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What should have been said by Kakashi in his original response is that this is not an official 343 website. Just a fan made community forum. That being said, we have no control over what maps or gun rotations are available within the game.

Hi fred_bears, welcome to the site! As for languages, we do not know what, if any, other languages are going to be included in any game. This isn't an official site for 343 Industries or Halo, just a community fan site. As for Installation 01, that is completely up to the guys developing it.

You have to take my opinion with a grain of salt, as I do not own nor have I played Halo 5. I might some day, but as of right now I still have no desire to own an Xbox One. That disclaimer out of the way, my friends that do play it seem to enjoy it, but they I feel might be jaded by their love of the franchise. I have not looked at any numbers for 5, but it seems since Halo 3, the active players have been dwindling at a slow pace, ever since Bungie left the franchise. Can it recover? I think that it might be possible, but as I write this I am 32, and have been a part of Halo for 16 years now. The old guard have become adults with lives to live, lives that sometimes interfere with video games. With that in mind, they have to find a way to bring on a new generation of players, players who have grown up with a new shooter game every other month it seems. They need something fresh and new to make Halo stand out above the plethora of other games to choose from. That is how they recover, but it might also be how they kill themselves. By abandoning the old guard, those who have been faithful to the game for so many years. Just my two cents.

Actually the XBox had a head start in the UK. It was released on the 22nd, where as the PS4 didn't get released until the 29th in the UK. Fastest selling console or not, what will the sales figures be after the holiday, I wonder?

Wanting to occupy or not, speaking with a fairly logical mind if they had the capability to bombard from space they absolutely would. Take out any military installation standing in your way without setting foot planetside, then invade once you are guaranteed as little resistance as possible. Sure, there will still be pockets of it, but the goal is to make things as easy for yourself as possible, and bombardment from space is the easiest way to handle that situation before occupation would even begin.

While I don't disagree with you on the whole, Choot, I do have something that I wish to add to this discussion about what the consumer wants. Whether we as consumers want this product or not does not matter at this point. It is a part of the console, it functions with the console, and that is the end of the debate. You may wish to purchase the PS4 because of this, because MS is trying to "force this upon you" but the fact remains it is now simply a part of the XBox experience, and if you really want to stick with the XBox then you are getting the Kinect, period. The way I look at this it is no more than most other companies attempt to do. If I purchased a Dell, do I get just a computer with the essential tools I need, or do I get a ton of bloatware included with the computer? I get the latter, whether I want it or not. They are essentially forcing it upon me. Granted, I can then go and remove all of this stuff, but the point remains the same. Same goes with any other major PC retailer (not including something like ibuypower or cyberpowerpc). I don't want a 3D TV, yet if I were to go out and purchase a new TV today, chances are most of the TV's available for sale are 3D capable, whether I want the feature or not, and shortly into the future it won't be "most", it will be all. With any new generation of hardware (gaming or otherwise) new features will be added that we as consumers will not always want. Yet in the end, most people will accept the fact that they are included and will purchase the product anyway. Maybe not immediately, but if it is something we really want, then we will break down and get it. The next time I do have to purchase a new TV, I'm already aware that it will be 3D capable, even though I don't want the feature. It is there, it is included, and that is the bottom line, there is nothing I can do about it. The XBox hardware has evolved, and now it includes a feature that most true gamers don't want. It is a sad part of life, but in the end there is nothing we can really do about it. Do I agree with MS's decision to include the Kinect? No. Do I want it? Not really, even though I already own the Kinect for the 360, it rarely ever gets used and was a wasted purchase. They are not "making" anyone purchase the Kinect. As far as they are concerned it is just another piece of the XBox One, and not a separate entity like it currently is. The problem with this line of thinking though, is the Kinect as everyone currently knows it was a stand alone item, and that is the mindset that people need to move away from, and this is where all of the negativity is coming from. It is not a stand alone item anymore, but an integrated part of the hardware. Total's logic here is fairly sound. Purchasing a console for $500 is better, in my mind, then them saying "Here, purchase this new console for $400, but you can't use it unless you purchase this other product for an additional $150." When the original Kinect was first shown, I knew at that time that this was going to be a part of the next generation of consoles. How could it not be? With the way MS is, they tend to not develop something only to have it be an "optional" item the next time around. I know I can't be the only person who realized this back in 2009.

