Also, another reason why CMT's releases are filled with raving fanboys:
Halo's community is made up primarily of 11-17 year olds. There are quite a few adults, but they rarely get involved enough to actually visit the forums, make maps, etc. Because of the age group involved with Halo, we get 2 problems:
1. People who can't seem to understand that things take time.
2. People who haven't hit puberty yet have squeaky high voices (Someone thought that my cousin was a girl, and he played along with it, lol) and fill up Halo's servers.


Meanwhile the majority of Half-Life 2 (And the rest of the games that come with the Orange Box) users are responsible 15-20 year olds. This is true for the modding communities on most games. Out of all of the mapping communities for every game I've mapped (Or Modded) for, Halo's is by far filled with the most fanboys, least organization, crappiest maps (Box maps and BG mods, anyone?), and the forums just don't feel like a community, even these ones.
In other games, crit like what Jahrain got is a lot more common.