Pro gamers. People who can only win on a specfic style of playlist. Give me a break.

I don't know why people are getting so rustled over pro players being hired. Take LoL for example. That game has multi-million dollar tourneys with pros on the front page of LoL every day yet many of my casual friends LOVE that game to death. They could care less about being uber competitive yet the game is still balanced to be able to be played competitively. All my casual friends cant get enough of the game. Apply this to Halo 5. This doesn't mean the game is stripped down as so many are assuming (and assuming is a huge understatement, more like panicking to death). If one thing 343 has going for them is the casual aspect. If you seriously think they are gunna make every playlist pro tryhard mlg you need to re-check your irrational thought process. My hope is they are being hired for one aspect of the game's multiplyer side: the [i]competitive playlists[/i]. That right! Competitive playlists .... I did not say[b] entire game[/b]. Ranked and Social MLG takes cares of making sure [i]competitive[/i] playlists are good for those of us who like to play competitively while they have other hired hands who take care of ensuring [i]social playlists[/i] will be good for those who just play for fun and don't wanna deal with ranks, callouts, winning, and other stuff. But whatever. Everyone will steamroll over this post and keep on screaming about some post apocalyptic Halo game where MLG's rule the world and no fun was to be had. They are unwilling to realize a game can be fun for all both social and ranked. So calm your tits and relax. Nobody is gunna force you to play a way you don't wanna play. If 343 does something stupid again like stick slayer pro in the infinity slayer playlist then that is 343's bad decision making for not realizing ranked and social need to be split. Don't blame that on competitive players who enjoy a different side of gaming than you.

Oh yeah, playing mlg's stripped down boring ass playlist back in the day was so much fun >.>

B.Net logic: "OMG H4 sucks because it's for casuals, 343 sucks because they clearly have no idea how to make a competitive Halo game." *343 hires MLG pros who have spent years playing competitive Halo* "OMG they're going to suck the fun out of the game!" GG

I hope this means an end to the progression system and a return to the even playing field.

"Pro gamer" HHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!

He was never that good.

Can they stop hiring these MLG's because I hate MLG so much (Edit: I only mean the tryhards and the wannabes like xXMlgProXx which I was using that name as an example but I'm happy 343 is hiring them the MLG players that they are hiring know about halo)

Wait... who?

They did that for Halo 4… guess what happened.

Lol.

At least they are acknowledging that they -blam!-ed up with H4. I don't know if hiring all these people will do much though.

Another person on the 343i team that has no clue about game production. Worst studio ever

Greaaat... I'm glad that I gave up on Halo if they are letting MLGs decide how the game plays for everyone. AWWW SHIT DMRS ERRYWHERE NO VEHICLES NO PLASMA 'NADES NO BLOOM OHK PISTOLSSSSSSS WRROOOOARRRRR 343 pls

I'm noticing a trend in being desperate for attention by going into threads, acknowledging that those threads already exist by normally commenting in them, and then copying them way later and adding zero content, whatsoever. Is it really [b]that [/b]bad? Also, lel at all the kids on here, Waypoint, etc... screaming about how that must mean the entire game is going to be 99.999% MLG instead of their usual 99.999% thumblessy, ordnancey, aim-assisty slop that chased the entire community out of the franchise. It's hilarious how competitive players, or people who are negative towards H4 and Reach, are always stereotyped into being aggressive, whiny, self-centered elitists, but the same is clearly true for so many thumbless casuals: they're just the ones who have been getting generally what they've wanted for a while now.

stop repeating threads omg

So goddamn cOLD

Ghostayame's been designing the Throwdown gametype/playlist for a long while now. He might as well have been a member of 343 Industries since last Summer. When I heard this news, I said, "That took long enough".

DO NOT care. Lets see what they do with halo 5, but there will be no hype at all as far as I'm concerned.