: Halo 5 sold on the order of 1/4 what all other Halos did in the first Month.
: Don't need to be an analyst to know that. I am certainly not trying to
: prove anything. First it was just about the name "instantly"
: without me thinking just irked me the wrong way. I felt the need to state
: it, no clue why but I did. Then it came to this. I still don't see how
: it's wrong that their consumers felt they were obligated to provide these
: features. Yes correlation does not = causation, but we all have heard from
: friends that they didn't buy it for 1 of those features being gone.

Bought it, and I would say we have loved playing it together, any time we aren't playing it, it's because Destiny's loot has it's hooks in them (which is a whole different bag of awfulness that I'm unhappy about).

That goes to show that your friends may not be indicative of the actual reason it's a 1/4 of what all other Halos did in the first month.

I certainly think it'd be really interesting to analyze some surveys for why the 3/4 didn't buy Halo 5 within the first month, but I have little to no interest in you conflating knowing some friends who didn't buy it because some feature like Forge or Campaign Theatre wasn't included at launch, as proof of anything aside from which features your group of friends prefer.