As the title states, this is my idea for 343 to release previously released content back into the game for players who missed out on content, more so in the store but this could apply to other areas as well. Just overall some tweaks that I think would make the overall experience better for players and 343.
Essentially what I think would work very well for this game is to have the store reworked more or less that it functions in a way that’s similar to how Gears 5 eventually made theirs out to be. To be clear, I mean how the store eventually turned out and not how it launched, how it launched was fairly similar to how Infinites store launched.
Each season as 343 releases content into the game, they can make it that each week that an item launches in the store they can only be purchasable with the micotransaction currency for that week. After that week passes and the new items get rotated into the store, the items then get put into a separate section on the store where you can purchase the items still with micro’s or you also then have the option to purchase the items with an in game currency you earn by playing the game, essentially like gear coins in Gears 5. This way there are more items in the store for players to choose from to purchase, in game or micro’s, so people may eventually be more inclined to get items if they don’t feel as pressured to do so. This way it’s more consumer friendly and not nearly as predatory like the current FOMO system currently in place.
Another idea to add on top of this is with each season with the battlepasses, instead of padding it out with multiple slots of the same emblem, a single shoulder pad taking up an individual tier, XP boosts and challenge swaps, they could instead throw this new currency in the (free) pass. Then when players complete that seasons battlepass, they can just have continuous “new” tiers that is just small amounts of this currency so players would still have incentive to play the game after they finish the pass.
After each season finishes then 343 could rotate all the items out in favour for items arriving in the next season if there has to be some form of limited availability, but at least instead of a week players would have 3 months (if they go by that seasonal model going forward).
For other items/cosmetics they could follow this system in a couple different ways. 343 could implement service record challenges for players to earn items in game by doing certain challenges or hitting certain requirements, sort of like vidmasters in Halo 3.
Events they could maybe keep the way it is as events are well, events. Weekly challenges sort of fall under this as well but the rewards you get I think should be tweaked.
This is just one idea that I think could work to help make this game better for the players as well as 343.