I think the parties fiasco is gonna be the ultimate excuse for murder CD3 for a lot of people, but who is to blame but microsoft?
To be fair, look at the CD3 threads between GAF and Era. Even before the major delays and setbacks, the threads either faded into indifference or memed and shitposted to death about the cloud, Xbox having no games, etc.. The same thing happened to Scalebound, which went from "looks like shit" to "Microsoft canceled the most promising game ever" in a matter of days. I'm disappointed about the lack of a party feature, but do you honestly think most people here haven't made up their mind about this game already? Those who want to shit on it don't need this excuse to do so. Those who plan on having fun with it and are Crackdown fans will be slightly disappointed by this but they will still play it probably, except maybe for a couple people who were planning on picking it up just to play multiplayer with their buddies.