Especially considering this game was slated for release last year. Idk if that was pure MS lies to sell more of the XSX, or if there was a huuuuge miscalculation in 343i’s ability to finish the game. But calling this “Beta” when it’s the full release & having such large swathes of the game missing (forge, coop, non-campaign pve, progression system, service record) but with such a predatory mtx system really makes you wonder what they spent all that time on.
Anyways I don’t think it’s the consumers fault for accepting this, it’s a trend in gaming that’s been taking advantage of consumers for the last decade, beginning from the Minecraft beta’s runaway success proving a game doesn’t have to be “done” to make money. Once greedy corpos got wind of this quality in the industry has divebombed.