Is this an actual thing? I keep seeing topics like this pop up, but is 343 seriously considering monetizing forge too?
Nope.
Just pessimists thinking that the worst is all that can happen.
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yo how many black holes with tidal disruption events can u place in game tho?
if its only like 2âŚ
jk lol
employee 343 appeared in the chat 
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Just optimists that have been slapped by 343 numerous times. I was sipping hopium and copium for a long time for Infinite. Boy did that age well. At a certain point you have to be realistic and realize 343 is not making decisions that are of best player interest, rather than increasing monetization.
Iâm an optimistic pragmatist.
I choose to have hope for the better possibilities while keeping my expectations a bit low when they need to be.
Given 343âs track record, I wasnât expecting much for Halo Infinite. They at least did better than I had expected in some areas while they are of course lacking in others.
Youâre sadly mistaken to think everyone will. Some of us have moral standards.
The cost vs the profit that they would make for cutting out things that are normally given to work with that will be sold is unreasonable, that will take place if it happens. The shop alone is a prime example of how much 343 is âwilling to work with the communityâ.
Infinite isnât even close to being a complete game, but it sure as hell has a lot of issues, an over priced shop, and a broken SP that is being used for padded playtime because of the major lack of content, and 343 is planning on using the player base to do their job.
Yeah, charging players for forge is logical 
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This could be put to rest, but I cant find a single statement from a 343 employee saying Forge will be free or mtx
No mention.
So I have to assume that its mtx from their silence.
I donât believe anyone should but at the same time if my purchase allows me to fully play this thing offline then Iâll bite. People need to understand that creating stuff in Forge only to not be able to access it down the line when the servers are taken down, well itâs just a massive waste of time and the very reason I didnât bother with Halo 5 Forge. We lose all our work
I think Forge with various purchasable sets could work but a free base model that absolutely must be offline playable this time. The whole thing must be as well including sets. I personally get why people would not be happy with paying frankly but itâs unlikely given how 343 has been doing things this time
Give me the chance this time to own this mode and all my content or donât bother at all because I wont be
If this thing still has an online requirement then they can -Yoink!- themselves
Give it some time. Youâre hanging with the right crowd.
Theyâll make a decision so bad itâll give ME confidence.
A campaign without a working co-op at launchâŚ
Poor offline disc users who purchased a physical release and can never play split screen unless connecting to the internet first.
why even bother with forge for a almost dead game ? and no, it wont boost the polulation like crazy.
If I have to pay for Forge . . . Iâm Done. Iâll just continue the play Halo MCC and run and play on my Battlefield 2042 server.
Peace! 
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we all want to see spaghettification
Because they might sell it with a season pass and the player count will go up from both?
And since forgers will literally spend an entire day level designing, the player counts will stay up.
Im pretty positive forge will be monetized since the easiest thing 343 could say is âwe know we screwed up, etc, but the free forge we have coming is awesomeâ
They arent saying anything like that.
And no mention of custom game browser either, so thats another possibility for an mtx charge
Bet.
stupid 20 characters.
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Considering how bad Infinite flopped, I wouldnât put it past them. Theyâre considering monetizing MCC, why should Infinites Forge be any different?
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100% agreed. Infinite is a fundamentally bad game, from design, to code. The game doesnât work as intended in SEVERAL fields one of which is Custom Games which if Custom Games doesnât work properly then Forge is useless.
Excellent point, actually. If they havenât gotten some form of CGB working internally ahead of the Forge open beta, theyâre gonna be pretty screwed when the mode launches in full. Or just screwed in general. As a matter of fact, theyâre screwed no matter what way you look at itâŚ
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No. And at this point they should pay me just for sticking around.
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