You know, I understand the whole, "This is 343's vision." shpeal that people defend 343's decisions with. But look at Reach. What kept the playerbase alive from MW3 release to the TU release? It was largely, the player's vision. Stuff like Nascar, Firefight Limited, and Squad Slayer all were huge points for the community.
Quite frankly this game has a lot of potential for players to design it how they want to and extend the life of the game. But it falls very short. Simple stuff like being able to add powerups like Overshield, Damage Boost, or Camo to the maps, having consistent objects in Forge, giving the option to drop the flag, adding skulls in Spartan Ops, giving loadouts in Campaign, allowing zombie traits, or disabling auto-pickup on objectives could all give the game so much more life.
