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Just four years after launching, and less than half of the promises 10-years of support when it was announced, Halo Infinite will cease getting any major updates on November 18 and will enter maintenance mode.
Operation: Infinite will launch on November 18 and will be the last major update that Halo Infinite receives.
“With multiple Halo titles in development, we’ll need our whole team’s combined focus to deliver new experiences with the same passion and care that our community has given us,” reads the announcement on Halo Waypoint. “While we remain committed to supporting Halo Infinite on the road ahead, Operation: Infinite is the last major content update currently planned.”
One of this Halo titles referenced is the recently announced remake of the very first game which will be titled Halo: Campaign Evolved. It’ll launch next year. And at least one of the other titles will presumably be the next mainline Halo game. And let’s not forget, Halo is on PlayStation now and in the foreseeable future.
The final update will add “2X boosts on Career Rank and SP, 100-tier Operation Pass, eight earnable armor sets, new Ranked Seasons, and 200 never-before-released customizations arriving in The Exchange.”
After the update releases, the game will remain playable, but no new content will be released. Challenges will continue to rotate in and out, and ranked season will keep going. But that’s it. No new seasons, no new updates, no new maps. Nothing.
“As the Halo Studios team shifts focus to in-development projects such as Halo: Campaign Evolved, we’d like to thank our Halo Infinite players for years of steadfast support.”
No amount of thanks is going to stop players from feeling betrayed, though. When Halo: Infinite launched, the team talked of an ambitious 10-year support plan and of continuing the story of Master Chief. Instead, the game is all but shutting down four years later, and not a single shred of singleplayer content was released to follow-up on the campaign. Instead, part of Master Chief’s story was told in a book that picked up the events of the campaign.
At this point, it’s crazy to see how poorly handled the Halo franchise has been, and how far it has fallen from being Xbox’s shining jewel.
