Around 6 months after the first xbox 360 console release my 360 broke, i kept my xbox live account active but never logged on or bought a new 360.
A few months ago a friend of mine told me that he was getting prepared for the Halo 4 release, previously unaware of another Halo game being made my response was =- O. I went to gamestop the next day and pre-ordered the Halo 4 bundle, that is the xbox, the game, 2 controllers and a headset. The next few months consisted of me acting like a crack addict waiting for his fix. Finally the day came when halo 4 was released and i went to gamestop for the mid-night launch. There were people everywhere, they had 3 huge t.v's playing the game and people just surrounding them watching and waiting for there turn to play. After a few hours my number was called and i received my bundle and left. My friend and I then went home and plugged in the 360 inserted the game and then we heard the joy filling music that is halo. We decide to play co-op campaign and then work towards multiplayer. After 3 hours, 3 EFFING HOURS, we completed the campaign. There are only 8 missions in this game, that in its self is a huge disappointment, that means if you don't have a gold account and you bought Halo 4 you essentially payed 60 dollars for 8 missions and 3 hours of gaming. But, my friend and I decided to look past Halo 4s campaign shortcomings and started on the multiplayer. We logged ourselves in and hoped to be amazed. After a few minutes we were in a game and enjoying ourselves pretty well and then all of a sudden we got disconnected. We were o.k. with it and figured it wouldn't happen again so we moved to the next game. But, to our dismay we were again disconnected, disconnected, and DIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCCTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD.
I soon became frustrated and decide to check to see if the problem was on my end. I reset the router turned on my P.C and logged on to BF3 to see if i'd have lagg issues. I joined a 64 man server and when i entered and played for a few minutes i had a 36 ping and was getting 61-60 frames per second. No lagg. I figured that if it were my connection then i'd be having problems with every game and not just Halo 4. So, we quit.
Lets think about something for a minute. Last night there were around 250,000 people playing Halo 4. If each of those people were charged 60 dollars for the game then they made 15,000,000 dollars. And yet, they can't afford good servers?
IMO 343 and halo 4 is like that fat chick in a bar that you would only flirt with if you were so high and drunk out of your mind that it made Roseanne Barr look like Scarlett Johanson.
I'm sorry 343, i wanted you guys to be great, and i wanted Halo 4 to be greater. I had hopes for you and your game but unfortunately, you guys (and i can't emphasize this enough) SUCK!
I have no doubts that in a few hours this topic will be removed. That is why i am going to post youtube videos of the game and tell people to stay away.. People will know of your failure, and it is COLOSSAL.