We all want to play with our friends. That's half the experience of "Just like it was 10 years ago". We want to be reminded of past good times while playing so we can say "Man, you remember that time we were playing FAE for 7 hours straight?", " Hell yeah man that was awesome, or that time X blasted Y in the face at Froman and Y didn't play for a week?".

When MCC launched, we saw the return of quite a few old timers. They may have stuck around had the game worked. And maybe if it gets fixed, they'll come back again. Then we can relive those great times with our friends.

: the what?

You uncultured swine! http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive29.pl?read=861997

: Solution: don't be so picky and only care about games from over 10 years ago
: alternatively say what you really want to tell them, "just fucking port
: over Halo 2 and only Halo 2, exactly how it was"

That's difficult when the new games are objectively terrible.

: who?

You uncultured swine! https://vid.me/o0cL

: they should've either just had Halo 1 and 2, or not released it on Halo 2's
: anniversary but anywhere from a few months to several years later
: I'd love to see it properly fixed but I doubt it's feasible due to the sheer
: amount and complexity of code; it would be a lot easier to just do it
: over, and I'm sure in another 7-12 years or so they will do it over
: adding more code to matchmaking, especially code to restrict things rather
: than keep them open, will probably not help matters

343 seems to disagree. I hope they're right, but I'm not exactly confident in them.

: additional code and other options will likely be moot anyway because of the
: popularity of Halo 3, it's voted for so much more often than the others
: that it's a major reason the active playlists are actually active
: if you match just the Halo 2 players together (which would more easily and
: logically be done with a Halo 2 playlist), it'll be a ghost town because
: most players are not Halo 2 babies

It's definitely true that H3 is over voted, but H2 comes up enough to satisfy me. Barely. Which tells me there are still plenty of people who want some Halo 2.

: matchmaking gets the attention but to many people the campaign and custom
: game issues are very important, especially given the angle of holding LAN
: parties or replicating the feel of them
: some campaign missions have graphical or progression issues, custom games
: tend to fail with too many people, some options are missing, Halo 3 is
: greatly hampered by the inability to place gametype-specific objects in
: Forge, and people generally don't want to recreate Halo 3 and 4 maps they
: already made (let alone maps someone else made)

Now, do you think if the game works, will people be inspired to go back and recreate those? Or better yet, make new things?
Only time will tell, but I sure hope so.