I use part of that when condemning these suits they sell. It’s generally 20 bucks so 3rd the price of HALF a game.
Halo is dead, Long live the microtransaction store
Just wanted to chime in. My biggest grievance is this: We were told leading up to the months before release that there would be no Fear Of Missing Out. Yet there is, the entire store is set up around FOMO. Aside from data miners doing the lord’s work we have no idea what our customization options are, we can’t see everything that is available, so if you do care about your armor’s appearance (which you know has been a free option in every game preceding this) then you are stuck debating if the new kinda cool option in the store is worth purchasing because you don’t know if something you like better will come around later.
Please 343i, don’t become the new EA. Take notes from one of their greatest failure and follow Anthem’s Customization and Challenge System. Let us see what our options are all at once, have permanent enduring challenges that unlock armor pieces and material options for customization, still have weekly rotation challenges that can unlock in game currency to keep player population up, make it a grind so it doesn’t hurt your sales too much. We liked Halo 5’s commendation system because usually once we finished a tiered commendation we had something to show for it that we earned. Earning armor or weapon skins through lengthy challenges means a lot more than “oh he just spent 10 dollars on that in the store”.
I’ve been following this franchise since my dad brought home our first xbox 18 years ago. It is THE flagship and my favorite game series of all time. There’s been a lot of great stuff in this game so far, but the shadow of all these questionable decisions looms over what could be the best game in the franchise. I don’t see many people coming back to the next game if these decisions keep being made as they have been.
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The chipotle challenge swaps still make me cringe. I knew plenty of people that did it too
None of them are playing infinite anymore.
Or just charge 60$ for the full halo experience. Catering to fans of games with battle passes did not fly for true halo fans.
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Meh. It flew ok for some of us.
Although the excruciating wait for Season 3 is making everyone miserable.
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Nearly a year later, and this is still relevant. There have been near zero changes to the system, and the Limited Time events / “Vaulted” Cosmetics were a huge sore to players. The Winter “30 Tier” Battle Pass is a new FOMO event running limited time with sought after cosmetics. Pay 60$ or suffer excruciating grind, only 100days to do it!
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https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-infinite-winter-update-launch
“The Winter Update brings with it a new Battle Pass that is completely free for all players and will never expire.”
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Even if it was a timed event, which it isn’t - the grind is hardly excruciating. Someone even posted that they nailed it in a couple of hours.
You may have to find something else to be bitter about.
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Plenty else to be bitter about. Like the fact all the stuff in the winter pass shouldve been in the game on release.
No word on firefight or assassinations…multi team. Infection. Grifball. Etc etc.
Mw2 babyyy
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The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different armor pieces through increasingly asinine challenges.
As for cost, we selected initial values based on what the execs and AI algorithm told us to so we could adjust them for maximum Fun and Enjoyment potential for the average enjoyment rate of the Humans who play this video game.
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To provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment lol isn’t that what Star Wars battlefront 2 told there fans before it all went to h e ll for EA? The blowback on the internet was so bad Disney had to step in.