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    4 months ago

    The outsourced studios might actually do better than 343, to be honest. 343 has so terribly mismanaged Halo. Its ridiculous how bad of a job they did. They were given charge of Xbox’s biggest IP and the fumbled it. Halo Infinite was meant to be a glorious return to form, and it landed with a flop. Its like they did nothing but hire people that hated halo. They had the formula laid out by Bungie. All they needed to do was more of that and people would gobble it up.

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        4 months ago

        They let Bungie go independent because Bungie was tired of making Halo. If they had stayed with MS, they’d be relegated to churning out Halo titles for eternity.

        343 started off with top talent. They had Corrine Yu as their lead programmer. But it’s almost like the studios directors got a blank check to fuck around, thinking anything with the halo branding would sell like crazy.

        I don’t think they’re outsourcing Halo to save money. They’ll likely outsource it to more experienced studios with better track records of achieving good results, because 343 is a lost cause. I wonder if their acquisition of Activision was in order to get some studios that could handle the Halo IP? Like Infinity Ward and Treyarch.

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      4 months ago

      Glad to see other folks have noticed this as well.

      As a longtime Destiny fan, I was so excited to have Halo come in and take the spotlight and giving Bungie’s lazy ass a run for their money.

      Instead halo flopped almost as hard as Anthem. Fucking sad.