343 Industries decided to increase the price of several Halo Infinite cosmetics, including items that were already available in the game, which generated criticism from the community and deserved an explanation from Brian Jarrard, the producer’s communications director.
Until recently, Halo Infinite cosmetics like helmets, armor pieces, and colors were locked to a Spartan armor core. 343 Industries decided to activate a “cross core” functionality for some parts, which motivated it to increase the prices of several cosmetics.
Since the piece can now be equipped on several cores and several of the characters you can create, 343 has increased prices and explains that this expansion of customization in Halo Infinite has led it to ask for more money, even for items that already existed in the game .
“In-store pricing on many content changed when multi-core functionality was added to customization content. With Season 4, we saw new in-store content reflecting the new pricing model to account for the new multi-core liveries, ” said Jarrard.
“With Season 5, many of the previously released liveries and all helmets in the game have been updated to work on all cores, and this content in the store has been adjusted to reflect these changes (and to have parity with Season 4 content). Ao At the same time, the team made proactive adjustments to content that included shoulders as it would be multi-core in a future update.”
Jarrard explains that they did everything at once to avoid constantly changing prices and warns that content from previous seasons will have price adjustments with the arrival of more multi-core features.
If you’ve already purchased a helmet, shoulders or livery, you won’t have to pay again for the multi-core feature and Jarrard warns that some content listed as “on sale” may appear at the same price due to the base price being recently increased.
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