To Drip Feed it down in singles, then bundles and then collections and then specials etc etc
It’s a hustle basically,
But I get it seeing as it is free to play.
Truly devs could give us custom made emblems and even custom sprays…but how do you control/profit?
I remember 20 years ago being able to custom paint the hood of my car in a playstation 1 driving game. Not just color you literally could draw your own emblem on the car…I think it was ridge racer lol. I put a wu tang symbol that took me some time to draw in the custom editor built into the game. And then color sprayed the car around it etc…this was at least 20 years ago!!!
Microsoft could literally allow us to design our own spartan…just can’t sell that but once!
Wait…they could go the save file route and sell custom spartan save slots!!!
Oh greed what would the world be without it?
Can’t sell customization…when true customization is provided.
points to Mechwarrior online They seemed to get it right (then again they give away small amounts of ‘credits’ for free too) And they’re using the Unreal engine…
Minus decals and bolt-ons, which are recent customizations all the rest have been there since the launch of the game… It’s pretty bad this old FTP game has MOAR customization than halo infinite which has been in development probably longer than MWO (Mechwarrio online) has been out I think
Sounds good so far. They can sell patterns all day long if the players can re-paint them with a bank of say 30 base colours plus any other textures/colours they have unlocked the game will always look fresh!
Halo 3 has over 26,000 colour combinations including almost 900 variations of black with accents. It’s just ludicrous to suggest they can ever come close to this amount of variety without completely bloating the shop. “Their vision” is to make fools and their money part ways…
Again I point to Mechwarrior online, which does much better for customization… has no single player at all, has no melee combat, but has collisions and collision damage… (I’ve been killed by somebody backing into me, i was heavily damaged but still)
I had to stop asking myself this question years ago, about so many franchises… The answer is greed. Rich guy who could probably totally wait for the game to receive some more love before release, he wants it published now, he wants his money right now regardless of the fact that a better game should be more profitable in theory. We’re just idiots for not having any morals. Ya can’t get a good boycott going. I haven’t purchased a single EA game since the early 2000’s and still waiting for everyone else to stick to their guns and finally boycott them good like we were supposed to…
I’mma check that out after I run through the rest of the few games worth playing (or that I havent already played) on my gamepass and cancel the subscription.
It was a cheap and lazy way to resell us the same.item.multiple.tikes and put in minimal effort.
First 343 took the concept of Armor cores and restircted customization on this.
Than they took 10 of the 60 default colors in Halo 5 gave us those for free and monetized the other ones.
Scarlet Wake is just basic red but they locked it to the New Halo armor core.
Than they took that same red, renamed it Scarlet Skies and locked it to the Reach armor. In separate bundles at the same price.
They were Able to make a profit off of the same color and just changed the name.
Now let’s move on to Emblems. These bundles are advertised as 6 or 11 items. When you open them you see 4 of the same.emblem but 343 figured oh let’s make them not universal so we can count it as a separate item entirely. Thus you get the same emblem but locked to a vehicle, a weapon, an armor and nameplate…
And thus we get to the lack of Universal customization. Sapposable they are looking into cross core customization. But as it currently sits 343 designed it to fully restrict any Universal customizations. Such as buying a color coating and it being universal to every Armore core, or every weapon, or every vehicle.
They specifically did this for the reason to resell to stuff from one core to another. 343 looks at data like what customizations do players wear alot on the reach core … now they take that data and repackage that attachment for the MK7 core and sell it to us.
This monetization system was done half -Yoink!- and sniped out in hopes that they just suck in money early on. Unfortunately people just submit and buy by the bulk so it won’t change or get better. We probably won’t get cross core customizations and people will have to re buy all the armor customizations for whatever new core releases all over again.
Nope they restricted customizations simply to make every single little thing a profit machine. And notice how they don’t make coating Universal.
That was on purpose so they can sell us the same color mtiple.times.
How many times did they sell us basic red AKA Scarlet wake, or Scarlet skies… They are the same. It locked to a core. So you can’t just buy Scarlet wake red and apply it.to.every core… Nope they had to get you a second time and third with the Yoroi
And guess what when the new Cores come out they will just rename and resell that same.basic red… They could resell us Basic red an infinite amount of times
obvious answer is obvious… shall we commence a boycot? nah, that’s too much cyberbullying. let’s just stay as the good consumers, and pay up 20 for a PNG texture wrapped around a 9k+ pollygon model
ya know, after paying for 3 bundles, i’ve payed the exact amount for Halo Reach, and i’d still feel like it’s lesser than Reach. even with the campaign
They gave us 10 of the 60 free default colors from Halo 5, now they are going to resell us the other 50 slowly over time and rearrange he the same colors and there you go that’s their coatings for the next 10 years.
And to top it off they won’t be universal and imagine how many times they can sell us the same iteration of orange or light blue by rearranging the location on the armor, vehicles, and weapons.
Unfortunately I think it’s because they needed to be able to fill a store and Battle Pass(es) with content, and it’s easier to individually package different color combinations / styles than unique armor each time.
