Rumour: Halo Infinite Will Include ‘Wacky’ Cosmetics, Similar To Apex Legends

The more I hear about this the more I lose interest in it.
This feels like it's pandering to the Fortnite and Apex kids, meaning another online shooter will become a toxic playground.

Great. Fortnite flossing inbound.

The problem is, today, the online multiplayer shooter (and doubly for F2P shooter) market is the Fortnite/Apex kids. If you're trying to sell an online multiplayer shooter, that's the market you're trying to hit. CoD goes for the faux serious thing so Halo automatically is going to be distanced from that market, even if back in the day it may have been associated. For the vast vast market of online shooter players, you're either a h@rdk0r3 tryhard or you're a super casual hanging out with friends like a version of Zoom where you shoot each other in the face. It's not quite what it was back in the Halo 1 days.

That's probably half the reason they're making multi it's own F2P thing and not fluffing up the full price game with that stuff.

Good, Halo Infinite needs to be a success. Let them do this. Make it free to play, be like the other populair shooters. They are populair for a reason. I’m gonna love it, Halo needs to be back at the top. Of you don’t like it, don’t play it.

I loved the flight, the gameplay was solid. I will gladly pay for the extra passes and DLC.

Im even gonna buy the physical copy for my collection. Wil play the digital Gamepass version though.

I was going to write something here grumbling about why this is a stupid idea, then I realised that the reason I don't like this is because I'm getting old.

@SplooshDmg "Don Mattrick DM'd me and said they have a product for people that don't like Halo Infinite, and it's called the Master Chief Collection. Ba Dum Tss"

I think we need to remember the backlash to that comment, and the struggles that the xbox one faced, almost directly, as a result.

@SplooshDmg Yeah, I mean technically the arena shooter kind of needed to evolve, it's kind of it's own rut, and from PC-land we'd already been there since the mid-90's. I was burned out on arena shooters by the time Q3A launched, and that was still the "early" days, long before Halo. But what it evolved into is more of a virtual hangout/playground than an evolution of the games. The silly costumes and whatnot that Fortnite and other BR games became is just an extension of "we're here to mess around with friends." Back in our day.....shooters were srs bsns. We didn't wear snowman costumes, we were role playing the last space marine to save the world, ain't got time for messin' around kid!

We'll see now Infinite is. It's an "arena shooter" but I imagine it's an arena shooter for the modern (read: tween) shooter market. Weirdly, the last TRUE srs bsns arena shooter is Splatoon. It may look cute and cuddly buy that audience is teh 1337 k0r3! There's no Splatoon eSports because ranked IS eSports!

@Richnj That one comment alone was the most directly insulting one, but it was merely icing on a double fudge cake. And by fudge, I don't mean it was made of fudge.

It started before the original X1 reveal with "It's 2013, it requires internet, deal with it" comment. The insulting started there. That set the stage for the real time focus switching at the TVsportsTVdoggyTVfootballTVsportsSpeilbergDoggy event. The buzz was already bad but they avoided direct statements about anything there, so it just set a bad mood and a "maybe they'll give gamers what they want in a few weeks at E3" apologist bent. Then we got to E3, found out about the DRM, the used games fees, the digital-only discs, the mandatory spycam on the always-on box from the company that had just been caught spying for the NSA, exclusives that didn't digest well with the audience that was already jaded by that point, capped by the price point for the privilege of the mandatory Telescreen. And THEN only after all that, he tied a ribbon around it all with the infamous nuclear submarine/"we have a product for those people" rant which merely took "nobody is going to buy an Xbox Done" and turned it into "lets bury the Xbox and run them out of the market!".

And THEN just to make sure there was no blowover, PS did the "this is how you share" video within hours, which secured that no sane person would even look at an Xbox.

And after that he closed most of their studios.......Just to be sure they couldn't possible resurrect themselves, like an extra oak stake through the first oak stake then covered in garlic sauce, and carved into a cross, then dumped the whole carcass in holy water..... Then got the boot and went to Zynga. And even they didn't want him long.