Halo Infinite Season 1's Paid Cosmetics Could End Up Costing Over $1000 In Total

It was made F2P for a reason, Christ sakes!
And as someone pointed out in reddit, that it costs less to Unlock Chief's skin in Fortnite than to unlock his design in the series he has been the main character of for 20 years.

Or maybe just wear what you like because there is no reason to have all the cosmetics? You can only wear one "costume" or "armor" at a time.

It’s a free to play game, and with these kinds of games you aren’t supposed to collect every cosmetic anyway. If you’re going to be mad about something, be mad about things that actually matter like the fact that you can’t choose which mode you want to play yet, and there’s no stats page or really much progression at all.

It’s a beta, and ultimately it being free to play is good for the game’s longevity. I’m okay with cosmetics taking a hit compared to previous games if that means that friends who haven’t played Halo in years are finally getting back into the series again and playing with me.

It's annoying to have such limited free customization.
I for one won't be buying anything.
It's too bad because changing armor and colors is a fun way to kill time between matches. I liked the halo 4 model the best, where you earned customizations as you went along. I've got over 600 hours in halo 5 mp and I still don't have everything.

Or you could just...you know...not buy every single cosmetic thing in front of you? Just a thought. Do these people complain about not getting every shirt and pants at Target for free? Come on folks!

Pretty sure they did a comparison to COD and it was also over $1K for all cosmetics on-top of the full price game. This is normal for F2P games. The bright side is it's just cosmetics and nothing is pay to win...so i don't care. I'll use whatever free stuff i unlock if i like it. I'm having a blast playing the game and i find that more important than having a fancy looking spartan in a crap ass game.

I don’t get the gripe. When did customization in a FPS become a good thing? Just ignore the store, roll with a stock Spartan, and play the game.

@Krzzystuff I’ll echo this. It literally doesn’t impact gameplay and there will still be some decent unlockables that I won’t have to pay for that’ll look cool to me. All that matters is how fun it actually is to play.

That's the equivalent of over 3 Marvels Avengers 🤯

First World problems

A Tesco recently opened near me and - get this - it would cost me over £200,000 to buy everything! What a rip off!

I never got the "horror it would cost X much to get everything" complaint (about cosmetics) in a game like this, change the context just a little and it's seems like such a ridiculous complaint.

"It costs so much to buy literally everything from a tesco store." I don't like MT's or defending them but your not supposed to buy all the cosmetics

@Spaceman-Spiff 🤣🤣🤣🤣 best comment lmfao

Wow I thought marvel avengers was bad

Well at least it's not as much as fortnite

To each their own, but this is a huge part of why I never cared about cosmetics. If it isn't crucial to the gameplay in any meaningful way, it's just fluff. Videogame companies have become filthy rich by utilizing online functionality to gate, control, and wring further money out of consumers' pockets after the original point-of-sale, and the business models just keep getting more and more ridiculous in the sheer amount of avarice involved (Nintendo more than doubling the subscription price of an already shoddy online service to add some shoddily emulated N64 and Genesis games is just one case in point).

Again, to each their own, though. If spending more money for cosmetics is worth more to you than being able to pay a flat price and work to unlock stuff in-game, have at 'em. If not, all I can say is to vote with your wallet.

you know this is easy, if we as a gaming community just STOP BUYING COSMETICS, these companies will get the damn point and stop charging as much.......hell apex legends charges upwards of 20$ for a skin....i mean whos the idiot who pays 20$ to look different from those that dont pay 20$? just saying do people realize your spending real money on something that literally does nothing gameplay wise. ive never been able to wrap my head around that.....paying for a battlepass is different i guess but essentially same thing just you get way more for your cash.

If someone wants to buy all the cosmetics then maybe they need someone to be in charge of their finances for them.

They are aware that purchases are optional and 343 aren't holding a gun to their heads?

