What’s Going On With Halo & 343 Industries? | GameSpot News

A new report has claimed that longtime Halo developer 343 Industries is being taken off of "active development" of the franchise and that new games in the series will be created by third-party studios.
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According to Halo leaker Bathrobe Spartan--who has a track record leaking Halo inside information--and translated by Metro, Microsoft's mass layoffs have hit 343 Industries hard and will see up to a third of its workforce laid off. 343 Industries will then take on a parental role for Halo, overseeing new games and content while working on maintaining the game's engine. This isn't entirely new territory for 343 Industries as it has relied on outside help to develop Halo Infinite's multiplayer content (Season 2 is a prime example of this), but Bathrobe Spartan claims that the planned story-based DLC has been scrapped due to it being considered not cost-effective under 343's stewardship.

On the flip side, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier jumped into a Reset Era thread about the report and said, “I ran these bullet points by a few people. While it's true that 343 is focused on multiplayer, the stuff about campaign DLC being scrapped is false (I don't think there was much of that planned in the first place), and a lot of this is either wrong or just speculation.” 

GameSpot has contacted Microsoft in an attempt to get more details, so make sure to check the site for any further updates. 

And speaking of updates, where are the rest of the big fixes for GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition. The bundle of games have broken free of the Rockstar Store exclusivity and are now available to purchase on Steam. This is great for Steam Deck owners because all three games are compatible, but not so great at the same time because these Steam versions are in the same rough state the game has been in for months.

[bobmartin]

At this point, anyone might be better than 343 keeping halo infinite going. Their inability to fix netcode issues has made the game unplayable.

[Regret]

If 343 actually decided to stick to a coherent storyline after halo 4 the story wouldn't be such a mess.

[MrImastinker]

Once again, I’m wishing they’d just stuck with the resolution of Halo 4 and kept going from there.

Forerunners, the Didact, the grieving Master Chief, things felt like they were going in an interesting direction.

Then 5 happened…

[trailblazerlazerrazerd]

So essentially they're being backseated into a babysitting role but have no general control?

[toaolisi]

Wonder what the original Bungie crew think of this news. And the Halo tv series was basically the bad omen warning us of the troubles ahead for the franchise and people involved. Cause man that show was terrible.

[JawnCena-dnjc]

So Halo is about to turn into Call of Duty with annual releases from different developers

[chipsdubbo.]

Just get rid of 343 entirely! Why even keep them around at all??

[janlim]

I actually worked at a very small division at MS(Not gonna tell what division). Thankfully they only ended the contracts of non-performing employees with a higher pay rate(Most of us are technically contractual)

Im guessing what happened here is that over the course of months, they were already being evaluated (Might explain why they crunched the improvements of the new seasons) and ended contracts on the department that were more or less did not meet thier targets during the months before.

[private]

As being said. It's to be taken with a grain of salt. Windowscentral already denied these claims, just as Jason Shrier.

[Vipus]

Probably a good time to drop that "Infinite" from the title, I guess.

[gtamike_TSGK]

It's not Halo without Bungie anyway

[anon]

I guarantee you if they sold the Halo IP back to Bungie/Sony, Halo would be revived and the next Halo game will be a huge success. Sony Playstation management knows what they are doing, unlike 343/Microsoft.

[Soraviel]

343 went down hill long ago to be honest

[KingScotto.]

What happened to that 10 year plan lol

[WarMachineGuy]

ID software would make a better halo game

[KennethV]

Reboot time! Continue off after Halo 3 with everything under Bungie’s era being canon, so Halo trilogy, Wars, ODST, Reach, Legends, and classic books.

[SynthLizard]

When they say 343 is now in a supervising role, just remember that they ok'd the Halo TV show that took about a decade to make.

[kevinmiller]

As a loyal fan of the halo series, and a fan of the live action series on paramount+, I have to say I'm very disappointed about them scrapping the couch co-op campaign ability. I was excited to go through the stories, with my nephew who always asked me to play the campaign. I'm heart broken that he will never be able to be the shining light for humanity as Master Chief The greatest and most notorious character ever thought of.
Please make the master chief collection split screen. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[MaskDeSmith]

Microsoft is staying true to form and mismanaging studios once again. God help Activision if the deal goes through.

[sanchezs]

I wouldn’t trust 343 making me a cup of noodle honestly. They ruin everything