Instead of having everyone pay for the DLC expansions to Halo 5: Guardians, Microsoft decided to hand them out for free. This way, everyone have all the maps and having a fractioned community is no longer a problem.
However, 343 Industries introduced microtransactions with mostly cosmetic items and stuff for Warzone, and judning from recent reports, this is something that players are happy to make use of. At least $1.5 million has been generated this way in recent times and this is money that will go towards the Halo World Championship prize pool. The total prize pool now amounts to $2.5 million - the most ever for console eSports.
As these $1.5 million are only a portion of the revenue generated via microtransactions in Halo 5: Guardians.
The 16 teams that have qualified for the Halo 5: Guardians World Championships finale are: Team Allegiance (NA), Counter Logic Gaming (NA), Evil Geniuses (NA), Team Liquid (NA), Noble eSports (NA), Renegades (NA), Triggers Pound (NA), Denial eSports (NA), Epsilon eSports (EMEA), FabE (EMEA), exceL (EMEA), Team Infused (EMEA), Team Immunity (AU), Team Exile5 (AU), Skyfire (Asia) and Chosen Squad (LATAM).