I’m tired of waiting for these tiny, duct-tape solutions to the larger problem at hand that you, 343i, have created yourself. You’re tip-toeing around the Challenge system because you recognize that Challenges are terrible and boring and want them to be this way in hopes of people buying Battle Pass levels. Why make progression fun, when instead you can tease people with Challenge Swap “rewards”, so that they may either buy levels to get a Challenge Swap, or simply buy every level in the Battle Pass.
Note for the people that will accuse me of being “entitled”: I recognize that Halo Infinite is free to play and appreciate that I haven’t had to spend anything on it to play it, however many other games are free to play and have appropriate, non-intrusive monetization methods that I have spent money on. Plus, I’d rather play a full price game with 0 monetization and great progression than a free to play one with terrible, greedy monetization.
On top of this, I’m not asking to be gifted XP or expecting to reach tier 100 in the Pass in a short amount of time, I’m simply asking for a better XP gaining method that makes the journey to tier 100 enjoyable.
CHALLENGES ARE NOT FUN
Remove Challenges entirely and replace them with a good XP system, like a decent sum of XP after EVERY match, not just for the 1st 6 matches in a day, and grant more XP for actually winning a match! I want to play the game the way I want to play it, I don’t want to have to go out of my way to play ranked, some other game mode there is no playlist for, or get kills with a certain weapon. I even suggested in a previous post that people get bonus XP for earning medals. I realize this has been touched upon as a “small, initial step towards ‘performance based XP’”, but I’m done with 343i beating around the bush.
REPLACE CHALLENGE SWAPS WITH CREDITS
So many games with Battle Passes offer the in-game currency used to purchase the Battle Pass in the very pass itself. This is great because it lets the player choose whether they want to purchase the next Battle Pass or buy an item in the shop. It is very obvious that Challenge Swaps exist to counter the terrible Challenge system itself, and I stated earlier that we can all see this was done purposefully as an obnoxious monetization method.
I wrote this post because I’m currently loving the gameplay and want to keep playing, but if the current forms of monetization in the game aren’t fixed, I won’t spend a single dollar on Infinite and will play something else that’s fun and has rewarding progression.
i get that this is ultimately 343i’s game and they can do whatever they want with it; they don’t owe me anything. But, if they want my time invested and money spent then they’ll have to better with their XP gain and progression.