I agree that enough people are buying to justify the current prices, but I think that they could make more money in the long run if they reduced prices.
For example, I will never buy from the store at this rate. But if they knocked prices down by %50 I could see myself buying some armour sets.
I think prices/bundles will definitely adjust with player spending habits. Itâs hard to say but in every game I play pretty much there are multiple players with lots of things from the store.
So I donât see it happening in the immediate future, but I do agree the pricing structure is off-putting to me as well. Iâll still buy a bundle Iâll like but Iâll definitely be more cautious about bundles due to the price. Cheap things I think would have got out of hand ha.
Definitely agree. If they dropped the prices by even 25% Iâd consider buying a bundle or two a season.
Anytime I look at a bundle that has multiple of the same emblem I treat it as 1 item as I feel emblems, coatings and skins should be universal across all armor cores, vehicles, weapons, etc.
For a weapon skin, armor coatings, emblem and nameplate Iâd would be okay with spending $8 CAD on if it wasnt locked to a core or weapon.
$4 for an armor coating
$2 for weapon skin
$1 for emblem
$1 for nameplate
I feel so sad for some people that definitely hit their head this morning⌠I mean, they are DEFENDING abusive prices.
Yes I would LOVE to buy cat ears for my spartan, a urban cammo pattern and weapon âattachmentsâ⌠but im not willing yo pay $10 - $20 for one thing. The colors, stickers are just filler.
Stop defending thisâŚI canât believe im even have to say this
No one is defending this⌠I see one person saying weâre wasting our time discussing it because change will only come from the consumer data, not stomping or feet in the forums, that is not defending anything.
Everyone here would prefer store prices to be lowered.
I made a post about this a week ago, a day or two before their live stream addressed it, and it will take time for change starting with these events.
I do, whole heartedly, agree that if the changes donât start shaping up in the next few weeks, then it will be obvious, they are ignoring the large majority of their player base. Welcome to modern gaming, I guess.
If you want a more in-depth opinion of my take on this check out my article âThe PAYWALL for ARMOR has to goâ.
My issue isnât the bundle price, itâs the fact I have to pay for a bunch of stuff I donât want in order to get 1 article that I want.
I donât want to spend 20 bucks on 5 items, 4 of which I donât want. But I WILL spend 5 bucks on something I DO want, if it was stand alone.
Also, I want cross coring. The fact that Meowlnir Ears are not cross core or at least the MK7 Helmets arenât cross core is the entire reason why Iâm not picking them up. GG 343, you just lost a customer before you even got them to the stage where they consider a purchase.
I wish I hadnât bought credits in advance. I feel swindledâŚ
its cheaper then ordering food through door dash⌠it last longer too
343 is just grabbing what they can at this point because they know as you do players will throw money at the shop.
The problem I have is their lying to the player base face and the CM telling half-truths. The thing is, they had no problem saying this is the new model for the game, and that alone should tell you (they donât give a flying hoot what any of you say.)
It canât get any more clear than that.
The people on these forums discussing it are consumers why do you think theyâre discussing it
The prices for even the daily bundle is way too hot the daily bundle should be a dollar at the most and the $20 bundles should be $5 as theyâre not offering a lot and with it being maybe a bigger bundle that gives more items $10 is the most maybe even 15 which is kind of pushing it but if they were these prices ranges there would be way more people buying them
The game isnât worth it.
You know how much I spent on this? $10 for one of the armor kits because I didnât want to spend several times that for legendary boosters in H5 to grind another minimum of - I think 1,662 MWZFF matches to level up another 20-30 some times for black and red armor.
Wouldnât it be nice if they allowed you to buy one thing at a time from the bundles at a much lower price.
Also I made a post on how this bundle says 11 items but itâs it 5 items, they are selling you the same coating and Emblem more than once and inflating the price saying oh you get 11 items when that sword emblem is just purposely locked to specific items to make it look like your getting more
Also if your purchase anything from the store it should be universal to everything. If I buy a coating it should automatically go on every vehicle weapon and Armor core.
343 makes you pay once to get -Yoink!- and than pay again and again and again to get it for everything.
specific Coatings emblems should only be for earned dsruff
We all would be interested in purchasing stuff from the store IF the prices werenât so insane and if the game wasnât designed so poorly. The Coatings in the âFire and Frostâ set are actually sick af, but first of all Iâm not spending $20 on something simple like Coatings, and secondly Iâm not spending $20 buying the same Coating multiple times.
Honestly, even if the weekly bundles were 100$ instead of 20, a lot of people would still buy them.
Tells quite a bit about disparity, tooâŚ
There is a point where the price hurts sells so much so that it actually hurts the revenue/profit. Not to mention there would probably just be certain members of 343i themselves that would argue over it internally (343i have hundreds of people, they bicker and moan all the time I imagine)
Theyâre probably just looking at everything via data and reevaluating things. Iâd argue most of the stuff from the store (them kitty ears are worth it 100% though) is just overpriced garbage that I wouldnât buy for $5 let alone 10-20 dollars, however I am not a whale. I am a dolphin or something at most.
Theyâd be worth it as a separate item that you can purchase for $2 at most, anything else is just ridiculous. And if you buy that bundle, then sorry but no, you ARE a whale.
Remember when Bungie thought loot boxes with repeatable loot that were dismantle-able for common materials was the way to unlock items?
I sure do.
Folkâs concept of time goes out the window when they reference Destiny in a positive light. It should be praised, but it had a rough road to slog through to get to that point.
Bungie didnât start getting microtransactions sorta right until only a few years ago. But on top of that, Destiny also has a multitude of profit avenues that donât specifically rely on cosmetic offerings. Right now Halo has the $60 campaign, a $10 battle pass, and its storefront.
Destiny had 2 games over the course of 7 years to figure this out and dropped the ball both times before it finally got it right both times. Haloâs been out for a little less than 2 months, things will hopefully sort themselves out like they did in Destiny, twice.