Ok so before I go into detail allow me to explain, I AM against microtransactions in any and all games, however if they MUST be put into MCC, they need to do it in a way that 100% does NOT affect the current progression system, so here’s an idea that might actually gain players favor: Custom Weapons per game that would ONLY be usable in Forge and Custom Games.
We all know that some weapons don’t exist in other Halo games, for example the Brute Shot is not in Halo CE, so each game in the collection has it’s own unique set of custom weapons both paid and free.
THE FREE STUFF:
Basic projectile Swapping - This allows you to create a custom weapon using the projectiles of any base weapon in the game, including firing live frag, plasma, or alt grenades.
Custom game settings: Add an option for “Allow custom weapons” this will also affect Fiesta modes so custom weapons can appear there as well.
Basic Model Selection: This allows you to choose how your custom weapon looks. For example you could make an Energy Sword your player holds like a pistol, but it fires needles.
Delete Weapon: Naturally if you do not wish to create a weapon or if you wish to get rid of any you may have this option exists to remove them from your inventory.
THE PAID STUFF:
10$ UNLOCK:
Advanced projectile swapping: In addition to the free stuff, you can also choose to give your custom weapon one alternative fire projectile when zoomed in with it, naturally this may not be the most used for CE as certain weapons cannot zoom, but still this will give alt fires to most custom weapons.
Advanced model selection: This will allow you to choose a base model, and then choose an attachement if desired where the alt fire will come out of.
1 extra custom weapon slot: This will give you a second custom weapon to make if you so desire you can make more than 1 custom weapon.
20$ PACK:
All of the stuff from the 10$ pack
Extreme Projectile Swapping: This will allow you to not only use projectiles of the guns/weapons in the game, but also allow you to give them vehicle base projectiles as well.
Extreme Model: This will allow you to gain access to random bits and bobs you can attach to your custom weapon, like the screw on the CE magnum, or other small decals.
A total of 4 custom weapon slots, this way you can make an arsenal of fun and chaotic weapons and have fun doing it.
50$ PACK
Everything from the 10$ and 20$ packs
Chaotic Projectile Swapping: This allows you to shoot pretty much anything out of your gun, including randomizing the projetile, however this only randomizes base gun and vehicle projectiles. But non-randomized, you can make the gun fire anything of reasonable size, for example a covenant crate, a unsc barricade, or just a stream of energy swords. Sky is the limit in the 50$ pack.
Chaotic Models: This allows you to create your own custom model from scratch using all pieces given to you upon purchase of this pack, meaning you can take elements of the battle rifle and put it on an energy sword, or take elements of a sniper rifle and put in on a rocket. But you get the option to build the weapon piece by piece.
10 total slots for custom weapons making you the Halo equivalent of Deadpool, this is the maximum custom weapon slot number.
Multi-Purchase pack 5$:
Gives you parts to make your weapon.
Disclaimer: THE MAIN PACKS WOULD BE ONE TIME PURCHASES!
This would be the only acceptable way to add Microtransactions into MCC without harming the current progression system.
Oh I fully agree they shouldn’t be added at all. However it seems 343 is deadset on this self destruct path, so I’m making a suggestion that won’t entirely blow up in their faces like it did with Infinite.
yeah, I don’t think this would be a good idea in the long run. Halo Online had something similar planned at one point, and people were already able to tell how aggressively Pay 2 Win the monetization could become since lets be fair, 343 would 100% start leaning into Pay 2 Win mechanics if this sort of transaction got normalized here.
honestly they should just sell a Halo 3 Anniversary visuals upgrade alongside a mega mappack that adds the remaining unreleased maps from across the collection (Reactor, Skybridge, Diamondback for Halo 3, the unreleased Blastacular map alongside other Cut maps for Halo 2, the Cut Halo 4 maps for either Halo 4 or H2A, etc.) could be like 50 dollars, and if it guarantees more free gameplay content alongside, then the price should justify it.
Did you read the start of my post? It stated that these weapons would be exclusive to Forge and Custom games, meaning only people who have custom weapons enabled will be able to use them.
I did, it’s just that I don’t trust 343 to not find a way to mess it up, on top of my own personal bias against having actual gameplay affecting content paywalled.
I mean if it’s gameplay altering content to the degree I’m talking about, namely specifically for MCC, I’d prefer it not to be monetized, but like I said if monetized content is what 343 is hellbent on doing for MCC I want to keep it as far away from cosmetics and the base game/progression system as possible.
I’m not accepting microtransactions.If you read my post you’d see I’m against them in general, but I’ve come to realize odds are the communities outcries have fallen on deaf ears, so might as well try to divert 343 away from monetizing the progression system and monetize something people might actually be willing to pay for without -Yoink!- off the majority of the community in the process.
Honestly if the only thing you can purchase with real money is Spartan points, then the mtx wouldn’t be to bad…BUT you know if they add that MTX odds are they will start dropping cosmetics that are only real money purchase as well. Especially since the majority are probably sitting on a mountain of points, I have 407 currently. I don’t see them selling enough “Spartan points” to new players. It will be a sad day for MCC if mtx gets implemented.
I’m just going to simply say it…just no to MT in any form. If they want ‘money’ that badly then they should on dlc like expansions like maybe a new campaign based on classic engines like fan projects do sometimes. Nothing good has ever come from MT.
just no. and don’t give them ideas. the MTs aren’t made for gamers and not even to support the devs. MTs are there to satisfy investors and if they are added, in whatever way, the whole game would be designed around them to create the urge to spend money. they are not additions, they are whats holding games back to be as good as they could be, bc games have to be designed with an inherent problem in them, so studios can sell the solution.
It seems people are missing the point of my post, my point is simply this:
343 WILL ignore the community backlash on this, what my post is trying to do is make it so 343 does NOT cripple the MCCs progression system with MTX but rather adding them for an all new set of cosmetic features never before used in Halo but entirely separate from the progression system.
I don’t WANT MTX in MCC period, but it seems like 343 will ignore our outcries so I’m trying to divert them away from from the progression system rather than the game as a whole simply because I know it’d be more likely to work at this point than “Don’t do it.”
Remember the last time 343 considered this back in 2019? 3 days of backlash from the community and they made a public statement saying they wouldn’t do it, it’s been over a week this time and radio silence, what does that tell you?
I’m not missing the point AND I get the point but I bought MCC on physical and even bought the game digitally on Steam…because it put players 1st. Going down the route of MT always hurts the game in long term. I already don’t trust 343i due to them lying about the progression system with Infinite…so I can’t see any future where MT doesn’t get predatory in MCC.
Of course they’ll ignore the backlash…Infinite is living proof of that. I’m just so sick of MT in games and it’s enough to put me off games entirely.
Honestly we should as a community of gamers get our local politicians involved, see if we can lobby enough to outlaw microtransactions in AAA games overall. It may seem futile now, but who knows, it may yield favorable results.
As a matter of principle, microtransactions should not be added whatsover to MCC. There’s a whole blog/reddit post highlighting all of the instances where 343 said they would not add anything purchasable to MCC.