Now “Fogeyma” who claims to be on the game’s development team, posted a note on the Russian social network VKontakte, (via GameSpot) stating that “the game in its current form will not be released”.
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Halo Online, the free-to-play multiplayer PC shooter that Microsoft launched in Russian Federation in 2015, has been declared dead by one of its developers.
Microsoft has had a history of keeping Halo off of the PC platform ever since the Xbox 360 first launched.
“Over the past six months, our colleagues from Microsoft failed to make decisions on the future of the project”, wrote a staffer known as Fogeyman on the Halo Online VK page. Considering that Halo 5’s multiplayer is expanding all the time, plus the popularity that Halo Wars 2’s beta got, it’s likely that we’ll eventually be getting a Halo game able to be played between PC and console that will have everything that Halo Online meant to have, and more.
Regardless of any possible issues with the game’s development, Halo fans seemed enthusiastic about Halo Online. There was a catch though, the game was free to play and strictly limited to Russian Federation.
Maybe that’s exactly why Microsoft chose to cancel Halo Online, though. The company has a new focus on PC gaming where it is looking to marry its Xbox and PC gaming business through efforts like the Xbox Play Anywhere program and by bringing its once-Xbox exclusive games to PC.
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Work on Halo Online was done by Saber Interactive, one of the studios involved with the Master Chief Collection. We look forward to applying the beta learnings to future Halo PC experiences.
