343 Industries: Halo Has the ‘Potential’ for Microtransactions

By Matthew Bennett, Associate Editor
Posted on April 8, 2013 AT 05:26am

Fancy having microtransactions in your Halo games? Well 343 Industries’ Dan Ayoub believes that there is potential for that to happen.

Now before you start going all crazy he only stated that there is a potential, not that it was definitely on the table. “I think Halo certainly has the potential for those kinds of things. We don’t have too much to talk about in terms of our plans down that line, but it’s certainly something … we’ve seen the fans of Gears are enjoying, and if it’s something we think our community is going to enjoy, it’s something we’ll seriously talk about,” he told Digital Spy.

Ayoub also spoke about upcoming content for Halo 4, “Obviously our commitment is always that we’re going to make sure there’s something for people to do on Halo, whether it’s playlists, or new maps or new content, something like that. We can’t say too much about the specifics we’re planning, but what we can say is we don’t take that commitment lightly, and people should keep their eyes open for cool stuff.”

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