I don’t have an issue with the battle pass I think the battle pass is fine it’s $10 it gives you a lot of things to unlock the only problem I have with the battle pass is some of those items are very basic and not unique enough while other items in it are very unique and really cool for instance Carter’s armor kit or Kat’s and Emile’s armor kits those items are unique and definitely need to be in the battle pass however the mark Vll helmet does not need to be in there the fact that that helmet is at rank 98 in the battle pass is ridiculous that should be a helmet you get from day one of playing the game you get the armor why do you not get the helmet it’s a bit of a bizarre choice but the battle pass is not what everyone’s irritated with it’s definitely not what I’m irritated with I think it does need more unique items however like for instance is the cat eared helmet that will be coming out sometime that should be in the battle pass replacing the Mark 7 one I think but the fact that there is a purchasable item in the store that is $20 and it gives you the color white a helmet and another item that I completely forgot about is outrageous that’s what people are getting irritated with not really the battle pass the battle pass just really shouldn’t be the only progression system in the game
or you do you and I do me what I do with my money is MY business not YOURS
You clearly don’t understand why they’re complaining in the first place if you think they’re complaining because they don’t have the money and that they wouldn’t be complaining if they did have the money. They are complaining because the cosmetics are outrageously overpriced their prices need to drop by 90 to 80% before they are ever going to be worth purchasing the battle pass is worth the $10 and here’s the reason why you get a hundred different items that’s $1 for every 10 items you see why that’s a decent deal but buying something from the store is not a good deal paying $20 for maybe three items is outrageous when those three items are the color white a helmet and I don’t know if it was an emblem or something else I don’t remember what it was but it’s just three things it’s not worth the money that’s why people are complaining and by the way I guarantee you a lot of those people probably aren’t minimum wagers
I honestly don’t mind the battle pass. It gives me something to aim towards. My issue is that there is documented accounts of them saying one thing and us getting the complete opposite. The fact basic items are being monetized at £15 for a small item on your character and the same emblem split into 3 is the joke. Add the fact that this battle pass does not provide any premium currency, there is no rank up system outside of the pass, no accolade based challenges, no ways to choose your playstyle, the padded gameplay, the stupid way that they seem to think that FOMO is the way forward, The stupidly low customization that comes from playing the game for free. Just before people defend that last point I will remind you Call of Duty Warzone is free and there is plenty of free items/free currency. Games like Warframe which were born on F2P and have way to make currency in it and a free Battle Pass every few months. There is no excuse here. Not just that but they are still charging the full £60 for the campaign so it’s not like they aren’t receiving a sizable fund.
Agreed, I refuse to play the game unless armor is unlocked through progression and not the battlepass.
The game 100% deserves to die
Wouldn’t go that far. I’ve waited a long time for another halo game. One that is way better than 5. Halo infinite needs improvement yes but the campaign isn’t even out yet and I’m looking forward to it
This comment I agree with, I don’t plan to buy everything in the store that’d be outrageously expensive, I just check in to see if there’s anything of my particular interest to purchase like the Spirit Visor for my Yoroi Armor set which contained the Armor coating I’ve been waiting for in the shop.
It needs fixing not death your thinking wah to negative here p
I have bought the battle pass and some armor and coatings.
I’m having a ton of fun in this game so it doesn’t bother me.
I would say that to blame a persons actions on a company is quite a stretch . Addiction is a real thing and I am not dismissing that it is , but I mean financial responsibility is a fairly common sense thing as far as buying extra cosmetics. I mean Halo didn’t start with a focus on cosmetics or unlocking new armor but I understand arena shooters are not the same as they used to be (thanks a lot COD) . But again I am not dissing you opinion I just think someone not being able to be financially responsible and blaming it on 343 is kind of a stretch ( assuming there is no preexisting addictive qualities which would be a different story for that person)
When they made multiplayer free, I knew that for the start there would be stuff behind the paywall. Fine, I get it. $10 for 3 months is fine with me. I knew I would have to pay money for ODST. Of course this was before I knew the progression and the over-bloat of splitting emblems across 4 categories, splitting shoulders apart, and all the challenge swaps and 2XP boosts.
However.
$20 for a single armor set.
$15 dollars for blue warthog and mongoose and 1 emblem split in 4.
$15 For a belt and 1 emblem also split.
$10 for a gun coating, charm, and 1 emblem (again split for bloat)
$7-8 for a single coating and a visor. Or helmet.
And free players get almost nothing.
Oh yeah, free players have access to the tenrai event too! But the problem with that is that out of the “30” tiers, the duplicates and the 2XP leave it to 9 actual total customization items. 16 are just challenge swaps/XP boosts! The last 5 is the emblem/shoulder splitting over-bloat.
