After been confirmed halo infinite will be free to play. Good thing is that popularity will be bigger and new players will get to try it’s experience
I’m really worried for its microtransactions since free to play usually have microtransactions since they gotta make some money but this doesn’t suit for halo though. This could affect rewarding system which I liked from halo 3,reach and even halo 4. Halo 5’s one was terrible and Infinite microtransactions I don’t know.
I just hope they do this for weapon skins and vehicle skins im OK with that but I don’t want them to do it in like cosmetics such as customization since halo’s always been unlocking amrour by working hard for it.
It will most likely have seasonal battle passes + additional microtransactions (keyword: skinoconomy). Let’s hope they’re at least creative with the in-game shop and don’t blatantly copy the fortnite-ish shop UI lol. More concerned about the grind for unlocks.
I believe it is Multiplayer that’s free but no Singleplayer, so there’ll still be some money coming in. They may do some incentive (buy the game and get some random throwaway skin) but we’ll have to wait and see
EDIT: Come to think of it we also don’t know if there’s an incentive for free players to buy the game, or if they’re expecting game sales to prop up/have Microsoft invest into Halo 5 to increase incentive for purchases for Gold and buying the console and making it the main console, stuff like that.