It looks like it’d go sooooo well with my Zeta Sky pre-order coating… but $18 is a tough price to swallow. 
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It does look good. Haven’t quite committed to the purchase yet.
'tis a bit steep…
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Not purchased anything but the campaign, and I resisted an armor bundle a few weeks ago that I did really want.
18 dorra is waay to much for a "micro"transaction.
Could consider it for three. Buut, not a fan of out-of-place cosmetics anyway.
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Just watch it go on sale or get split into parts due to the backlash like how other bundles did
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As long as there’s enough fools willing to part with their real cash these absurd shop prices will continue.
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Not that I care about it, but man… buying these BS at this cost will eventually destroy the industry or at least the franchise. If 343 sees that they are getting away with releasing a game in THIS state, support it like THAT for over a year and still making tons of cash, nothing will change… at all.
But if it makes you happy, go for it. Just keep in mind, no future projects of 343 will make you happy^^
Maybe now they have the money to hire an intern for half a day to finally release a map created 16 years ago and rebuild by forgers with a beta software in a couple of days- 
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This system has already destroyed the industry. Everything is coming out incomplete and unfinished with a storefront selling microtransactions that aren’t micro. They keep throwing in useless cosmetics for the cost of a third of a retail AAA game or even an insanely great indie game. An example of a good indie game I could buy instead of these cosmetics is Dead Cells. That game is freaking amazing and I will get far more use out of that $20 than I ever would with these BS overpriced effects.
Prices like this are completely unacceptable and while I am completely opposed to a microtransaction store system and a free-to-play model, I would not be so adverse to supporting this game if the pricing was even relatively Fair. I’ve bought cosmetic bundles for SoulCalibur games. Multiple games in fact, the past three. Those were paid DLC add-on cosmetic bundles for already full price games. I still bought them because the game was released in a complete functional and playable state. I cannot and will not support the trend of “Modern Gaming”. Force it out the door to meet a purchase window and then fix it later.
If this trend keeps up it will absolutely destroy the industry and it won’t be an industry anymore. It’ll be a pile of ashes of their own making.
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I still remember when Skyrim put out entire new zones, enemies, stories, voice acting, spells, abilities, weapons, music, armor, etc etc all for 20 bucks in total.
Presumably this was not made at a loss to Bethesda.
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Bethesda make a lot of money just repackaging the same games into new editions.
I bought the bundle I like the holiday spirt theme stuff
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You are right but I feel like this is also useless. There is always going to be some whale out there ready to spend money on whatever passes under their nose, regardless of what we say here.
Lol Capitalism is great, I guess I’m a whale
I’d enjoy it while you still can. All it takes is a ball baby or two to ruin the good things because it offends them or it isn’t free! Maybe they could bring down the price but again 343I is giving you multiplayer for free so don’t cry to much.
To all those fan boys out there……
When the dust settles even the devotees will realise 343 only see’s it’s diminished community as a cash cow.
Ploughing it’s resources into ways to extract money instead of fixing the game.
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Well, it’s their money to spend so not much we can do there.
Regardless, I’m just pissed that overpriced special effects took the weekly slot and not something more substantial like a weapon coating pack or something.
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I don’t want it for free, $18 for and affect that cant even be used at the same time. a full game cost $60 so I’m paying 1/3 of a full game for an armor affect.
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I wouldn’t demand that people don’t buy it. Thats just silly.
I love the mythic effect and kill effect so much! I was looking forward to them. But I just can’t afford $18 for a cosmetic… For those who can, I hope to see you online! I can take out my jealousy and sadness with my rocket launcher 
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Now imagine if you just buy those horns individually, rather than paying the extra $15 for the stuff you will/may never use.
I, for one, only want the Ice Kill-effect…and would pay for it! I don’t mind supporting the developers of a game and franchise I like.
Where it gets shady for me is the freaking bundles. “Give us $18 or get nothing”. Not a player focused/friendly approach in my opinion. More greed.
