Just a little rant from a fan of the Halo series (since the Original Halo). No split-screen killed Halo 5. I remember playing with my friends when the first Halo was released. It was great to play each expansion of Halo with my friends in the same room on the same couch and even connected an extra xbox to play 4 on 4 (or 4 on 4 on 4 on 4). When my kids were born we played Halo 4 (3 kids). It took some getting used to but they learned how to play (mainly through campaign runs) and it was great to have that experience with them. It followed through on local maps that we would create and spend hours and hours playing or go in as a team and bark instructions to each other as we planned our attacks/defense. When Halo 5 was announced I quickly bought an xbox one and I pretty much let it sit there. It got sparingly used as we waited for Halo 5 and an expected moments full of future fun... we were all excited all 4 of us. When Halo 5 arrived, I spent about 20 minutes transferring all my kids accounts to the xbox one (a slight oversight I hadn't thought of before). Once I had completed the process we all huddled in the living room, grabbed a controller and prepared to play. Unfortunately, I could not add them to my fire team and kept getting an error. After about 2 hours of trying to get a game going (and through incessant nagging from now discouraged children telling me to start the game already and figure it out), I finally turned to the forums to see what I was missing. Apparently, I had missed a lot but not as much as 343 has missed. When I told the kids we would not be able to play Halo 5 together because the split screen was removed from the game they said everything that I was thinking. I heard "why did they do that?" I heard "that is stupid!" I heard "maybe we just got a bad game". It was a shocking moment for all of us. I wanted to share this with the development team that thought it was a great idea to remove split screen from Halo 5. The one and only reason I even bought an xbox one was for Halo 5. Thank you for ruining Halo 5 for me and my kids. You have destroyed my faith in 343 and have pretty much written off the Halo series for my kids (if split screen is dead for future Halo games). When and if the next installment of Halo is released I will definitely read about it and if there is no split screen it will not make it into my home. I guess Star Wars Battlefront will have to fill the void for the time being.
