Actually its strange that you made this thread cause I was expecting someone who plays the game to bring up the issue and I didn't like that you tried to portray the game as a flop, but I too was thinking about discussing this cause it was disappointing that so few play now compared to before. I was also disappointed with the technical problems 343 had with the game and the extremely slow response by them to fix their servers.

Its been quite stable for the past few weeks so maybe its bottomed out for now. 

Haha! Oh boy, you fail again.

That isn't daily players, its the peak of the day. Even right now there is almost 30K people playing. I know that because I actually own the game.

Hence, unless its the same people playing 24 hours, there are probably a few hundred thousand people playing a day. Oh boy, what a flop.

I found Halo 4's MP mode to be very enjoyable after what a disappointment Halo Reach was. Of course Halo doesn't have the FPS dominance it had back in 2007 but still is one of the biggest video game franchises and still a huge blockbuster.

The first map released in December however something went wrong at MS and lots of people got the DLC for free whilst many had already paid for it. MS later said that those who got the maps for free got it as a "special free map pack trial" for a few days and took back the DLC from those who got it for free.  Unfortunately, this angered people who paid $10 for it and perhaps they stopped playing. And then, when those who got the maps as a free trial saw that the maps weren't good so they didn't want to buy it. The other DLC released a few weeks ago and I've heard its good but I've never played it.  

Halo4's MP is amazing, and it gets better every week, as they add more maps, more Forge maps, new amazing modes (if you haven't played Team Throwdown and Action Sack, for example, you're missing out greatly.)

Halo 4's only issues are the skill gap is great. New players don't have a lot of fun, because they just get wrecked. And when they launched, it was somewhat slimmed down in terms of playlists, and some of the best stuff didn't come online until their weekly/biweekly updates along the way.

I like shooters a lot in general, and I'm a big Halo fan. The package Halo offers to the people that really use it/explore it is just amazing compared to most console shooters. Just in matchmaking right now there's something like 30-40 maps available, and only a handful (6?) are paid downloads. In file share there are literally a hundred maps worth playing. COD is just easier and simpler to play and understand and to occasionally feel like a god in. And seriously, the level-up system of COD is super addicting - just like Farmville and facebook games. Constant reward. Even though they implemented these systems in Halo 4, they're much slower and much less obviously affecting gameplay (which is good, in my opinion, for balance reasons).

Halo 4 is a stepback? It has nothing but improvements over its already tried and proven (to be fun and addicting) multiplayer engine; with the addition of ordinances, and the new abilities, it's a NEW Halo, it's different, yes. But it's still an overall better and improved game than Reach, and a fantastic successor to Halo 3. 

IMO, the only reason mw3 and blops2 has a larger audience of online players is due to its easy, lazy accessibility. TDM's are always the most popular match type in CoD's, and people just want to mindlessly kill. Halo is skills based, and not everyone can deal with that. 

Halo 4 multiplayer isnt a flop its just that most COD addicts get raped when playing halo its a skill based game . im sure BO 2 would be top on PS3 that wouldnt mean Killzone was a flop

Why am I not surprised it's only sony fans saying it's a flop? It's my most played halo mp ever with around 5 days playtime. I still liked 3 and reach better because there are a few small issues ( lagsystem, no skillrank, some boring maps) but this doesn't make it a flop. People like the OP are really ruining the site with their behavior it just isn't fun anymore like it used to be with the usual suspects bashing something every hour...

This community is growing, I'm seeing new users. And god forbid we chase people away that start ridiculous converstations like this.

That's right, IN YOUR OPINION. A lot of us feel Halo 4 is the best its the best the multiplayer has ever been. I don't feel anything in Halo 4 is a step back. Maybe your nostalgia of the older games is the issue.