What’s the issue with Halo Infinite’s battle pass?
In breaking with past games in the series, Halo Infinite is being offered as a standalone, free-to-play release for the first time. Obviously, since it’s free-to-play, that means Microsoft needs to make money in ways other than charging upfront. Like many other free-to-play shooters, Microsoft has opted to offer a seasonal battle pass to players alongside a cash shop where people can use premium currency to purchase skins and other cosmetic items.
A change may be coming
On Twitter, 343 community director Brian Jarrard referenced these battle pass criticisms directly, saying that the team is considering data gathered from early matches played during the beta. “Thank you to everyone who has jumped into the #HaloInfinite beta so far! FYI the team is looking at Battle Pass progression and gathering data from yesterday’s sessions and we’ll share updates as we have them,” Jarrard said. “Please continue to share feedback and raise flags as you see them.”
While that’s not confirmation that anything will be changing, it is confirmation that 343 is listening to the complaints. As I said in SlashGear’s first impressions post, battle pass progression feels needlessly slow at the moment, and it isn’t enjoyable to pay money for the premium battle pass only to have it progress at a snail’s pace.
The hope is that 343 will tweak it in such a way that players start getting battle pass XP for each game they play. Of course, 343 could come up with a different solution to these battle pass progression issues, or it may simply opt to keep things the way they are. We’ll update you when we hear more from the studio, so stay tuned for that.
Keyword: Halo Infinite dev ‘looking at’ battle pass progression after player feedback