Halo Devs ‘Exploring’ Microtransactions For Master Chief Collection, An 8-Year-Old Game - Kotaku

Now Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a first-person shooter with a price tag, might see something similar.

Introducing microtransactions might seem like an odd step for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which is nearly eight years old and has already had one of the more publicly turbulent receptions in modern gaming.

First released in 2014, Halo: The Master Chief Collection combines the first four mainline Halo games—and their popular multiplayer components—but stumbled out of the gate with some serious connectivity woes.

Sacred Icon, a popular Halo podcast, said that more microtransactions is “the last thing” Halo needs.

“The Master Chief Collection is considered a bit of a ‘safe spot’ for Halo right now, the one area of the series that is doing relatively well, so to see them consider something as tone deaf as microtransaction inclusion is an astonishingly bad PR move,” Taras said.