Christ on a bike, trying to argue that a game is ‘free to play’ because you’re getting access to it as part of a paid subscription service is some next level stuff.
Also I’m fairly certain that Microsoft was a business with the aim of making money when they released CE, 2, 3, ODST, Wars, Reach, 4, MCC, 5, and Wars 2. Every single one of those gave you a full package of singleplayer and multiplayer features when you bought them (and certainly didn’t make it their mission to screw you for every single last penny possible) so why should Infinite suddenly be different just because you can play the multiplayer for free if you want?
I honestly cannot fathom how anyone can in good faith sit there and argue in defence of 343’s monetisation of Infinite. It’s madness, pure insanity. You’re literally white knighting a corporation that has decided to make it their mission to exploit you as far as they can get away with.
The only thing you can see when you play the game is your arms. What’s the point of beating the game on legendary to get a cosmetic that you only get to see in the menus, beginning or end of matches, or when you die!
This game has a 10 year life span. I’m sure they’ll make more campaigns and hopefully, like you said, reward armors to players that paid $60
Yes. Every single one of those games wasn’t free to play. Again, you are supporting my argument.
How do you think they’ll actually make money off of the game? How do you believe any F2P game actually makes money?
I’m not defending it, I am saying that the game is made to be a F2P title, and that if you want it to be like other Halo games you have to argue that it shouldn’t be F2P in the first place. There is no inbetween unfortunately.
Since as far as 2004 when bungie let you pick between elites and spartans, the games have been about customization. It only got worse with 343, whether it was armor style, progression, or monotization, or all of the above lmao, it goes worse. People like you are why big companies get away with such things
Let me give you some advice for the future. Asking realistic and practical things from companies will get you far more than asking them to completely change every single thing about their business. This would be like me going into McDonald’s and asking them for clothing options or going into Taco Bell expecting Asian food… You are wasting your time, and even if you somehow managed to convince every single man woman and child that the business should change, by doing so tons of people will look back and miss the old business.
I understand the hate, 343i/MS have went from making a $60 title with a ton of customization options already built in, to now offering a F2P title and a SP that will (probably) cost most people like 5 bucks, and customization is now all paid for content. It is perfectly fine to request Halo go back to being full games on release, but to just trash the customization system and ask them to give tons of free stuff out is extremely unproductive.
Let me explain this in detail. If 343i/MS went ahead and did what you (and many others) are requesting, they just decided to make everything Free, they would cease to update the game, and would just push everything to making Halo 7 in 3 years.
What is the problem with that? Why are you mad that you won’t unlock an armor for multiplayer in the campaign? You will boycott the campaign because of it? There will be tons of armors to unlock or buy in the multiplayer… I am piss poor in real life and I still manage to buy few stuff here in there in video game I enjoy and love the most, and I just don’t spend a buck on games I don’t invest myself in too much, simple as that. It’s not that expensive to buy the Battlepass… it’s less expensive then a freaking lunch at McDonald.
Yikes and here I thought charging $10 for the knife set was unacceptable. If this is how much armor customization had to be stripped away for the sake of multiplayer being free then being free is far to high of cost to pay.
What part of “the campaign costs 60 bucks” don’t you understand? And no, getting access to it as part of a paid subscription service does not count as “free”, we’ve been over that one already.
FTP MP has devalued the campaign in my head. Not sure it’s reasonable or rational but it has.
The prices are insane. I liked Reach so much because of the armor showing up in campaign and MP.
This was supposed to be the 343i redemption arc bros. I didn’t think they would be able to top the disappointment of Halo 5, but they have somehow.
I get Infinite is F2P, but what gets me is why some of you settle for less. Games like Destiny 2 have a similar coating system with their shaders and you can apply them to any part of your armor and gear AND they give you tons for free. Destiny 2 has a paid shop, yet it gives you plenty of routes to get cosmetics for free.
You can have a F2P system without being massively exploited.
It’s kinda funny, I would have been content if literally all 343 did was make it so that purchasing the campaign also gave you the basic premium version of the battle passes. That’s all they had to do and I genuinely would not complain about it.
Actually, they don’t want you to pay for the colors you used to wear for free. Because most possible color combinations aren’t available. They want you to pay for color combinations that aren’t you favorite, and to say thank you, despite spending on something suboptimal.
