This is ridiculous. There is no excuse for $20 cosmetics…… you know with everything, plus looking at how Halo 5 was with the loot boxes….
I’m disappointed. You know, I really really really didn’t want to say this, but looking at the silence when it comes monetization and the lies over the past years with monetization from 343. I’m ashamed that I thought that 343 could not only pull off a great game, but at least do good by the mp.
The worse part is the people who support this. No, not everyone who buys cosmetics, but the people who generally support it…
Like I am now behind all the people yelling for others to stop buying stuff. I didn’t care that much before because I thought they would lower the prices or have armor within the campaign at least.
I hear you and agree. But how this has been handled by 343, especially lying to the community with monetization, it needs to be talk about.
I get the game needs to be payed for, that’s why the campaign is $60. It’s really should be paying for the whole game. (Even $70 at this point is acceptable because time, graphics, and money put into it.
But to tear apart a staple of Halo for profit is wrong and almost unethical.
I really don’t understand how someone can look at this game, point at the completely optional features and go “that ruined my experience”.
Halo Infinite has issues, not denying that, but to suggest completely optional monetized cosmetic features are somehow on par with EA’s predatory schemes that locked actual gameplay mechanics and necessary interactive elements behind various paywalls, it’s completely tasteless.
I know I dropped this game on day 1 because of the monetization. I didn’t even care if they nailed the gameplay, the lack of cosmetics ruined it.
How can 343 not understand that in a first person shooter, which btw allows us to look at our armors in game, that these things are crucial to the survival of the game
Because it does ruin the experience. The main people who it doesn’t effect are the ones use to getting their money taking from game companies. One can have a backbone and say enough is enough with overpriced monetization.
Most of the complaints would go away if they even cut the price in half.
I mean, on one hand, that is a good way to handle it. But no matter what, the game has less to offer. Unlocking items was part of the fun for a lot of people. Personalization their Spartan, and showing off their hard work. It meant something to people, not everyone, but to those it matter, this game is lacking.
If completely optional features that you can actively avoid ruin the experience, then you need to practice not clicking on that store tab a bit more.
People who are paying for stuff they want?
Like as is typically done in most goods and services transactions?
It doesn’t effect me, and I don’t buy anything from the store buddy. Am I somehow part of the problem?
Typically when it’s done to lock players out of parts of a necessary gameplay experience, that’s when it’s an issue. As is the case with EA’s FIFA series where soccer players and micro transactions are literally used in extortion rackets due to their incorporation, or Star Wars Battlefront II with randomized overpriced Star Cards that would’ve taken players literally thousands of hours to unlock by “playing the game” inside of a $60 package. That’s when players stand up, show some backbone and go “enough is enough”.
When it’s for stuff that doesn’t affect gameplay, is completely cosmetic, and doesn’t lock players out of a portion of the gameplay experience, it’s comes across as whiny not noble.
Cosmetics were always “optional”. In Halo 3 you didn’t have to beat the campaign on Legendary. EOD was optional. In Halo Reach, you didn’t have to earn those credits and rank up, that armor was optional. In MCC you didn’t have to work to get the points to unlock your favorite armor, or any of the new ones they added in. But people did. And for a lot of them it was fun. Costmetics may be optional, but they’ve been a part of Halo for a long time, and it’s only natural that not everyone is happy with how they were handled.
Cosmetics or just acquiring armor is one of the biggest things in gaming.
Honestly I played Halo 5 enough (and my brother used my account) I had enough points to keep getting gold packs. So the loot boxes didn’t hit me too hard, probably only bought one or two special things.
I have no respect for people who come in here and defend 343 because they are so used to getting monetized from other companies that they don’t see an issue.
The fact we are just now getting more normal playlists too is a factor of why people are dissing this multiplayer.
So “buddy”, have fun getting used by game companies. Lul gawd.
In Halo 3 you also didn’t have to equip the armor you unlocked by beating it on Legendary.
Yeah, this is the case
Nope, in fact it wasn’t even included into the game until much much later.
But still optional and tertiary to the main gameplay experience
Oh I completely agree, and people can be upset, in fact if they have a valid constructive complaint they should absolutely voice it.
It’s the overly exaggerated and copypasta arguments that a lot of players use to attack it disproportionately to actual issues that plague this title that grind my gears.
We could potentially have had a fix to crashes and bans associated with them, ping issues and the cornucopia of issues that stem from latency, proper Crossplay additions rather than just framework, anticheat, the ability to rejoin ranked matches, but instead we get misunderstood comparisons between EA and 343’s handling of microtransactions driving out discussion on other issues.
I haven’t even bought the battle pass. But unlocking armor was a way to show off achievements. I loved that about halo.
I get some people didn’t experience that, some only play for the campaign, some only play just for pvp.
So yeah, they wouldn’t care about customization. That’s cool. But for a person (generally speaking) who doesn’t see the point in acquiring armor cosmetics from doing tasks or leveling and try to say it’s stupid is not a true gamer.
A gamer should respect how someone else plays, and support it. (As long as we aren’t cheating up in here). To say collecting armor is stupid, has no respect in my book.
For a game company to corrupt that, even admitting they know it was a staple of the game is wrong.
While customizing Spartans has been a part of Halo since 3 it has also been near the very bottom of the features that are important. Yes $20 is a lot and everyone agrees with that but ya’ll really are making planets out of grains of sand here with this.
You will find that most people who are not effected by it are people who enjoy gameplay over playing dressup. Yeah it’s cool and all but so what? It’s not going to ruin the game for a majority of people.