No they won’t. 😄 the shit that happened with Halo becoming bad is literally a result of the previous tier of “outsourcing” - where Don Mattrick at XBox decided Bungie was too expensive to keep on board pumping out gold with the Halo franchise and so they literally spun up a BRAND NEW studio filled with greenhorns to handle their fucking flagship IP.
Outsourcing done to make dev costs cheaper NEVER results in a better game.
This is just a worse version of what made Halo shitty post Bungie. Now we’ll get to look back longingly at the relatively less shitty 343 era by comparison to what will be developed.
They let Bungie go independent because Bungie was tired of making Halo. If they had stayed with MS, they’d be relegated to churning out Halo titles for eternity.
343 started off with top talent. They had Corrine Yu as their lead programmer. But it’s almost like the studios directors got a blank check to fuck around, thinking anything with the halo branding would sell like crazy.
I don’t think they’re outsourcing Halo to save money. They’ll likely outsource it to more experienced studios with better track records of achieving good results, because 343 is a lost cause. I wonder if their acquisition of Activision was in order to get some studios that could handle the Halo IP? Like Infinity Ward and Treyarch.
No they won’t. 😄 the shit that happened with Halo becoming bad is literally a result of the previous tier of “outsourcing” - where Don Mattrick at XBox decided Bungie was too expensive to keep on board pumping out gold with the Halo franchise and so they literally spun up a BRAND NEW studio filled with greenhorns to handle their fucking flagship IP.
Outsourcing done to make dev costs cheaper NEVER results in a better game.
This is just a worse version of what made Halo shitty post Bungie. Now we’ll get to look back longingly at the relatively less shitty 343 era by comparison to what will be developed.
They let Bungie go independent because Bungie was tired of making Halo. If they had stayed with MS, they’d be relegated to churning out Halo titles for eternity.
343 started off with top talent. They had Corrine Yu as their lead programmer. But it’s almost like the studios directors got a blank check to fuck around, thinking anything with the halo branding would sell like crazy.
I don’t think they’re outsourcing Halo to save money. They’ll likely outsource it to more experienced studios with better track records of achieving good results, because 343 is a lost cause. I wonder if their acquisition of Activision was in order to get some studios that could handle the Halo IP? Like Infinity Ward and Treyarch.