I really wish we didn’t have the coating system. Like just thinking about it they could have gave us a bunch of freedom over colors, where they go, material, wear/tear etc and monetized parts of it but instead they took 1 step forward 2 steps back and we got the end result that is coatings.
I don’t think we will ever see it changed either without invalidating existing coatings. It’s a real shame that 343 can never get things right the first time round because some things (especially when it’s monetized) can’t be fixed.
Welp back to waiting months for just the ability to pay for a coating with the colours I want…
The problem with the F2P model is that they have to have desirable items to sell in a store to generate sales, income and profits. Pretty much the most popular and desirable item they can sell us in Halo Infinite are armour, weapon and vehicle coatings…sure there are other things but these items are what would create the most sales. They have backed themselves in to a corner and that is due to the simple decision of going down the F2P model…and what a total and utterly incompetent mess they have made of it too.
They could have just made a great game and charged 60 bucks for it. But why dump so much money into a great game when they can just make players pay for basic aspects of an incomplete game. Gotta love those people that are supporting this BS.
Yep it’s ridiculous. I’d have happily paid up go £80 for a complete game…instead they’ve got £0 from me. Even if they’d charged just £50, between myself and my group of friends, they could have £500…but instead they’ve taken a grand total of £20. I’m not sure what bright sparks at Microsoft and 343i thought that this model, lack of plan and piss poor implementation was a good thing but it’s got to be hitting their projected cash flow.
Warframe is how they should’ve gone with the coating system. the choice to use colours as I please after purchase will always be preferable over this preset combination.
The coating system doesn’t bother me personally. I like the combinations we have got so far. If we had complete customisation we could have some sick Spartans but they would have nothing to sell.
Ultimately I like F2P so I take that over customisation all day, every day.
weapon skins
vehicle skins
emblems
weapon charms
weapon attachment
vehicle attachment
all kinds of armor
visors
armor effects/kit
HCS kits
weapon kill effect
xp boosts
challenge swaps
literal levels in the battlepass
Yeah I don’t think they would run out. You’re also forgetting that they could easily monetize parts of the system I suggested like additional colors, material and wear/tear.
Here’s what I felt when they announced it, through flights, and finally release.
When they first introduced it, I immediately hated the idea. Then they showed off Camos and stuff and was like OHHHH THAT SORT OF COATINGS, thinking hey, why not sell us cool print coatings, and let us then customize the primary and secondary which goes on them? That’s wonderful and new to Halo!
Then when flight came, all we got is a dummy store and like 1 - 2 coatings to try, and they were bad coatings so I thought "okay so this is the f2p stuff they don’t really let you customize.
Then came launch. What. The. Flying. Fragmentation Grenade.
You answered your own question with this final line. Because people are STILL paying for preset paint jobs, 343 knows they can make a profit and will continue to monetize colors.
EIther stop buying or take what is given to you and like it.
They’ve entirely backed themselves into a corner by making the game F2P in the first place. The game obviously needs to make money somehow and clearly they can’t just remove the Store from the game and put things back to the way things used to be.
It’s a shame because any potential it had has been stripped simply because of F2P. No matter what good things come in Season 2, Season 3, etc., I’ll always look at this game with a feeling of disgust.
Well they sell campaign for 60 dollars so they get quarter sell at least.
I would like to know if this making any real money.
I think they get higher percentage player base if they sell armor and what ever color you want to add full customization.
On top this they need lock some armor behind achievements and like in halo 3 but still need to buy armor body type or time.
So best way do this either put it in time restrictions or body types.
So say they go with time 2 dollars get u 5 minutes 5 dollars get you 15 and 20 gets u unlimited but it doesn’t update store. Everything is unlocked every basic color and what coatings they have out.
So when you change something you don’t keep what you took off. Now for this they need better system that remembers couple time I lose my settings.
Yeah, at this point there going nowhere. And for the record, I can see where there coming from at this point. After all the money people have spent on coatings at this point it wouldn’t be too fair to simply shut down the whole system.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s an atrocious system and they should never have launched it, I’m just saying that it’s a little too late to shift gears.