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Like it or not, Halo has always been a hugely North American-dominated game. Overestimating Halo’s popularity outside of NA Halo’s viewership is extremely heavily weighted towards English viewers (Image via Esports Charts) This, bundled with a slow trickle of content that didn’t come fast enough and only recent promises of new updates, has left players not only sour on playing Halo Infinite but watching it as well. Part of this has to do with a lack of Halo content in the past few years. Players who are traditionally variety streamers, or switch between FPS games, such as summit1g, cloakzy, Myth, and LIRIK, saw a boost from streaming Halo Infinite but ultimately didn’t stick with the game. This suggests that the viewers that were tuned into official Halo were not as familiar with the general Halo streaming ecosystem. The next closest, FORMAL, barely pulls in half of the 5.72 million hours watched of the official Halo Twitch. The runaway most viewed channel is the official Halo channel. First is the viewer distribution between top Halo streamers. But what has caused this huge drop-off, and how can it be fixed? Are Halo fans Halo viewers? Halo’s fans didn’t become Halo viewers after the game released (Image via Esports Charts)Ī deeper dive into the figures can lead us to some revelation. That figure dropped from 253,799 in the opening week to just 39,128 only 15 weeks later. This figure is far worse if you consider peak viewers. According to, the game dropped from peaks of 9.13 million hours watched in the first week to just 682.1k hours in the week ending February 27th. So naturally, this perfect hype-storm led to an explosion in viewership on Twitch.īut just three months later, the drop-off has been almost total. The surprise reveal of its free-to-play online merged with the nostalgia of hardcore Halo fans and FPS players desperately looking for something new. But what can be done to save Halo Infinite? When viewership drops to just 7.5% of its initial run, there’s justification for spamming “ded game” in chat.