I’m not complaining about more people getting access to Halo, but does anyone else find it odd that Infinite’s multiplayer is being marketed as free-to-play during a time of Microsoft otherwise consistently pushing for players to buy Game Pass Ultimate? I know the game is releasing on Steam, which is an absolutely massive platform in and of itself, but it just seems like a contradiction to the “experience the best Xbox has to offer with Game Pass” ideology. It’s definitely Microsoft’s response to the CoD Warzone tactic, but I feel like there’s a disconnect when their strategy thus far has been entirely built on selling Game Pass.
On the contrary, I feel like it will be used as a marketing tactic for Game Pass. “Hey, thanks for playing Infinite’s multiplayer for free. Join Game Pass and you can play the campaign plus 100s of other games.”
It’s funny also because we still need Gold to play multiplayer in Free to Play games on Xbox, unlike Playstation where PS Plus isn’t required for multiplayer in Free to Play games. If someone is paying for Gold, I can rarely see them not converting their Gold membership to Ultimate and get Game Pass + Gold. Sure, it’s a great thing for PC players, but not so much for their loyal Xbox players. They should remove the Gold requirement for Free to Play games, or better yet, remove Gold altogether. There were some rumours a few months back regarding this, especially after they removed 1 year Gold option from Xbox Live. Now you only have 1 month or 3 month options for Gold on Xbox Live.
The campaign is not free to play, you get the campaign with gamepass. Multiplayer is free to play. Did I miss something?
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> On the contrary, I feel like it will be used as a marketing tactic for Game Pass. “Hey, thanks for playing Infinite’s multiplayer for free. Join Game Pass and you can play the campaign plus 100s of other games.”
Fair point! There’s a large amount of players who only play Halo for the multiplayer, though, so I’m not sure if that strategy is gonna pay off for them in the long run. 
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> It’s funny also because we still need Gold to play multiplayer in Free to Play games on Xbox, unlike Playstation where PS Plus isn’t required for multiplayer in Free to Play games. If someone is paying for Gold, I can rarely see them not converting their Gold membership to Ultimate and get Game Pass + Gold. Sure, it’s a great thing for PC players, but not so much for their loyal Xbox players. They should remove the Gold requirement for Free to Play games, or better yet, remove Gold altogether. There were some rumours a few months back regarding this, especially after they removed 1 year Gold option from Xbox Live. Now you only have 1 month or 3 month options for Gold on Xbox Live.
Exactly! It just seems so pointless when most people would upgrade their Gold to Ultimate anyway. I hope they remove it too, in all honesty. Now that the Xbox brand is taking a more ‘consumer-friendly’ approach, anything’s possible.
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> The campaign is not free to play, you get the campaign with gamepass. Multiplayer is free to play. Did I miss something?
Not at all. There’s just a decent chunk of players who don’t care about the campaign.
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> > The campaign is not free to play, you get the campaign with gamepass. Multiplayer is free to play. Did I miss something?
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> Not at all. There’s just a decent chunk of players who don’t care about the campaign.
I don’t know if I’d go that far. I feel as if campaign is one of the main selling points for Halo. Story is such a huge element of Halo.
I think the F2P move is a way of getting more people on board to the franchise and potentially even game pass too.
With Halo being the flagship title for Xbox I imagine they’d want everyone on board
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> I don’t know if I’d go that far. I feel as if campaign is one of the main selling points for Halo. Story is such a huge element of Halo.
I agree! I love the story, just like many others do. But there’s still a good number of players who focus almost entirely on multiplayer. I don’t have any stats to back it up, unless if you count a few semi-viral Tweets evidence. My guess is that it’s about a 67% - 33% split (the former being people who play a mixture of both, or exclusively campaign).