Meanwhile Valorant has $90 skins.
Halo Infinite store is the same as R6 Siege.
Really not a big deal.
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The base game remained full price despite now not including the multiplayer which is “free”. Why does this matter? If it’s not somehow obvious it’s because traditionally we’ve gotten campaign and multiplayer for 60$.
The reason for multiplayer being “free” is to quadruple dip monetization schemes. You’re being played, hard.
- Pre-order editions
- Full triple A price
- "Micro"transactions
- Battlepasses
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Give an inch and they take a mile. Conceding to bad practice is how we end up like the mobile game market in the long run. These practices don’t turn into that over night, but it’s a slow burn to be sure. We started with 2.50$ horse armor DLC, and now we’re at loot boxes, and over priced "micro"transactions in the form of cosmetics costing more than complete games. This goes beyond the ridiculous 1000% mark-up razor blades receive.
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Eh the store sucks in general, it’s really designed to. Buy them time as they weren’t really all that creative with the coatings and Customizations.
For example in Halo 5 we had 48 default colors, so it was safe to assume we would have these same 48 default colors in Infinite.
What we got was 10 of those colors and 343 trying to sell us the other 38…
Like scarlet wake was just regular red. We got brick red and they tried to sell us regular red … and not just once but twice. They locked it to the newer core… Than tried to re sell it to us for the reach core.
Next they try selling us sand Tan and Brown…
They are also trying to sell some of the basic looking armor like Soldier and Hazop.
They are addressing this but realistically you should have to drop 100 bucks for two colors and two sets of armor In a Halo game…
The game can get pretty expensive after you try to have a large library of customization options.
As for me I’m doing pretty good with all the free stuff. Have the basic armor only BP stuff. And that coating you get for watching twitch streams.
The only things I paid for were the Nerf skins but I also got real Nerf guns that are insanely fun especially cus the AR is full Auto.
Oh and a weapon charm of a replica of my Halo Infinite Elite control… My paid cosmetics gave me IRL functional items.
As far as that store yea haven’t really spent my money there, gift cards yea but not much. The store Offerings aren’t really equal in quality to the price they ask for.
Honestly like 90% of the paid Cosmetics have been lame.
Seriously they tried to sell us the color brown. Who actually bought that. Lol
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Bro they too 38 of the 48 colors from Halo 5 and locked them behind a paywall and began drip feeding us those colors. Than they just redesign Coatings around those same.colors.
And they double dip people by locking those colors to armor cores and trying to re sell it to people… People are really letting themselves get ripped off.
I’m still laughing at the color brown costing us like 20 bucks lol
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In Halo 5, the player could use a total of 60 different colors to customize his or her Armor and Emblem. This can be contrasted to 18 colors in Halo CE & Halo 2, 30 colors in Halo 3 & Halo Reach and 29 colors in Halo 4 & Halo 2A.
However, the main difference between Halo Infinite and all other Halo games after Halo CE is that it was possible to colorize your character with a primary and a secondary color (also tertiary in Halo 3) independently from each other which greatly increased the number of coloring combinations.
Something else that should be noted with Halo 4 and Halo 5 is that most of the armors had variants with unique coloring patterns which increased the number of coloring options even further. However, the variants was usually locked behind completing a task in Halo 4 or req packs in Halo 5.
I’m surprised how many people seem to overlook this, but a lot of the disappointment comes from Halo having a long standing legacy of having highly customizable characters. So when they went f2p and put so much of it in the store, it felt like something was actively being taken away from the player.
When you contrast this with most other f2p games, like fortnite, a lot of them don’t have that same lineage of customization being a main focus of the series. That’s why they’re able to get away with the same practice with far less backlash. Even with CoD Warzone, sure there was customization is prior games but it was never close to the extent of previous Halo games.
People want to act like the f2p model is a 1-to-1 comparison no matter what the game is but that’s simply not the case. There are other factors to consider.
And yea, they do still need to make money. I’m not arguing it should all be free. But there’s a difference between saying the current monetization model is bad and saying they shouldn’t monetize at all.
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This is the biggest cope post I’ve ever seen.
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The store isn’t expensive either. I spend more than what the offerings are just to support my nicotine addiction every week.
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I just bought the campaign for $54 on disc as I am sure I will revisit it. I’m not going to buy the battle pass. I think that the progression system is lame and there isn’t a must have armor for me. Not that the battle pass is to expensive just more out of principle that progression sux. I will never buy anything from the store. I really wish it was like reach or MCC model and I think people should complain.
I do unfortunately not have a specific insight about any of these games or any insight about which topics that got most widely discussed by the community.
However, it wouldn’t surprise me if topics related to the negatives about these games was most widely discussed and that these topics dominated over the positives to a similar mannar as seen in Halo Infinite.
When it comes to my own opinion, I’m not that unhappy about the system itself. My main complaints is that the number of coloring options are extremely limited where you choose pre defined coloring options (armor coatings) instead of having the possibility to combine different colors independently. I do also have the same complaint with emblem coloring. In addition to that, it would be amazing if we didn’t have the restrictions related to armor cores in order to use more unusual customization combinations like combining Swordsman’s Belt (Yoroi Utility) with Challenger (Mark V [B] Gloves) and Aviator (Mark VII Helmet) or any other more unusual combination.
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Your rent or water going up is more somebody screwing you over.
Everything said was fact. Respond to it without using a player’s inability to control his expenses as an argument. Not a single person has done that yet. Ever. Since the battle pass was invented in Fortnite. It’s all emotional pleading.
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It’s really bad but so far I’ve spent £1 on Infinite/game pass.
Will I renew game pass. Probably not.
Will I play the multiplayer, definitely, it’s a bare bones classic.
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Considering that I haven’t spent a dime, not even on an Xbox live membership, I agree that it isn’t expensive.
The prices in the store are expensive, I don’t care what other games are doing. I was planning to support the game with purchases now and again, but at these prices I’ll let others do the supporting while I enjoy the free experience.
No joke. Mfs nowadays are really ok with paying for colors 
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Yeah same…. if there was a battle pass that was worth it I would buy it with MS points but looking at season one, just didn’t want any of the drops.
a 2000 credits pack in one currency being effectively a third in price to the campaign of the game? which is effectively Halo Infinite’s second half, it is expensive.
I won’t be buying campaign or anything from the store untill i see some major changes code wise like a better netcode, and I won’t be buying from the store until i get like a Wolnir/WOlfnir armor or something like that.
So we are okay with a game that charges you $8 for the color blue (which is virtually identical to the free one you get but is now “premium” because it’s for a different armor core)?
So we are okay with a game where even if you bought HAZOP for $20, you couldn’t actually wear it unless you bought the $10 battle pass? We are okay with the someone being forced to pay for a different thing if they want to use the armor they paid for?
Yes, the multiplayer may be free (and incomplete) and the barrier for entry in the campaign COULD be one dollar (until Game Pass becomes a recurring $9.99 payment monthly). But when most games pull this live service model meant to bleed the playerbase dry then I’m going to be selective about which games I support. Right now, any extra financial support will go to Destiny 2. At least they don’t charge real world money for colors. And I can put those colors on pretty much everything.
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