Fear of missing out, being extremely overly priced, gating things to a paid path for like 90%+ of the content, cores are not transferrable so if you want to look good you have to get even more pieces etc.
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This exactly this They are paid time gating and recycling content to make it look like it’s more content
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Kinda like all the past collab stuff and HCS rewards that most people didn’t even know existed or couldn’t link their twitch accounts right locking them away forever, it’s literally been out a month
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Agreed. I think the armor pieces ought to be corss core too; it wouldn’t be hard to make, the cores aren’t shaped that differently, but the visors, emblems, armor coatings, etc. are really bad.
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Tbh most halo armors especially the helmets (looking at you halo 5) are just ugly looking. Wouldn’t mind seeing the ability to have the community artists make a few designs and put in the shop rather than rehashing garbage designs
The only way to get credits is through buying with real cash. This is most atrocious model i have ever seen in my entire life. We should be able to earn some kind of credit without buying them.
They literally would need to do nothing to make items crosscore. The Waypoint glitch and bots prove crosscore works on everything.
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if the skins were 99c i would buy 20 of them.
because they are 10$ i buy zero of them.
its a lot easier to forgive a million micros thats why they were even called microtransactions to start with. no longer micro. no way a single helmet should cost 1/6th of the entire -Yoink!- game.
Maybe predatory is the wrong word then. How about “hugely mispriced”?
I would way rather have armor unlocks locked behind a paywall instead of maps like previous Halo titles did it.
At least no one is having actual weapons, vehicles, modes, or maps locked behind a paywall.
I can get on board with that.
I would love if they allowed community content, yeah. But then how could they justify charging $10 for two tiny triangles in the shape of cat ears on top of the helmet.
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This is gonna make you made, but the bots have the ability for cross core customizations.
343 simply locked us out of it.
Oh also Scarlet wake red, was sold in one bundle for in believe 10 bucks.
Than Scarlet skies red which is the same color was sold in another 10 buck bundle for the reach armor.
343 basically sold people the same red twice. And they wonder why their monitizations is catching heat.
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Lol right, why make Coatings universal when we can sell you red with dirt on it 5 different times for 10 bucks each time.
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It’s more the bundles than anything. When they pair one really cool cosmetic in with a bunch of stuff you’ll never use for $20 instead of just letting you buy your one individual item for $5, it forces overspending.
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Holy crap…
There are so many boot lickers in here who have just gone full denial. Infinite like MANY other F2P games uses the store and the progression system in tandem in a predatory way. With the challenges added to the equation its very easy to see and has been explained to death.
Multiple people explained and even showed links to other places showing you EXACTLY how it is predatory. Are you all defending 343i this hard and blindly because you feel like you’d have to admit you got ripped off?
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Yeah. Overpriced is correct. I agree with you. Small, kitschy digital items don’t need to cost upwards of $10 or $20.
But then again, the market determines the price. So, if people are buying them, then they’re going to stay expensive. There’s not much we can do about it besides not buy if we don’t like the price.
That said, being expensive does not make it predatory.
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Yes, it is exploitation. Halo fans have been craving a real Halo experience for a decade now. They (343) finally do what they should have been doing all this time, wave it in your face and play on your nostalgia strings, just for them to say $19.99 for this piece of armor and emblems. The game is unfinished so the only way to expand any amount of fun is through customization, the only other real alternative experience they have besides gameplay. However this is completely locked behind a paywall. You make the mistake of thinking people only play Halo for the gameplay, and therefore anything not involving gameplay is fair game… This is not true. Halo has been and always will be a hybrid of social and competitive. This store BS is not really exploiting the competitive people, but the social people. People who like making machinimas, forging, custom games, playing and joking around with friends. People who like to express themselves with friends in Halo.
If other means existed, maybe the store wouldn’t be as bad. However they don’t. So therefore it is exploiting them. They know people are desperate for a classic Halo experience, which includes customization, and they have locked it entirely behind a multi-layered paywall.
It’s clear 343 is targeting little children with access to their parents credit cards, and social influencers who use Halo for income. They don’t care about anyone else. Just people who impulsively spend money. That is exploiting.
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Oh yeah, I’ve heard. It’s not a functional limitation, it’s just a limitation they allowed to exist. All it would take adding is menu options. It’s atrocious.
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U can try to rationalize it any way you want to cover for 343 but fact is fact.