The entitlement in this thread is suffocating.
In my day, we had to walk 5 miles through the stroke-inducing heat of Texas (which lasts about 9 months) and fight the hungry, angry bobcat in front of Montgomery Ward so we could sift through the Atari and Intellivision games to pick the ones with the best cover art, or at least the titles we remembered from the back cover of a comic book. That was a game developer's marketing strategy, and we embraced it for what it was (never understood the whole bobcat fighting thing, but the point is I learned how to ride a bobcat at an early age).
Now you little bastards jump all over a developer when the gameplay pictures, videos, and opinions of regular and professional gamers who got to play a version of the game 4-5 months early isn't nearly enough for your goldfish-like brains.
Nice story "Gramps" but that's not the situation here.
Does some level of entitlement exist within the Halo Crowd? Or course it exists in virtually every person within the 1st world to some degree.
The issue is why can 343 not match features that are in its competition. Gear 3 had dedicated servers, that the negotiated with Microsoft to get.
Along side this Black Ops 2 has now added in a spectator mode and again is returning with dedicated severs.
Its not really about entitlement its about wanting halo to be competitive at a feature level to other BIG Online/Event Games.
I'm a Huge 343 fan, Iv loved all the previous work and im sure i will love halo4. However the point stands that certain features that would greatly help the competitive crowd (an important crowd to say the least) have been for what ever reason not included in the game.
I have big hopes that Halo 4 could return Halo to MLG but the lack of a spectator mode is a somewhat valid reason if they decide to not include it, Its virtually Octuples the cost of hosting a halo related event.
I'm sure 343 have more than valid reasons and I'd imagine that to them and many other people other things would be more prioritized but you cannot shush people for speaking vocally about features that you can say with near 100% certainty would improve the franchise.
We are not here to give 343 stick because "hurr durr hola iiz shity" every single person posting in this thread loves the game and has devoted an insane amount of time to playing and they just want the game they love to be the best it can be.
From our side of the fence things seem easy, "Forge is grey just let me colour value everything" hundreds of reasons likely exist why something like this is not just that easy and people tend to forget that but it would be nice if 343 could speak more openly about why things like this cant be done or have been omitted from the development scheduled, I think its wrong to expect answers like this from Frankie or Ellis they both have quiet specialized skill sets but a big Q&A weekly bulletin that was more focused to answering questions related to the development side of things would go a long way in some peoples books.
I respect Frankie trying but i feel answer's like "Its a bandwidth issue" create more questions than they answer.
343 are a busy studio and this is their first real title, i can forgive them alot of what the do because of this but if the info follows on in this manner then i can see people getting Real Salty before H5 and H6.
