Microsoft Can’t Fix Its Halo: Master Chief Collection Fail

For Adam McGuire, the hype surrounding Halo: The Master Chief Collection couldn’t have been higher. McGuire, a 33-year-old project engineer from Grand Haven, Michigan, saw it as a way to revisit his favorite game series, and rekindle a romance that started more than a decade before with Halo: Combat Evolved.

[Bansai]

Anybody with such a disastrous launch would have a problem fixing it

[Blaze929]

It's working just fine, I was just playing it earlier. what is this?

[mxguy93]

It's crazy how xbox's flagship franchise managed to have issues like this. Especially for this long

[True_Samurai]

The game has been working for a few weeks now. Don't know why this guy thinks it's still not working the mp was the only problem and it has been fine for quite a while

[Mega24]

Just like Driveclub has been working for more then a month now, fanboys make a big deal over stuff like this. Just ignore it and keep playing, it's not like they are playing it themselves.

[Toiletsteak]

Anyways to get them clicks, i was one of the lucky one's that only had a problem now and then but like you said it has been working perfect for a while now.

[AKissFromDaddy]

@True_Samurai There are plenty of recent YouTube videos, like within six days, where Halo MCC is still broken for people. In addition, there are videos of people playing Halo 5, which works great, commentating how Halo MCC still needs online patches for its multiplayer.

You can't use your personal experience or the ones in your bubble as the universal or majority standard, in my opinion.

In my opinion, 343 likely assumed they could patch the game afterwards but it's exceptionally worse than they thought or advertised.

I hope I didn't offend you because that is never my intention.

[ger2396]

So you know 100% that it's been working fine for every single person?

[d0x360]

Does anything work for 100% of the people? No but the MCC match making issues affected maybe 20% of players at launch and now its maybe 5% at best. Perhaps if people knew how to properly configure a home network it wouldn't be an issue but some people love them a $20 Walmart router and then wonder why they have issues.

Fault tolerance in a game can only be so high until it starts destroying the functionality for normal people.

[Ghost_Nappa]

It works now

[Gazondaily]

But the damage has already been done.

[All_Consoles]

I'll take ODST and a month of live as compensation for two weeks of no multiplayer in a month of heavily stacked games

[VforVideogames]

I just try it right before I post this and I'm sorry to say that it has NOT been fix yet I was waiting for 30+ min to get into big team battle and I decided to just turn it off. I a m so f r e a k I n' piss. 343i can get halo odst and shovel it up their @$$$.

[jcole97]

So that means the damage has already been done with driveclub too then eh? or is it ok because they gave it a weather update which was supposed to be there on launch day?

[Mike_D82]

No it does not.

[gangsta_red]

Yes it does, played all weekend long. You should actually try playing MCC and you'll see.

[secretcode]

Considering how much I played in the last week with zero issues? Yes. It does.

[No_Limit]

I play it almost every day and it is fine forth e past 2 weeks now after the updates. If you are an xb1 owners and have the game, then you should already know.

[Tedakin]

At least the Halo 5 beta was perfect so far. I think they have the A team on Halo 5 and the W team on the MCC.

[kstap33]

I only managed to connect to one halo 5 match. Not sure what you mean by perfect beta. I wasn't surprised or angry considering the beta tag and all.

[Farmassy]

You only got to play one halo 5 match? That sucks. The beta was so much fun. I played so many hours of it. I did run into a "could not connect to server" type error on sunday morning though. Other than that, I was able to play nonstop all weekend.

Just wait until the 29th. The game is awesome

[Tedakin]

Worked perfectly for me anyway.

[LAWSON72]

Worked almost flawlessly except for some reason waiting for another game after intermission sometimes got stuck. I was in lobbies in seconds.

[hollabox]

I really don't know what the heck people are talking about. I've had Halo MC since launch, only one day I couldn't connect, with a couple of days taking a long time to join a game(10 mins or so). I've had more issues with single player slow down (especially Halo 4) than MP match making issues. Issues mentioned in this article was the same with BF4, Call of Duty, and heck probably about half of all FPS games across all platforms.

With that said, I think Plants Vs. Zombies is probably the best FPS MP game I've own in a long time. I have on both XB1, and PC ($12 on sale) to play with all of my friends depending on the day.

[kstap33]

PvZ is third person shooter, but I agree, its tons of fun. I think titanfall is my favourite at the moment.

[christian hour]

Got PVZ thanks to EA giving it away for PSX.

And I couldnt agree more! It's amazing! I dismissed it initially because I just saw it as a pointless cash in on yet another curiously popular tower defence flash game franchise.

I ate my words down with a nice pint of "we showed you" on the side. Game is fun as hell!

