These people upset that 343 is still developing it are fucking weird man, Lol.
Bonnie Ross is gone, Chris Lee is gone, the entire Campaign team is gone, 343 has been under completely new leadership since 4 months ago, under the leadership of the guy who saved TMCC and Infinite's MP side has improved a lot recently but there's people still mad that it's still being made by 343. What more do they want? Lets move Pierre into a studio called 434! It's totally different! 
Anyway it feels like this is a studio reboot, having to rebuild it from near the ground up, unfortunately 343's issues timed with Microsoft's layoffs which gave Microsoft an easy excuse to just blanket fire the entire Campaign team in one swoop rather than replacing employees slowly overtime or moving them to other positions in XGS.
I don't think Pierre would have done mass firings, I think he would have carefully changed things in the studio overtime and streamline some management, maybe replace a few people, but unfortunately Microsoft was looking for layoffs and 343 has just majorly fucked up so Microsoft took the most extreme course of action.
It's a shame, I loved the Campaign and there's a lot of talented people in there, although it wasn't without its issues, notable no Campaign Co-Op or Level Select until a year after launch and a lot of other things promised but never delivered...Wish we could have kept the Art/Story/OST team at least as those were very strong aspects.
There's a former 343 employee who has been trashing 343's former leadership on Twitter. He specifically noted that the Multiplayer leadership team was great so that seems to imply he's dragging either the Campaign leadership team or the overall studio leadership team. Found it a bit of a surprise considering I thought Campaign was better than Multiplayer.
Maybe the Campaign Leadership/Overall Leadership was causing issues for the Multiplayer team though?
I think the unfortunate thing is, 343 has fucked up, quite badly. There's no doubt that Infinite has probably been a big flop for Microsoft, so they're probably looking at it in financial terms as well, they've got to double down on the thing that can make them money for now (Multiplayer) so that explains why they didn't fire the Multiplayer team as well, if they did, Infinite would have to be shutdown and 343's studio would be practically empty.
They're probably going to try to get Multiplayer in a better spot first, in a financially healthy spot, before rebuilding the Campaign team.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 21 January 2023
