If they did refund everyone the difference in store credits sure they aren’t actually giving money back to you, but they are giving up that much in potential earnings as consumers would likely buy the items they want anyway.
I have always thought people who want refunds are petty for anything that is not straight up broken/misleading. I just take the L and use better judgment next time.
If someone bought a digital DLC at $60 then that same DLC got bundled with prior DLC and new additional content as a holiday sale event a week later for $10 should you be reimbursed?
I believed the store prices were rediculouse day one so I waited. I disliked the customizatioj limitations so I decided not to support it beyond the battle pass. If you do the math even with the recent price reduction the price in comparison to a battle pass is still way too high for a “micro transaction.” You bought into the hype and decided not to wait when the gaming industry has shown that prices go down as demand goes down in order to increase profit. Just learn from the experience and wait until the value is fair going forward. This business decision was planned from the beginning.
Give players the worst of something so they accept something a little less worse. I’m tired of that. I don’t want to buy into that practice. You shouldn’t either. We can’t even pick our own colors anymore. We had to pay $10 for a different shade of red. Was that not a red flag for you? Just stick to the battle pass and wait until they really fix the shop. What 343i is doing atm is targeting whales. Don’t be one of them. There won’t be any reimbursements even though there should be. Stay vocal and leave your feedback. Let them know It’s not right and put the game down until they fix it.
I do my challenges in a day and don’t play until the following week. If the reward sucks I don’t play until there’s something I feel is worth doing all those busted challenges for. The game is fun but the current systems in place just ruins the experience so much so that I’d rather play other more fleshed out games. I’m on Destiny more than I ever played Halo. I never thought that would happen. 343i made a system far more broken and preditory than Destiny. Destiny, a game over 4 years old has almost 3 times as many players on steam than Halo Infinite. A game that came out a month ago.
My point is to just wait. Go play something else and keep an eye on the state of the game every other week. Speak with your voice, your wallet, and your time. I remain hopeful that in 3 years this game will be what it was meant to. It’s just sad we have to wait that long. I’m still waiting on Cyberpunk.
It’s always lame to go buy something only to learn tomorrow that it went on sale or permanently dropped in price, but that’s how things go sometimes. I don’t love it, but I understand it. I don’t expect Nintendo to give me gold points because I bought a game today that changes price next week.
Giving credits will cost 343 the money they won’t earn when people spend their free credits later. It bothers brother who bought the sakura petal effect, only to see the cyber effect cost $10 a couple weeks later, but the flower petal effect was worth the $20 for him.
Wanting to be compensated for a future price drop is about as unreasonable of a request as I can imagine. No one forced you to buy it. When you did you considered the price fair at the time obviously.
So of the daily bundles that have recycled through the shop, their prices have not changed. It looks like old Bundles will keep their original prices.
Honestly, probably to avoid things like this!
Yeah good luck with THAT one.
I totally get the desire to get something back but this is the cost of early adoption for any product. If you buy any phone, software, computer etc. a couple months after it’s release the same thing happens.
the whole post is a troll/ clickbait and the way its defended is laughably sad
I will tell you that I am earnest in my intent. Not trolling.
Sorry, they don’t care, they’re just going to disagree with you and call you privileged for the classes you took, the same they did to me.
I got to stop checking this thread, it’s hard to believe these people could be unironic.
No man if a game company makes credits that you need to buy to spend their own currency in a store for different colors and bits of armor (thus they control the economy within their store) then they reduce the amount of credits it takes for those bits and bobs, one could assume and prompt a discussion that they could follow the same practice that other companies have in the past, and if the red/gold skin is now $10 worth of credits rather than $20 worth of credits, a credits kickback should not be looked at as entitlement, but rather a cool thing for 343 to do, since this is all cosmetics and not a game mode, not a map pack, not a permament addition to the functionality of the game, but rather bits and bobs for your character. Not a toaster from target, not a physical item that went on sale the month after you purchased it. The game is still new, they tested the shop the first two months, decided prices needed to be adjusted.
343 still has my $20, but if I had waited the $20 would net the SAME amount of credits, but things in the store would be cheaper.
And with that, I’m out. Can only repeat it so many times.
This thread makes my brain hurt. It’s difficult for me to believe there really are this many people so wildly out of touch with reality, how the world works, how their money works, and how commercial transactions function.
If you bought something in the store, you agreed that (x) item was worth (y) dollars to you. The transaction is over once you receive (x) item, and the company has given you everything they owed you. If a company decides to give away (x) item the following week for free, that has no retroactive effect at all on your previous transaction.
You bought credits, not the armor. And the buying power of the credits changed.
Which doesn’t change anything.
If you made a purchase, you agreed (x) credits was worth (y) dollars to you. You then agreed that (x) armor set was worth (y) credits if you spent credits on an armor set. The transaction is then over, and any future changes to credits or the storefront do not affect it (or you or your purchase decision) in any way retroactively.
If you don’t understand this, you should probably put your parent’s credit card away.
See, 343 adjusted the prices, so they agreed it was too many credits per item.
Instead of making credits cheaper, they made the items you exchange credits for cheaper.
The only thing this would do is make someones $20 pre-patch worth the same after shop update.
So, like other game companies, they could give those people a kick back and be some cool people, and have everyones $20 be worth the same $20.
Yeah… please put mommy and daddy’s credit card away. You clearly don’t know what you are doing when you buy something.
I’m not debating with children and won’t be replying to this level of nonsense further.
I literally bought $100 worth of credits and preordered the campaign the same day, like. I won’t be mad either way, it would just be NICE
Why is this thread still going? We’ve already confirmed that old bundle prices are unchanged. New pricing only affects new stuff going forward.
We like talking in circles here
So what if they paid you out in extra credits now, and then they upped the prices again in a few months. Would you pay them back those same credits? Because by this logic, you should have to. People spent money how they saw fit at the time, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but pretty sure, that’s where the transaction ends.