: But in my (admittedly very little) experience with the game, the multiplayer
: works. Sure, it's slow to find a match, but I mostly just attribute that
: to the low player population. Maybe I'm wrong in that.

: I've played one match since I bought it, but I've played around fifteen hours
: or so of multiplayer over a few weekends at a friend's place. We were
: mostly just drinking and hanging out, though, so I wasn't playing
: seriously and paying really close attention to the game.

: Still, from what I've seen, multiplayer (and the MCC as a whole) works as
: advertised.

My experience exactly. Once I loaded multiplayer and gave up waiting to find a game. Once. (Admittedly, I didn't keep trying--especially those first few weeks.) That's a big problem, yes, but there's a big percentage of Halo fans that never really played the mulitiplayer. For them, MCC was fine. That 343 couldn't deliver what was advertised is unfortunate, but I'm frankly happy about it because we got ODST out of the deal.

Speaking of which, hey 343, remember Reach!