We need to put a stop to this crap. The integrity of Halo is being completely destroyed by these microtransactions. Raising our voices only goes so far. The amount of people I have seen with fiery shoulders already boggles my mind. Why are you guys supporting this terrible practice? The BP is one thing, but cosmetics have been such a core part of Halo since Halo 3, it defines your Spartan.
This is entirely a corporate move. Did anyone actually ask for F2P MP? I would rather pay full price for campaign and MP than to see the integrity of our game collapse over corporate greed. At the end of the day, if you want all cosmetics (like what was once available to unlock in Reach), youâre going to have to shill out more than $60 or $70. Weâre a money farm to these businessmen and we have to say enough is enough. Itâs going to take all of us collectively to put our foot down. We canât just voice our opinions then turn around and support these anti-consumer practices by buying a cosmetic. They werenât even willing to include any virtual currency in the BP like every other battle pass out there.
I understand that they want to make this a games as a service, I understand to do that itâs going to require consistent cash flow, but there must be a better way than selling a helmet attachment and the color brown for 5$. The armor coatings Iâve seen so far are laughable and that system needs to go entirely.
This is truly a disgrace to the Halo franchise, I hope you guys are willing to take a stand and hopefully we can actually make a difference. I am so sick of the corporatization of video games and pushback has to effectively start somewhere.
Iâm not sure why this post was flagged or banned. Itâs an open discussion about the problems facing Halo in general. My criticisms come from a place of passion and earnest longing for a quality release not riddled with anti-consumer practices.
343i is going to milk Halo for everything they can as their license with Bungie is approaching its expiration date.
On a relatively similar topic, if and when 343 loses the license, who do you think would be a good replacement to take up the mantle of Halo?
I personally think Ubisoft would make a good company to repair the carnage that 343 has caused. But thatâs just me.
Edit: I forgot about Rule 32 of the internet, and believed a rumor on the internet. Ignore my licensing comment. But letâs keep on going with the âWhat Ifâ.
343 license with bungie? Expiration date? What you even talking about?
Microsoft bought the IP from bungie and microsoft owns it, 343 was the studio created to handle the Halo franchise and it will keep being it unless Microsoft decides otherwise. Theres no expiration date.
Besides, buggysoft is literally one of the many worst candidates to handle halo and they would probably go full corpo and make the game even worse by selling us a way more unfinished product plagged with microtransactions
I paid $10 for reach battle pass. Yeah if it was free it would have been cool but they have to make money off their free game somehow. Iâm glad that you can only buy cosmetics, as long as itâs not âpay to winâ then I think they arenât doing anything wrong.
They said they wanted infinite to be a spiritual reboot of halo ce, ce only had one armor set, so I guess they were true to their word no?
I am also okay with the battle pass, however, they have already added more cosmetics for absurd prices on top of the battle pass. Itâs too much this early on. I think weapon and vehicle skins should be the basis for cosmetic microtransactions, maybe exotic armor coatings. Not everything. Armor should be strictly unlockable.
I agree 100%, I would much prefer a full, complete product that costs 60 dollars at launch, what we have now is content thatâs going to be drip fed to us over the span of years, on top of that we also now have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for things that were previously just available in game, like armor sets, colors, emblems.
I like this gameâs gameplay more than any other 343 developed Halo game, but literally everything else is worse, and most of it seems to be the fault of greed and a seasonal content model.
Im not sure theres a âgoodâ company left anymore. F2P, Battle passes, micro transactions, cosmetics, all these are just the modern trends for gaming specially for MP games, everyone will do it no matter what, unless they deliver a single player game which is not the case here.
Anyways adding to the microtransactions issue. Im at the point where i just dont care anymore. No matter we do this modern trend wont die out unless people stops buying them. I get the point of being a F2P game, however I HATE the way the current battle pass is designed to be extremely predatory, forces you to spend real money in something you like and want because the game offers no way to obtain them for free. There are popular F2P games out there rn that do cosmetics and microtransactions way betterthan halo infinite is doing rn.
Not even halo 5 was this bad. yeah it required a grind but you could at least get currency by playing some games.
I miss the old system from Halo 4 before it went to MCC. It was more equal opportunity and albeit grindy, the grind was very worth it in the end. Now, itâs, every kid who has access to a credit card can buy whatever they want, and the rest of us have to suffer. I had no problem grinding for armor pieces. Back in the old Reach days, I spent an entire weekend playing SWAT and made almost 600k credits to spend on Armor. Now itâs just P2W. If I wanted P2W Iâd play a mobile game.
Well yeah I agree to say there should be some free content, one of each cosmetic at least. So people can get their feet wet and even see if they want to pay for more or not.
I was aiming for the Golden visor. I was pet sitting for a friend and got permission to use their WiFi to pass the time at night. It was also one of those Double XP weekends, so I just got really lucky on the timing. But hey, Iâd play SWAT regardless. No shields and headshots. Whatâs not to like on that? IF Infinite has a SWAT mode, youâll likely find me playing that.
Thereâs a thing I follow. Where you play on your strengths as opposed to your weaknesses.
But OG Reach Infection was great too. Before Bungie patched some of the âGlitchâ spots.
This is going to be hard to swallow, but they donât need the communityâs permission to do anything they want with the game.
Even though I agree to an extent gaming, in general, is being ruined becase of shops. I get that companies need to make a profit to support the company and game, but there is a fine line between making a profit, and cash-grabbing. The cash-grabbing is the actual problem.
Take Bungie making Halo. Now correct my if Iâm wrong but didnât they make the franchise 5 billion without a shop?
