You promised us so much 343. You took the reigns when Bungie backed out. Then you released an abomination called Halo 4. Even though everyone hated Reach, what did you do? Expand upon it's broken, arcade style multiplayer system. The story was great, in many people's eyes, even mine, but any side of competitive multiplayer that Halo had left, you torched it. You made Call of Duty: Halo Edition and lets be completely honest, it failed. It didn't fail because a new studio was under the helm. It failed because we already have a new Call of Duty title every 10 months. We don't need one with space marines who jump high.
Then, after the failure, everyone wondered what you were gonna do next. We said, "Maybe they'll turn the ship around" and we had very high hopes for Halo's future.
One amazing day, you announced Halo: MCC. You took all the successful Halo titles, your very par title, and packaged them into one single disc bundle with promises of a true competitive eSports title. Amazing. Every pro or am gamer who wasn't a PC purist was excited. "Console returning to pro gaming?! NO WAY!!!"
They were right.
No way.
You took a simple reskin job. Yes, the visuals are beautiful and when the game runs, it is smooth as butter.
But when the game works about 2.3% of the time? Is that worth $60 to countless disappointed people? Is that worth organizations throwing money into compiling teams for your "HCS"?
We put all our trust and hopes in you and you let every. single. one. of us down. Good job 343 Industries. You ruined the greatest thing to happen to competitive console gaming. You might have actually killed it for good. You have scared away any company who might have had a chance to bring a competitive eSports title to a console again.
I for one, want my $60 back. That won't happen though because I was so excited for your broken game (that's not even a new game, just a reskin and compile job) that I opened the plastic. Maybe I can get $25 bucks for it by selling it to someone else, but honestly, I'd feel like a terrible person for selling such a steaming pile of feces to another human being.
So please, 343, give us our moneys back, even if it means a recall.
Then, if you want to come back later, do an alpha test and a beta test. But if this is all Microsoft's fault because they rushed you, then re-establish your company elsewhere and forward our hate to them.
Thank you,
bewareKRAKEN