I’ve been watching gameplay videos of this on YouTube, and this game looks like so much fun.
One thing I have been seeing people who have been playing this game complaining about is the battlepass system. What I’ve gathered is, in order to get stuff like the armor sets and other cosmetics, you have to win certain achievements to earn the XP for that stuff. However, if you lose matches, you lose that XP, and then have to go back and re-earn it again, which is a total time suck. The problem therein is that the core base of people who play the game are longtime fans of the series, and don’t have as much of that time available to them anymore because they work full time. All of the bonus armor sets and customization, even certain colors like pink, is stuck behind a paywall goal that most people probably won’t be able to reach.
Basically, a thing that was once secondary to the Halo experience and an easy bonus for playing the game now becomes the primary objective for those who want those bonus items, and the main objective in game types like CTF and Oddball is longer as fun. It becomes kind of a chore.
What do you guys think about this? Do you agree with this, or am I being overdramatic?