[2019] Halo: The Master Chief Collection | Flight #1 Discussion

In before everyone grabs the pitchforks and starts burning pizzas in protest.... :(

The flight is looking 99.9% like it's happening today. It's more than 100 people but only a TINY FRACTION of the registered Halo Insider population. I hate to say this but almost everyone in this subreddit who is eager and angry realistically won't get into this first flight just based on the odds. I'm not great at math but we're talking about a very tiny percentage of the eligible Insider audience. I don't like it anymore than you all do and it's a blessing and curse of having overwhelming interest and sign-ups. We have to start small and it will grow over time and more people will be added in subsequent flights with the team's goal being to still ensure that eventually everyone who is eligible and interested will get a chance to participate. But if you're hitting refresh on your inbox every minute and planning your entire weekend around this flight, I'd strongly encourage you to consider alternate plans - worst case you get a surprise email after all. :)

Now this is a realistic expectation I can get behind!

Nah - some may be, but this isn't about just filling it up with streamers - it's not a marketing driven program. Of course we've invited a few of those folks who we have relationships with because we'd love their participation now/later. Flight participants will be allowed to stream though, so I do expect a lot of that at least initially (it's only one mission, so not sure it has a ton of stickiness to it).

It's more than 100. But, relatively speaking, it's a tiny % of the total Insider population (which has reached crazy levels of opt-ins).

Really? The HCS Grassroots folks who were among the first to sign up for the Insider program and spend their time trying to help grow Halo? Or the HCS pros who devoted their lives to Halo? About 5/6 of the people in this flight are “streamers” the rest are “regular” Insiders. sorry you didn’t get selected (but 99% of registered insiders didn’t get into this flight either)