where I’m from the cost of the 500cr is barely under the minimum wage.
Yeah but your comparing Cod content to Halo. Cod sucks and is a crap game, no matter how much content they throw at you.
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I think the price of the BP is fine as is, as well as the quality of the content in the BP. The designers at 343 have done a wonderful job on the items that are available, and this applies to both their own creations and the ones they’ve brought back to life.
My main issue with the BP is the lack of content. It feels like over half of the content in the S1 BP is filler.
As for the items in the store, I think we can all agree they are over-priced. A much better solution to monetizing the customization in Halo would be to offer a catalog with all of the available items for sale. Bundles can still exist but should offer some savings when they appear.
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Good luck getting people to vote with their wallets and stop supporting the microtransaction model, when the vast majority of people who do buy them are casual players who have never touched online discussions of these issues, or mobile players who don’t even consider themselves gamers at all. People who don’t notice or don’t care about negative trends in games, who don’t think about it, they just go “Hey, there’s an option to spend $2 on a thing? Haha why not lol”
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I’m mostly fun with the amount of content in the pass (Especially with the level per day change), but I would prefer if the core itself was a free unlock so people could still run the default armor and be allowed to buy things they like from the store or use any weekly/event rewards that come out for them.
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I think issuing the Mk.V B core for free, (as well as all future cores) would be a smart move. As you said nobody is buying anything for cores they don’t already own, and if they do by mistake…they gon’ be mad!
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No, they love money. Just as much as Kakyoin loves cherries, if not more.
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This is a valid point actually. For the content, the prices are too high. It essentially just boils down to a color palette and an emblem or nameplate for $7 sometimes. That’s not appetizing
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Basically. While I doubt that anyone who wants a set from the era wouldn’t already own whichever pass gives the core, it just seems like a simpler method that leaves it open for fringe cases like this.
Like Yoroi isn’t my favorite and I think that most of the armor sets ruin the vibe of the samurai design, but I don’t mind people running stuff on their suits and still switch to it every now and for a change of pace lookswise.
They are, we cant even get dedicated playlists because of them. Total disgrace to the fanbase.
It’s frustrating seeing fan favorite armors/helmets restricted behind a paywall. If you’re going to charge these ridiculous prices at least include more content to make it feel just a little more worth buying.
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Does it also take you hours to open a bag of chips? And then when you open the bag, realize it’s 90% air with 5 chips inside, for them to say “Hey we offer a more full bag of chips for $19.99!”.
It does not feel okay to me.
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No I’m just saying we spend this kind of money all the time (well a lot of people do) so people don’t see it as a big deal and spend it.
As if, and please, what fanbase? Those playing the game and enjoying, the one that is doing the same but spending some money too? You’re not the only fan of the game.
I’ve seen a few uses of this in multiple threads. “Voting with their wallets” isn’t a thing. That is an ignorant assertion at best, and dishonest one at worst. Either way however one personally defines “voting”, it is the furthest type of voting possible in relation to the “player first” rhetoric that was pushed out to the player base by 343 leading up to this game’s release.
In general I feel it’s not right make a point of telling other people what is and isn’t “too expensive”; that’s a subjective reality. Just because one person has the kind of disposable income which makes something seem affordable, doesn’t actually make it affordable to even the general population of the game.
This isn’t about the game being “free to play” either. It’s been pointed out by a lot of folks in Waypoint and elsewhere that there are demonstrably and measurably better free to play models in every way compared to Infinite’s. I want there to be more free games too, and I’m excited about the idea of a good Halo game being free to play. What exists currently is a stripped down and hollowed out shell with a good game at it’s core.; right now we don’t have “A good Halo game” that’s free to play. And we could, but bad decisions were made for the sake of higher immediate profit margins, and that’s why folks continue to complain about them. Anyone who truly wants Halo Infinite to succeed should also want these problems to be addressed, so the game lasts longer (rather than, say, making a point to be dismissive of anyone who complains about this).
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OP: stop calling them microtransactions!
343i: ok we’ll call them expansions!
OP and the rest of the Halo community…
profit?
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Complaints are pointless on this particular subject, just don’t spend money. As I said, the bottom line will define the model not the other way around. If other free to play games are doing it better, this game will follow suit if profit margins are unacceptable.
If they are making bread then they’ll keep doing it as is.
Dedicated playlists are what makes halo great, only fake fans would defend their removal.
If you just keep complaining about your food but keep going there every week the restaurant will surely change lol.
you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, F2P is here to stay, outside of a huge general shift in what people spend their money on of course.
It’s not pointless. to complain about it; 343 has explicitly set up the Waypoint to be an avenue for player feedback. If folks are having a problem with being priced out, this is a designated place to voice those complaints.
This is important because planning for long-term sustainability requires market research which extends beyond just dollar amounts. In fact, it’s quite likely that the longer the game doesn’t exist with a more fairly priced marketplace, and less restrictive customization and gamemodes: the more potential customers- paid and unpaid- and ultimately long-term profits it loses each day.
There’s more of a point for people to say there’s problems with the price than there is for people to say they’re fine with the price. If you’re fine with the price you can just pay for it and that’s your voice, as you’ve pointed out. If people can’t afford it, and aren’t content, then typing that out here is their voice.
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