After Halo 5 343 said the next Halo game wouldn’t have microtransactions to earn armor, emblems or loot boxes. Yet here we are with armor locked behind pay walls and a battle pass you need to buy to earn armors. They even lied about player expression. There is none. Armor and coatings being locked to cores limits players to how they wish to look. So far, every match I have played in Infinite almost everyone looks the same with the base armor. Because either they don’t want to buy the battle pass or can’t. Not only that, challenges have been locked behind the pass to to slow the progression.
With all of this, I don’t know how we downgraded from Halo Reach and Halo 4’s armor unlock system. And even further from MCC’s free battle pass. I understand the MP is free and money needs to be made somehow. But this is not the way. Locked armors and coatings behind a pay wall is against what they said.