Jay520 said:
Obviously MS is listening to their fanbase if Halo racks in the most fans of any other IP that they own. The fans will take Halo over other IP's any day. When MS. Makes a Halo, tens of millions of XB fans are happy, while a few are upset. If they were to neglect Halo, then their would be millions of fans upset, with only a few happy. Sales = fan-base. If the fans didn't want Halo, they wouldn't buy it. Oh, and BTW, Ms. Isn't focusing all of their resources on Halo. They have one dev, just like Sony, working on the Halo franchise. That studio is called 343 studious. Halo isn't blocking any other IP's from being created. MS. Just doesn't have the manpower to consistently make various IPs. Games like COD are in the same boat. Every year ir releases, it's rated high by reviewers. Every year, Devs make tons of cash. And most importantly, the fans love it EVERY Year. It's what the people want. As a publisher, it's their job to give the people what they want. The fact is COD is well revieved by everyone, by both the fans and reviewers. There are only about 100k people out there like you who feel the opposite. Obviously a publisher can't satisfy everyone, so they decide to satisfy the most people they can. And that's what they do every year. The majority of your post is opinion. YOU don't want Halo. YOU want different IPs. YOU are tired of COD. You have to remember that you are in a very small minority. As a publisher, it's their job to ignore people like you in order to create more happy customers than unhappy. You have to stop being selfish and realize that MS./Acti are doing what they're doing for the greater good. |
I see. So I have to stop being selfish so that MS can be selfish.
Many people are tired of call of duty. Many reviews have said it themselves that they aren't introducing anything new. For eg call of duty world at war got criticized for it. Ironically modern warfare 2 didn't. I actually doubt people ask for a call of duty game, and not just buy it because its a call of duty game. And sales does not equal quality. It never did.
Your post makes it seem like every year MS is asking their fans if they want halo and depending on the feedback they make more. That's not really the case. If that was the case ODST would have sold around halo 3 as well. Instead it did half the nos. Were less people asking for halo at that time?
Halo sells because of brand name and marketing. The halo that will be releasing this year won't sell as much as halo 4 at all. Its a given. It will sell even less than gears of war 3. I guarantee you MS doesn't have the balls to release a Halo game without any marketing or marketing similar to that of demon's souls or something. Cause then it wouldn't sell as much.
You are right in that MS isn't focussing all their developers into halo. Instead they are now focussing onto kinect, I am sure this is because people are asking for it as well /s.
MS has more than enough money to create their own development studios. Something that they actually did for their kinect games.
They had remedy. They could have published their game. Maybe they will.