I think the prices are down right grubby, and such a dog act! You are segregating a community of gamers that can’t afford to drop $24AUD a week if they want Spartan customisation, especially since you are clearly lacking that in the free space, and for those who spent money on the battle pass.
So 343i, please respond!
I’m fairly sure 343i is out on vacation, but I do agree that the prices are absolutely laughable.
Because they don’t plan on changing the prices at all. They’re raking it in on whales right now. If and when that dries up, they’ll create “sales” for the rest of us plebs.
Until then, I would expect prices to remain irrational
Prices are fine. The main issue is they should allow us to earn credits in game, uncapped, but at a snails pace.
I think that It’s just not a priority right now. Gameplay issues first, price issues after. It’s a game after all and not a grocery store.
They are silent because people will be more accepting of that response (and misplaced hopes for change), over the truth that they are perfectly satisfied with player response (and their revenue).
I fear you’re totally right. Every game I join there are 1 or 2 people rocking things from the store. THOUSANDS of players are buying at these prices. At this point I don’t think Microsoft would even let 343 lower the prices. 
I don’t think they’re fine. It probably doesn’t cost much more than $10 to change the RGB values on the cortana AI color, but they charged us $10 to get it. That’s not cool in my book.
People are complaining on about a dozen other things too. Looks like they chose to focus on complaints about playlists first so we got some new playlists
No, the prices are atleast double if not more than what they should be. $10 for a charm, emblem background, and the color blue is not okay. Neither was the $15 Daisy pack with like 3-4 items that they made to sucker in old fans of the character. Predatory storefronts should never be defended.
And thank god for that. The game feels infinitely (pun intended) better already with the added playlist variety
Hey now! I have you know that color blue took one coder five whole minutes of changing values to get to look right. How dare you say it’s not worth $10.
Yeah maybe not so much colours. Individual coatings should be 50-100 credits each. Plain RGB should all be free from the start
People don’t understand how this works lol, they charge high prices, like 5-10% actually buy it, then in a few months they reduce the price. I expect them to do sales every once in a while, so if you still wish to purchase stuff but think its too high I’d wait for those.
I’m not saying they should be defended, no matter what the prices will always remain the same. Logically from a business perspective this makes sense. We all knew once they said Infinite would be F2P we would see these high prices, as is the same with every other F2P game.If they allowed us to actually earn credits by playing the game, I would feel more inclined to spend $. Rockstar is one of the few companies that got monetization right. In those games, buying their currency was meant to be a shortcut to unlocking new things, not the only way.
I spent more money in Halo 5 than I will in Infinite, because I could earn currency by actually playing the game. And I hated Halo 5 lol
mian reason its a week before Christmas and we proably wont hear anything until after
2: its proably a bigger issue for in-house reasons then anything
3: they proably want it finalized first before saying anything which I can agree kinda needs to happen first
Yep. That’s how F2P works.
They’ve been silent because their pricing isn’t justifiable but they don’t want to change it so the hope is if they just say nothing enough people will just accept it or get tired of raising it as an issue when they see that 343 won’t respond.
Really there seem to be two justifications people are using:
“Game X charges even more”, that’s not really a solid argument, by the same logic you could say “There is nothing wrong with being kicked in the balls. It could be worse someone could break both your arms.” the problem is if that were valid you could use it to justify literally anything you could do “Yes I murdered 500 people but someone once killed thousands so it’s ok.” It’s a nonsense argument and if I asked anyone making that argument if they would be happy for me to say steal their savings because it could be worse the Sun could explode I bet they wouldn’t want me to take their money.
"But it’s free and they have to make their money somehow. Ok, but, they chose to release it for free and the campaign is still a full price title that apparently had as much as 2/3 of the content cut despite also getting an extra year of development. There’s also the fact that their ‘bestseller’ credit bundle costs more than a AAA game, so if that’s a bestseller surely they are already making more profit? They’re getting full price for the campaign and they’re selling credit bundles for more than the price of an entire game and Microsoft claims to make billions in profit from the Halo series so clearly they don’t need such aggressive monetization.
Ultimately Microsoft is a business so really the question people defending the micro-transactions should answer one question, do you want every business you deal with to aim to make sufficient profit or to make as much profit from you as they believe they can get away with? Ultimately it is consumer choice but if you want to pay well over cost price for everything you buy and every service you use then please just don’t assume everyone else wants to.
Well, a Lamborghini costs more than anything I buy, so I’m okay with getting ripped off. As long as something else is more expensive it’s okay.
Well, a Lamborghini costs more than anything I buy, so I’m okay with getting ripped off. As long as something else is more expensive it’s okay.
Yes the “something else is worse so that means everything else must be fine” argument isn’t particularly compelling.