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Ah ok, the beta, forgot about it, does it have a playable multi? I couldn't do customs as i know no one for playing. So i returned the One cause i only play halo. Yeah, btb bas been dead on H3 360 for years hence my disappointment with MS and 343 but social slayer was always busy up til avfew months when my 360 broke. I'm pretty sure it's still busy. Thanks for the intérêts. C U guys

Fishy, I bought MCC but never could go past the "Multiplayer data dowloading" pop up so could only access campaign I don't play. I waited 1 year to make sure bugs were fixed for MCC so when H5 is released I have 0 faith it'll work bugless so will wait. At least H3 multi still works for me. I'm in France. I wonder how you can say H5 works already as it is not released yet.

I returned my Xbox one Mcc bundle. Back to the 360 until H5 hopefully is released and works. Cheers!

Yeah it's incredible. Imo, Bungie greatly succeeded in touching people's hearts with a superb multi FPS and MS knows are profiting from this.Too bad 343 were pressured to release a broken MCC cause the idea was great although too ambitious as you stated. Bungie's H123 made Halo a legendary game and although it's hard to understand, i think people still got the love for this series despote multiple frustrations, i hang on to the good memories on H3 . I'm all for trying new spartan tricks like running etc... but it would be nice to also have a classic product that works simply and surely. If they wanted to destroy Halo this is the way to go. Me too I'll wait for Halo5 and then, only if it works as any game should, Ill consider getting it with the Xbox one, i mean it is Xbox's flagship game, c'mon!?! Anyway if feels good to discuss this Caboose thanks.

Yep Caboose, it's totally unacceptable. It's like selling a car with no motor and telling people to deal with it until the next car is out that won't have a motor either. The most amazing is that people still believe in this whole Halo business. All they got to do is promise something with the word Halo in it and sales are made! I just bought my Xbox One 5 days ago so, yes I'm very angry and I have every right to be when I was plainly lied to and my money stolen by thieves. Anyway, I'm getting my money back tomorrow, MCC patch or no patch, retrocompatibility or no, Halo5 or no, imo people need to wake up and boycott this. Mm, wait I heard Halo6 was gonna be the bomb, maybe I'll trust them again, no but seriously, wtf is all this about?

Twinreaper, thanks for the help, I agree for the equipment (I'm keeping the TV!) but I do totally blame 343 and Microsoft for the game MCC because they lured Halo fans to get this game that miraculously would unite all the Halo series when in fact it plainly does not work AT ALL for me. There are pages and pages of bug threads so even if this Data bug gets fixed, it'll probably be another one as I've rread loads of issues which I never heard of on H3. I'm not losing more money on post Halo 3 games. I will return the Xbox ONE tomorrow with this unusable game and fix my 360 for 10 bucks of thermal paste lol. Since I never got to play H3 in HD, H3 on HD will be somewhat new to me and always better than an unplayable MCC. Imo, 343 lacked the humility when trying to make a bigger faster more complex HALO3 (without the Arena mode which is an inexplcable move besides getting more COD people to play it and destroying the H2 and H3 fan base). They failed miserably after 1 year of patches that brought more bugs which is insane. I still don't get how Bungie made an almost flawless Halo3 a decade ago and 343 couldn't a decade later. I don't care that they didn't want to remake H3 and innovate, a classic refurbished H3 (with the original game modes) couldn't have been worse than this situation. I know this is not the official site, but I've been wiating for years now, and still can't get what I was hoping for, so even this site would have banned me haha for being rude! Anyway, it's good to see I'm not alone. I'll fix my 360 and get back on this forum and hopefully find some BTB players for H3. Thanks again for the help. Saaaab I did the research but as some players were saying hey it works for me no problem I assumed after a year that indeed it was "fixed". Only when I saw the "data" bug did I google it and find this problem. Also if customers need to browse through pages of sites concerning game problems, how can you trust a company. I posted the issues on Halo waypoint as well. Not that they can do anything since I can only return my console within a week so I can't wait for them to "fix" MCC. This just doesn't make sense and you can research all you want, the Halo MCC multi has muli-ple bugs which is not normal 10 years after Bungie made a quasi flawless game.

Howdy Same issue for me. I can't play this game and just bought the console for it. Pathetic

Hello,I've been a fan of Halo3 multiplayer especially Big Team Slayer and Objective and Heavy since 2007. I tried many games but HALO3 is the best for me. Loving H3, when Halo3 ODST was released, I naturally bought it, having hopes the Multi would be similar to Halo3 (arena type) but it wasn't so I was kind of disappointed and went back to Halo3 although the BTB list was getting more empty I still could play 4v4 social slayer quickly.Halo4 was then released. Once again, I believed the Multi would be a newer, better version of Halo3 but I was disappointed that the Multi was not Arena type but ability type where you build your spartan as in COD. I don't like flying and sprinting etc... For me H3 had enough speed in the numerous vehicles, and the on the ground duels were top notch. So I went back to H3 social slayer 4v4 which worked perfectly.I then bought Destiny by Bungie thinking that the original makers of Halo would necessarily have a Multi similar to Halo3, aka Arena, but once again, no. So that's 3 games I bought from Microsoft SIMPLY looking for a BTB type Multi as Halo3. So I went back to H3 social slayer. A few months ago, my 9 year old 360 broke down which was fine after 9 years. In August, I bought thermal paste to fix the 360 but then thought that it was about time to buy the new Xbox One with Halo MCC which did promise Halo3 as in the "old days" with BTB. I got a new TV set on purpose and confident that this was the "ONE" (no pun intended), got the MCC bundle. I got eveything set up, downloaded the MCC for 4 days, last night I finally get to 100%, click the multi and bam, I get the pop up "downloading Mactchmaking data...". So I can only play Campaing which is useless btw as I have all 4 Halo Titles on the 360. I only bought it to play BTB H3.So this is the 4th disappointment with the series. I can't really tell you how I feel about the whole Halo franchise, as I would get banned, but I am utterly appalled at what's happening. I tried all the troubleshooting available on the internet, didn't see any responses by 343 on this issue. So I am stuck with a new game with a multi that doesn't work. With all the threads on MCC being buggy, I was expecting some issues but not a broken multi altogether. I hadn't read any threads on this "matchmaking data" bug until I googled it or wouldn't even had bothered (would you?).Then, I read that H5 was due in November with promises of arena slayer and BTB. Rumors go that 343 are concentrating on that implying that MCC bugs aren't their priority anymore. There is also the hope of the retrocompatibility of H3 and other games in "november" or at the "end of the year" but will it work? Will MCC ever be fixed? Those are way too many questions that are not answered and honestly, I have lost faith in any Halo games after H3, how do they expect me to buy a 5th game after the first 4 didn't give me the simple game that I expected and paid for. Why call it Halo if it is not Halo? I will thus return my xbox one tomorrow, and just fix my old one with the thermal paste and go back to playing H3 social slayer which is getting old after 10 years but at least works. I am not ranting on 343 but wish they had just made a simple BTB and slayer (K.I.S.S. anyone?) I read that they were pressured to releases Halo MCC by Microsoft and that it is not their fault but frankly I could care less whose fault it is, I paid the money and have bought all the Halo games just to be disappointed 4 times. Have a nice day!