343 Industries remains to be considering including microtransactions into Halo: The Master Chief Collection because of the recreation’s present development system and variety of accessible cosmetics.
The developer penned a put up discussing the present state of cosmetics within the recreation and outlining what options it’s contemplating for earnable objects (through Kotaku).
At current there are over 1000 particular person beauty objects in Halo: The Master Chief Collection, with some launched throughout particular seasonal updates. Back in June 343 Industries made it clear that it’s proud of the present play-to-unlock system, however that it understands new gamers could profit from the choice of utilizing purchasable factors to unlock objects.
To that finish, 343 Industries has shared that “no decision has been made around the potential for purchasable SP (Spartan Points) being added as a secondary vector in the future,” however the studio says it does agree with gamers that the speed by which factors are earned must be improved on the very least.
Spartan Points can at the moment be earned from any multiplayer recreation within the Halo assortment, after which used on any cosmetics particular to every title.
343 Industries is at the moment working to resolve the difficulty with an replace that may permit gamers to gamers retroactively earn Spartan Points from each stage between Tour one and 11 (for 329 complete factors) they’ve already progressed by way of that didn’t reward them with the factors. This implies that many gamers will doubtless get many Spartan Points in a single go, which can be utilized to choose up in-game cosmetics.
“Having this open dialogue with our community is important to us as we navigate this path together, added the developer. “Feedback has already directly helped drive upcoming changes to our current earnable Spartan Points model.”
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