10 Video Games That REFUSED TO DIE
5. Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Game launches don't come much more disastrous than Halo: The Master Chief Collection, an HD collection of Microsoft's legendary FPS franchise which should've been an effortless slam-dunk of a release.
As soon as the game launched for Xbox One in November 2014, however, players were beset by pervasive lag and matchmaking issues, and incredibly, these problems persisted in various forms for many years after the game's launch, despite 343 Industries' attempts to fix them.
It was only ahead of the game's 2018 release on Xbox Game Pass that many players felt the matchmaking had been fixed to a reasonable standard, and incredibly, they actually stuck around all that time to see its botched launch remedied.
It's a testament to the quality of Halo's core experience that it managed to recover from such a cataclysmic failure out of the gate, because fans would've been totally understood for abandoning the game altogether.
But alas, they stuck with it and finally got the polished multiplayer suite they paid their hard-earned money for years prior.