I played the campaign through GamePass (which I am subscribed to anyway - upgraded my XBL Live 3 yrs remaining for 1€ so ~ 2 yrs to go). After playing through the BP to around lvl 25 I purchased the BP - that was around the point where I was pretty confident that I’d get $10 of enjoyment out of the game.
Going by HaloTracker I’ve played 125 hrs of MP so I’d say I got my money’s worth out of it. Might buy the next Battlepass if I feel I’ll keep playing. Whether that will be the case is unsure - right now the game feels stale and I’m playing other things right now, aside from completing the weeklies.
Store-wise they only had 1 or 2 things I would honestly even have been interested in putting on my spartan to begin with. So it has not been too hard to not buy stuff.
I can see store purchases drive how they handle pricing and what they put in the BP or kits. I don’t think it affects the work on fixes.
So much money I can’t remember, I made it rain up in here…hahaha just kidding… Yeah I got the battle pass which I regret as I only use the skull death animation… I had a few credits left over and got the eagle for the AR, the long horn skull for the warthog and currently have 300 credits left, perhaps I will get the boost & swaps since odds are there will never be a cosmetic I want that they price at 300. I almost bought $5 worth of credits to get the crimson serpent weapon set for the dragon on the BR but then I saw a screen shot of what it looks like in game and it doesn’t look good at all.
Since people are including how they played the campaign, I’ll add that I used a $1.00 Game Pass trial to beat it. Outside of buying it physically in the future, that’s the extent of my spending.
I’ve only bought the campaign for my son. I payed a dollar for gamepass, so I could play the campaign, and now I can’t resume the campaign from my save. Nothing loads.
I have not spent anything else and will not.
I have not played for a while now, have lost interest in this garbage they slapped together.
Ten bucks. I’ve come to regret it, but on the other hand it’s pretty much my favorite coating in the game for my favorite armor core in the game. I could definitely have done worse, but still lets just say that I won’t be spending a cent more on that horrible excuse for a shop.
From my perspective the updates and content have become much more trivial, and real additions of content almost seem more rare than before. Why would a developer put time and effort into making real content when they can literally sell us armor colors and things like knifes that were standard issue in Reach.
The “regular updates” have also lead to an incredible number of broken releases, a mindset that absolute trash can be released with the mindset that it will all be fixed over a few months by patches.
In my experience, the customization of Infinite has been weak at best, relative to Reach. The “Free” content is a pretty small fraction of what was available in Reach. You act like the overall value is greater, but you realize that you could spend $60 on the campaign, and still not have any where near the value of Reach? Even with both the campaign, and the battle pass, by my count, you still don’t have as many customization options as Reach… not to mention that you won’t have co-op, forge, or even a campaign that features more than three humans.
“Free 2 Play” is an excuse to riddle a game with microtransactions. It’s also an excuse to dilute the military science fiction experience of Halo by selling a wide variety of non-Halo related cosmetics like cat ears and dragon muzzles. The game has overall been cheapened, from my perspective, by this shift.
Please understand that while I feel strongly about the effect mtx have had on Halo, I don’t mean this to sound like a value judgement on what people do or don’t like. I personally don’t think these things belong in Halo, and I personally think that mtx are a scourge on the industry, but I’m not here to make fun of people who like cat ears (which is one of the reasons I’m a big fan of a toggle for “Serious canon armor” vs “non-canon”)
That’s why I think they’re the best thing to come to gaming. I get things I paid for previously for free at the cost of something that does not impact my enjoyment of the game at all.
Cosmetics mean nothing and don’t contribute anything to the money-wasting player’s gameplay experience whatsoever. As I stated above, default Spartans and “armored” Spartans are on the same level playing field. All of the various items in the store are useless and do absolutely nothing.