The closure the article speaks to is also just not turning the game into a perpetual expectation that more is coming. Multiplayer games have always been built around being “endless”, but there was never the expectation that this Halo would be the last Halo and just keep getting updates when you bought it 20 years ago. That expectation has led to sustainability problems we’ve all seen and that the article calls out.

It’s also the only model that’s survived after the ad-supported web. If you’re not IGN, this is the only way games media works.

This is in line with the other Windows handhelds’ pricing, which are still doing half as well as the Steam Deck despite having to run an interface as awful as desktop Windows.

Man, I wish we still got FPS games off an assembly line, and I’m waiting for indies to get out of the Quake era.