We are in the middle of a major change in video gaming.
-Free To Play games are becoming higher and higher quality. Quality so good, you can’t use graphics/gameplay to differentiate F2P from Retail.
-Retail games are starting to add microtransactions. The one real difference between F2P games and $60 games.
So, why would someone buy a $60 game, only to have better looking/performing armor/weapons/skills cost them additional fees? When they can spend nothing and play a similar or even better game. Who is to confirm that developers don’t remove already developed content and sell it as DLC?
Microtransactions don’t belong in sixty dollar video games.
Free to play games are the games designed for microtransations. In most free to play games, cool armor/weapons/skills can only be unlocked for real money. This is normal since you aren’t paying a penny to play the game.
In a $60 retail game, microtransactions allowing you to buy armor pieces for real life money ruins the point of buying a $60 game over playing a free to play game(being able to unlock everything with XP/challenges is what separates F2P from retail games).
You could also argue we paid $60 for everything on the disk, but how do we know that the armor pieces weren’t removed from the final game or purposely left out to be sold now?
Yeah Microtransactions in a P2P game don’t work. I hope this doesn’t happen even if they’re just cosmetics.
Sure its the buyers choice if they want to buy them but because you’ve already paid the price for the game the only other thing you should be buying is DLC. (Like what Borderlands and Left 4 Dead does)
I don’t get it… it’s dlc. If you want it to change the look of your spartan then pay for it, if not you don’t have to because it gives you no advantages.
> I don’t get it… it’s dlc. If you want it to change the look of your spartan then pay for it, if not you don’t have to because it gives you no advantages.
The problem I have isn’t with Halo 4. They are just adding 3 armor sets months after the game has been released. It’s harmless.
The real problem is Halo 5. No doubt many people will buy the armor sets, and who knows if we will have Day 1 DLC/microtransactions in Halo 5.
Depending on the money the armor brings in(most likely a lot) they can change Halo 5’s unlock system majorly or entirely around microtransactions.
I don’t understand why anyone cares. If you don’t want it, you don’t have to buy it. They’re not forcing you to buy the armor and skins which have no impact on gameplay.
And if you want to blame somebody, blame MS. Sure, it would’ve been awesome if the stuff was free, but it’s not.This has been done since ODST, when you pay the preorder fee to get Johnson. It’s no different.
> I don’t understand why anyone cares. If you don’t want it, you don’t have to buy it. They’re not forcing you to buy the armor and skins which have no impact on gameplay.
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> And if you want to blame somebody, blame MS. Sure, it would’ve been awesome if the stuff was free, but it’s not.This has been done since ODST, when you pay the preorder fee to get Johnson. It’s no different.
As I just stated, Halo 5.
And no, a pre-order bonus is different from a microtransaction.
Pre-Order bonuses either
a. take away an already developed item from the game
b. require the developer to take time away from the actual game to develop an item just for pre-orders
Gears of war 3 had it and no one complained there… I don’t see the issue if its only weapon skins and one or two armour sets that need to be bought for Halo 4 or 5 what’s the harm? As long as its not all the armour sets.
Gawd please NO Mircotransactions in Halo. BANE of my gaming experience. I left Mass Effect 3 sooner than I wanted to, due to that.
$60 should mean NO MTAs. DLS yes, but not this constant MTA crap that leeches the money little by little from you until all the sudden you realize you’ve spent HUNDREDS on the game in MTAs…
“Gears of war 3 had it and no one complained there”.
Given that there were PLENTY of skins to buy at a ridiculous price each, I’m surprised you never heard any of the complaining. It’s a disgusting path for developers to take and I can’t ever support it.
Mass Effect 3 was different. What you could buy you could also earn, and earning it wasn’t hard, nor was buying it especially advantageous by comparison.
> “Gears of war 3 had it and no one complained there”.
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> Given that there were PLENTY of skins to buy at a ridiculous price each, I’m surprised you never heard any of the complaining. It’s a disgusting path for developers to take and I can’t ever support it.
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> Mass Effect 3 was different. What you could buy you could also earn, and earning it wasn’t hard, nor was buying it especially advantageous by comparison.
Yea, many games are different and some can handle microtransactions better than others.
I just don’t want to see them implemented into Halo 5 more deeply, as in Day 1 mta and being able to buy any armor/weapons/perks instantly or just simply better gear for real money.
The only thing I could see harming atleast Halo 4 would be the gametype being an MTA, while it is part of the bundle however, it is also available two weeks later.
I think 343i knows enough to not put something that changes the game into a MTA. Which is why its just a map pack and some skins and armor.
> Halo 5 should drop its price point and focus on regaining the rest of the money from microtransactions.
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> More people would buy the game if it was cheaper, and 343I would still make profit.
This is literally the worst idea I have ever read on this forum.
> The only thing I could see harming atleast Halo 4 would be the gametype being an MTA, while it is part of the bundle however, it is also available two weeks later.
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> I think 343i knows enough to not put something that changes the game into a MTA. Which is why its just a map pack and some skins and armor.
I remember seeing an article stating 343 was looking into adding MTAs. I knew it was going to end up with MTAs in Halo 4, and since most people see them as “harmless” they will buy them. We can expect even heavier MTA integration in Halo 5.
If harmless means possibly seeing armor or equipment that was developed within the games development time and budget being sold then… MTAs in every game!
Cost of games stays the same… Cost to make games increases.
Without micro transactions… You end up paying more then your $60.
I’m with you as far weapons or any kind of Game Changer that gives you an advantage over some one who didn’t buy it. That’s it
None of Halo’s MTA’s are like that… So as long as it keeps the cost of my games from increasing… Let the people that want to pay for skins, emblems and map packs pay so the rest of us don’t have to. Thank you, goodbye.