There has been a last call announcement for Halo Infinite: only one week remains for players to buy the HAYABUSA ZOKUHEN bundle in The Exchange before it is removed permanently. The official Halo account took to Twitter to post a sharp image of the Dragon Ninja-inspired armor set, captioned: “It’s the final countdown, Dragon Ninja 🐉.” Meanwhile, some gamers are hyped about it while the rest? Well…let’s just say, the responses are messy.
First we get the positives. One user, HenryG117, shared with pride a screenshot of his unlocked bundle after grinding through 210 matches in just five play sessions. “After 210 games in 5 play sessions since the start of the op. I have done it!” came the celebratory announcement—level of dedication, serious Spartan. Others, meanwhile, questioned why the bundle wouldn’t be available for longer. “Why not longer? It’s not some licensing issue, is it?” one fan asked.
Yet…oh my. The negativity hit like a plasma grenade. Some players gave the design a complete roasting, with one calling the Hayabusa helmets “inflated marshmallows,” and lamenting how the current-age Halo armor is “clunky and fat.” Ouch. Then others began attacking the player base, recalling that searching for matches took longer than ten minutes—and that was before unwrapping the price of the skin! “Yeah, I downloaded the game… Trying to find 1 match took over 10 mins on quick play… Let alone the price of this skin is like £70 if you want to buy currency lol,” was the man’s lament.
Things got heated after that. A bunch of replies took a turn toward… let us say controversial. Some users started dredging up Halo’s recent Pride Month recipes, one commenting, “I deleted Halo after the pride month garbage. Good luck with that.” Another one accused 343 Industries of “pandering to the 0.01% brain dead who don’t know what bathroom to use.” Really, yikes. The toxicity didn’t end there—some even celebrated Microsoft’s recent layoffs with a cryptic tweet saying, “Can’t wait to see this company die off.”
One or two voices tried to reap balance in all the chaos. “Halo is alive and well,” some of the players exclaimed in opposition to the other prophecies. But the overall tone? Let’s just say the comment section was not a friendly fire-free zone. There were even mentions of Halo having (wisely?) turned off replies on certain posts to stem further backlash. “Why are comments turned off on this post?” one user questioned. Probably for the best, really.
So what does that mean? The Halo Infinite Hayabusa bundle is a bit of a polarizer: a few love it, many others hate it, and the rest are just here for the drama. So, whether you are grinding to get that last-second unlock or side-eyeing the whole thing, one thing is sure: the Halo community is as passionate (and chaotic) as ever now. So if you excuse us, we are off to test if our Spartan can pull off a ninja look without looking like an inflated marshmallow.
