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[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

I’m not convinced any online-only games are worth anyone’s time if they’re planned as a live service game from the get-go. When Halo: Infinite F2P multiplayer dropped, so many people on the Halo subreddit were like “yeah, it’s fun but the battlepass is so slow to progress that I feel like I don’t have a reason to keep playing.” Uhhhhh maybe keep playing because you’re having fun? Or do you need some artificial number to tell you to keep going?

Seems like a confusing shift in the target demographic where battlepasses and constant new updates are required in order to consider a game “worth your time.”

squeaky old man voice back in my day my brothers and I would play CoD: Zombies using the exact same strategies every day after school for years with no updates to the gameplay AND WE LIKED IT

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I don't get it either. Everyone rn is saying that Halo infinite multiplayer sucks because you "have to" pay for cosmetics or do lots of shit to progress the battlepass.

Literally all COSMETIC. Like it's not even pay to win, just play the genuinely fun multiplayer game wtf

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Halo Infinite's problem isn't that there's a store where you can buy cosmetic items. It's that the game was built AROUND the store. Cosmetics took a priority over gameplay, features, etc.

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

What priority? Gameplay is fine to me and what missing features?

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The previous Halo games prioritized features over microtransactions. There are tons of articles lamenting all the things left out of Halo Infinite e.g. https://screenrant.com/halo-infinite-launch-missing-features-forge-coop-multiplayer/

I see you were too young to have played previous Halo titles and so you immediately downvoted without giving a response. I'm sorry you're too ignorant to realize what they stole from you.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if the game is fun then ignore the cosmetics. If you like the cosmetics enough, then buy the cosmetics. As long as gameplay elements aren’t locked behind a paywall, I see no problem.

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