Halo: The Master Chief Collection

For reasons that are completely unclear, other than that Microsoft just simply wants to harvest more data from you, the game requires a Microsoft account for both single-player and multiplayer. I created one solely to play the game, but a day later my account was locked down due to "suspicious activity," and I had to provide Microsoft with my phone number to unlock it. It's the only way to play through Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach on PC without resorting to emulation, but these ports are riddled with issues and, above all, suffer from significant input lag during Co-op—especially when playing with friends living in other parts of the world. For Halo: CE and Halo 2, I prefer playing the original PC ports along with mods that fix them. Instead of listing all the issues found in the MCC versions of these games, I’ll simply provide a link to a Google Doc that compiles nearly all the bugs reported by the community: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gpklokblI006QYtGlxUeds747lPZD_JSph56qLJqzhw There is also a YouTube channel called "why" that features many comparisons between the original versions of games and their MCC ports. None of the games offer an option to disable motion blur, with the exception of Halo CE and Halo 2 (where this requires editing configuration files): https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection#Disable_Motion_Blur You can be kicked out of the multiplayer queue for being alt+tabbed to another window for a minute. Achievements unlock whenever they feel like it. This collection was released over ten years ago and now seems to have been completely abandoned, with no hope of fixing any bugs or further improving it.