It's hard to vote with my play time when the playlist offering is trying to cater to everyone but instead just causes people to quit and afk when they are forced into playing games or modes they have no interest in playing. When I play World of Warcraft how hard would anyone expect me to try if I queued up for a dungeon and got dropped into a pvp battleground instead? It just doesn't make sense to force people to play what they have no interest in playing. If you have a low population playlist and merge it with a high population playlist you do absolutely nothing but piss off both parties. Your game has a mere fraction of the population it could have if you wouldn't merge all four halo games into social slayer or merge objective type games with slayer. Would you merge a mom and pop burger joint with a fancy Italian restaurant to gain a wider audience? Oh damn that's a bad analogy because if you merged the two you'd still be able to pick what you wanted to eat off of a menu. This would be like 343 opening up a restaurant and making you choose a cluster of menu items and getting one completely at random. Do you think people would continue going to that restaurant to eat?



I just want to play Halo 2 slayer... That's it. I'd take classic or Anniversary. I'd take ranked or unranked. BR or no BR. I'd take doubles, 4vs4 or 8vs8. I don't care. Just Halo 2 Slayer. Every single game. It's so ridiculously simple but for some reason it's such a complicated concept to 343. I would keep xbox live forever, I would keep playing master chief collection forever. I played Halo 2 on xbox live from the day it launched until the day it was removed from live. It's the reason I bought this game but I've had capture the flag, assault, oddball and king of the hill rammed down my throat along with Halo 3 over and over and over. I'm just so sick of it. Just scrolling up and looking at the group of playlists is hilarious. Is it really just me that finds it so painfully obvious how terrible these playlists are? Slayer has been a staple playlist since the inception of Halo. Slayer and objective gametypes are completely different beasts. You cannot merge the two and have the majority of people happy. But look! There is a slayer playlist! You have no room to complain! I'm just glad 343 has figured out that every Halo fan is more than happy to tolerate all four iterations (five if you count anniversary) of the game to play slayer. None of this even considers the fact that you have a huge population that you aren't even aware of that don't enjoy starting with a BR. Fighting for power weapons IS Halo and when you start with a very solid weapon it makes it much less important. These players don't play your game anymore because your "statistics" show BR being favored. So when you weight BR starts heavier than regular starts, you have lost some of your population so your statistics get further skewed and you further weigh certain gametypes and variants causing others to quit until it looks like no one enjoys anything except BR starts on Halo 3.