Halo Franchise director has left Microsoft and 343 Industries

[bongowongo]

Halo Franchise Creative Director Frank O'Connor may have left Microsoft after working on the series for almost 20 years.

O'Connor's LinkedIn suggests that he's no longer working with Microsoft and 343 Industries on Halo, though this hasn't been confirmed officially.

O'Connor has been involved with Halo since 2004, working with Bungie before joining Microsoft in 2008.

As Franchise Creative Director, O'Connor has contributed to the "creative, narrative, and story development aspects" of many Halo projects.

O'Connor has contributed to Halo since 2004, first authoring the Bungie Weekly Update that began during the development of Halo 2. He remained with Bungie until the developer left to work on its then-new IP Destiny, choosing to join Microsoft and work with its new studio 343 Industries in 2008. He then went on to become Franchise Creative Director and work on the "creative, narrative, and story development aspects" of various Halo projects such as games, novels, and most recently, the Halo TV series on Paramount Plus.

his exit is the latest in a series of recent high-level departures. In 2022, Art Director Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier, Head of Design Jerry Hook, Lead Multiplayer Designer Andrew Witts, and others left the studio. 343 Industries Founder and Studio Head Bonnie Ross also left Xbox after leading Halo for 15 years. Additionally, Microsoft cut roughly 10,000 employees earlier this year, many of which were developers at 343 Industries.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gamin...left-microsoft

[freeburn]

Well they have no direction so no director needed.

[Coal Man]

[Train57]

prob couldnt handle the hate anymore after infinite just took a giant **** on halo franchise almost as bad as the show

[rocketfish]

great single player, horrible multiplayer

everyone wanted it to succeed but instead they wanted to EA Battlefield multiplayer

[Singularity7]

Frank was always a cuck, 343 is cleaning right up now.

Infinite is in a fantastic state. More community maps have been added and there's something like 20 maps coming which has leaked, plus forge ai!

Ponies love hating in halo Because they'll never get a multiplayer fps game with long term support. Lmfao

It was released like end of 2021 or something with the Halo community raging up a storm for them to get their **** together and put out content. Delay, delay and delays.
About to be mid 2023. Extremely pathetic of them to treat a legendary franchise like Halo and their fans. I weep for the franchise.
Leaked 20 maps? Just lol. Community needed those last year.

[taperedtam]

lol, im still sitting here, waiting for the Halo battle royale. where is it??? please. just add BR to some part of the campaign map!!