They are dropping the playlists temporary to decrease the load in the servers:

Team Hardcore
Rumble Pit
Halo 4
SWAT (rotational)

Maybe MS thought they gave the game to good a grade :). I constantly find matches so I don't really see the problem.

Reputation system working?

PS. It is a joke guys.

What I thought too. But thought I was not remembering right.

This website is incompetent. Why not just release the review when they have tested/ironed out everything in the game. I guess we will be waiting for a revised score for every single game next time

I checked... it is 9.5.

1. If they haven't done this for every game then it most be done to stay consistent

2. If they are changing it now then it must be changed back once every thing is fixed

So 1.5 points docked. Man that's harsh when the huge amount of SP content plays fine...right? Then again one would need to read the review to see whether the reviewer was particularly excited about online or SP. If the reviewer was most hyped about online then a harsh score revisions is somewhat more understandable.

FFS, they should not be lowering scores for launch issues. Should they be making people aware of the issues? Yes, however how the hell can you say "launch server issues are worth docking the score 10-20%"?

It just show's how utterly useless Polygon are as a review source.

I'd like to commend them for doing this what with their recent lowering of DC's score but the cynic in me says they absolutely HAD to do it or look like the biased bunch of shills that they are.

Besides, they dropped DC's score from 7.5 to 5 a 2.5 point deduction whereas they only deducted 1.5 from Halo ad after reading that the issues have ranged from lag, long wait times all the way to just completely not being able to connect I'd say they are being biasedly generous here IMHO. The online component is VITAL for both these titles and therefore I'd like to have seen an equitable drop between the two titles but this is Polygon after all.