: Casual players will always move on to what's new. It doesn't mean the game is
: bad. If you see hardcore players leaving though, then you have an
: indication that something isn't right (See: starcraft 2).

I don't think anyone was saying the low or decreasing numbers mean the game is bad, just that they meant it's not as well-liked, and other people have pointed out that's not even necessarily true. Also if you have some kind of yardstick for seeing how many hardcore players (whatever those even are) are in Halo 4, any Halo game, any FPS, or even any game, I'd be interested to see it.