If you bought ODST you got Mythic and all the others as well.
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Well okay letâs math this out. 2001-2011, youâd get Halo: CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, ODST, and Reach. So right there youâre really talking $300 in 10 years, although may not count ODST. Were there map packs for Reach? I doubt 2 or CE had them.
Letâs say 4 seasons/year at $10 apiece, BP alone is $400. Campaign is $60 or part of Gamepass (for now) with undetermined expansions, potentially paid.
Fairly comparable, even including inflation. The problem really kicks in when you factor in the artificially limited customization, lies, price gouging, manipulative tactics, and content gutting that has taken place to get us to this point, all of which you have to pay boatloads to opt out of.
Not arguing. Just pointing out that ODST was also marketed as a way to push the H3 MP and vice versa.
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No I know I was just recalculating lol
I have made this exact point and agree wholeheartedly with you on this one. You could spend a couple of thousand dollars and have all the unlocks as a Level 1 or grind it out for free. I didnât buy a single req pack. I unlocked everything at about Level 140. BUT, it was the same as someone who decided to buy everything. I have been thinking about Halo 5 over the last couple of days. I think about those who are at Level 152. These players had to grind out every bit of that, you might have had the odd player buying hundreds of dollars worth of reqs, but the XP boosts were random, so that would not have been a HUGE help. I really think 5 did it well. AND - for every player reading this that got to Level 152, YOU ARE LEGENDS, WELL DONE !!
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Also Recon was a huge part of that too.
Eh I guess there was some FOMO involved. Still getting to Vid Master/the Bungie hunts, was an amazing time in Halo gaming.
Well, Recon was so desired because it was exclusive. Thatâs kinda different from FOMO. Once the Vidmasters unlocked, there was no time limit on them (until servers shut down).
Thatâs more comparable to, like, preorder bonuses, which is a separate issue (although not one I care about as much). Aside from Recon, every armor piece in H3 was unlockable via some in-game challenge from the start.
To me, thatâs the golden standard. Even Reach wasnât quite as good. Which is why I like the weekly challenges in theory, but in execution they end up being more grind challenges locked behind fomo, rather than actual challenges (which, if they were challenging enough, could never be timegated and fair simultaneously). Imagine if you only had a week to do all the vidmasters. What was an awesome experience, peak Halo, would have been an exhausting mess.
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I canât recall ever seeing a situation where you unlock the same coating more than once, sounds like you might have a bug. Exaggerating isnât gonna help anyone mate
On the rest of your comment, I do agree. The Yoroi event did feel pretty empty. I enjoy getting xp boosts and swaps but we certainly shouldâve unlocked more along with it.
Any time you want to use a coating on a different core, you have to unlock it for that core. Scarlet(?) Medic for Mk VII and Scarlet Empress for Yoroi are the same coating, just on different cores.
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I just love seeing all these people defend 343 like itâs thier job on the line. Why do they care? Why canât 343 defend themselves? Why do these people feel obligated to defned 343 for whatever reason? Whatâs in it for them? are they being paid to defend 343 or are they just mad because daddy didnât teach them discipline?
Weâre not defending 343, itâs just that unlike some others we understand the situation at hand. Thereâs a difference between disliking features in the game and providing feedback for them to be changed and wailing like a child, repeating the same damn sentences over and over despite the fact the topics at hand have already been discussed and acknowledged by both the community and 343 Industries.
Itâs like if I asked you to go get me a burger, and then called you two minutes later screaming because you havenât gotten my burger back to me yet. It takes time, it takes money, and youâre (343) already aware that I want a burger. You canât get it any faster. Why are you and others continuing to scream and holler at something thatâs already in the process of being fixed?
Because they refuse to tell us what they actually intend on fixing, we actually donât know whatâs in the process of being fixed. All we can do is make our complaints, offer solutions, and repeat them et infinitum ad nauseum, until the feedback is, at a minimum, acknowledged. Right now the closest thing to an acknowledgement was the passive-aggressive post by Ske7ch, which effectively gave us no information beyond things are being âlooked intoâ, which in no way means they will be fixed.
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Then why did you respond? Do you not see that by responding you are confirming that you are indeed defending 343? You have Free will you could have not responded and this conversation would have ended there, but instead you chose to respond.
Oh man, your not going to like the Winter contingency event⌠The same coating 5 times. But they separate it with oh this coating goes on your gun⌠Now the same coating is unlocked later but for your Spartan⌠Next level you unlock the same coating but for your warthogâŚ
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Itâs definitely not on MIcrosoft, if it was then the mass amounts of good moves Xbox has done with other studios and games the past like two years would just be in the same boat as Infinite. Itâs almost certainly all on upper 343
Agreed⌠except upper 343i means Bonnie Ross, who is also an MS exec.
But Microsoft really has been making good moves so idk.
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Well yeah sheâs a given, like a Kathleen Kennedy on the Halo franchise
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The way many of those posts are written, it feels a lot like bragging.
âWeelll Iâm not botheredâ
âItâs a weak mindsetâ
âI overcame itâ
Doesnât it?
Over time, FOMO is something devs and publishers have raised in players with special editions, time limited offers, artificial scarcity and so forth.
This has gone on for a long time.
Social Media also play a big role in this.
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Theyâve told us exactly what theyâre fixing, a few times actually.
Namely, theyâre bringing in a career-progression system, an updated challenge and xp progression system involving rewards for individual achievements like medals, kills, etc, and more playlists coming asap like Slayer, Fiesta, FFA and SWAT coming first with more coming a little later after the New Year.
And that passive-aggressive post from Ske7ch was written in that tone because some a-holes in the community were so upset about these issues that they decided to start threatening his life. If most of the community was actually offering solutions and bringing complaints and feedback to the table instead of acting like crying children and making death threats, chaos would be at a minimum. Instead people have this ridiculous Idea in their head that itâs âus vs themâ and that 343 is some corporate, scummy company that wants to ruin the game on purpose. If they wanted to ruin Halo they wouldnât have spent the past 6 years of their lives away from their families to bring us what they believed to be the best Halo yet. But here we are, with half the community excited about this game but providing clear and concise feedback on issues and the other half acting completely ignorant of the situation, screaming and hollering like their religion is on the line despite most of the matters being discussed already have been acknowledged by 343. Thereâs alot more that goes into game development than what most of these players think. It isnât a fast process, it isnât a cheap process and it isnât an easy process, but so many people continue to place these ungodly standards and expect these updates to come the day after the issues are brought up.
Great, thatâs a couple things. This post is about something else they need to fix. Aka, more feedback. Most posts are constructive feedback, and just about all of my posts are. You may perceive that as
But the fact of the matter is, even though 343 has commented on a few of the matters currently being discussed, weâre mostly in the dark. So until they acknowledge what weâre talking about we gotta keep talking about it. Canât just let the problem go away by being ignored.
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