Good to hear some people are having problem free sessions with MCC, the 4 times I visited my friend who got an XB1 just for it, I got to play for like 5 minutes, broke my heart :( I'll have to pay his house a visit in the new year and try again :D

[lemoncake]

Was fixed by the time I had finished the four campaigns.

[feedthereaper]

Still not sure what the great fuss is with people wanting re-mastered stuff, its just lazy programming to cash in on extra revenues. Its a bit like the "Digitally Re-mastered Star Wars" that came out, it was the exact same film looking ever so slightly sharper. It didn't tell any new story, it didn't give you any better an experience because it was never created for the digital era. It was just Star Wars with a bit of glitter!
Brand new games are what excite me. Halo 5 would excite me 1000% more than playing an 10 year old game with some flash graphics laid over it!
The only exception to the rule for me is GTAV because they have gone out of the way to create a FPS experience to run alongside the game and they have attempted to make the experience a much more next-gen experience, but although it seems an exception, its still GTAV and it is still not a new game with new experiences that are created for the next generation.

[Buff1044]

But there's an audience for it, so why should a company deny itself the revenue?

[Buff1044]

Driveclub's online component didn't work at launch and the majority of N4G users said.... it's OK... free pass because we love PS4. Same thing happens to Halo and the pitchforks come out. Free ODST campaign, another MP map and other freebies.... yeah, Microsoft can come back from this.

[Sm00thNinja]

^^^^^THIS. Game has been working for at least a few weeks now and the compensation is faaar greater than what Evolution is offering with DC and yet we cant forgive MMicrosoft. N4Gs balance of power here is off the scales

[christian hour]

Come again?

The reaction to drive club was pretty much the same as with MCC, plenty of pissed off ps4 owners were in here complaining, some level headed people were staying calm and being rational, the odd delusional fanboy defending it to death, just as there are some XB1 owners in here being calm and rational about the unfortunate launch state of MCC and the odd die hard fanboy (or just a very lucky and fortunate person) claiming there was no problems at all at launch.

Also it's worth noting driveclub was a less established franchise, with less of a fanbase to agitate and anger. Halo has being gathering fans for over a decade so the disappointed ones will be in greater numbers naturally.

[ger2396]

But to be fair, isn't Microsoft a software company? It's rather surprising they had so many issues.

[Ra3030]

Just how did we decide what Microsoft and 343 are giving its users of a broken game to be "faaar greater" than what the DriveClub users are getting. Let's recap....microsoft is giving a month of XBlive worth $5 and and redo of and old game most have already played its worth idk. The DriveClub users are getting season pass and DLC crap for the game which was a new game to start with so how is the Xbox crowd getting the better deal? I'm not saying the DC crowd is getting a better deal but in no way is the Hslo crowd getting a "faar Greater" perk.
I don't think either is that great but if I had to pick I'd want something that was new. And I think all would take games that work when released so that giving " CRAP" away is not needed.

[Spotie]

BS. You and almost everybody in this article were slamming the game for its online woes; even now, Xbox fanboys fill DriveClub articles to complain about online issues that no longer exist, and that they wouldn't have experienced anyway, since they have never played the game.

The only reason there was any sort of outcry about MCC is because folks like you were willing to give Halo a pass while simultaneously deriding DriveClub. Then you make utterly incorrect, hypocritical statements like this, and a bunch of people agree with you as if you're reporting reality, instead of the delusions in your head.

[Sm00thNinja]

I like DriveClub so correct yourself

[Illusive_Man]

MCC has been working for a long time now. It's been improving too over time.

[Mike_D82]

Hahaha riiiiight.

[PeaSFor]

yeah... it take 9 minutes for matchmaking instead of 10 minutes...

[Software_Lover]

I haven't even touched multiplayer yet. I'm not a big multiplayer gamer. I enjoy the solitude of a single player experience. I will give it a go when I finish the campaigns..................if I finish. I'm a little rusty lol.

[marlinfan10]

Driveclubs working better now and we hear "driveclubs the best racing game in years, great job EVO"

mcc starts working better we hear "omg it's still broken, theyll never recover from this, I can't believe theyd let a game release like this"

[Immorals]

Thing is, driveclub is a very average racing game with outstanding graphics. But it's the only racing game on the ps4 (rivals too but different type of game!).

Once gt7 comes out, it will be completely forgotten

[imt558]

And still MCC online work properly. And SP campaigns are not so smooth. Some users here said MCC online works ( of course they will said that, like Illusive_Man ), but go to bigger forums like NeoGAF or Reedit, you will find many posts to date about online still not work properly after all these patches :

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

Every Xbone gamer, after MCC purchase, expected that online would work, but....surprise, not working!!! Halo is synonym for smooth online shooting, but sadly, MCC is broken!! But i'm sure that Halo 5 will work perfectly when full game come out.

