midrange said:
Sorry, but as an avid zombies player, saying that this dlc does not add much bang for your buck grossly undervalues the new zombies map. Go onto any zombies community and the consensus is clear, Der Eisendrache is one of the best zombie maps Treyarch has released. Your video acknowledges that the map is good, but that the overall content value of the awakening DLC is not worth $15, to which I disagree. Let's say the zombies portion is 1/4 of the black ops 3 experience. Der Eisendrache basically doubles this experience and adds in 4 multiplayer maps for similar value ((1/4) * $60 = $15). |
I see the way you're looking at it purely as quantitative perspective, but that's not the only factor for value.
The basis for DLC is the use of existing formats: in other words, if Shadows of Evil is worth $15 of the original game, a follow up DLC zombies map that uses the same basis with different models/narratives will not be worth $15 if sold as such. It lacks the development cost/time in creating the original, as most DLC does. When generating DLC, it's usually a "what works? let's take that and make more of it" approach.
Having said that, as mentioned, the zombies mode is almost the sole thing of value in this DLC, since I felt the new maps introduced the very factor that made AW such a pain to play: people coming from everywhere at any time. The loss of strategic focus on the battlefield dramatically reduces what makes BO3's vanilla maps (most of them: a handful of them are also the same clusterf**k) often better. While you might have happily paid $15 just for the new zombies map, I'd have felt that would have been a bit of a ripoff.
Lots of stuff doesn't necessarily equate to value, especially when some of that stuff is worse than the original. So I paid $15 for essentially a good zombies map which led me to my consensus. 
