: I get furious every time I want to say the same thing you just did. I always
: know myself and people like me, are one step away from being blamed for
: being the reason the game is so bad. Knowing that makes me enraged and
: I've been generally enraged since 3 months after Halo 4 came out (not
: counting the previous 2 years in REACH). I'm so tired of the crap similar
: to what Gravemind just wrote.

: How can you maintain such a level head? I want to scream and you probably
: know that.

"Crap"? From moi? Improbable. Because when I'm right I'm right. And me? I'm always right. :p

Seriously, though, I don't blame you for Halo 4. I mean, were you out there vocally pushing for 343I to add a bunch of unbalanced Skinner box nonsense to Halo? Honestly, I don't recall any of us here asking for custom loadouts and rank-based unlocks in matchmaking. The blame rests solely on 343I. They thought it would be totally swell to ape COD and the rest of the FPS status quo by adding all that garbage. Never mind the fact that doing so ruined competitive balance by destroying the level playing field that had once been one of Halo MP’s defining features. Never mind the fact that such systems treat the player’s time as a commodity. I can tolerate custom loadouts so long as they're restricted to customs, but I utterly despise Skinner box systems. But hey, it's all going to be a non-issue in Halo 5, right? And, well, as a great man once put it: