Pretty disappointing news apart from another attempt to sort out BTB. You can’t keep offering individual items like you are now. When we asked for individual items we did not ask for you to drip feed us one of the items within a bundle each week.
The current store really needs a complete overhaul and I understand that will take time and is not something we will really be able to get until season 2+. However I recommend making all the items taken out of a bundle to be daily’s not one per week. Heck I encourage you to make more things on the store daily’s compared to weeklies if the store is incapable of showing a larger amount of options at once. Right now the store is just so unbelievably slow and players are having to wait months just for the ability to buy something.
Additionally I have to point out how ridiculous the fact is that you can’t adjust two cosmetics slightly until season 2 in May. I get there are bigger things on your plate but to me that just sounds like you’re going to forget about them and sweep the issue under the rug like Jorge’s shoulder pad.
I feel like a lot of our worries come because there is no roadmap. If we knew all the things we are upset about are in the works and have somewhat of a timeframe as to when they will come out I feel like a lot of the pressure will be lifted off you guys. We need something more concrete than a generic we hear you. We need actual evidence that you have taken on our feedback and are working towards the right changes in the form of a roadmap.
Mostly jus dissapointed by the responses from people. Crazy how demanding folks are. I get it, game isn’t perfect for every specific person’s needs. These are just human beings tryiing their best. It’s not easy running a simple small business, can’t even imagine running a game studio. Chill out folks. I hope this is like peak drama in your life.
It hurts but the more and more we get told “It’ll be fixed around Season 2” the more this feels like a 6 month long beta period before release.
When you’re charging money for the shop, and $60 for JUST the campaign, it shouldn’t be in a beta state anymore. This should be a fully-fleshed out product.
It is an absolute embarrassment to charge full price for a half a game(campaign) and then attempt to completely drain the wallet of every person who chooses to play this game Which is broken and lacking content and basic functionality…. Paylo infinite
Quit talking about all of these shop updates as if you’re doing something nice and generous by adjusting the pricing. It’s sad. WHERE is the stuff earnable through achievement? Halo 3 had an achievement for getting a double kill with a single spartan laser shot which unlocked a helmet. I miss the days where wearing a piece of armor showed off a feat of skill and accomplishment, not just, “this player spent X amount or played X amount of time to level a battle pass.” This system goes completely against the spirit of Halo and is a total smack to the face.
Also it doesn’t take “eagle eyes” to notice that your visor item and Mohawk are misaligned. It’s obvious. Don’t be passive aggressive and simultaneously pretend like you’re inconvenienced by this. If you’re going to put an item out, in such a limited customization space, of course people are going to notice if it’s off kilter.
I have money to spend on the firefall helmet, which only exists because of the pseudo vacuum of cross core requiring two versions of odst with slight variation for MK VII an MK V, but the lack of freedom and skill based/achievement based cosmetics make me unwilling to spend a dime on anything in the shop.
The shop and battlepass are the only avenues for unlocking gear which is appalling. You should be ashamed of yourselves 343 for blatantly pigeon holing players and extorting them for the most basic customization options that have been a standard in halo since the beginning.
Halo used to be a game that stood above the rest. Master Chief has impacted my life, so has Seargent Johnson, Miranda Keys, Captain Keys, and many other characters in this universe. This isn’t just some way to earn money. It’s a game that means a whole lot to a whole lot of people, and you’re doing your fanbase a disservice by greedily throttling customization for every last dollar. BOOOOOO! Shame on you.
I wouldn’t buy the firefall helmet even if it was 100 credits. Maybe I would if there was another way to earn meaningful rewards aside from breaking out my wallet. This game is amazing and could be something truly wonderful, but you are ruining the legacy of Halo with these business practices.
TL;DR: 343 is normalizing shop talk. Don’t praise them for updating prices when they’re shoving unlocks via skill and achievement under the rug by doing so. Where is team snipers? Infection? Why the de sync so bad? So many issues and all they care about is the shop. Absolutely disgraceful and such a shameful business practice. I don’t even want to play this game.
How shameless can you guys be? You knew exactly what you were doing. You cashed in on the whales with outrageous prices when the game was hot, and now that your active player count has cratered you’re trying to placate the rest of us with crumbs.
Meanwhile, constant de-sync and frequent crashes has made ranked unplayable.
Horrible update. Not only is their biggest blunder yet (unplayable BTB) not certain to work this time around (second try), but they also mock the players that pointed out the misalignment of the neon screens & hawk. They just had to add snark when acknowledging the issue, they could’t just say “sorry about the misalignment, we’ll fix in X time.” I honestly believe they want to get the players back, somehow, someway. In before, “it’s just a joke!” Plus, no roadmap, no dsync fix, no maps, no forge. This Halo’s future ain’t too bright.
And just like that 343 confirms that they are the slowest and most incompetent AAA studio in the industry. 3 months to straighten out a couple armor effects? No mention of the multitude of other issues this game has? I’m sorry but I’m done defending you guys I think it’s time another studio takes over Halo at this point.
The fact it’s going to take them 3 months to patch a clearly off-center armor effect says it all. You make it sound like players are nitpicking trivial details… “eagle-eyed”, “weren’t absolutely, perfectly aligned”… seriously?.. The off-center visor is not trivial, as a matter of fact it’s total symbolism of an overall incompetency.
There is literally no excuse for how broken and how much this game is lacking. 6+ years of development and we have what, a game with:
Limited and missing custom game options
Missing classic gamemodes
No forge
Extremely buggy theatre
Limited customization (core sets, coatings, etc)
Only 10 maps
Some of the worst desync/networking in any modern game
Player collisions w/ vehicles is god-awful (ex: walking on top of vehicles)
NO ANTI-CHEAT
No game files check, you can literally alter/delete game files and boot the game
And finally, off-center armor effects they can’t be bothered to patch… I can’t imagine it’s a difficult fix… sigh I don’t even know how that mistake is made in the first place.
This is Halo, Microsoft’s baby and flagship title that has been in development for 6 Years!!! There is no excuse for the state of this game. Their resources and funding for this game are unlimited and the development was and continues to be a huge disaster. There is literally no excuse. People have every right to be this upset.
I think at this point between creating the engine and general dev hell the game suffered its entire cycle, and covid; this game was not ready to be shipped and probably should’ve been pushed back to next year. I imagine that Microsoft was not going to postpone their flagship title any further though and let the brand be dormant for so long.
At this point no one feels good about it; the devs have nothing but crunch ahead of them, we’re left with a game that is missing features and content.
“Things might get better after May, idk, we’re still learning”
Apparently this isn’t the same 343 that was part of Bungie, that made Halo 4 and Halo 5. Well I know what I’m not going to be playing for the next 6 months. Wake me when Forge comes. Bungie summoned us to slay a Witch Queen. That’ll take at least 6 months. I’ll check back after then.