The progression system in Halo Infinite is awful. It sours an otherwise brilliant experience. And cosmetics are too expensive, no way I'll buy any of them. I'd rather support an indie developper than pay for a shiny outfit that I won't even be able to see in game because that's FIRST PERSON shooter!

That said, if you feel the urge to buy every single cosmetic item in the store, you might have some mental health issues and should seek help.

But I'm not trying to shift the blame away from greedy devs preying on people with issues — whales, that's how they call them, in order to not feel bad for exploiting the vulnerable.

Genuinely your pandering to the negative spins over Halo for mere traction is why I can't stomach game sites like this. It's popular to moan about Halo even when it's doing incredibly good stuff.

In response to some of the comments that call Fortnite, the kingpin of in-game cosmetics, and Warzone's pay-to-win system "worse," That isn't to say that everyone who follows suit to a lesser extent is anyway superior. Halo is free-to-play not for the sake of the players, but because cosmetics bring in significantly more money than a $60 full-fledged game. Children and teenagers are the primary users of MTX transactions. Yes, most adults are capable of making wise decisions and abstaining. This technique has been called into question all throughout the world. It's predatory and profit-driven. Some people have rose-tinted glasses on because they openly criticise other franchises, but because it's "Halo," they get a pass. Even if you don't have a problem with it, it doesn't negate the larger discussion about ethical business practice.

I get all of the people brushing this off as “You don’t have to buy them all” and “It’s a first person shooter, why does it matter?” but the audacity of offering a color option for $20 is ridiculous. I think that 343 is doing a great job with this game. I’m enjoying my time with it, but how can anyone justify $20 to make your character’s armor white? That is just stealing money from people and everyone needs to stop making excuses for greedy practices like this.

Honestly it’s ***** like any other F2P game. I hate fortnite and other F2P for this type of garbage monetisation so I’m not going to defend Halo either.

It’s not a model I will support especially when it comes to Halo. Remember when multiplayer was included in the games price and you had to earn stuff, I know gaming has moved away from that, but it’s not been a move for the better imo.

The game is free to play.

What did you really expect? They were going give free cosmetics too? Lmao

If so you're crazy think that.

This is why MS went F2P so they could do sh*t like this. Love how people are already trying to justify it.

Oh, look another PureXbox negative article about the free to play part of Halo Infinite 🤣.

You guys are aware, that none of the cosmetic items affect the game play, right? Then again pandering to negative spins should beyond serious sites, alas it makes for good internet traffic 😑.

And this is why the progression and unlock systems of Halo 5 and Inifnite are worse than that of Halo 3 or Reach.

You've lost an element of game design. Spider-man for the PS4 just had armours unlock for earning levels or completing certain side missions, and it was fun.

Having to pay to dress up your character is not fun.

I wouldn’t care if there was no cosmetics at all. You barely see your character in an FPS!

I don't see this as a problem. As long as there is sufficient number of cool unlockables through the $10 battle-pass and from free progression then it shouldn't matter. If I added the total cost of every purchasable item from any other F2P game i'm sure it would total much more than $1000. Of course you have to pick and choose what to spend your money on.

@Alan_cartridge_ I agree , I think if they'd included the multiplayer with the campaign there would be more backlash about micro transactions being included in a full priced game but by making it free to play they can add all the micro transactions & make more money than they would've if they'd just included it with the campaign like every other halo game

I'm happy with the Battle Pass and the yet-to-be-seen free cosmetics they'll be adding the next 5+ years

@Richnj hopefully they add some hidden outfits / skins in the campaign. That would be dope

Maybe it's so expensive to deter people from buying it because they want people to actually play the damn thing. Or maybe it's a luxury tax. You think that $75 cupcake in Vegas is actually worth $75?? They figure hell if you're gonna throw money at them, shoot for the moon.

Remember when you could buy a game and actually own all of it for a reasonable price?

Yeah you're not EXPECTED to buy all the cosmetics, but remember when games would just, you know, include all this stuff in the game for a base price? Timesplitters 2 had around 150 characters you could play as, and didn't charge you $5.99 for each of them.