Is this what "Next Gen" will be?

Yes. Most AAA multiplayer heavy titles will have server issues when they first come out. Destiny had a full on alpha and an enormous beta to make sure things were stable when it launched and the game still some hiccups. A poster a lot smarter than me explained it very well by going to a ton a detail, but it was basically that the servers just can't take the massive sudden hit of millions of people trying to play at the same time for the first time.

It doesn't help that companies seem to be getting forced to release things before they are ready.

I'm willing to deal with it if companies are communicative and putting in the effort to fix things.

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But that's what a $500 million dollar budget and a great Alpha and Beta helps with.

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It's just too bad that they couldn't help make it a good game.

MLB The Show was shitty online on PS3, nothing new on next gen. NBA 2K14 was god awful, but I never saw many issues with 15.

Our first raid attempt almost 3-4 weeks in kept getting derailed because different connection issues. The game had hiccups.

BF4 was a broken mess for almost a month or more. You are basically warned to not create a career during the first 2 weeks after the release of a new NBA2K game because there is a good chance your character will get deleted.

GTA Online was probably the worst.

I realize you are trying to make this a Halo thing, so just carry on being your terrible self

Not really, yes it's hilarious as all fricks to me, but really nothing to do with this conversation.

Don't get mad most other big titles don't have even HALF the issues Halo does, and don't be an idiot and use Battlefield 4 a launch title, and a PS3/360 game in a next gen thread, as your counter.

I used recent AAA titles that were heavy multiplayer related that I have dealt with personally.

If you can name some major multiplayer games that I have missed then help me out.

Halo is great when you actually get to play it, the issue is just playing it is too big of a pain in the arse right now.

I've just been playing some Co-op legendary of the campaign in the meantime.

There was an enormous thread on r/Games that was like why aren't more people bitching about Halo

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Battlefield 4 was a shite fest, Halo is almost on that level.

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BF4 was virtually unplayable for about a month, it was so damn bad. But even EA/Dice admitted it was rushed to be a launch title. Games releasing now a year after launch shouldn't be having many issues, there is always going to be some, but not unplayable gamebreaking issues. Just unacceptable.

And again, I'm sure a lot of it has to do with money/budget. I'd guess 343 Industries, being smaller, and just making an HD remake, didn't have a very big budget.

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Rockstar better have upgraded their servers with all the money they got

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If GTA Online is shite again, gamers should burn Rockstar to the ground. frickers have made so much money and have sworn they learned from the PS3/360 server mess.

It will be the best "next gen" test for awhile. Wouldn't surprise me at all though come Tuesday the servers are down.