Rknb117

Yes well Bungie obviously appointed sensible people, not 12vies who think the sun shines out of 343i you know where...

Okay, yet another supension from the waypoint forums. Here's the post: https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2492179_Making-Halo-4-interview---Dear-lord.aspx#post2492179 I'm sorry, a non constructive post? How can you be constructive about an interview in which 343i basically shot themselves in the feet? (link to the article is on the waypoint post) It's hard to be constrcutive about it, anyway what happened to freedom of speech? I'll admit that using a particular slang phrase was risky, but you couldn't really describe what I was saying in any other terms. And to be fair I even put a disclaimer at the top, saying "Don't read, I might be using slang thats offensive" Apparently "that's not how it works" according to the monitor who banned me. I wasn't forcing anyone to read it, I even notified them , something most people wouldn't do. What else am I supposed to do? And freedom of speech? Really, some of these Waypoint forum moitors should be discharged or something, more often than not they seem to be following their own agendas, something like "Oh you insulted 343i, I'll ban you, cause I don't handle it..." Anyone reckon I should report his gamertag for feedback tampering? Or not?

True enough that its a week day, but if it was a weekend, its nearly certain that the ratios of players wouldn't change by any large amount... The time I took these player counts was about the AUS-USA transition time, just after most Aussies have gone to bed, but before the American people come online.

Halo reach has more players, and Halo 3 nearly as many. I just did some quick sums about 10 minutes ago, I found that Halo 4 has about 7000 people in its MM playlists, Halo Reach about 8500, and Halo 3 about 5000. And this is definitely Matchmaking, because I went to each individual playlist, saw how many people were in the playlists and added up the total. Its kind of sad when the older Halo games have nearly as many or more players on matchmaking than the new game that's only 4 months old...

Ok, sorry if this isn't the correct forum to post in, but here goes. I got a week long ban from Waypoint forums, simply because of these three posts. Red sections were edited by a moderator... #1 Yep, you read correctly, 343i have stuffed up again. For reasons I cannot possibly fathom, today when I went into the BTB lobby and joined 3 other people, for some reason I was placed on the other team to the people I'd joined with. And then it happened the next game, even after the party leader had backed out, so that there was just the four of us. Well done 343i, just another item to add to the as yet unprinted leather bound volume entitled "Halo 4: The complete guide to things that need to be fixed"... Haven't figured out how this post banned got for being non constructive... 1)I'm pointing out a problem that has never happened before. 2) I'm certainly not at fault, its not connection related, therefore 343 has stuffed up somewhere in the coding, whatever it is. 3)Okay, sarcasm here, but you could write a book about things that need fixing. #2 Known issue: Halo 4 Posted in Known Halo 4 issues section Okay maybe it was smart-ass comment, but its pretty truthful... Not too fussy on this being edited tbh, possibly deserved it. #3 1)Take out loadout standardisation (Custom primary weapon choice is okay), a key part of all Halo games before Halo 4 2)Add in personal ordnance that gives some people 1sk weapons for next to nothing 3)Make said ordnance completely random, say one person gets a average weapon, someone else gets a binary rifle 4)Still have a large number of super laggy games after 4 months of release (When you have pilotless vehicles for 10 seconds or more and no host change, yeah 343 you are to blame!) 5)Put in massive amounts of aim assist and bullet magnetism, in effect making the game unattractive to anyone other than people who have trobule using both analog sticks at the same time... 6)Don't listen to your fan base/community, and just keep ignoring them. This is the same as ignoring a 'bridge out' sign, then wondering why your car smashed into the bottom of the cliff... 7)Have too many power weapons such as the SAW, needlers (Sniper in AR form...) at the beginning of the game. (Mostly on small maps) We want to play actual skill based slayer games, not just blowing each other up with rockets or mowing down people with SAWs. That's what Dominion is for... 8)Manage to lose MLG to COD, because Halo 4 can't be played at a competitive level. Neither can COD for that matter, but hey, the lesser of two evils right? When MLG has been with Halo ever since CE, then abandons it at Halo 4, yeah there's obviously something wrong with the game. (Sponsorship played some part, but I believe MLG would have stayed with Halo if Halo 4 was a half decent game...) 9)Have less players playing Halo 4 now than Reach did, just before Halo 4 came out. For my area, around peak times, 40k max might be playing Halo 4, about 20k are still playing Reach, 80k+ peak just before Halo 4 came out. The statistics pretty much speak for themselves.... 10)Take out all variety in gametypes and manage to screw up the gametypes you did decide to put in Halo 4. We don't want to play, slayer, slayer, slayer, slayer, slayer and so on... For example, where's Multi team, 1 Flag, Assault, Race, just to name a few? And KOTH, there is a reason its called King of the HILL, not King of the HILLS. There should only ever be one hill at one time, and also a waypoint should not point to the next hill. BTB? Plasma pistol and Plasma grenades in the loadouts have destroyed vehicle use, a main keystone of BTB in past Halo games... No one wants to drive a warthog is someone can EMP it and throw stickies at it... 11)Change for the sake of change: Here's an analogy: Pretend the Halo franchise is a nuclear reactor, and that key elemtns that have made other Halo games so successful (ie:standardised loadouts, listening to the community, etc) is the cooling system. Now basically you've changed the cooling system so that it no longer works, what happens? Meltdown, mushroom cloud and a radioactive exclusion zone that no one wants to cross. In plain words: You've nuked the Halo franchise and no one would want to go near it if it goes under...which it will if people keep abandoning it... Congratulations 343i, I don't think you could have stuffed up the Halo franchise any more. You've lost at least 1/3 of your fan base, and people simply don't want to play Halo, because COD is near enough the same thing now... One final note: I don't believe any of the people in charge of Halo 4's matchmaking development could run water downhill from a leaking tap, that's how bloody useless they are! Better luck next time 343i, oh wait, there probably won't be a next time for you lot. Shame, I was looking forward to buying Halo 5 and 6 and using the discs as frisbees, because that's what I'm thinking about doing with my Halo 4 disc... Yeah I may have had a good go at 343i, but funnily enough it was banned for being non constructive... I'm sorry, how is the post non constructive, I've pointed out problems and offered solutions as well as my opinion on how 343i has managed the Halo franchise. Oh and in the short time it was up (about 30 mins), 5 people had thanked me so, i obviously got something right Then my next post got edited/locked because i questioned their decision... Wow, I get a post banned because I actually said what a lot of people are thinking: 343 screwed up Halo 4 multiplayer, and the franchise by extension, therefore they must really suck at designing multiplayer gaming. Simple logic... Ban me if you want, but if you do, it'll show how well you respond to truthful criticism... I thought this was supposed to be a democracy of sorts, not Stalin's Russia... Okay maybe the last line was over the top, but I was really annoyed, mostly because you can't find out who the moderator was who edited the topic, hence you can't PM them, so what else was I supposed to do...? Forum moderators on waypoint seem to be all little kids, who ban anything that criticises Halo 4/ offends them, even constructive criticism... Sorry if it seems I'm having a rant, but I really have no idea what to do. How do I post my opinions (maybe they could be toned down a little) without getting banned? How do I contact a moderator if I don't know who it is? Way to go Waypoint...