Buying items individually is so fundamentally simple. And they could do it; if not in-game, then in the Microsoft Store or whatever. But they’d rather take advantage of the few who absolutely don’t want to miss out than give players options.
Instead of getting some money from me for a piece of this content, they will get none for this ‘bundle’.
Doesn’t have to be this way!
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I always thought it would be better to have everything for the week available separately - but then make it cheaper if you buy multiple items.
Make your own bundles, if you like.
As for Frostbite… I think it’s a great bundle in terms of content. I’ll definitely use the Horns and the Death Effect. The Mythic effects are pretty cool - so they will get a run.
The only one I’m a bit iffy on is the Cold Shoulder effect. Meh?
But overall I am happy with the bundle. I agree it’s a tad over priced. And they could easily have split it into a couple of smaller ones. I assume it’s an experiment to see if this kind of bundle has traction.
I am just fortunate to be at a stage of life where I have disposable income.
And I spend a lot of hours on Infinite… so buying something every couple of weeks to support 343 isn’t a bad investment from my perspective. And some things, like the Mister Chief AI, have proven to be great value.
Plus I’m always inspired by my shadow buddies; Freaky Fan, TotalTeeto117, and Zellium. My only hope is that one day I can bag them on the battlefield using the bling they encouraged me to buy.
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No my dear Freaky. Not bait. Genuine affection.
If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have these awesome ice horns.
I look forward to charging head long into battle.
But it does feel weird donning ice and snowflakes on the first day of Summer.
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Lmao i don’t even use the effects anymore. they were a cool gimmick but the novelty of it wore off for me. Talking about how horrible their stripping down of elements common to halo and monetizing those parts to make a $60 game into a $1000 game (it is), but i do see the value in you guys constantly bringing it up. Reqs are dead and hopefully this current model will die too.
It may be too late for current armor sets but going forward they could make future armor sets into unlockable items via challenges (real challenges like halo 3 era where they could be earned at your leasure, not weekly) at least for already existing armors and they could still monetize new ideas like the wolf shoulders for reach mkv(b) or a lot of the fracture bits.
Imagine as an example that they add halo 3’s armor. Beautiful mk6 gen1 exactly as it was, polished off h2a cutscenes looking beautiful. and they add all the armor that halo 3 mp had as gameplay unlockables or challenge unlocks (like i said, real challenges like a h3 vidmaster type beat that arent timed) and create new designs for armor bits, monetize those, put those in the shop. That’s the balance that 343 has failed to strike with infinite and 5 (oh god never again plz). subtle monetization that players would not notice enough to care about. Instead they made it an overt money grab relying on the 'membah berries.
“ooooh, 'memba reach?”
“ooooh I 'membah!”
some of you thing it all should be free. as cool as that would be, its unrealistic. and tbh, I kinda can respect them trying to make a little extra from their game post launch. What I can’t respect is the stripping down of established features in a game that has already been stripped of its most important gameplay features at launch and even a year later is barely starting to be what it promised.
It’s lazy, low quality, and it looks to have hurt their game and their profits overall. If it did, good. They should be trying to improve their product to make more money, not trying to pass off a downgraded, barebones version and monetize customization that has existed in the series for years, trying to drip feed us that sweet sweet dopamine hit over apparently 10 years.
As a long time halo fan and someone that plays and enjoys infinite and doesn’t mind dropping $20 every now and again, I say to you who are genuinely disgusted with the state of 343’s halo, It may not be enough to not pay for armor. you may have to be willing to quit this game all together. you have to make them see that their players were so disgusted with them that they quit their game, and if there are enough of you, everyone will see the struggle to find a lobby. a truly dead game. and with that they may even stop support for their 10 year plan. completely killing halo infinite for good. and understand that at that extreme, 343 could lose their license to make halo games (i think some of you like that idea) or halo could remain dead forever. the very name becoming toxic to game developers for the reputation halo would have.
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