Dear 343i and Halo Community,
I have been a long time Halo fan; however, I did drop off in Halo 4 and 5 due to the fact the games didn’t seem to cater to the players as much as Halo used to (in my opinion). I was ecstatic to play Halo Infinite and be brought back into the world of Halo again, the game runs smoothly and looks just as great. Once I started to play further, I came to realize how bare bones this game unfortunately is. When Halo games used to launch, they came full of activities to keep the player based entertained and playing for days, weeks, months, and years to come. Now I know this is a “beta” until the 8 Dec, but it blows my mind that there the custom game function is abysmal, we can’t save our game modes or even make certain options anymore such as SWAT or Grifball. The multiplayer itself doesn’t seem to have a plan to integrate individual playlist options for both Ranked and Social game modes (i.e Slayer, Free for All, Infection, Assault.) and many other game modes that we were used to playing at any given moment in time. It also bothers me that the customization in the game has the potential to be the best in any of the titles, yet we have to grind for our armor and color cores and we aren’t even able to make our armor or color cores appliable to all armor sets. This along with the fact that you have given us armor kits for notable characters in Halo Reach yet they are missing color details on their armor to signify them being different than someone choosing to dress as Carter or Emile not using the Kit. You even force us to pay absurd amounts of money (10 even 20 dollars) for armor we should be able to unlock through gameplay. So, players can’t 100% their armory without spending actual money. The store format needs to change. How can you expect people to pay $60 to enjoy a game they’ve been waiting six years for and deliver them a game that’s this hollow, I just can’t seem to justify it? Halo Reach launched with a fully functional and customizable file share, theatre mode, custom games, forge mode, firefight mode, multiplayer beside the campaign. How can you expect to keep your player base united and playing long term when all the things that have made Halo are either delayed after launch, seem to be not there or planned to be, or as bare as it is? Even the challenges force players to grind for a battle pass they spent money on just to focus on weapon kills or specific objectives that pull them away from the actual purpose of the multiplayer match. I don’t know what else to say at this point this game isn’t going to last long term at the rate it is going, which is a shame because I have loved Halo from the start, and I really want you as a company to succeed but it’s hard to root for you with the decisions your making so far. Please turn this around because I believe all of us want this game to work. Make it so we earn what we use instead of all these pay walls, give the people the content they want and this game will be everything we have wanted since 2010. Please, feel free to add more to what I’ve said Halo Communtiy because together we can take back our games from this “Modern Gaming’s” grip.
Sincerely,
A concerned Fan