what can you sell in Halo that players agree and want to buy?
Well, you can sell stuff like the cat ears, kill effects, assassinations (if they come back) etc.
But colors for your armor and the classic halo style armors themselves should be tied to ingame challenges and be earnable by playing the game.
Then again, you could bring in new armors in different styles like they did with MCC, which can be used for events and/or sold in the store
And yes bring in some story dlc for the campaign, adding new Biomes to Zeta Halo to explore, new stuff to find and new adventures to tackle on, I’ll buy that for sure
I would like to buy a tier level armour customization so i can get creative with my own armour give the player different tiers of customisation and have like an armour mode just like forge mode but with armor and we can pay for the different levels in teir customization to be creative !this is a win win for devs and consumers as we get the customization and devs get their targets met interm of profits
There is nothing that a company can sell that everyone would agree with. No matter what they sell there will be some people complaining. It doesn’t matter much to me what they sell. My main complaint is we get A LOT less for our money now a days, and worse part is quality has gone down a lot as well. Guess the good news is I don’t see myself spending any more money on gaming anytime soon.
Before answering your question 343 needs to rebuild the current store system and allow players to buy any released items at anytime. Similar to how CoD does.
Now to the question, the short answer is armor, armor/weapon/vehicle coatings, and assassinations.
Where Infinite failed is by not having many unlockable in-game options. There should be no less than twenty unlockable armors/coatings available in game via campaign, multiplayer, progression, and achievements. Each battle pass should offer no less than five free armor/coatings with each season or special event. Anything thereafter can be monetized.
For multiplayer, Infinite could have added assassinations. Yes, these do break gameplay flow and don’t really feel “classic.” But, there cool. Adding different assassinations via in-game store wouldn’t be a horrible idea.
The important part is to make sure players have free unlockables from day one. Something they can earn and be rewarded with. It’s a fine balance between “earned reward” and “in-store” content. Find this balance and you’ll have success.
I would say the stuff they are currently doing now is fine MINUS colours for armour. The fact that they charged like $7 for red or whatever is just stupid beyond stupid!! Now if they want to charge colors for vehicles, I’m fine with that, but not for your Spartan.
They could also always give the option to make it so you could “earn” x item through in game currency like how other games have done it. Obviously those prices would be really high or If the player doesn’t want to grind for x item they can pay x amount for it. I have no problem with that type of system at all. Seems like a win-win for everyone.
This said, I REALLY do feel like there should be some armours, helmets etc that can ONLY be earned threw doing crazy things in game like what Halo 3 had. I thought that was a phenomenal system!! Now this also said, I don’t feel there ever should be any type of cosmetic that can only be obtained through buying it.
I’m quite convinced if Halo Infinite used What I just proposed in this message, there would be a lot more happier people… But hardly anyone would still be playing the game because the game is still so broken on many levels and still missing mass amounts of features unfortunately
Every successive generation of games does not need to provide more revenue streams.
I know that greed seems to function this way in our economy, but a product can be successful without being squeezed for every penny its worth.
There is also value to having a product that people see as complete and good, and to having a good relationship with customers.
Look at the LOTR movies. Which would you call “better?” the trilogy, or the hobbit? Now which do you think made more money at the box office?
Maybe just making Halo games and selling them for a lump price can just be what it is? Imagine the respect Halo would have if they had avoided mtx entirely, never gone trend chasing, and just kept making phenomenal single player content? It would still be the flagship for the xbox.
I’d happily have spent over $60 on Infinite if it was a complete package. Instead I got it on game pass, bought the first $10 battle pass then walked away. They might be squeezing $20 armor kits out of some folks, but they are losing a lot of customers like myself.
They already did monetize a bunch of this game… Where have you been?? I also didn’t say monetize the whole game If that’s what you think I was implying. Maybe you should go back and reread my post.
I know that already, but if in increases I won’t be sticking around. Now if you like to buy stuff at the store go for it, but I wont spend a penny till that fix the game PERIOD! Why would you spend money in what "Bonnie Ross stated → “We will never release another half baked game again!” Not My Words!
