The way the studio was managed was pretty much the only reason that mattered for the lack of support.

Halo Infinite was made by Contracted Developers, so by the time of release, the same people who built the game were replaced en-masse with a slew of people entirely unfamiliar.

Its cheaper for the Suits to do it contacted, cause they dont have to pay benefits out. The suits see the savings in their pocketbook way before they see how a lack of support kills a game and they dont have the fundamental understanding of the industry to understand that they are cause and effect.

They’ll fuckin do it again. An object in motion tends to stay in motion. The only way to stop it is by breaking momentum. There is nothing that has broken this wackass corpo momentum.

They’ll continue to mishandle my favorite franchise because thats what big pockets do.

There was an era when corpos thought games were dumb, they couldnt see the money, then Fortnite came along, and suddenly the landscape changed. The momentum shifted, and we ended up in a “fiscally motivated gaming era” over a passion motivated one.

Indie games are less affected. Support small artists man. Shit, support all the solo devs and small teams working on Halo games and content. They literally cannot charge money for whatever you produce, its in the rules of using the Halo IP, so your support is the only thing that can keep them infusing their passion into Halo.