Multiplayer i Halo 5: Guardians kommer til at være mere fokuseret på eSport og mindre drevet af konstante belønninger, siger franchise director Frank O'Conner til Giant Bomb.
"The funny thing is we've seen first person shooters get more and more complex, and more and more sort of reward driven and stuff," siger O'Conner.
"There has been kind of a backlash about it. Not just with our stuff but with other people's games. That it's just too much and people want something sort of simple. As eSports comes back they want something more balanced and more symmetrical and fair."
"I think it's a seesaw, and I think that it is tipping back towards the - and eSports is certainly driving a lot of that - is going for things that are really truly competitive rather than just sort of reward driven," fortsætter han.
"But I think you can have your cake and eat it, you can have both of those sets of experiences in a game. And sort of reward people in the campaign and make sure that your multiplayer is something pure."
Halo 4's multiplayer delte vandene. Selvom det havde rigeligt gående for sig, manglede det den næsten perfekte balance fra tidligere spil (Halo 2 og Halo 3, mest af alt), og havde derfor ikke den samme vedholdenhed som Bungies spil. Det vil 343 tydeligvis gøre noget ved, og deres tilgang lader til at være en tilbagevenden til det grundlæggende - hvilket lyder helt rigtigt i vores ører.
Om det lykkedes dem, finder vi ud af når betaen af Halo 5: Guardians lander senere i år, som led i Halo: The Master Chief Collection.