Hilarious how easy it is to make up fake negative rumors about Xbox. First the Fable 4chan post last week, now this.
I'm not talking about the layoffs. I'm talking about this exact thread
Isn't part of the rumor that they're gonna become just "franchise coordinators" (edit: it's in the thread name lol i forgot) and start outsourcing Halo or whatever too? Can't remember haha
Thanks for the clarification. That part of it really did make no sense all things considered.
I thought the campaign DLC thing sounded wrong. Have any more details from your sources?
Wasn't it told that there would be campaign dlc continuing the story with other areas?
343i never made any comments regarding that, but it was heavily speculated by fans. Especially since some cut footage from trailers matched up with concept art. From the people I know who are more in the know on things, I had heard not much was going on with making future campaigns as they were focused on finishing Infinite post-launch.
Wow that's insane. If there was never anymore campaign planned It's even worst than I imagined. I was really hoping for more.
The fact that there wasn't much of that planned feels worse to me.
They intended Spartan Ops to fill that niche as well, and while ultimately the experiment didn't pan out as hoped, with its inclusion I wouldn't call the game "incomplete".
Then what did "campaign team got hit hard" really mean in your original report? Were they just supporting the multiplayer?
I feel bad for the community who were led on by his return. It was always stated he was coming on board to finish things up, but as a lot of fans put it, him coming back was a total pipe dream. I think he was picked intentionally to garner good faith from the community for PR reasons. It worked mostly, especially when they had him delivering the bad news. Kept people calmer.
Wasn't that the entire core of the "10-year plan" though? That future Halo FPS campaigns would be released within Infinite? Is that not considered DLC, or did they quietly can that ages ago already and no one realized?
The "10-year plan" was put forward by former game director Chris Lee, who stepped down shortly after the E32020 demo and subsequent delay. Since then, 343i has made no references to that plan and have not reassured their commitment to supporting that. The idea would have had Infinite function as a platform and can be assumed that new campaigns would launched through it, but their scope and scale was still to be determined.
I wouldn't say Bathrobe Spartan is "salacious." Other community members with insider connections like LateNightGaming were asserting similar claims. I think there is a lot of confusion right now internally about 343i's plans going forward, and different people are saying different things. However, that was only regarding 343i shifting to more of a publisher role. The campaign DLC being cut (and Joe leaving because of it) is most likely not true.
I never once believed it would actually pan out that way, I knew there was no chance they would be maintaining Infinite in 2030. But I also thought for sure there'd be some kind of substantial campaign content *in the works* at least, rather than not even planned as Jason seems to think. Like, it would be one thing if I was told they planned it and it all got scrapped between shakeups, layoffs, bug fixes, and rolling out heavily delayed multiplayer features - I'd expect that. But "that never actually even was a thing" is crazy.
