right from the get go and it's only got worse since, and now I feel the failure of Infinite and the abomination that is the TV show is the straw that broke the Camels back.

Who are the "upper management" here though? Would that be Pierre Hintze? Bonnie Ross previously? That's what I what to know. Who are the terrible shadow people?

that patrick wren tweet made me cry

I have a theory that if the Microsoft buyout of Activision succeeds that Halo might be put on ice for a long while. COD just makes astronomically more money and while I think they could coexist from a market perspective why bother.

code for the map?

It’s funny how delusional these shills are. Halos been gone since 2012. The 343i shills just been living in their delusional bubble for 11 years. Now they’re getting hit with reality once again.

I feel like it’s good to hear everyone’s take and i understand the pessimism, i feel it too. But we need to deal in reality, slipspace engine has had way too much money dumped into it for MC execs to leave it entirely, just saying, way too big of a asset to just throw away. 343i is loosing employees left and right. Most likely we will see Halo Infinite get better scripting and campaign a.i in forge and firefight integrated with that as well. And remember it’s not just 343i , don’t forget forge and tatanka, it’s there and it’s coming. Keep your heads up guys, MCC has mod support, Halo will never die.

We got to question the future of halo I think halo is done I hate to say it but I think the Franchise is done campaign dlcs is wat I was excited for now I just don't have much of a interest in this game anymore I love halo and always will but idk if this game will recover

To me it sounds like they plan to shut the studio down but want to keep the soul of Halo around with Joe Staten

Look, I'll be honest - I think the writing with Infinite has been on the wall for a while. Season 3 still feels very small scale. Forge failed to bring in a large audience, same with CGB. I don't think even a Battle Royale can resurrect Infinite from these death woes (especially because that genre is so well-saturated). I can easily see Sean's statement surrounding Season 4 as correct, because I think the issues with Halo Infinite are at the core of what's wrong here. My hope is that 343 either goes into that publishing mode OR they go back to the roots of what Halo is. The break-out successes, the DOOM 2016s and Elden Rings of gaming aren't playing it safe and doing what everyone else is doing, they're trying new things, experimenting and being refreshing. Halo desperately needs to pull a DOOM 2016 to pull itself out of this slump. To be more realistic, I feel that Halo will go on ice for a long time if Microsoft gets Call of Duty. Halo doesn't even make a fraction of what COD does, and I can see 343 becoming a COD support studio (it's clearly what existing upper management wanted from Halo 4 anyway)

sad for the low level ppl but we have to be obtectve, who loses? customers and low level workers, who wins? joseph and all the higher ups, they just jump ship like nothing, they disnt lose nothing

Even if 343i closes, it doesn't change that Microsoft will be at the head, and their mismanagement has been more than apparent for over a decade.

pain

To think all of this happened because Microsoft just HAD TO PAY $69B for Activision Blizzard. So much for the ten year journey.

We’re building back better!!!!!

oh well

It's obvious we get something new and what are they do they have to fire everybody else working on the campaign man this is like exactly the same thing that's happened to Star wars several times now I'm really pissed that there will be no campaign DLC and I don't really care about online very much either but well I guess I won't play Halo much as I used to except for the originals

This is bad news, but its good to hear. They need to shelve this whole game if they don't want to add in more campaign, or more things to make this game more similar to past games like split-screen or Firefight. I have had a terrible experience with this game although that is mostly because of the multiplayer. If they do indeed cancel campaign DLC officially then I will have lost all hope for this game's recovery to grace and it will go down as being "just another sequel by 343i" which is such a shame, because the MCC is so much better now than Halo 5 or Infinite. What they S H O U L D do if I were them is literally cancel everything for Infinite and go back to adding new seasons to the MCC and adding new customization options for the other games like Halo 2 Classic/Anniversary or adding customization for Halo CE Anniversary campaign. The sky is the limit for the MCC which is why its sad to me it has a team of like 10 people compared to Infinite's sinking ship.

So weird how the same people yelling #fire343, are suddenly so upset. Those same people are saying this is horrible. Literal memes including HF. This is great news, glad it happened. Infinite's been in a crap state for a while now and finally someone's putting the fans first and mixing things up.

Great video man. Sad to see this happen

Remember Reach... Bungie passed the torch to the community with Forge on Day 1. Meanwhile 343 took a torch to the community, and now seem to be torching themselves.

The franchise would have been better off if Bungie was still in control. Look what they've been able to do with Destiny 2. They're adding huge new content drops monthly for years on end at this point

I’m just kind of hoping this somehow turns into a good thing for Halo if they outsource the majority of development for it Either way I’m personally hoping the MCC team is still somewhat intact, because that’s what I really care about. I want the current plans for MCC at least to pan out. But yeah beyond anything, I’m sad for anyone and everyone out of a job.

Dude it’s been done for since they announced it was a live service. How is anyone surprised

This is wild

All campaign dlc was just cancelled, and rumor has it that another studio is looking to take over and completely reboot the series.

