Rebs Gaming: Inside how 343 Industries Leadership ruined Halo: Infinite Campaign

John Elden Ring

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•Campaign team was placed in a box without studio collaboration, which drained the team.
•Campaign didn’t receive any external focus testing unlike previous campaigns. This pissed off the team.
•Leadership didn’t play the campaign during internal testing days and eventually canceled internal testing which cut off all feedback loops for the campaign team.
•Leadership didn’t ask for campaign feedback until months before the game shipped.
•Hackathons were created to boost morale. Several awesome prototypes were created, but leadership abruptly scrapped them and hackathons.
 

reziel

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343 unfortunately ruined Halo in general starting immediately after they released the 4th game its not surprising this one was frowned upon. Bungie was the only ones that knew how to try and keep the community engaged.
 

Spyxos

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Too bad about Halo. I used to enjoy playing it a lot, but i didn't even finish Infinte.
 

ethomaz

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It is weird they talk about Halo Infinite when the studio had issue with campaign in all Halo games they released 🤷‍♂️

So it was an issue already happening with Halo 4.
They just continued thinking it was the right path.
 

Vertigo

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Institutional management problems that seems to be a problem for legitimately every MS owned studio. Microsoft sucks at facilitating game development and ideas. This is painfully obvious.

Saw the vid… 6 mins and doesn’t really go into much.