Today Reddit and Twitter and even here proved to me that the Halo community will never be happy with the store and it’s actually kinda sad. They will always find something wrong with it. Instead of appreciating how quickly 343 has responded and adjusted things they immediately start complaining about the pricing yet again for the hundredth time.
Disappointing
Maybe they should just do it well. We’ve yet to see how the community reacts to Infinite being a decent product because it has yet to exist as a decent product.
TL;DR: Others do not have the same opinion as me. Disappointing.
There’s a ton of praise for this product along side worthwhile criticism of it.
The issue lies with the fact that as time progressed over the last 3 months, the reasons the product was praised was marred by the lack of improvements and fixes that the criticisms addressed and continue to address.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
What the complaints have proven (ironically) is that putting cosmetics into the store is going to make them crap loads of money. Now I personally don’t care enough about cosmetics to want to spend hundreds of dollars on them, but considering that this is somehow the #1 issue just tells them that cosmetics are worth a lot to fans and that they will continue to sell them.
Maybe they should’ve made multiplayer paid and called it a day. BUT NOPE. This is what you get
People saw potential and had optimism, but the potential isn’t being met and the honeymoon phase had ended for most.
The game can’t offer the bare minimum standard of a F2P game by having consistent quality gameplay with good servers and has gamebreaking desync.
It also wants to charge as if it were doing these things well by detracting what had been an expected staple of a Halo game, customization.
It has created a double negative experience where you lose both the ability to play and customize your Spartan.
So what is left for the game? Bad feelings, mostly.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe people are disappointed, because it appears that the store is the only thing in this game currently, that is functioning as designed?
Regardless of price, the store has worked this entire time without issues. Meanwhile, there are still problems occurring with the game itself that have either not been addressed or have been addressed but still not working.
I won’t say that all 343 cares about is money, but the optics aren’t good.
Or maybe here me out…
£5 for 1 helmet is too much
Other games I get full outfits for £8 ,alot of the outfits can also be earned through in game currency?
£60 gets me 12 helmets, in other halo games £60 gave me campaign, multiplayer and a huge amount of earnable armor…
I wonder why people arent happy.
Can I just say how downright wrong and stupid this argument is?
The Microsoft store has been working since Halo 2, aside from that the Infinite MTX store isn’t close to ideal because there are obvious limitations like how many items can be in the store at once and so on.
This would be like saying the BR works as intended because it shoots. No duh. But is the weapon designed optimally? Is the store designed optimally?
How is it wrong and stupid?
I bought the cloud9 set because it looked cool. 10 dollars. I am by no means defending things being overpriced, but sometimes your want to have it will overpower the fact it is a bit expensive. If there is a item that consist only of a sticker on your spartans left leg, it doesnt really matter if it is a free battle pass reward, or if it cost real money, someone will find it so nice or cool that they get it. And thats why MTX are so much more profitable than a one and done pay to play game. For comparison, in another game about space ships, there was a feature with some ships that you could get skins for them. Most of them completely earned through gameplay, but there was one that literally turned every corner of the ship into gold. A pack to paint your entire fleet with gold cost 100 dollars. And you guessed it, there were plenty of people who had them.
This is normal for every gaming community now-a-days…
I miss communities on how they were back when Quake was the big online game lol…
Yes they will OP.
Just put me in charge of the franchise.
tl;dr the store is not designed optimally.
Criticism never stops. Games can always be improved.
How is it the customer’s fault if 343 released something that they knew “was not going to be inherently satisfying to most of [their] players.”?
Does it take a genius to realise if you know something you are going to do is going to piss off your customers, maybe, I dunno, don’t do it?
343 can not have it both ways, they can’t say they’re going to release something their customers won’t like and then complain that customers are saying they don’t like things.
Just because people criticise something doesn’t mean they are going to complain about every little thing for no reason, the majority of the people criticising Halo Infinite (including the gaming press) do so because they want Halo Infinite to be better. That doesn’t mean every criticism is valid or will be shared by everyone but customers are entitled to give their opinions about the products and services they receive, if that is too much for a business to deal with then they probably should be in a different business.
People like to complain when things don’t go their way. Sometimes I feel like i’m witnessing an online daycare center that rants about this or that which contributes to nothing for making Halo Infinite better.
Who said anything about it being optimized? You missed the point entirely.
Anyone with half a brain will expect backlash when you rip out 1 piece of an armor bundle previously sold for 20 bucks for 9 items and sold it for 1/3rd of the price for a single item.
You’re actually stupid if you defend 343 on this.