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Halo Infinite's Player Count Is Over 30 Million

The game launched to a mixed reception but has now acquired quite a name for itself.

Jin_Sakai527d ago

“Experience” sections that Halo Infinite has garnered over 30 million unique users over time.“

“Over time” meaning most of those players are long gone.

mrcatastropheAF527d ago

The game is in the peak form and players are returning in droves.

The cope is palpable.

Mr_cheese527d ago

Honestly can't remember the last time I spoke to somebody and they were playing Halo.

Not to say people aren't playing it, just that it doesn't feel very common.

Glad that the franchise is seemingly getting some heat again because its a wicked one with great history

VenomUK527d ago

Exputer's headline is FALSE INFORMATION. To claim "Halo Infinite's Player Count Is Over 30 Million" means that it currently has a player count that, on average, is over 30 million. However the detail of this story is that this figure of 30 million is the total number of players who have launched the game since it launched - which is a very different story.

Tacoboto527d ago

I play Halo off and on. Whenever the weekly is an Armor Coating, a new event launches, or only have an hour to play something. Usually a day or two, each week or two.

Most times I've played (Team Tactical, Super Fiesta, or the sponsored playlist like Halo 3 Refueled now), matchmaking starts up in typically less than a minute of searching, most times around 30 seconds.

It's actually great fun and if you only play once or twice a month, 100% guarantee you'll play on a new map if not more. 343 has done a *great* job these last six months and the 8 maps they just added for Halo 3 are solid. Enough people play that wait times in popular playlists are very short (can't speak for ones I don't play on).

It's sad we won't get local co-op, but that's a dead horse and the game's on a really good footing. It seems the new leadership *actually likes Halo* now.

Aloymetal527d ago

The la la land effect aka false sense of relevancy for the xbox platform popularity and its games is palpable...

purple101527d ago

A unique take on the grammar of the English

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Gamingsince1981527d ago (Edited 527d ago )

It has at most a few thousand playing it at peak times, the headline is basically a lie, it should say "halo infinite has had 30 million players try it at one point or another over 2 years" but then no one would care because that's nothing at all.

jambola526d ago

Yeah it's misleading at best
Blatantly lying at worst

Rude-ro526d ago

To add… it is free to play PvP so downloading it to try was easy.
Having such a daily number on free to play PvP says a lot of the demand for the game.

Amplitude527d ago

Bit under 7000 people online on Steam right now

zaanan526d ago

Yes! And it’s currently the 17th most played game on Xbox right now, so totally on fire!
(per this article: https://newzoo.com/resource...

Sonyslave3527d ago

How halo launch with mix reception with 89 metacritic 🤣

chadwarden527d ago

Wait, I thought there was an "Xbox tax"

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Gamingsince1981526d ago

I think they are talking about the people that played it, not the cherry picked reviews

Andrew336526d ago

Are sixthaxis and dualshockers pro Xbox or something because they both gave it a 90.

ChasterMies527d ago

“This is according to Ben F.’s LinkedIn profile, a former Product Manager at 343 Industries, who has stated under one of his ‘Experience’ sections that Halo Infinite has garnered over 30 million unique users over time.”

Lots of people bullshit on their resume.

Hofstaderman527d ago

"Unique" can mean tried for 20 minutes and effed off never to be seen again.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH527d ago

It’s still the best console shooter out there. Destiny 2 MP is fun a but to much BS to take it seriously. Halo’s multiplayer is still on top when it comes to consoles if you ask me. Obviously CoD kills all when it comes to sales but when it comes to skill Halo is king.

Crows90527d ago

Nah. Not really. Counter strike tops everything anyways

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH527d ago

Counter strike is not considered a console shooter which I why I said CONSOLE shooter.

Crows90527d ago

Yeah I know you said console...which is why I said "anyways"

But to claim something so silly as halo being the top when very few play it...there's just not much more to say other than nah.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH527d ago

Obviously I’m talking about Halo as a whole but I guess I have to break it down for people like you. Please by all means tell me what CONSOLE shooter is better…

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Einhander1972527d ago

4,556 playing 2 min ago

7,752 24-hour peak

256,619 all-time peak

Destiny1080527d ago

5000 is a bit short of 30 million, that sounds like redfall numbers to me

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Halo Infinite Scrapped 10-Year Content Plan Allegedly Revealed

Details regarding the 10-year content plan for Xbox Game Studios and 343 Industries' Halo Infinite have allegedly been revealed.

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RaidenBlack54d ago

"The story would have been expanded through yearly campaign DLC, so players would not have to wait for another mainline Halo title." ~ this seldom works
But I still think, they should've tried 1 last Halo sequel based on that slipspace engine, that they invested so much on but made for current gen only, before going all in on UE5.

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Even Halo’s biggest voice actors have heard nothing “at all”  about Xbox’s new projects

The biggest voices of Xbox’s Halo franchise have been told nothing about the multiple new games in development.

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jznrpg167d ago

Maybe they were replaced by AI.

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franwex167d ago

Call me a cynic. But it seems that not even the people working in the studio know what’s the status of Halo.

They were going to add a BR mode, which then got cancelled, but now it’s a sequel to infinite, but may be a reboot of the first game?

It may be normal for development to be like this as super Mario galaxy started as cut content from Mario 128, which then became a tech demo, which became pikmin, which eventually became Mario galaxy.

But 343 or whatever they are called now-certainly don’t have a good track record so it makes me wonder what’s happening.

porkChop167d ago

The Halo: CE remake is a separate project from the Infinite sequel.

Knightofelemia167d ago

Maybe all the staff got laid off.

TheColbertinator167d ago

I'd be much more comfortable with the future of Halo if "343" or whatever they call themselves now were no longer in charge of the series.

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Halo Bowling comes to Infinite as the best game since Grifball

Halo Infinite now has a functional bowling alley thanks to this amazing Forge map available for free on Xbox and PC.

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Ra3030177d ago

WTF!!!? Can we add Tic-Tac-Toe, maybe Connect 4? How bout the card game Go Fish? Microsoft should shelve the Halo Franchise for 10 to 20yrs or sell it clearly they have no new ideas to take Halo forward and putting a "Hey gamer finish the game for us" mode and we can make more money off it and we can fire some more game Developers that we really don't even care about.......Microsoft is done even trying to make Halo a game worthy of even a little bit of our time.