Over the past 5 years since 343i took over the mantle of responsibility, a popping up phrase has been recurring in the community and that phrase is that "Halo is dead/dying". This is clearly over exaggerated, as Halo 4 and Halo 5 were both highly successful and generated bucket loads of money showing that many, many people still care enough to spend their money on the franchise. What this statement actually means is that, the series has deteriorated from it's former glory and is now a shell of its former past. The game is bollocks. Halo has clearly shown evidence of a decline over the past couple years (Mainly after Halo 3). Halo 3 was Halo's pinnacle, it was a critically acclaimed game that so happened to sell a whopping 12 million units! But since then sales have only decline... With Halo ODST selling 6.5 million, Halo Reach and Halo 4 about 10 million and Halo 5.... Selling a measly 4 million. Of course Halo 5 is still very young and this will most likely increase as time passes by and the Xbox One isn't nearly as successful as the 360 but the statistic show that Halo 5 is the worst performing game in the mainline series. But what about the game? Those are just sales and surely they don't matter. Well, Halo 5 launched very, very poorly as we all know. With <15 maps and only about 6 playlists this was undoubtedly a mainline Halo title’s worst launch in the series. Along with no Splitscreen, a misadvertised campaign length, poor story and Microtransactions this led people to become PISSED. This wasn't a good time either as just last year TMCC launched and everyone was getting all hyped up and the game launched broken. To this day it is still yet to be confirmed that TMCC is functioning as it should have been. These have been rough times, and Halo isn't doing nearly as well as it used to but the game isn't dead. In MY OPINION, despite Halo 5's launch it's a return to form, and hey now that 343i's got gameplay down all they need to do in Halo 6 is give us that sweet and juicy content (Fingers crossed for a good story). What's truly killing Halo is the people saying that "Halo is dead, -blam!- 343i". They're intoxicating the new generation that have chosen Halo to be their main game franchise and are intoxicating the community by posting such slander that is harming the game's reputation even farther and is splitting the community even more. Yes, 343i made mistakes just like every other company, but our job as a community is to critique them and pressure them so that they don't make these mistakes again and that [b]WE MAY GET A BETTER HALO GAME![/b]!! Simply hating will not solve problems but make them worse. So I ask as a community, as Halo fans that we may join together and offer as much critique and that we may [i]PRESSURE[/i] 343i so that we may get that Halo game that will return the franchise to it's former glory and force it back to the top of the FPS market and make it the game that made an Xbox worth getting. Don't just sit on your asses pulling out every bit of shit from your butt crack and fling it at 343i. Think logically and find a way to get 343i to[i] LISTEN[/i] to you, to us, so that they may add what we [i]WANT[/i]. I ask that we may work together as a community so that we may make Halo great again. Platinum out. [spoiler]P.S: This is the first time I've done something like this so some feedback would be appreciated. Also if I made an significant grammar errors I do apologize. If you see any feel free to point them out! Also if you read the whole thing, thanks.[/spoiler] #MakeHaloGreatAgain