I outright refuse to pay for cosmetics.
As I see it, multiplayer always came on the same disc as the campaign and as we’ve paid for that disc why should we pay anymore for paint jobs that have always been in the game.
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For me, these cosmetics really wouldn’t be so bad if 343 didn’t strip the most basic function of Halo(gaining rewards through leveling up like the old games) out of the core game and then charged us for it separately. This is why I didn’t even mind Halo 5’s REQ packs, REQs were truly optional content. But 343 also removed commendations and other forms of mini-progress in favor of the new F2P model in Infinite.
People would have paid $35 or $40 for Seasonal DLC packs or the original $60 or $70 for the entire game like they always had in the past, this isn’t rocket science… 343 picked F2P model because it makes the most money while giving the least amount of content possible. More money for less work? you bet your bottom dollar 343 picked that over the old way but they were allowed to pick it, because players fell for the scam and kept fueling the fire.
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We did have to pay $60 dollars, but that had both multiplayer and campaign. Now for players who paid $60, wouldn’t have been better just to have paid for game pass instead of the game? There’s nothing “special” to offer.
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It’s the new meta for games now… buckle up sweetheart and deal with it cause it is NOT going away anytime soon sadly.
Call microtransactions whatever you want but it makes ALOT of money, the worst game company out there EA makes 1billion just from microtransactions alone.
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Over a decade ago I remember longtime Halo fans scoffing at new armors and features like armor abilities. “Keep Halo pure!”, was basically the credo. Meanwhile newer fans such as myself were pleased with the newer additions.
In the first and second games, there were no armor options, just a handful of colors for customization, and your tag. We have that and then some with the Infinite multiplayer. So while it might be limiting… In all honesty you’ve got more customization options than you ever did right off the bat, pre-3.
It’s free Halo multiplayer. It’s great. Having less cosmetics doesn’t change gameplay.
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True but it limits amount of options to customize your spartan in the long run…
I guess to be perfectly honest, I prefer the event approach to the season things they did in the MCC.
Seasons got overwhelming fast, and if you didn’t play for a while, you would be way behind with cosmetic unlocks.
The events could probably keep using tweaks, but it is generally more fun than grinding forever.
Battle passes…it’s hard to say how I will feel about them in the long run, but the first one is fair enough.
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deal with the fact they are mirco transactions in halo infinite. they are going to be in all games now.
I presume it’s already been said a number of times on this thread, I don’t have time to read every single reply, but PLEASE stop directing your hate at the people developing and working on the game tirelessly day in day out who are genuinely passionate about their work and the franchise.
The fault lies with people much higher up in the chain, whether that be the top line of 343, a department within Microsoft or whoever it may be, it’s in essence a by-product of the current state of the gaming industry as a whole. It’s not the 9-5 workers singing and chanting around some magic circle “make them pay more, make them pay more”, and whoever thinks this is ridiculous.
This game needs microtransactions, it’s free, you can’t work expect them to work on a project this long and get nothing in return. Is the way they’ve been implemented good? No not at all, it’s dreadful haha, I just at least feel we should be considerate of who we’re aiming our complaints and distaste to and be respectful of how we go about portraying that. It has problems and needs to be fixed, but you can’t expect it to be done overnight especially if you’re blaming the wrong people.
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Ok… so how shall we address our grievances?
If we’re not allowed to criticize “343” because that umbrella covers low level employees who work hard, do we have to specify “343 managment”? Every time? Or are we supposed to be calling out the executives by name (that’s happened before, and I don’t remember 343 liking that either)?
I think it’s a bit disingenuous to use coders and programmers as shields against criticism that pretty much everyone recognizes is directed at managment.
