It’s a FTP game. What did you think they were going to monetize?
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Disagree. Customization is the best part of games, it was there in basic form since CE and progressed to having multiple species in 2, armour customisation in 3, and a full scale reward system in Reach. I have always enjoyed it.
I think i would call it a day at that stage, sounds like game over for me. It’s not the window tint that I want, it’s the ability to paint and modify my own cars, I enjoy that aspect of the game more than the driving. Just like I love changing my looks in Halo 3 with over 26000 possible colour combinations before I jump in a custom game, I love me some customization.
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And that is all fine and dandy.
But its 100% silly to pretend that is the core gameplay, or why people are playing. Especially for a FPS. (A car game is obviously a bit different since car culture runs deeper then just driving).
The maps, gunplay, abilities, etc. are the core reason people have always played FPS (and all of this is free). Cosmetics have always been secondary. With every halo game being very limited in customization (With 5 having the most, but being buried under loot boxes).
And this again, is fully knowing that a re-work to how shaders/colors work in Infinite is very likely going to happen.
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I would rather have paid for it but they could let players have full control of the colours and emblems and still sell…
Coating templates
Armour pieces
Weapon Skins
New paint colours/textures
Voices
Visors
Backpacks
Helmet,chest,leg etc. accessories
Vehicle skins
Assassinations
Name cards
Profile pictures
Death effects
And much much more…
Also stances are a waste of time, nobody wants to look at yours.
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Same argument can be made nobody wants to look at your emblem or colour. I mean in Infinite you can’t even tell what coating someone has on with that ugly outline system.
I want to look at my emblem and colours, I see them most often. You can’t tell what armour they have on either it’s like looking at a tutorial video for the entire game, here are your team mates and here are your enemies and then they forgot to make them stop glowing.
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Well I don’t know if your ratio is correct because a lot more women game now then way back in the day.
Sure buying nail polish might not be what anyone expected from 343 but if they want to branch out and try new areas of marketing, I say let them experiment, see what works, what doesn’t. That’s the wonders of marketing.
Besides I’m sure there are gamer’s that have wives who’d be intrigued about the nail polish and happily buy it and just give the code to their significant other.
Not to mention, this also draws in the punk goth crowd.
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Does the title and context ignore how basic economics work on purpose?
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No but you might be ignoring the elephant in the room. Here we are talking about an ad campaign that makes me want to avoid the game.
That a company can’t continue shelling out salaries as they had been for 6 years on a granted budget without a profit to support those payments?
Nah that’s on you.
And the completely optional monetization system you dislike as well, but ok let’s talk about the admittedly completely out-of-left-field but still completely optional and avoidable promotion that apparently makes you want to stop using a free to play source of entertainment you’re not even paying for or enjoying anyway.
That seems like the rational adult-like approach to dealing with this 
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It sounds like you’re still in school. Here, let’s nail this down from a chick’s perspective.
For one, it’s DEFINITELY not 1000/1. At all, haha.
For two, hey, you know what this is great for? People with girlfriends. “I can get a cool armor coating, my girlfriend gets nail polish, two for one we both win” - but really, only others with a significant other would understand that.
For three, you know, it’s not limited to girlfriends. Lots of guys use nailpolish too. Pretty cool to get an armor coating alongside nail polish you’d use!
For four, oh man, what about the -Yoink!- players, like me? My girl and I both play Halo and both use nail polish on occasion.
For five… What about people with moms? Thoughtful gift that does something for both of you.
Nail polish tie in is honestly pretty genius, satisfies two markets and those markets have way, way more overlap than you’d think.
But again these types of things really, really aren’t confusing if you like, know women at all.
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Plenty of girls play Halo, maybe they just don’t speak much because of toxic people.
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Yeah generally we try to avoid the more public spaces 'cause when we get on 'em it can get rough. Especially if you’re trans, like me? You get all sorts of things like, “41%” and “Festering wound” and “Never a real woman” and “attack helicopter” and blah blah blah, really tiresome trite stuff we’ve heard for years and collectively gets more annoying than hurtful but the latter remains nonetheless.
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343 take notes https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/infinite-update-list-must-read/485974
What does it matter if girls play halo? How does that in any way prevent you from being able to enjoy the game? Do you seriously make no sense at all
There are much better ways to go about it. And plenty of glaring examples of F2P having been done right. Rocket League or Mech Warrior Online for example.
I would like to support it. It’s Halo. But saying that the game is hot garbage right now is an understatement.
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Wait a sec are you just going around complaining about nail polish?
Don’t you have manly things to do like drink bad beer, throw pigskin, fix cars, pick fights with guys and open doors for chicks, or, something?
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Your money does not support 343i.
Except for things like bonuses, stock options, performance incentives, job security, etc. etc. etc.
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I know Infinite’s got its fair share of problems, but don’t you think it’s time you changed your trousers?
This is the third time I’ve seen you go off about nail polish.
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Well I’ll admit I didn’t consider that part too thoroughly. See I can admit if I’m wrong.
But still, they did their job, they work for Microsoft, theyre not gonna wind up homeless all of a sudden and they’ve already been paid. And the game could be monetized so so much better but I dont need to talk about that it’s been done to death.