In almost every free-to-play (F2P) game, there are cosmetic items players can purchase, which is the main revenue driver for these said games. With Halo Infinite’s multiplayer being F2P, this is the case as well. If you’re wondering how much money you need in order to buy everything in the Halo Infinite store, you don’t need to wonder anymore, as a user on Reddit has computed just how much it costs to buy all store items, and it’s quite the price.
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The price computation post was made thanks to an earlier datamine which leaked all of the coming store items bundles coming to Halo Infinite. With this data, the Reddit user went down to work computing the likely cost of all 88 store item bundles:
Thanks to this post we now know that Infinite will have 88 different store bundles in the first season. It’s bad enough that a lot of stuff like having Carters or Emiles shoulderarmor as a standalone item or classic reach helmets like Gungnir or CQC aer only unlockable for money.
Remember that cool looking Yoroi armor in the trailer they told us would be free? No, we just get the base armor for free with very few items and coatings in the event pass. Even Red and Blue colors for Yoroi are only available through the shop!
But lets just see how money you would actually have to spend to unlock everything for completionists.
I tried to guess in what price region with items would be based on what we saw in the last week, so some items could be cheaper or more expansive in the end
$105 + $430 + $240 + $260 = $1,035 for Cosmetics. This is as greedy as ingame store could get. Even for a Free2Play this is way above any Halo fan should accept. Especially since there is no chance to unlock any of this by just playing the game and we won’t even unlock a single armor through the $69 campaign.
While it is understandable at the end of the day that there will be some items that cannot be unlocked purely by playing completely free, the Reddit user pointed out that this goes against a the 343 Industries December 2020 update on the game, on which they state that they’re “not trying to build a grind-machine that burns everyone out in an attempt to get more game time from them.”
In similar Halo Infinite news, 343 Industries has made changes to how players earn XP in Battle Passes, though it seems another tweak is in order.
Thanks, samurai1226 !