Look at the neon superfly bundle for a minute. This is exactly what is ticking me off with the store as a consumer. Take a look at it.
What’s included in the bundle?
2x armor coatings
2x weapon coatings
4x vehicle coatings
A visor and a stance
All for 1200 Cr
Seems like a deal! Not really. I’m not interesting in the armor coatings, the visor, the stance, or the vehicle coatings EXCEPT the wasp coating.
I like that coating. I want to buy that coating. I cannot buy JUST that coating. There’s no freaking option to buy just that coating. Why??
But what’s worse, you even priced yourselves out of me buying the bundle!
343, your selling credits @500,@1000, @2000 or $6.49, $12.99, and $25.99.
But your selling the bundle at 1200cr. So I have to either spend 25.99 or $19.48 for the wasp coating, because there’s no value to me in the other stuff. And that wasp coating is not worth 19.48 to me, not even close. If you made it for the 1000 Cr then I’d probably do it, because it’s a simple transaction, just as simple as buying just the wasp coating. But I’m not buying it because that extra 200cr represents money to me.
So congrats, you made $0 off of me.
If you put the coating at say 300 Cr, I’d buy the 500cr pack and save the other 200 for something else. Or maybe even bought the 1000cr. My point is, you would be making money off of me because you would have given me an avenue to follow to get the value that I’m seeking. Not this “you have to spend $20 to get the one thing you want” nonsense. Businesses have gone under for not meeting their consumers idea of perceived value.
Seriously, who wrote your business plan??? For something that’s tapping to the entire Xbox, PC and steam consumer pools, It’s garbage.
Nothing, they are good. They have individual items, so you can see what each item is worth, thereby giving value to the bundle as a deal. We don’t have that.
All 343 has done here has chosen price points that still force you to spend $20 on a bundle. Actually more, because any credits you have left over you can’t use in an individual purchase so you have to buy more credits to use the credits you already have.
My beef is taken directly against the way Emblems are valued.
You see, that’s the problem, right there in the text. Emblems are being counted as part of a bundle’s value, even the duplicates.
They aren’t valuable. They have no value. They’re the wrapping paper that comes with the real stuff, and should in no way contribute to a bundle’s value, at least in multiples.
One emblem should apply to everything, and that singular emblem should be what’s part of the value. Nothing more, nothing less.
The coatings are all the same too. Once you have one coating, just like emblems, it should be able to be applied to everything instead of needing to re-earn something you already own.
The ones that come to mind are CoD, Destiny Splitgate and even in some cases Steam if you want to purchase something under $5.
None of those tell you what the individual item within a bundle is worth let alone allow you to purchase items individually using the premium currency.
So by your own admission that same bundle system is ok when Halo’s is not?
Kinda like how they do it in Destiny, CoD, Splitgate and in some cases Steam?
I would chose splitgate items over Infinite anyday, prices still suck but i like their designs more than infinites. And i’m a Halo fan boy…well before Halo 4 anyways.
No, I was thinking more along the lines of rocket league where they have a system that infinite seems to be trying emulate: credit system, battle pass, seasons, events since 2016.
I would look to rocket league for direction on store value rather than the comparable shooters.
Understanding that they are the competition, it doesn’t mean their implementation is good.
RL has 5 daily individual content, 2x 48 hour content, and multiple bundles on any given day. Plus an reward system that provides that same content that’s in the store but randomly at various rarities, as well as a trading system that creates a secondary market that puts another value on those same items seperate from priced in the store. Sometimes the price in the store for an item is higher than the secondary market, sometimes cheaper. Either way, value is understood by the consumer and value can be had by the consumer.
That’s why I’ve spent money on RL and haven’t regretted any purchase I’ve made. In infinite, I regret buying the battle pass and haven’t made a purchase since because the value per dollar isn’t there.