As much as we want the store to be gone and to just happily give us all the content, unfortunately that’ll hardly be the case. But so far Halo Infinite has been out for more than 2 weeks and slowly improving but not a lot.
The main issue personally and to a few others is the fact we were promised player expression and that certain armors will be “Unlocked” (Could be true but until Campaign comes out we don’t know) and the biggest issue is a pay wall to exclusive armor sets or parts in the store.
I know 343i & Microsoft need to get money to keep halo going but one of THE MAIN features of halo is about making your own spartan and giving it’s own story but we’re now being force to cough up real life money just to make our ideal spartan.
Enough ranting away, here’s my personal thought that’ll benefit us & the corporation without too much harsh terms…
Highest Priority, reduce the prices of the items, as much as money’s nice a full spartan set + emblems / stance / other various, is STILL not worth $20, if armor can’t be change to be unlocked then at least make a full set at least $7, in the end it’s an in-game item and the more generous the price, the higher chance players will pay for it. as for the cheaper varients, they could go for $5 (Ones with just a stance / weapon mod) and then $3 for simple coatings and visors
But personally I would love if all the armor were unlockable instead of pay walled so players can be whatever spartans they desire to be.
While the other items: Stances, Emblems, Weapon / Vehicle mods, certain coatings, AI’s & weapon skins can be store exclusives.
Heck in halo 5, a lot of people were more than happy to pay for the announcer packs & the reach helmet set because they seemed reasonable priced (Like 9 helmets / 3 announcers for $10’s), now that definitely beats paying 2x the price just for what, 1 set of armor, an stance / emblems or visor?
They may loose the main feature of the store (Armor exclusivity) but they will benefit with their community being happy they aren’t being forced to pay for something that should be the main feature of the game / battle pass (Instead of constant Challenge swaps or XP boosts)
And those who wanted to deck out their vehicle / weapon or emblems can pay for it if they want to as it won’t hinder a lot on player expression.
I doubt this will happen in a day or hell even months but if more and more people stop spending money on store exclusive items, they will see the data of the decline purchases and if the high ups wonder why that is, we can simply tell them that their monetization is horrible and give the community what they want to make things seem more fair and reasonable.