Now I want to go home and play some Kotor....

I ♥ me some HK47. For a while on Reach, my friends service tag was HK47. So instead of having them be the same, I decided I was going to go HK50. As for old games, I'll occasionally go back and play through some Final Fantasy games, though Kotor is up there, too. And the original Silent Hill.

"Dumb move" - - Yes, I agree, but here is the problem. People complained. People complained loud. "Why are we getting such old games?" Unsurprising in the sense that once again they "listened" to the community, who complained about the games they were giving for free being old? Pretty sure they said the first ones available would be AC2 and Halo 3, but I could be mistaken.

While I don't necessarily disagree, you are 100% right in the fact that time will tell. I think the true answer will be revealed come some time January 2014, when holiday sales numbers start to roll in. But I kinda side tracked this topic, so I'm gonna get it back on track. MS will not release a Halo game on an Apple product. Just like they won't release a Halo game on a Sony product. Halo is MS's baby, and they want to keep it that way. Sure, there are some ports of Halo that have made their way to mac's, but they are in no way official or supported by MS. This kinda harks back to what Choot and I were discussing, sales. Yes, they would sell more if they made the games available for other systems, but then they are hurting their own sales in a sense, too.

Way to go Spades! Though I don't personally know you all that well since we have rarely spoken, it is good to see a member who has done so much for the community become MoM, definitely a good choice.

To be fair, Choot, they didn't release Halo 3 on the original XBox, either. Honestly though, you are saying this is a bad business decision, when in reality it is the only decision they could make. Sure, they may make more money off of selling it for the 360 as well, but then they wouldn't have the console sales, and everything that goes along with somebody owning said console, such as buying more games for it. Because lets face it, the 360 won't be supported 5 years down the road, you can almost guarantee it, regardless of what MS might be saying right now.

People tend to exaggerate this a bit. The number of actual Bungie employees that made the switch to 343 isn't as many as people make it out to be. We're talking less than 20 people. Bungie did plan on Halo 3 being the end, unfortunately for them they signed their initial contract stating they'd create 5 games over the course of 10 years with MS, and MS would bail them out. Thus, Halo 3: ODST and Reach. As for the OP, I don't nor can I ever blame Bungie for what they've decided to do. The only reason they walked away from Halo in the first place is because they wanted to create other games, and MS wasn't going to allow that. They wanted to create cross-platform games, and if they had signed another contract with MS (which MS tried to have them do, mind you), they wouldn't have been allowed to do that. We wouldn't be getting Destiny. People also need to remember, Bungie didn't really ever own the rights to Halo once they were saved from bankruptcy by MS. At that point, MS took ownership of just about everything. Bungie wasn't settling in. They were ready to wash their hands with it. To them, Reach was the perfect game. It was everything they had ever wanted to put into a Halo game, they just didn't have the resources to do it before.

What you're failing to realize is that this is an actual position that is open at 343. They are looking to hire somebody, and pay them, to write baseline test specs among other things. These are going to be guidelines for testing the matchmaking system. "Do this, then this, then this, then that, are there any bugs? If so, report them." Then somebody else is going to try and recreate said bugs, to see if it was a one time thing, or if there is actually a problem. Making sure everything is working properly before the public ever sees it. That is why a "single person with his singular opinion" is required. This is not going to be somebody saying "Yeah, they should totally add Elites back into matchmaking." While the community here, like you said, would happily convey our thoughts through the internet, that is not the purpose of this job opportunity. This job opportunity is to make sure everything works properly prior to release (of hopefully a Beta).

