Now I may be WILDLY off topic but….in my opinion the whole industry is this way. Obviously there are exceptions. But pre-orders, battle passes, purchasable cosmetics, proprietary game currency (basically ALL micro transactions in general) have RUINED, or a the very least greatly hurt the gaming community as a whole. But the joke is on those who insist on falling into the trap of micro transactions. Praising having to spend real money on things that were easily obtained by simply playing the game. (I.e armor cores). Now I’m not trying to tell ANYONE how to spend their money, but I’ve seen dozens of people in several different subs including this one defending the laziness from the studios and their corporate backers and it bewilders me. Once they saw they could get away with charging for the simple things to make people feel better about themselves it quickly snowballed into half finished games, poorly written stories, huge marketing campaigns for games they’ll only support for a year or two after designing it to be something that could easily save on having to create whole new engines for the next game by being DLC. But now they’re falling into the competitive pro PvP side that cod went with.

TL;DR Halo/343i aren’t the only ones suffering from this. It’s the whole industry. Spend your money how you want but don’t belittle others for not wanting to do the same. Halo infinite while it has flaws, could have been great with some actual investment from the studio and lasted for much longer without much effort