Även om de första intrycken av Halo Infinite var positiva överlag har 343 Industries upprepade gånger gjort oss besvikna med brutna löften, sparsmakade innehållsuppdateringar och missade deadlines.
Men om du frågar Xbox Studios-chefen Matt Booty är situationen idag annorlunda än den var för några månader sedan. Han deltog nyligen i podcasten Friends Per Second, där han medgav att studion fick en dålig start, och fortsatte såhär:
"These days with a game like Halo Infinite, shipping the game is just the beginning. There's gotta be a plan for content [to] sustain, there's gotta be a plan for continuing engagement, and we just fell short on the plan for that. We've really retrenched, we've got some changes in how the team is set up, we've got some changes in leadership, and just have to really get refocused around that sustained content plan. And just, thank you to the players for sticking with us through this. We know there's way more demand and so much more we could be delivering. We appreciate the players sticking with us and that is our focus right now. On quality-of-life for the game and getting on a regular cadence of content. If was a little bit of, good finish across the finish line, and then, kind of the classic runner's mistake of tripping and stumbling [...] and we've gotta recover. So, the burden is on us, the team is very focused on that right now. [...] The phrase of "gone gold" or "we shipped the game," I don't know if that has as much meaning today as it did five or six years ago."
343 genomgår en omfattande omstrukturering i syfte att göra studion mer effektiv.
