Steam data shows almost no one plays Halo Infinite anymore | Neowin
Steam data shows almost no one plays Halo Infinite anymore | Neowin
Halo Infinite's multiplayer on Steam has seen a significant drop in player base, losing around 98% since its launch. Concerns arise about the game's future, but it remains free-to-play with updates.
Not surprised, it doesn't really feel like a halo game. Single player was sort of fun, but not worth replaying. Halo hasn't felt like halo since the original team left, so I'd call it generic fps at this point.
31I never played any Halo game. Which old Halo game is worth playing? Are there some good PC versions or maybe I should emulate OG XBox?
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Incredibly misleading and click bait article. The game still has over 6000 concurrent players daily, which is more than enough for an online game.
22From what remember from splitgate once that game started to bleed players it quickly reached untenable numbers, especially for a big ip like halo. But I agree I'll pay more attention to the articles when they make similar claims.
2I'd argue it's misleading because they are using Steam numbers for Halo. 90% of the people playing are probably on Xbox.
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They flopped hard. The game lacked content, ran poorly, and had one of the most aggressive monetization I've ever seen. They sold armor color palettes for $15, and doubled down hard after community backlash. The game launched without singleplayer, and when it did the singleplayer sucked.
It sucks that this was supposed to be Xbox's killer first party title, but the devs were just totally incompetent.
21Did they ever launch campaign co-op? My friends and I had fun playing season 1 of the mp but Jesus Christ, did the game get boring fast.
2Online co-op, yes. Split screen was scraped altogether.
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Skins are not agressive monetization. locking weapons and abilities are.
-3The prices are outrageous though and there were virtually no rewards for free2play users.
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The article doesn't take into consideration that you can get Halo Infinite multiplayer from the Microsoft Store as well. While there's no way to tell how many people are on it since MS Store numbers aren't public, I'd imagine it being somewhat significant as Halo Infinite campaign is on PC Game Pass.
17Halo Infinite is no Battlebit. Thats for sure.
15Halo Finite
15Too bad. Fun game. Serious lack of good new content.
I'm surprised Forge mode never took off more. Probably would've if it had been there at launch.
10Its really buggy. I was trying to port some old Quake maps, and on the 3rd or 4th time a bug wiped an hour of progress out, I just said "eh fuck it"
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I actually like Halo Infinite, but I stopped playing on PC because the game is pretty hostile to M&K players on a competitive level. The long queue times for M&K-only compel you to crossplay, and controllers have a significant advantage due to the aggressive auto-aim. Makes the whole experience feel a little wonky if you're trying to rank up.
8M+K plays against auto-aim? Why not willingly play against an aimbot while you’re at it.
That just sounds miserable to me.
4On average it represents a ~10% accuracy difference. It's a consequence of the core game being tuned to feel best on console, and crossplay being held up as a selling point.
Again, you can choose to queue for KB/M only, but because of the way things are set up, those queues are dead. Slower queue -> people decide to play mixed queue -> leads to slower queue -> and so on.
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Halo infinite was the worst garbage. It does not deserve the Halo name.
6Nearly two years after I first played it (was in the beta) and it doesn't feel improved in meaningful ways
We finally have some of the game types we used to have in every other game, and the new forge is very impressive, but the guns and movement still feels shitty, and the hyperfocus on what a dozen or so competitive players want, at the expense of the rest of the playerbase still feels incredibly tone deaf
I play it when I'm waiting for my friends to get online to play something else
5Hyperfocus on streamers is why I don't play competitive games anymore. Devs need to learn how to ignore streamers, because they are almost universally idiots who know nothing about game design.
7Halo 5 did so much right later in it's life. Over 220 weapons made games like fiesta absolutely amazing to play, and the PvE (warzone, warzone firefight) experience gave those of us who don't want to sweat a fun place to play
Then they threw it all away for infinite. And when they were called out on their crap, instead of fixing it, they added some crap to a side room at their convention and said "everyone is welcome at halofest." Note that none of the crap they added to said convention had any impact on the game, it was things like a cosplay contest or a Q&A session that suspiciously didn't ask any hard questions.
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Loved all Halo games. Played two days of this and never went back. Shame.
5Halo MCC just went on sale, is the only thing I really wanted to (re)play anyways.
5I enjoyed the single player for what is was even if I found the story and major moments in it a bit lackluster (although the gameplay is really good). But the multiplayer just didn't grab me, I've played more halo 3 and reach that infinite in the time that infinite came out.
4Not surprised, it doesn't really feel like a halo game. Single player was sort of fun, but not worth replaying. Halo hasn't felt like halo since the original team left, so I'd call it generic fps at this point.
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