Please....take your time with HALO.

I CONCUR!

Please, please.... PLEASE take your time. 4 was good single player wise, but MP?

To make halo great you need:

Classic soundtrack

Vanilla halo MP

DROP THE PERKS

Bring back elites

Bring back classic maps

Sort the matchmaking out

Dedicated servers

Robust, in depth player progression

Skill based levelling

Drop the XP system

No random weapon drops

No power weapon starts - DMR, anyone?

Please 343, I have faith - I think you could actually outperform bungie (dare I say it) just listen to your fans and stop catering to the masses on this one. COD has that covered.

Leave the COD community where they are, they're not moving anytime soon. Instead focus on rebuilding the halo community. Trust me, it will pay off. Hell, I'll even work for free as a consultant ;-).

NICE 1!The most refreshing and sensible post ive read in the last hour,343 industries are responsible too,for what we all want,im hoping we do not have a repeat of defiance,the tv show subsidising the game in respect.

hmmm.... since halo 5 is being made by a single studio, the chances of it being *** up in a major way at launch are vanishingly small. the only reason the MCC was messed up so badly was it had several different games and engines trying to run on the same
platform while being played on the x1. that ain't gonna happen easily...

so I think you can rest easy in that regard.

Although, I'm sure they will make every effort to do a much better job with Halo 5 than with MCC, they WILL release November 2015. Microsoft just has too small of a collection of quality games on the console. They know Halo moves consoles and that will
get more third party games and revenue. Microsoft was always pushiing Bungie to stay on schedule and wasn't too happy with Bungies delays on games.

I just hope they do another round of beta testing (which is currently NOT planned) with emphasis on larger maps and vehicles as well as balancing long range weapons and checking movement with new sprint, thruster, etc. I really think they'd be best to
do another round of large scale beta testing before the game release. I'd start of summer would be a great time to do this, starting late May or sometime in early June 2015.

If there isn't any further beta testing there's no way I will pre-order the gaem and will almost certainly wait until a few weeks to a month after release to order it. Even then I'll be checking reviews, especially Metacritic and IGN. IF the game is not
working well in multiplayer and very well polished I won't bother buying it.

The Halo MCC cover says made by Bungie,343 Industries,Microsoft Studios.