I'm not sure how 343 arrived at the conclusion that this was what they needed to do to bring back players after the disaster that was Halo 4 multiplayer (the fastest player drop-off rate in Halo MP history). Didn't they hire on some former Halo MLG players from the classic era (2 and 3)? How did they let this happen? It seems like 343 is removing all of the things that make Halo different from other shooters. The main draw of Halo for me is the classic FPS gameplay. Why, when the main criticism of Halo 4 MP was that they copied other modern shooters too much, would they go and copy other modern shooters even more than Halo 4 did? It just baffles me. The only good thing is that the beta is nearly a year in advance, they could still change this stuff.

I'm not sure how 343 arrived at the conclusion that this was what they needed to do to bring back players after the disaster that was Halo 4 multiplayer (the fastest player drop-off rate in Halo MP history). Didn't they hire on some former Halo MLG players from the classic era (2 and 3)? How did they let this happen? It seems like 343 is removing all of the things that make Halo different from other shooters. The main draw of Halo for me is the classic FPS gameplay. Why, when the main criticism of Halo 4 MP was that they copied other modern shooters too much, would they go and copy other modern shooters even more than Halo 4 did? It just baffles me. The only good thing is that the beta is nearly a year in advance, they could still change this stuff.

What 343i has to realize is that there are games which are strong because they are something special to people. Halo was one of these games and another example would be Counter Strike. The next Counter Strike can't feel super fast and more like CoD just because CoD is famous. Counter Strike and Halo are also famous (CS:GO has still 200k players at the same time) and they don't have to be like something else just because that is maybe even more famous.

Those who want CoD play CoD and those who want Battlefield play Battlefield. You don't have to convince people not interested in your franchise that they will be in the future, you have to convince people interested in your franchise that this franchise will be always something for them or for new fans who would choose Halo instead of CoD or Battlefield exactly because it would be so different to these games they don't like as much. 

If you change stuff in you games do it so that it is good for this franchise and not how it is popular in games which have a totally different fanbase for totally different things.

What 343i has to realize is that there are games which are strong because they are something special to people. Halo was one of these games and another example would be Counter Strike. The next Counter Strike can't feel super fast and more like CoD just because CoD is famous. Counter Strike and Halo are also famous (CS:GO has still 200k players at the same time) and they don't have to be like something else just because that is maybe even more famous.

Those who want CoD play CoD and those who want Battlefield play Battlefield. You don't have to convince people not interested in your franchise that they will be in the future, you have to convince people interested in your franchise that this franchise will be always something for them or for new fans who would choose Halo instead of CoD or Battlefield exactly because it would be so different to these games they don't like as much. 

If you change stuff in you games do it so that it is good for this franchise and not how it is popular in games which have a totally different fanbase for totally different things.