I’m sorry but if you monetize a battle pass, every item that you sell that isn’t in that pass shouldn’t cost more than the pass itself. I don’t care how good a helmet looks, that one item costs more than all of the items in the pass in raw digital-value.
When the shop was out I thought it would be like
$8 for an armor set.
$5 for blue.
$3 for a helmet.
$1-2 for a XP boost/challenge swap pack.
That’s still too much for alot of people, but that is the MAX of what I would pay.
The game is definitely over bloated with splitting things up when they need to be just one and another thing that I think is genuinely a bit stupid the North American launch emblem the Latin American launch emblem and the other emblems like that those need to be free so people can rep their regions I think it’s a little bit ridiculous but those are not free and the fact that you have to pay 900 credits for it is outrageous like I know it gives all three of the emblems and a visor but that’s not worth $9 and no one really asked for the game to be free to play now don’t get me wrong it’s great because other people can play the game for free but give a proper progression system like every other Halo game you will be making loads of money from the campaign there’s no reason for them to lock every single piece behind a paywall
I’d like to add a solution that could help tremendously:
Remove limitations such as:
-inability to use coats across all cores
-inability to use helmets across all armor cores (typically all the helmets that can fit onto other core)
-inability to use visor colors across all cores
-inability to use armor pieces from kits/change the armor kits
People who buys the campaign gets:
-Forge (I am adding forge because it is a big part of Halo multiplayer and I personally wouldn’t mind if 343i locks it behind a paywall)
-Ability to create personalized armor coats
-Ability to grind/unlock all season content at no additional cost via progression or challenges.
A simple leveling system will literally help create incentive to grind for unlockable items that are not in the battlepass. The leveling system could be exactly like Halo Reach’s or you just unlock something each rank up.
Those who don’t pay:
-They don’t have forge
-They still level up but get limited in a certain way (they only get 10% of what buyers can earn for example, or every unlockable items are locked in a bundle or locked until the player buys the campaign)
Everyone have:
The ability to pay for armor pieces if they don’t want to grind for a unlockable item (they can purchase bundles instead)
Additions:
If players want to add some spices in their coating like Carbon fiber, chrome, gold, satin finish, camouflage, you name it, they can buy coating materials in the shop. Those who paid the full game, have the ability to buy materials individually while those who play for free only get access to bundles.
To be honest I’m quite heartened to find that I’ve very, very rarely seen any cool gear. I would say 95% of the people I’ve seen in my 250 odd games are just rocking the basic stuff. I saw those ugly -Yoink!- flaming shoulders today for the first time and yeah, my thought was “man, cant believe you paid for that”.
Definitely a solution they should absolutely try it would make the game significantly better and I agree with you I think forge should be part of the campaign purchase because that would make the $60 a bit more worth it especially with how you’re saying I think the free to play should be what you’re saying because it’ll get people to experience the game and then think hmm maybe I might want to spend that $60 to get the full experience.
I wouldn’t mind paying for cosmetics if the cosmetics themselves weren’t extremely limited in their usage. Quite literally, my only gripe is getting promised everything and then given nothing just to see what I will and won’t accept.
OP admits to baiting in order to grow discussion thread…to criticize dev for baiting in order to grow revenue numbers. 
“By encouraging fairly standard, non-toxic and non-predatory, game design we’ll only kill the franchise faster. We have to let go of competent game design and mindless give 343 our money.” That’s what you’re saying.
Heres the situation, 343 Industries has had two strikes in there span of halo. “Halo 4 and Halo 5.” Halo 4 Sold 9.75M copies, and Halo 5 9.5M copies. Compare this statistics to older halos, but not only that, compare it to the newer generation of gamers and technology. They lost alot of money with Halo 5 and Halo 4, alot more people today play games and they need to find a way to make there $$$ back. Its utter crap tho, people are giving in and pulling out there walets for pixels. STOP FEEDING INTO THE TRAP. This game needs to be fully shutdown and completely reworked when the story releases, because this game is a complete bust with its pure unbalanced gameplay especially not being able to disable crossplay. This entire game is a complete let down, and the graphics also lemme say this “I play on a series X” dont look anywhere near as good as Halo 5. This garbage was rushed, take it down and rework the game, otherwise its another F2P, open your wallet to have things like fortnite. So this goes in the trash section if you ask me.
Also if someone says im bad at the game, I got a 1.85 K.D in over 195 games, or more according to halo tracker. Im a competitive player, and this isn’t halo in my eyes.