Well if they increase monetization, I don’t think anyone would be. Heck, people aren’t now Because of all the other issues this game has.
I don’t like spending money on any of that kind of stuff and I never have, in any game, ever! But the OP asked what can be monetized in Halo and I was making my suggestions. I don’t care if people want to spend money on cosmetic garbage. I don’t need to have my character look all decked out to enjoy the game. I don’t know how you’re interpreting me saying what I said as I would spend money on this game… At least that’s how you’re coming off to me anyways. If you didn’t mean that, then you worded your message very poorly that first time, no offense.
Where as you just said you would spend money on that stuff if the game worked well. So back to @cam8528 question, what can be monetized in Halo. If the game works perfectly, it sounds like you would, so what’s your suggestion?
Finishes/patterns can be monetized with at least 3 being free. Let people chose their colors per armor piece for free. Modders can already do this effortlessly. And give us full color customization for free. Forza can do it, so can Halo. No idea why they have to be so anti-consumer.
Honestly, Infinite should be dropped and they should start again without using Halo 4 and 5 as the gameplay foundation.
I like your overall Idea but Halo 4 and 5 were when Halo started moving downhill, so maybe Halo 3s gameplay with Halo Infinite’s graphics and MCC’s shop. Problem solved.
They should rework the shop to be similar to the shop in Rainbow Six Siege.
Let us grind for goods or spend money for goods to get them faster.
Keep all bundles available at all times.
FOMO should be made illegal.
I always thought about this idea. I felt like this was the lowest version of a fair balance of rewarded hard work and pay to look good. Its a starting position to be expanded upon. By that still leaves the question on what should be sold that players would ever buy in the shop for 343i to make money?
Since its obviously a vast majority of the community would rather work hard. What could there be for players that would want to buy?
Sell us the Fractures Armor Cores rather than have them be an event that only 20% of the playerbase enjoys.
You have the regular battle-pass with a premium track that gets released each season.
Add in a Fractures Pass that you can buy regardless of which season it is, allowing for two Battle Passes to be sold each season.
Also, get rid of the FOMO that a Battlepass has. Just because you skipped out on a season doesn’t meant that its contents should be forever locked away.
What happens when Halo Infinite is finally updated to be a better game and the player-counts rise back up? What happens to all the players who left the game and then make their return? Should they not have access to the cosmetics provided in like 3 or 4 seasons of Battle Passes?
Nay I say.
Make all the Battle Passes permanently available for purchase.
This ensures that every battlepass premium is available post-season.
The visual effects that you could equip back in Halo Reach would be great add ons if you ask me. There’s lots of content being released. I find the community is just truly unappreciative with what there is.
I always felt the outlines and the coloured shields always get in the way of seeing anybody’s customization. I’m always shooting at a yellow blob or a yellow outline of a person.
So it defeats the purpose of the customization except from the lobbies and carnage reports.
Why they couldnt do a modified campaign where the chief is giving you orders to fulfill missions for him, and you get to use your multiplayer spartan is beyond me.
Too much following trends, not enough original ideas.
Everything can be monetised. Whether or not it will be accepted by playerbase is different matter.
Waiting in a queue for a match, you could be served ads. Premium players get to skip ads, or have them more personalised ads (woo) based on your Microsoft Cortana search history.
Sponsored cosmetics. You have XYZ health insurance, you get a nice XYZ Halo skin too, with nice perks. Some proceeds go to Microsoft.
Let’s just introduce a perks/progression system, but make it gacha ticket based. So players can keep buying gacha to unlock cool weapons and actually have a nice advantage on the battlefield with +10 crit points on that Sniper rifle.
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Here is my list
Weapon skins, vehicle skins, armor effects, AI, announcers, assassinations, stances, intro animations, death effects (get rid of the kill effects), weapon and vehicle charms.
I honestly don’t have any real issues with what 343 is selling right now, my issues are with how they are selling it.
I also didn’t say monetize the whole game If that’s what you think I was implying. Maybe you should go back and reread my post.