Hello there Spartans,
So last night I was playing some Arena and went to the rec store to check what I could get. To my surprise, something seemed different about the store I saw.
I managed to grab a screenshot on my phone. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr3R7hrWgAIJAGW.jpg:large
Anyone looking at the image may be able to spot something off immediately, first off, the multi gold pack offers were not shown, at all. And second, there was no way to buy packs using real money, any attempt to buy one I couldn’t afford would just make the required around flash red. At first, I thought this was something they added, so I took a snapshot and posted it to Twitter to see if anyone else had seen it. Shortly after taking the image, I reloaded the store to see if this was really a thing, and to my dismay, no, the offers and real world payment options were back. But the fact that I saw the store in this state really had me curious. Was this simply a glitch? Was this someone at 343 trying to tell us something? There may not be a real reason for this, but it is something odd I found. Maybe this is what the devs meant with the whole “Hunt the truth” tagline.
Don’t worry it was just a glitch
Dang, really thought I was onto something. Still, would be kinda cool if 343 was building something like this up for something, maybe to bring the community together.
I’m still kinda intrigued, sure, it was probably a glitch, but then again, it seemed a bit too precise to be just a glitch. Why not have the screen still show all the payable things but when you try to buy them it just says “Error, couldn’t access Microsoft payment, try again later”. This is probably just me overthinking this, but seeing as a lot of the promo content for Halo 5 built up this big mystery for the game, I’m thinking this could just be it.
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> Hello there Spartans,
> So last night I was playing some Arena and went to the rec store to check what I could get. To my surprise, something seemed different about the store I saw.
> I managed to grab a screenshot on my phone. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr3R7hrWgAIJAGW.jpg:large
> Anyone looking at the image may be able to spot something off immediately, first off, the multi gold pack offers were not shown, at all. And second, there was no way to buy packs using real money, any attempt to buy one I couldn’t afford would just make the required around flash red. At first, I thought this was something they added, so I took a snapshot and posted it to Twitter to see if anyone else had seen it. Shortly after taking the image, I reloaded the store to see if this was really a thing, and to my dismay, no, the offers and real world payment options were back. But the fact that I saw the store in this state really had me curious. Was this simply a glitch? Was this someone at 343 trying to tell us something? There may not be a real reason for this, but it is something odd I found. Maybe this is what the devs meant with the whole “Hunt the truth” tagline.
I really wish I could turn off the gold pack bundles I am never going to buy them please leave me alone ;_;
A lot of people don’t like the micro-transactions, me included, which is why the screen I saw still keeps me fascinated. Maybe 343 know that the fans don’t want them and are quietly testing the community, to see if they really do not want them, to see how far we are willing to dig to get what we want. This is all speculation, but it’s something interesting to talk about.