Defending them is fine, it just means you’re contributing to this rather unfortunate shift in gaming history. The using gambling like tactics on people to pressure them into impulse buying.
Paying ⅓ of the campaigns price for one of the earliest unlocks in Reach, or any armor is not justifiable.
I know, right? Must be a lot of kids on here that think armor is going to help them in some way, nobody in their right mind would spend money on something that does absolutely nothing. I mean, this is an FPS, last I checked whatever armor you have isn’t even visible on-screen while you play. It’s all totally useless
This. I managed to snag the bundle for $5.00 because I had enough points saved up to get $20 in gift cards. Shop smarter, not harder.
$25 for Hazop is ludicrous, and unjustifiably gouging.
I could understand if it was $25 or $30 for all the armor pieces, attachments, and color schemes used by Carter, Kat, Jun, Emile, Jorge, and Rosenda, maybe even toss in a 2.5D DOT AI to really seal the deal. that much content for around $30 would be well worth the cost, and it wouldn’t be completely unreasonable since your buying the entirety of Noble Team, unique attachments and all, with the ability to mix and match to you’re hearts content.
Everything else could have, and SHOULD have been on the Battle Pass, with the only “maybe” exceptions from Reach being the DLC armors (Akis, Mariner, Exo, Preserve) since they were intended as purchases in the first place, and could be sold together for $10 or in their separate sets (Condemned and Preserve) for $5 each.
The main issue is that it’s pretty much already revealed that all of these armor pieces were supposed to be in the Season Pass.
Pulling them out and selling them is such a scummy way to make a quick buck.
Sure you can “choose not to buy it” but the way I see it, 343 essentially took something away from us and are now charging us to have it back.
And it’s done in a way which weaponizes FOMO because they rotate these sets out with no news on when they will ever come back. They may never come back. Yea cool, something I should have had has been taken away and is never gonna return.
I don’t understand why their marketing team can’t see this is the surefire way to destroy the trust between developer and players, and they are essentially gambling with our loyalty to see if they can make money.
It’s even funnier that some people are on the sidelines going “lol cosmetics don’t affect gameplay” when it could be a gateway to actually affecting gameplay.
Next thing you know, they will start trying to sell us Forge. Then start trying to sell us Custom Browsers.
They may even bring back selling of Map Packs, because OH SWEET PEOPLE WILL BUY THINGS WE HAVE TAKEN FROM THEM. I really don’t wanna wait till they start trying these new ways of screwing with us before we really start making a stand.
The idea here is to band together as a united front and tell 343 or their marketing team :
STOP. You cannot and should not be doing this, and even if you want to make money, doing so in such a scummy method is a lose lose situation for the community on the greater whole.
“it’s free so it can’t be subject of critique”
People aren’t happy with how things are handled.
It’s said to be player first but content is sold for far more than a lot see as fair value for what they’d get.
Player expression is important but armor coats were made like they were and customization is severely barebones.
Along with restricting Core system and and Emblem remake.
As I asked another, would you be fine with keeping current prices for current and future content, while those who critique would get a permanent price reduction on present and future content?
Not that anything you said even brush on anything I said, just a casual dismissal by saying it’s free.
Agreed; the Shop in it’s present form completely sucks. They need to stop this bundling crap, stop rotating stuff in & out every week, and just sell all the items individually, and have it available all the time. I guarantee they would make a lot more sales, and have a lot more happy customers. This limited-time nonsense is really getting old…
They originally did but they cut much of it out to sell in the store. The Battle Pass originally had 120 levels and almost every piece of armor from Reach was in it, whereas now it’s mostly padded out with boosts and swaps.
You realize that it’s those who were fanboys and apologists for business tactics like these that have brought about the reality we currently live in, right. How else could AAA devs justify releasing broken, early access games at full price (heck! They even started charging more for this garbage) if it weren’t for those who either weren’t paying attention or apologized for this sort of behavior.
Developers are like, “c’est toi qui me fait” (I am what you made me.) And gamers reply with, “Ugh!!!..fine. Where do I send my money.”
No but you see developers have to release games that are unfinished and lacking features compared to previous games because it’s now impossible for a developer to release a game that is feature-rich at launch. Nevermind that they did it before, now it’s called a “live service” game and it’s free to play so that somehow makes everything different. They also have to cut content out that used to be free and sell it back in order to pay for their servers (which have low tick rates, connection issues and desync issues like never before).
You’re not getting less value because you can just ignore the parts of the game that aren’t there, don’t work or cost money and pretend that it’s not a castrated version of what it once was. Easy!
If they changed the sets to £5,2,1.50,1 I am fairly sure they would actually sell more stuff in the shop. Like if I saw Hazop for £5, I am sold. Buy it on the spot because Hazop was one of my go to armor sets. But almost £20, not a chance. £20 is literally a third of a game. They can’t sit there and say these prices are justified because it’s ‘Free to Play’. If it was Free to play then the campaign would have been either free or sold at a much reduced cost but as it stands it costs the price of a full game for a fraction of the content. “We’re Listening”…To our shareholders.
I agree with many people here. I would buy the armor sets if they were 5 quid for sure. Simply to get completionist status. And only a select few if they were 10 quid. But anything above that is just … Preposterous. Just preposterous. For a digital item that already were in older games? It’s laughable.
Nearly everything in the Soldier Set was of Purple Rarity. All this is blue more or less. I don’t understand the rarity system. Made more sense in Halo 5 then this.
Just adding stuff in more and more to inflate the price.
Sometimes I think it’s based off the quantity of customizables. But then you find some stuff at 1500 with two purple pieces and one yellow? So if its not quantity and its not quality then what is it?
I think at this point they are just trying to fit things into a category no matter if its too little or not
In an alternative universe somewhere Halo Infinite costs $100 bucks but everything is unlockable and the Elites are playable.
I’m trying to devise a way to create a wormhole to that universe because this greedy 343i universe timeline kind of sucks and I don’t think they are gonna change anytime soon.
Lmfao every single game I see people with armor bought in the store.
Everyone needs to stop buying these Microtransactions.
I have not even bought the battlepass, nor will I. It is insane that people who buy the campaign…a $60 game get virtually nothing for Mulitplayer. Other games at $60 were full games and everything was unlockable through play time, not through money. It is insanity that they could not give at least 4 seasons of battle pass for free to those who bought the campaign.
If Starbucks sells there coffee for $5, and they have people paying that kind of money, would they drop the prices because it’s the right thing to do?
Sorry but this is real life. They’re not going to give you a special discount because you complain online.
Because it is a joke. Sadly, we’re living in said joke.
As an adult who pays his bills, i know if I was living paycheck to paycheck working 12 hour shifts, cosmetics for a videogame would be the last thing to worry about
No, but complaining online is one way to vent frustrations. Also, I can just buy a coffee machine and cut out the price gouging middleman with coffee. Sadly, that can’t be done with Halo.