This is a reblog from XBOX Achievements.com:<\/p>\n
Halo Franchise Development Director Frank O’Connor believes that Halo: The Master Chief Collection\u2019s disastrous launch and long-running online problems are \u201cdefinitely a black eye for us\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking to XBA a few weeks back at the at the EGL\u2019s \u201cBattle For Europe\u201d event in the Halo Championship Series, O’Connor discussed the mistakes that were made with the remastered compilation, while reassuring players that the same problems won\u2019t occur with Halo 5: Guardians.<\/p>\n
\u201cHalo: The Master Chief Collection is definitely a black eye for us,\u201d said O\u2019Connor. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to rest on our laurels or hide from the mistakes we made. However, I will say that the nature of The Master Chief Collection – you\u2019ve got five different game engines, you\u2019ve got five different studios working on it, you\u2019ve got 343 working on putting it all together – the footprint and complexity was outrageous.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be perfectly honest, there were a lot of things that happened when we got it into a retail environment that we simply didn\u2019t see in a test environment, so that\u2019s what really caught us by surprise. We\u2019ve been sort of scrambling to get it first in a playable stage and now we\u2019re going to get it in a polished stage, so that people are getting what they deserved in the first place. We\u2019re never going to back away from that or shy away from that.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, Halo 5 is being made by a completely different team. It\u2019s a singular product. It was built from the ground up for this new technology, rather than being sort of dragged kicking and screaming from 2001 and forced and shoehorned into a 2014 console. So the problem spaces are still very challenging but they\u2019re radically different. I think the beta is already a decent first step, in a retail environment, showing that we don\u2019t have the same problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The quote comes from a larger interview discussing Halo 5\u2019s eSports aspirations, as well as how 343 Industries is attempting to juggle the needs of eSports players and your average scrub. It\u2019s interest stuff. Give it a watch below. Halo 5: Guardians is out on Xbox One this October 27th.<\/p>\n
Heres the video of the interview:<\/p>\n