Halo Infinite Season 5 Brings a Magnificent Rise in Steam Player Count and Fans Are Backing It to Grow Bigger

Halo Infinite started with a strong start, but soon after that, the player base fell. It initially faced challenges after its launch. Players expressed dissatisfaction over poor progression systems, monetization, and missing game modes. Controversial decisions such as the removal of split-screen multiplayer and delayed additions like Forge mode and online campaign co-op contributed to the initial decline.

While Steam provides data on concurrent players, Microsoft has not yet published official statistics for Halo Infinite across all platforms. Although the player base of the game had dropped after the immediate release of the game, the launch of Season 5 has shown a significant rise in numbers.

The reawakening of Halo Infinite

Prior to the launch of Season 5, Halo Infinite had been maintaining around 7,000 concurrent players on the Steam platform. However, on October 18, concurrent players spiked to 18,000, marking the game’s highest peak in 17 months since Season 2’s release. This boost in player count allowed Halo Infinite to enter the top 50 most-played games on Steam based on concurrent players.

With Season 5’s release, Halo Infinite re-entered Steam’s top 100 best-selling games by revenue, reaching the 24th position. This suggests that players are spending money on the new battle pass available in the free-to-download multiplayer FPS. The fact that Microsoft is managing to release such an impactful update around 2 years after the launch of the game has players impressed all over.

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The exponential growth of players became an interesting topic for fans to discuss about. Many of them took to the comments section and shared their thoughts on how Season 5 has impacted the game.

Season 5’s influx of players has fans excited about Halo Infinite’s revival

Many fans have lost hope in the title and that’s due to it putting out content that has failed to impress the fans. While some are excited about the new season, others are not impressed.

A dedicated Halo lover is what you can call this user, who looks at the title in a positive light.

A fan made a suggestion about involving content creators in the game’s marketing.

Due to its playbase drop in the middle, one fan spoke about how Microsoft should work more on marketing this game.

The upcoming release of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 was mentioned, stating that it will be the end of Halo’s reign.

Although the player count has seen a notable increase, it is still far from its all-time peak of 272,586 concurrent players on Steam, which was reached nearly two years ago when the game was initially launched. While this may just be the beginning of Halo Infinite coming back into action, the future updates to the game will decide its final fate.

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