Maybe I’m just being cynical but it’s funny as a Halo fan seeing all the people who were saying fire 343 back then, are now panicking that they’re basically firing 343. (not Arrrash) Ain’t this what y’all wanted 🤷🏽‍♂️

1:50 is when the video starts and all the stupid BS is done

how did 343 fuck up til the very end.

It's such a shame, really. I'm going to catch crap for this, but I think Halo infinite is one of the best multiplayer games I've ever played. I know there aren't key game modes like infection (which I love) but on a gameplay level, there wasn't a time where I got frustrated at the game because somebody was using the meta weapon or exploiting a game breaking bug or tactic. It was always because I got outplayed or got caught right after a firefight. I really enjoy this game and would rank the multiplayer gameplay higher than every other halo multiplayer before it. That being said, it doesn't mean halo 3 or reach us bad, I just prefer infinite to them. To each their own

The best part of halo infinite was the campaign and they have layed of that team so my excitement for dlc/ halo7 is gone

Morale was already low man. I guess I'll continue turning to the mod / Forge community for worthwhile Halo content

Halo 3 IS one of the most polished software ever made

Could be the end, but some company like ID or maybe even bungie (probably impossible), could pick it up and we could get the next halo 3! but that's only a dream, if only it were true.

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So much missed potential.

Halo infinite ended a week after release wym?

It’s so funny how last year EVERYONE was going “#Fire343 #Fire343, 343 needs to be shutdown!”. Now the Halo community (Sonic fandom of fps games😂) got their wish and is sperging out because they clearly didn’t think things through. You also have the people who wanted Bungie to return and make Halo, even though Bungie clearly didn’t want to make Halo anymore and jumped ship to make Destiny. The old Bungie who made Halo what it was is dead because in between Reach and the dumpster fire that was Destiny 1 left of their own free will, we’re kicked out, or placed into bureaucratic positions where they can’t really do anything. Destiny 2 didn’t get good until several years after it’s disastrous launch and was completely restructured. Honestly I think it’s safe to say that Microsoft’s original plan for Gearbox to make Halo would’ve been the best option. Never change you wonderful cancerous spergs😂. I hope the Kiwi Farms go after the worst of you. We can always use some new lolcows.

These guys botched a decent idea. A live service, expanding campaign via DLC, in which lore stats the Halo ring rebuilding itself. It was easy, but they cared ONLY about the microtransaction store. For all the problems, from launching with no co-op, no campaign, no split screen, multiplayer desync, no forge, etc., the ONE thing that was always working, no matter what other issues there were, was the stupid store...I am done with these guys. MCC has mods, and the community will keep that afloat. 343 was the worst!

*This is Unironically the best news I’ve heard in years*

Honestly the half of me that hates the zealots of the Halo community hopes this is the end of Halo, the Halo fan in me hopes this is M$ burning 343 down to resurrect it in a "purer" state.

Give people their money for stupid skins back then

Halo needs to die love old halo but I don't care anymore I'll just play halo 3 and 2 forever maybe in 10 years they can make an actual good one that doesn't have a lazy story and unfinished content

Xbox needs to dump 343, keep the good people from the studio and eliminate the incompetence, then go out and buy Bungie back to make Halo games again

Are we still going to pretend Halo's franchise problems occurred only during the Infinite period or is the community able to transcend the goldfish state of mind and holistically criticize 343i for their poor (and horrendous at times) handling of the IP since the beginning ? One example amongst many:MCC took +3 years to become reasonably playable, any other game mismanaged like this for 6 months would have died and put the devs out of work. How Microsoft dumped money on them for so long is baffling to say the least.

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Lol he knows 343 is a dumpster fire lol

343 need to rebrand, the name 343 has zero trust within the Halo community

What did you expect? It's Microsoft. This isn't new.

5:57 I wonder why... All right, leaving cynical takes aside, tbh, it's all on them. You can't really keep going against your own audience just cause you want Fortnite money and a broader audience, only to wonder why there isn't a stable population when your game was lacking and underperforming under every possible aspect. This game is still remembered for its massive Ls: Craig, the lack of modes, terrible optimization, crashes, the absolute lack of customization paired with paying for f**king colors. The only Ws have happened with Winter and Forge, WAY too late. So, on the one hand I don't want for this game to fail, but on the other, it already has, and not like the shitty VFX that 343 gave to Phantoms, no. It exploded like a Scarab in older titles.

#Fire343

Meh the game sucks. They should have left it like halo 5. Halos 5 was perfect and god tier. From movement and game play. For halo infinite its just not there.

“”Halo fans”” blame 343 for Microsoft bill$hit 😡

Good news 343 are incompetent they ruined this franchise no mercy for those people who ruined it.

343 tried, but they failed. They should have been allowed to make their own game instead of being forced to dev an IP they onviously weren't passionate about.

What a disgraceful showing

Nah them bipolar narcissist halo fans dont care if people get fired They all want 343 to be gone

RIP 343, poor souls didn’t have to pay for the bad decisions for this game. Obligatory comment: Halo died with Halo Reach.

Halo Reach Killed Halo now Halo has become Reach