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Even know I really don’t care for cosmetics or armor, I still 100% agree with you. Halo is what sold me on Xbox, before Xbox was PC and Unreal Tournament. I’ve had every Xbox since then, mainly because of Halo. Hell, I even got back into PC gaming when then announced Halo 2 was coming to Vista. So I got into Halo 2 and Gears of War for Vista. Felt good getting 60fps and higher graphics. Played Halo 3 all through it’s life but Halo 4 and 5 were eh, didn’t care much for it. Had high hopes for Halo Infinite, but as soon as they announced it was going to be free to play all I kept on doing was blaming Fortnite. I’m still convinced that because of Fortnite, we are going to start seeing a lot more free to play games. If the next Gears multiplayer is going free to play, the future of gaming is going down hill if you ask me. They’ll be no soul left and will be all about the money.
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Well clearly you don’t understand anything about games. 343 is a benevolent creator, and they GAVE you the multiplayer for FREE, how dare you be such an entitled piece of trash!
(I’m being sarcastic, and it’s sad and hilarious that I have to clarify that)
halo player since ce and im not paying a cent
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I’m not even sure Microsoft even had that much input, at this point, I’m convinced the higher-ups at 343 are the ones pulling all the strings after Microsoft advised them of what they expected from Halo Infinite. Just look at Bungie and Activision. We all thought Activision was the ones making all the bad decisions for Destiny 2 but it turned out to be the higher-ups pulling all the strings and things got worse after they split from Activision.
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Wow you are over-dramatic.
Free to play games are exactly what you are complaining about.
In hindsight, I think we all would rather have just chalked over $100 for the game and had them leave us alone.
No battle pass, the old military ranking system…Halo of old.
Sadly, when you spend $500 million dollars on a game that old school model just doesn’t work anymore to pull that much money in.
Free to play ironically is the biggest cash cow on the planet.
Bonnie Ross is the problem.
I think she is a fine woman but since she took over as the head of 343 Halo has just never been the same.
When you compare her performance with Halo to Jason Jones who was the head of Bungie during Halo 1-Reach, you can see his direction was simply superior.
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Dear 343,
We better be able to get Emile’s shoulder with the knife along with ALL OF REACH’S armor individually, how is it possible that we get the armor core for each of noble team’s spartans but we’re not able to select each armor piece individually?
Who’s idea was this, seriously? I bet you’re probably gonna lock every single piece of cool armor behind a paywall even though WE ALREADY PAID for the battlepass. Your grind is neverending, I’m so disappointed on this game, it’s like you guys always have to release every single game with something missing and stuff not working the way it’s supposed to.
Stop listening to your marketing team (terrible job) and start listening to THE CUSTOMERS, we’re the ones enjoying and paying for the game, not your marketing team.
Listen to the fans and you’ll bring halo back to life, listen to your marketing team and kill the community off. It’s your choice, you’re currently betting the life of halo by blindly trusting microtransactions and poor armor customization. True halo fans know customization is a must, not only competitiveness and gameplay, all three are important and made halo what it is today.
If you care even a tiny bit for the community and the game itself you’ll fix the TERRIBLE armor customization and neverending money hungry paywalls. Give us complete freedom to use what we paid form in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, no locks behind armor cores, freedom to choose our colors and freedom to use armor pieces individually on every armor core.
We’ll see how you respond to our concerns, personally, if I don’t see what has been mentioned on this thread soon, I’m quitting halo and taking my friends with me, and trust me, that’s gonna be the case for most of the community.
Be a rightful owner of the mantle of responsability. Don’t take too long.
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Please just quit so I don’t have to see you or people like you clogging up the forums with attention seeking garbage.
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just like they were forced into a release deadline because of the series x, cut more than half of the final game and most likely more than half of the original campaign will now be dlc? yeah I agree.
Micro transactions aside, who thinks this game sux? i wont spend a dime bc 343 produced a pour excuse for a game. 5/6 years in the making, their product at launch is 2 steps backwards. h5 set a high bar for players skills to stand out, Infinite is missing the awe factor. so many years in wait and they churn out a updated MCC expansion. No complaint on the campaign (this they improved from H5), but overall from weapons and vehicles, menu design, map and gametype variety…this is a failure in my mind. OH and not having the campaign ready for co cp play at launch is BULL. years of anticipation turned out by stamping 343’s calling card as “Game Developer Wokeness.” 
