As most everyone here will agree, Halo Custom Edition is dying out. People are either moving on to Halo Online or simply don't care. If we want to revive this wonderful game and its community, we need a way to spread the joy. Why not put it up for Steam greenlight? Lots and lots of people use Steam, and if we can get enough votes for the greenlight to succeed, people will start discovering it, even just by looking through the free games. Slowly but surely, we can revive the greatest modding community there has ever been.

That being said, I don't know if we can actually put this up for Steam. Dennis, if the game is of course kept free, can we try for greenlight?

Someone's probably going to come along and word this a lot less nicely, but I think you're being serious so here goes -

It can't happen, because firstly CE isn't free - you've "always" needed a valid copy of Halo 1 PC to actually install it. (*cough* totally *cough*)

Even if it were designed to be fully standalone, it's not anyone's to put on Greenlight. Halo as an IP is owned by Microsoft. Halo as a game is owned by Microsoft. Halo, down to the if {} statements, is owned by Microsoft. It would be Microsoft's decision and Microsoft's alone to gun for Steam.

e: honestly with all the crappy unity games on there these days I can see how there'd be some confusion as to the process
Edited by BKTiel on Dec 17, 2015 at 10:58 PM

Thanks for answering that question.

Oh well, I guess that we'll have to find another way to spread the word. Any ideas?

By making actual content that's worth to be looked at?

Oh it's the season of halo is dying out again.

Steam Greenlight is a tool for devs (indie devs) to let them get into Steam, of course.. they actually own the games they publish.
Do you own Halo? No. You can't send anything to Greenlight.

Really? That's not helpful. There's lots of good content, and you're simply being a troll.



We already determined that we can't do greenlight. As I revised my question to, do you have any ideas for helping spread the word about Custom Edition?

I thought that was summer? Must be winter break.

The Silent Cartographer Evolved caused the biggest CE storm I've ever seen.
We just need a higher standard of map making and lots and lots of social media to make it register with people.

Oh for goodness sake not this again. for over 10 years this exact sentence has been appearing in this forum.

Short answer is no. Halo CE is not a free game it is a free upgrade for people who have purchased the Halo PC game. The difference is significant. Microsoft ownes the copyright to the game.


Edited by Dennis on Dec 19, 2015 at 11:26 PM

There is your problem. If you call countless rips good content then you have a long way to go. The only decent singleplayer level as of late was TSC:E and the only good MP level as of late is bigass.

Custom original stuff is what people want. If you want Halo people to notice Halo CE give them a reason to not just play Halo CE. If all there is is ports from other games, what gives them a reason to play Halo CE when they actually have the games the assets are ported from already? Make custom content on par with Halo 3 and you got yourself some attention.

Because everytime Halo CE is mentioned outside this forum people go like: "There are still people modding that game?"

Seriously, do you have a better idea?
Edited by Mootjuh on Dec 20, 2015 at 01:49 AM

Yea he was going to steal from Microsoft.

Yes, there is not really any completely original content anymore. But that doesn't necessarily make it bad. Yes, we need good content other than ports to convince people to come play Custom Edition. I will agree with that wholeheartedly. Perhaps, then, we should as a community get together and make something worth playing. I really don't know what else to do. My apologies for calling you a troll earlier, it seemed like all you were trying to do was start an argument.



???

lmfao

I dunno. 900 players on a Monday? That's pretty weak (pretty much dead) when compared to games like Eve Online
Edited by MatthewDratt on Dec 21, 2015 at 06:12 PM

Oh lol I was just looking at all the servers with 0 players.
Didn't make a very compelling case :p