@Immorals :

Quote :

Thing is, driveclub is a very average racing game with outstanding graphics.

Sure, dude, sure.

[Kingscorpion1981]

Off topic...This is for Marlinfan10 since I can't reply to you from the other post. I love Microsoft and Sony and have nothing against Microsoft but I do feel like Microsoft lies a lot and milk there old exclusives more... I said the Halo 5 Beta AKA Halo 4.5 was good but not spectacular... I thought evolve beta was a lot better and that's my opinion. I own a Xbox one and PS4 you said "going off some of your comments about xbox and MS in the past, I guess its no surprise youre here saying this" it had nothing to do with the past because I like a lot of Microsoft games but I can't help the way I felt about the Halo 5 beta it just didn't feel original to me and didn't have an identity it felt like 343 played it safe and just copied a lot of similar games I've already played.. I thought Halo 2 Multiplayer was better. But I am looking forward to see what Microsoft is going to do with Gears of War

[MadMenX]

After beating campaigns for each, Got around to MP last week, all plays well for me and friends.

[christian hour]

Hmmm, maybe you're on to something there, maybe 343 are secretly punishing those who didn't play the campaigns start to finish first :P

ha, Imagine!

Sorry, dumb joke theory.

I know, being a SP over MP guy, I'd punish gamers like that in my darkest fantasys haha.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Works fine for me. Don't play much as don't have a lot of spare time and have so many games.

[randomguy35]

I'll just leave this here but I picked this up at the midnight launch and I've played online all of 2 times. Now I still think this is one of the best compilations of all time but the mp not working correctly at this point is terrible. Every update breaks something else the bug testers this generation should be ashamed of themselves too many buggy games are being released.

[ironmonkey]

What a disaster especially being a port remake.

[towelie1288]

works fine for me
been playing for a couple weeks now with barely any issues

[Morgue]

I think we can all agree that regardless of what console you own or said games, they should work at launch.

[GhostTurtle]

Coming from PS4, I bought an X1 just to play this mess. Go ahead and dislike, I deserve it.
*holds up tomato shield*

[blakstarz]

Look people, both consoles had their share of so-called "broken" games, let the devs fix it and shut up about it. It's not like these particular games are the first in history to have issues during launch, what the objective should be is "listen to your audience and address the issues and get it fixed" and that has or still is being done with MCC, DC, and I'm sure AC:U (don't know much about it the progress of that game as I don't own it).

[rainslacker]

How about we be mad that these companies are releasing broken games instead? I'm mad at the developers, and I'm upset with the console makers since the games obviously don't work and they still pass certification.

Being OK with broken releases because they'll be fixed eventually is the wrong route to take.

[blakstarz]

"Being OK with broken releases because they'll be fixed eventually is the wrong route to take."

I do agree with you, but what much can we really do though? I'm sure the devs know the gaming community is tired of these mishaps and it is occurring a bit more often than it should with these new gen consoles, and I understand the frustration as gamers (believe me..I wish a game would work right from the start), but I think the sad reality is we don't have much of a choice and we can yell and scream but until all us are on one accord with no one (globally) buying a "broken" game flat-out, it will send a strong signal, but that's not gonna happen.

[rainslacker]

I feel ya. I'd prefer publishers not give release dates until they know they can release the game without all the troubles. Unfortunately nowadays the big games are all trying to get out for the holidays, and they'll release them to get in on that holiday cash, and then hope it gets fixed during the manufacturing process or soon after release without much fuss.

[Red]

PS+ version of Drive Club has yet to see the light of day. On the other hand, I've played plenty of matches online in Halo:MCC......hmmmm

[dkp23]

Get rid of this p2p connection. Go dedicated servers fully. This hybrid is bullshit wording to cover up p2p is primary.

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

MCC MP works great for me except Big Team battle still takes to long. Halo 4 is still missing from the playlist which is pissing me off but every other mode works flawless for me. Its no longer the broken mess it was at launch and i believe that is a FACT.

[St0rmbr1nger1111]

Is anyone still playing MCC?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=...
Like when hitler asks everyone who went back to farming loot chests in Destiny to leave the room.

[DJustinUNCHAIND]

Is anyone still having the issue where they can't stay in the same lobby after a match, and they get disconnected?

[StrawberryDiesel420]

It's so blatantly obvious that this was rushed out to meet the Holiday deadline. MS / 343I should have just let everyone know in advance that there would be a beta for two months, then release the game when it was done. I have a Xbone and I recommend those who bought the Bone soley for this game and are disappointed should go ahead and give TitanFall a spin, it's a fun FPS.