"I haven't touched Halo 5 and Destiny is to blame" (Destiny)

by Schedonnardus, Texas, Thursday, October 29, 2015, 18:49 (3408 days ago) @ marmot 1333

But surely some of the Halo games (especially Halo 3) could "phone home" and deliver usage information to Bungie. Bungie then would have some idea of how much and how often people played these games. Maybe your anecdotal evidence doesn't hold true for a vast majority of the population.

I remember when Microsoft used to publish their weekly "most played" lists. Halo 2 was always on top, even after the 360 came out. After several months of a 3 year old game dominating the new stuff, MS starting splitting the lists between the Xbox and the Xbox 360.

I would say that Bungie had succeeded in making a game that people would come back to, without having to resort to dangling carrots.