Its FTP and you don't need live, so of course it will have MTs.

I did laugh a little to myself when I saw monetization while the game is, as they describe, in beta.

Ffs, it’s a F2P game, and all of the MX’s are for pure cosmetics.

Until any of those cosmetics start giving players advantages over others, there isn’t a MX problem.

Stop crying, you babies. If you want the cool helmet, then accept that you need to grind for it. You don’t NEED it, so stop acting entitled to it.

This is how the F2P product model works. 343i did a fine job of applying it to Halo. Sure, it takes a while to finish battle passes, but you can finish those WHENEVER you can manage (seriously, they removed the time pressure. I can’t think of another battle pass that does that.).

Destiny 2 is free to play, but the majority of their Microtransactions are cosmetic. It sounds like Halo Infinite is not the same. Hoping they change their stance.

It's free therefore you've not been forced into anything. I do feel it would have been better with different character skins as players with customisation on them.

Same as every other free to play game which is why I won't touch them with a 10 foot pole.

In-game design decisions that are driven by microtransactions will always be worse than those made purely for the quality of the experience. Its disappointing that MS would allow their most storied franchise to swirl down the F2P rabbithole. It still might end up being a good game, but it will, by definition, be inferior than it wouldve been had they totally excluded microtransactions. Im glad I dont really care about Halo, and Im sorry to those of you Halo superfans whose sanctity and trust has been breached by greed and corporate marketing departments..

As someone who has never once felt the need to purchase a skin in order to enjoy the game ... who the hell cares.
Get back to me when they're selling damage/defense buffs for $5 a pop.

What the title should read is "free to play game finds least intrusive way of monetizing itself".

An entire comments section acting like it's egregious that a free to play game has a way of turning a profit and is the downfall of modern society or something.

Point is I can still jump into Halo any time I want and enjoy it. I just can't do it with the purple mohawk of 1337ness right out of the gate. Somehow I'll live and still enjoy the game.

Sat here praising the Battlepass instead of using common sense. This is such a non article, if it's free to play, this is basically always the idea lol

I don't really see a problem here. People think the cosmetics are overpriced then simply don't buy them.

Battle pass progression is the real problem but 343i said that will fix it.

Surely there are limits to cosmetic mtx even if its free to play. Literally $20 for 1 skin is rather insulting relative to the price of a game.

Why is having the same games sold to us over and over again a good thing but optional in game purchases a bad thing?

Problem? Don't buy them, problem solved.

I'm quite shocked and puzzled by how ppl need to complain about the cost or the structure of buying skins because some players love to customize the look of the player.
Gee. Are they charging you for pay-to-wins Items?
Do you unlock add ons, perks, skills, guns, etc?

No! everybody starts at the same level each match while playing for free.

20 bucks for a skin, LMAO

they release half the game as free to play, and the other half you need a subscription, LMAO

Halo has always had some customization that people enjoyed throughout the years. To suddenly place most of it all behind a paywall is awful for longtime players and obnoxious to new ones. And the ones that do pay still have to grind an eternity to get the same thing. I don't like this dismissive attitude people have about it just because it has no effect on the shooting aspect. It's the only thing in the game currently anyone can work towards, so of course people are going to want it. But clearly you need to be a whale on top of spending 10s of hours to get the most basic system now. Even coloring your armor, something that hasn't changed at all since Halo 2, is now behind a Destiny like coating system which just makes the whole thing worse.

The last time I was hammered this hard to buy stuff, i was walking down a street in Cairo. Talk about cheap, nasty and predator tactics, even for a F2P.

This article is clearly coming from someone who wants every customization option on Day 1, course it will cost you if you do that lmao.

A waste of an article if you ask me, the absolute minority will Pay to Unlock like this author is going on about.

I'll just pay £10 for the Battle pass and just unlock everything with natural progression, but to each their own.

No one saw this coming did they.... sigh

To each their own. Seems like a personal problem to me. F2P always has absurd pricing for cosmetics. Along with forced scarcity. I personally could care less about any of the customization. It is extraneous fluff, specifically designed and presented to produce fomo.

Is the progression slow? Yea, but it was out for like 2 days and they literally fixed it due to the fans being upset. If the complaints keep coming in, I’m sure there are bound to be more fixes.

While I get why people are voicing their opinion… a free game charging for cosmetics is bad? To me it seems like half of you guys play to look cool and forget the gameplay aspect of the entire game. I don’t buy battlepasses unless I like the game, and this one literally have no effect on your in match time spent.

As for me, I don’t mind that it takes a while to unlock things as I only have a few hours a week to actually play, and the battlepasses are always available, even three passes later, you’ll be able to come back to this one if you didn’t get it unlocked. Seems like some people found a weak point in this game and are now fanning a flame without really enjoying/caring about the game. But that’s just my opinion.

It's only the beginning. Halo free to play. How will Microsoft make money? Hundreds of millions back and still make profit?

Of course it has, it's cheap live service entertainment.

I’m telling you it’s just a matter of time before gamepass Is full of pay to win games and micro transactions

I had to wait 50 hours to level up enough to get the bullet deflecting suit in HZD. And I paid 40 quid for it. And I couldn't even get it until after I completed the game.

What a disgrace.

I don't think anyone is really all that surprised. 10 years is a lofty length of time for most studios, and it's like like Infinite held the same draw as something like GTA or similar games that managed it.

Lack of identity and chasing something for Halo that isn't Halo could only mean failure in the end.

Now they have time to finish the split screen mode.Another broken promise. LOL

Halo not so infinite...

Halo Infiniten't

Microsoft can’t be trusted.

Microsoft is the equivalent of keeping a gun pointed at your foot and constantly pulling the trigger.

Halo: CE to Halo Reach was only 8 years.

Halo has now been a mediocre-to-bad franchise for longer than Bungie had it for, which is crazy. It's same with Forza and Gears of War; once Xbox's top-quality franchises reduced to run-of-the-mill AAA games that fade into obscurity the moment they're released (or in Forza's case, the main franchise is DOA).

This is what happens when everyone involved is a weasel. Eventually the whole thing comes crashing down.

Oh boy can’t wait to hear his side, maybe it will be a hallmark movie.

Unfortunately, we have to wait till next year to find out what the whole story is .

Xbox just keeping digging there own grave a little deeper and a little longer , just F nuts,just sad man, I never forget the first time playing my first online game was on og xbox and it was Ghost recon, I never forget that experience for the first time talk to another person around the world coordinating attack I was hooked and blown away at the same time, I had from Nintendo Nes, Sega genesies, Sega Saturn to PS1,2,xbox,xbox360 then went to pc like