[quote]I'm not saying that I heard about equal starts in Halo 4's prerelease and was lied to.[/quote] then the two scenarios aren't comparable. [quote]They definitely tried to market the game as an arena shooter, [/quote] not even once. [quote]considering that they had that massive MLG tournament [/quote] call of duty regularly has massive MLG tournaments. does that mean that it's an arena shooter? [quote]and invited a bunch of pros to give their opinion on film, [/quote] sounds like good marketing to me. doesn't sound like arena shooter mechanics whatsoever. [quote]and they definitely hid behind the idea that there are options whenever someone would complain about Infinity. [/quote] not going to doubt that, but it's quite obvious that infinity was marketed as the mainstay mode for halo 4. until the population jumped off a cliff, that is. [i]then[/i] it was all "da lajendry slair is back guise." [quote]They put so much more effort into convincing competitive players that Halo 4 was a step in the right direction than they did actually keeping those competitive players.[/quote] right, so how does this prove that it was marketed as an arena shooter again? i still can't think of a single vidoc where they mentioned the words "arena shooter" in that order. can you? [quote]I'm just not going to be surprised if loadout-less "arena gameplay" finds a way to be bogged down by a bunch of "accessible" mechanics.[/quote] mmm. we'll see.