Why couldn't they have used Bungies design as their own? They own the rights to everything Halo related, including designs. They could easily have just taken what Bungie designed and then tweaked it, instead of completely redesigning them.

Really? Did you even read what AD wrote? :/ I assume you were referring to all of the different tasks that the testers would be responsible for, when saying "What deh fudge..."? If so, I can take an educated guess for you (or anyone else that may be interested) if you'd like. Based on what I do for a living, and what they are asking for, they sound similar as far as wording goes. Just let me know. Now, as for the OP.. that would be quite a job to land, if I might say so. Too bad the pay is as low as it is, otherwise that might be something I'd be willing to apply for, even if it required me to move the entire way across the country. :/

After the reversal of the DRM issues, this pretty much sums it all up. While spec wise, the PS4 is the more powerful console (not by much, mind you), technically speaking the PS3 was more powerful than the 360, and we all know how that turned out. The real issue now in deciding, while preference does play a large part, is what happens if MS decides to try and implement these features later by changing their terms of service?

All of the lawsuits that will arise from false advertisement? Or countless people trading in there One and purchasing a PS4 in its place, if they decided to add it later. Their reputation already took a hit on what they pulled, and they've reversed it. If they try to add it again, I don't think people will stand for it. Their XBox division would be ruined, personally.

Yes and no. 2 people could be playing it at the same time, the last I heard, and that was it. So, for example, if you wanted to share Halo 5 with lets say 8 people, only 2 could be playing from the same copy at the same time. Which is better than sharing a disc and only 1 person can play it at a time, but that is beside the point. As for consumer feedback, yes, it was nice to have a voice be heard, though I think it had more to do with the fact that Sony was destroying them in pre-orders (which I suppose in a sense is consumer feedback, in a way). But like you, I will be waiting a bit before deciding on what to buy. This has definitely put the One back into the running, though.

Here's the thing though. How many people were truly upset by what MS announced about the XBox One? How many people were going to jump ship? How many people have already jumped ship? I know I wasn't pleased. All of my friends and I had discussed the possibilities, and most of us determined if we were going to get a console this generation, it would most likely be a PS4. Not because it was a better system spec wise (even though it is, technically speaking), but because it appealed more to us as gamers. Now, since this announcement, we're going to probably have some more discussions and determine what would be best for us. Since this announcement was made, Amazon pre-orders for the XBox One jumped ahead of the PS4 again. So to me, it appears that most of the internet is happy with this change. I know I am, though I didn't have a pre-order in for either system yet, and I probably won't, and won't be getting the new system until sometime in 2014 anyway.

Okay, wow, that panned out a lot quicker than I assumed it would. O.o; To be honest, I hoped that wouldn't be the case either. And if they actually announced how it would have worked, it may have changed my mind on the console. But it appears we don't have to worry about that now, since along with all of the other changes the "family" share thing is also gone now.

Hey, this coming out as being fairly accurate, I'm pleased. It shows MS at least is worried about something, and maybe the constant stream of hate finally hit home.

If this turns out to be true, my faith in MS will be partially restored, and I might actually consider a One.

If you honestly believe that, then you are right, it is hopeless. But if you feel that there is a chance, then voice your opinion now. I mean, think about it. If I am MS, and I design this console, what do I expect my console to do? I expect it to sell. If it doesn't, what do I do then? I look at my competitors console, and if it is selling better than mine, I look at the differences between the two, and not just spec wise, all of the differences. And hopefully, if this plays out the way I'm hoping it will play out, MS will back down from their stance and cave to the consumer. But we'll see. I had this discussion with a friend of mine. If I can designate 10 people as "family" and they can all use my stuff, and it doesn't matter who they are, I can just designate them "family" then great. I may actually end up with a One. But I highly doubt that is going to be the case. Chances are the system will determine who is "family" based on some constraint, most likely time spent playing on a particular console.

Of all the games shown at the MS press conference, this is the one I am looking forward to the most. And the fact that it is going to be available on the 360 and PC as well is just fantastic, as I don't think I'll be getting a One.