Halo is not going to lose all its players, they are just a character skin that have no effect on gameplay. Machinima dont use elites 100% of the time, so they wont lose their jobs, I'm sure they will be in custom mode. It's a bad comparsion saying "what if spartans were taken out of halo?" Then that wouldn't be called halo, it would be called something else, wouldnt it? And I dont get why you say elites made halo a game to get away from the other games like cod, wtf? So what you saying is you bought halo because it had elites in multiplayer? And for the elite clans if they dont buy halo 4 its their loss, they need to move on.