Halo is doomed and it is all your fault...

....those that buy req packs.
Don't buy any req packs if you care about Halo and it's future.
Please pay attention as this is important, micro-transactions in AAA games are wrong full stop (period). Stop buying them!

So we have already had the limited time available vehicle req packs that were paid only! Limted time only to gauge the market and maximise the income, it's wrong.

At least the Halo Championship req pack could be earned by play or pay (even though for most that was a lot of play in a very short period). Again to ensure a lot of people would just buy it and wouldn't have the time to save up for it by normal play.

While micro-transactions in AAA games are a cancer, if you can earn items by normal play as well that's acceptable as you can avoid them. However, if others don't play and actually pay instead, they are ruining gaming for rest of us.

Now the more perceptive of you may very well be worried what 343 will be bringing next. Wouldn't take a genius to establish that exclusive items available in paid only req packs will be coming. Such as exclusive weapons/vehicles for Warzone armour sets and gun skins only attainable by paying for them.

Those that think the profits from req bundles go towards the development of "free content" for Halo 5 or the prize fund for Halo Championships are just kidding themselves.

The "free content" was already developed and has been cut from the base game and then added in instalments. Plus we are expected to be happy about that?

So when Halo 5 and in future Halo 6 etc is full of paid micro transactions for the best and exclusive items you will only have yourselves to blame (those a that buy them).

When the content acquired by these paid only items in-specific game modes goes a long way towards giving you an advantage and that breaks the game, you will know why.

Please don't buy! Think!

halo did micro transactions the right way unlike other games because you can earn all that stuff in game by just playing.

Meh, the way they're implemented into the game and how the game works overall, I'm fine with them.

There are people that think the REQ system was implemented well? Strange world.

RealLifeSpartan wrote:

We get it, you don't like REQ packs. They have been a huge success, whether you like it or not. REQ packs have pulled in, to my knowledge, 2 million dollars, probably double that now.

REQ packs will never alter the competitive side of Halo. 343 did it right, in my opinion.

They will be in Halo 6.

A huge success for who?

How much of that money went in to your pocket?

How much content have you had for 'free'? And I mean really had for free and not delayed from launch (ie. content you already paid for with your initial purchase) or was cobbled together weapon skins, Forge maps, or remixes. You still enjoying 'all those gametypes'?.

At least when you paid for DLC map packs you got your money's worth. Despite all that money and all that success, Halo 5 is still not up to par with the other Halo games in terms of content.

I have considered buying a req pack to show support for a such great system. It's nice there's lots of customization but what I really love is free content updates.

BBT2014 wrote:

I like the req system...No worse than Battlepacks Supply drops Siege credits or season passes imo

Season passes usually have release and content outlined, they also give you access to paid content (content you have to pay for) and not a short cut access to content that is unlockable for free in game.

I'm guilty of buying the arena pack..However you are right. Microtransactions of that degree in a 60 dollar triple AAA are unacceptable. they even upped the prices for goldpacks... 130 dollars for the big one. C'mon 343

Slain Valhallan wrote:

Richnj wrote:

RealLifeSpartan wrote:

We get it, you don't like REQ packs. They have been a huge success, whether you like it or not. REQ packs have pulled in, to my knowledge, 2 million dollars, probably double that now.

REQ packs will never alter the competitive side of Halo. 343 did it right, in my opinion.

They will be in Halo 6.

A huge success for who?

How much of that money went in to your pocket?

How much content have you had for 'free'? And I mean really had for free and not delayed from launch (ie. content you already paid for with your initial purchase) or was cobbled together weapon skins, Forge maps, or remixes. You still enjoying 'all those gametypes'?.

At least when you paid for DLC map packs you got your money's worth. Despite all that money and all that success, Halo 5 is still not up to par with the other Halo games in terms of content.

Except the whole paid DLC map thing hasn't been working out well for Halo. Not many people buy them and it just segregates one part of the Halo community from the other when it comes to dlc map-exclusive playlists.

It didn't work in Halo 4. It worked just fine when the population was quite high. It's no coincidence that Halo 4 bombed with DLC and people complained about the season pass being worthless and then Halo 5 changes the system.

Halo 2, 3 and Reach all had no problem, COD is still not having any problem. Because the populations weren't in the toilet.
My point though, was that people are still pouring money in through REQs thinking that it is actually funding these updates, when in fact they aren't. These updates were already planned for before release. The extra money going in through REQs have not increased the production or scale of the updates.

Richnj wrote:

Slain Valhallan wrote:

Richnj wrote:

RealLifeSpartan wrote:

We get it, you don't like REQ packs. They have been a huge success, whether you like it or not. REQ packs have pulled in, to my knowledge, 2 million dollars, probably double that now.

REQ packs will never alter the competitive side of Halo. 343 did it right, in my opinion.

They will be in Halo 6.

A huge success for who?

How much of that money went in to your pocket?

How much content have you had for 'free'? And I mean really had for free and not delayed from launch (ie. content you already paid for with your initial purchase) or was cobbled together weapon skins, Forge maps, or remixes. You still enjoying 'all those gametypes'?.

At least when you paid for DLC map packs you got your money's worth. Despite all that money and all that success, Halo 5 is still not up to par with the other Halo games in terms of content.

Except the whole paid DLC map thing hasn't been working out well for Halo. Not many people buy them and it just segregates one part of the Halo community from the other when it comes to dlc map-exclusive playlists.

It didn't work in Halo 4. It worked just fine when the population was quite high. It's no coincidence that Halo 4 bombed with DLC and people complained about the season pass being worthless and then Halo 5 changes the system.

Halo 2, 3 and Reach all had no problem, COD is still not having any problem. Because the populations weren't in the toilet.
My point though, was that people are still pouring money in through REQs thinking that it is actually funding these updates, when in fact they aren't. These updates were already planned for before release. The extra money going in through REQs have not increased the production or scale of the updates.

Literally no one thinks that...

343 has said it helps fund HCS prize pools not fund updates...