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Mr Puggsly on 18 April 2017
Pemalite said:
Mr Puggsly said:

The problem is people could only get Halo Wars DE via Halo Wars 2 Special Edition ($80). So not many have it or playing Halo Wars 2 instead. Halo Wars DE should have launched well before Halo Wars 2 to get people hyped about the sequel.

MS is objectively doing better at PC gaming, but still making mistakes.

To be fair Halo Wars 2's online population has also imploded. I haven't played it since about a week after launch because waiting for a match was taking way to long. If I could get one at all.

I would certainly expect a big decline post launch week. That's all games.

Either way I stand by my point. Launching Halo Wars DE and Halo Wars 2 at the same time was a terrible move.

Halo Wars on 360 stayed active for a bunch of years, might still be? If it has any chance of getting an audience today it'll probably be on Steam.



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nemo37 on 18 April 2017

I think it might have been better for MS to keep it on their own store; particularly since they are trying to increase the adoption of their UWP ecosystem. Although, from a consumer perspective it's nice.



Leadified on 18 April 2017

Nice, I haven't finished the campaign on the 360 version so I'll be looking to pick this up down the line.



Scoobes on 18 April 2017

The only Ensemble Studios game I don't own. Finally get to complete my collection.




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Mr Puggsly on 18 April 2017

For the record, the 360 version is of Halo Wars is surprisingly still active online.

I booted it up via X1 BC and it has about 500 people right now.



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Pemalite on 18 April 2017
Mr Puggsly said:
Pemalite said:

To be fair Halo Wars 2's online population has also imploded. I haven't played it since about a week after launch because waiting for a match was taking way to long. If I could get one at all.

I would certainly expect a big decline post launch week. That's all games.

Either way I stand by my point. Launching Halo Wars DE and Halo Wars 2 at the same time was a terrible move.

Halo Wars on 360 stayed active for a bunch of years, might still be? If it has any chance of getting an audience today it'll probably be on Steam.

I wasn't arguing with your point. :P

Halo Wars on 360 died a long time ago. Just before they closed their forums.
I think I got to play one of the DLC maps once in Multiplayer? Not good value for money. Haha.
Microsoft didn't really foster a community around the game anyway, so that didn't help things much.

Mr Puggsly said:
For the record, the 360 version is of Halo Wars is surprisingly still active online.

I booted it up via X1 BC and it has about 500 people right now.

Sadly not enough population for something like Reinforcements. (And population in my Region will still be non-existent.)

I'm hoping to see how Steam plays out before I buy a 4th copy of the game.



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NobleTeam360 on 18 April 2017

Hope this leads to more ports to Steam instead of them just being on Windows 10 store.