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[Draugoth]

Halo : Infinite has increased the price of Microtransactions in the game with the recent roll of Season 5,

343 Industries decided to increase the price of several Halo Infinite cosmetics, including items that were already available in the game, which generated criticism from the community and deserved an explanation from Brian Jarrard, the producer’s communications director.

Until recently, Halo Infinite cosmetics like helmets, armor pieces, and colors were locked to a Spartan armor core. 343 Industries decided to activate a “cross core” functionality for some parts, which motivated it to increase the prices of several cosmetics.

Since the piece can now be equipped on several cores and several of the characters you can create, 343 has increased prices and explains that this expansion of customization in Halo Infinite has led it to ask for more money, even for items that already existed in the game .

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• Halo Infinite launched with helmets and other armor pieces and colors being locked to a certain spartan armor "core."

• Cores are essentially the foundation for the look of your armor set.

• Years after launch, 343i has finally recently enabled "cross core" functionality for certain armor pieces such as helmets. This rollout is incredibly slow, and cross core shoulder pieces are on the way next.

The Community Director has explained that the reason for the price increase wa due to "multi-core funcionality"

With Season 5, many of the previously released liveries and all helmets in the game have been updated to work on all cores, and this content in the store has been adjusted to reflect these changes (and to have parity with Season 4 content). Ao At the same time, the team made proactive adjustments to content that included shoulders as it would be multi-core in a future update.

Jarrard explains that they did everything at once to avoid constantly changing prices and warns that content from previous seasons will have price adjustments with the arrival of more multi-core features.

If you’ve already purchased a helmet, shoulders or livery, you won’t have to pay again for the multi-core feature and Jarrard warns that some content listed as “on sale” may appear at the same price due to the base price being recently increased.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

they have a bump in players and rush to increse prices?...well, on brand i guess.

 

[R6Rider]

 

[MidGenRefresh]

 

[Krieger]

Microsoft to their customers right now:

 

[ReBurn]

Cosmetics?

 

[SEGAvangelist]

It mostly makes sense since the cost raise is for DLC that has been redesigned to work on things it couldn't work on in the past. Seems like a sort of recategorization for previously released and improved skins rather than a full on price raise like the title suggests.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

It's cosmetics, not milk or gas.

Who cares?

 

[diffusionx]

Great to see devs spending resources on this.

 

[Draugoth]

It mostly makes sense since the cost raise is for DLC that has been redesigned to work on things it couldn't work on in the past. Seems like a sort of recategorization for previously released and improved skins rather than a full on price raise like the title suggests.

Every Halo Player that i've see nagrees this should have been a base function at the base game when it released

 

[vaibhavpisal]

They should charge a million dollars for this.

 

[mitch1971]

When you are giving tons of games to players for a relatively small monthly price, then cosmetic prices for these games will feel even more over priced for what they are.

 

[Nonehxc]

Trans Grosso

 

[splattered]

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Every Halo Player that i've see nagrees this should have been a base function at the base game when it released

Oh, I agree too, but it's not like it's some price raise for everything. It's just putting the redesigned stuff in line with the previously priced stuff.

 

[skit_data]

 

[nemiroff]

 

[DenchDeckard]

 

[Kurotri]

Microsoft been smoking some of that crack for the past few days huh?

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

I played some Halo MP last night for the first time in awhile. Still fun and silky smooth with great gunplay. Would never waste a dollar on cosmetics though. All of these free shooters have laughably high cosmetic prices.

 

[Mr Moose]

When you are giving tons of games to players for a relatively small monthly price, then cosmetic prices for these games will feel even more over priced for what they are.

This is a free to play MP game that isn't on Game Pass.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

> Major acquisition closes
> Price increases

 

[Unknown?]

It's cosmetics, not milk or gas.

Who cares?

No one, they just drop the game.

 

[Three]

they have a bump in players and rush to increse prices?...well, on brand i guess.

It's already declining again so might as well make the most of it.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

They seem determined to ruin everything.
Just as they had a high with good player numbers and good reception to the newest season they just HAVE to do something to spoil it even if just a little. That ABK closure lol

The game is quite good now, but the desync is fucking infuriating and ultimately what keeps me from playing the game a ton.

 

[scoobidoo112]

Remember when every other Halo game before this allowed you to pick armor pieces and colors for free...

 

[analog_future]

Just as they're starting to build some good will/momentum again...


Stupid move.

 

[Ultra Donny]

 

[Ceadeus]

Why can't we live in a world where these people finally say : "yes, the reason is because we want more of your money and because we can. We know you are addicted so we profit."

 

[Zheph]

"nothingburger"

am I doing it right?

 

[Jigsaah]

69 billion dollars worth of head in ass.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Milk! Those! Whales!

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Why is everything going up except my salary? smh

 

[Big Baller]

Halo Inflation

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

 

[BlackTron]

Is this the worst MS news today? Not bad!

 

[justiceiro]

Holy shit, is there any price that have not been raised this past month in gaming?

 

[PontiusFeeb]

It’s almost as if the stupid US government printed an unprecedented amount of money out of nowhere, causing massive world-wide inflation.

 

[Krappadizzle]

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Sensible policies for a happier gamer.

 

[Edder1]

Microsoft employee: Nobody is playing our game, what should we do?

Microsoft management: Increase the price of microtransactions.

Microsoft employee: But how is this gonna attract more players?

Microsoft management: Cancel this man's GamePass Ultimate subscription.

 

[ahtlas7]

Xbox a little more each and every day

 

[MiguelItUp]

Once microtransaction prices are in place, I don't think there should ever be an increase. Especially in a F2P game. What kind of ridiculous world are we living in? Lol.

 

[reinking]

It is cosmetic so meh but it sucks that more and more things are hidden behind paywalls in gaming now and that those paywalls are only getting more expensive.

 

[Negotiator101]

Just shut it down, seriously this game is a shadow of what it should have been, for me it's the most disappointing first party release of the generation. Maybe I expected too much as Halo was my favourite franchise but I want a next generation Halo is that too much to ask?

 

[Roxkis_ii]

Curious, how does inflation affect virtual items? What outside forces are they under the influence of?

 

[NickFire]

And people cheered for consolidation. And trolled those against consolidation. Shit, I'll probably get LOL's for writing this, and have one or two people tell me I'm dumb for associating consolidation with the steady stream of price increases by the company consolidating everything.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Man, Darkmage can't catch a break today, please empathy emoji this if you're ok brother.

 

[Black_Stride]

Great to see devs spending resources on this.

Season 5 was very well recieved.....so indeed its good that devs put work into doing this for those cosmetic hunters who really want to mix and match their armor cores and parts.

I so rarely see my spartan i think mine is still in the starting armor with the season 1 helmet.






But give me them Armor Coatings......im a fucking fiend for Armor Coatings.

 

[ManaByte]

Suddenly people care enough about cosmetics to be outraged.