{"id":116138,"date":"2020-07-31T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/367434"},"modified":"2020-07-31T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T21:43:00","slug":"halo-infinites-multiplayer-is-a-free-to-play-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/halo-infinites-multiplayer-is-a-free-to-play-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Halo Infinite&#8217;s multiplayer is a free-to-play mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and 343 Industries look to be taking a page from <em>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare<\/em>\u2019s standalone and free-to-play <em>Warzone<\/em> mode for their&nbsp;upcoming launch of <em>Halo Infinite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While previous <em>Halo<\/em>&nbsp;games have locked access to multiplayer behind a full game purchase, the <em>Halo<\/em> team announced via tweet&nbsp;that <em>Halo Infinite&#8217;<\/em>s multiplayer mode will be free-to-play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Halo<\/em> is for everyone,&#8221; reads that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Halo\/status\/1289298976550731776?s=20\">tweet<\/a>. &#8220;We can confirm <em>Halo Infinite<\/em> multiplayer will be free-to-play and will support 120FPS on Xbox Series X. More details will be shared later!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This follows recent rumors that <em>Halo Infinite<\/em> would bring its multiplayer out from behind the paywall, information that first leaked via since-pulled details on a store listing. Only two elements of the full leak were confirmed today, however. The leak (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/31\/21349236\/halo-infinite-multiplayer-free-to-play-120fps-rumors\">The Verge<\/a>) originally noted <em>Infinite<\/em> would have free-to-play multiplayer, 120 FPS on Series X, a battle pass system, and new character customization options.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both the battle pass and customization remain unconfirmed, but if true the former feature would explain how <em>Halo Infinite<\/em> would monetize a free-to-play multiplayer mode&nbsp;and bring the game in line with the many others that are opting for a battle pass system rather than purely microtransaction-led monetization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and 343 Industries look to be taking a page from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare\u2019s standalone and free-to-play Warzone mode for their&nbsp;upcoming launch of Halo Infinite. While previous Halo&nbsp;games have locked access to multiplayer behind a full game purchase, the Halo team announced via tweet&nbsp;that Halo Infinite&#8217;s multiplayer mode will be free-to-play. &#8220;Halo is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}