Sell your copies of Halo 3 back to the store and buy Orange Box like sensible people.

Team-Fortress 2 is ten times the multiplayer experience Halo 3 will ever be.

We did the whole Halo midnight launch thing and everything, yet we played it for a week and promptly got bored with it. We're still playing TF2.

 You can't ride that shit through Ironforge!

That's why my brother quit playing Halo 2 multiplayer (he was really high ranked and pretty much played it whenever he wasn't at work or watching basketball).

I recall when Epic had a fight with MS over having to charge for 4 (IIRC) Gears maps most of the Xbox fanboys seemed to side with MS since $10 for 4 maps isn't bad.  They missed what happens when a company finds out it can get away with something like that.  First time it's $10 for 4 maps, then 3 maps (does the forge map not count for some reason?), then it's 2 maps. 

I know I know they are in business to profit but with games that have sold over 2 million copies at $60 a pop, does it really hurt that much to give away the maps for free?  Especially since the improved multiplayer could encourage more people to either buy the game or not trade it in (thereby preventing someone else from buying it without paying you).  Each case of that happening is the equivalent of around 4 people paying to download the game.

I agree Smash Brother...but not everyone agrees...

Besides, there's still a bunch of whiners that TF2 only has like 6 maps...6 glorious maps...but that's all changing with user maps I guess.

Did I mention that the HL2 single player is infinitely better than Halo 3's as well?

I think the biggest problem is that Forge doesn't really do much for changing map structure. This is one of the reasons I'm glad SSBB will feature a full-blown map editor.

I've seen very few microtransactions which don't make me uneasy, and I mean because it seems like publishers have dollar signs in their eyes when it comes to this kind of thing.

The other issue is that it seems like a lot of this stuff should have been in the game to start with and that publishers are withholding it intentionally in order to sell it separately. There have even been cases where the content was already on the disc and they required you to have Xbox live to unlock it.

It's getting off on the wrong foot, for sure. It'd be nice to see a company doing this properly for a change.

This map pack will be free in Spring 08 when the next map pack is released.
Just play CoD4 and the Orange Box until then, and then get both map packs for $10.

sheesh,

"commence milking!"

Here's to hoping that more packages like the Orange Box come out.

it does seem a bit much the last map packs were 5 dollars for 3 maps, and 7 for 4.... hopefully like the forza map these will be repriced down maybe 600-500 points before introduction.

Really though i just hate points. are dollars, pounds, euros, and yen not good enough for you MS? do you think we are so dumb that we cant figure out the price

That price is somewhat exorbitant for what is being offered. I doubt I will be purchasing them. Thats how you voice protest you simply do not buy the product in question. However its not merely Microsoft taking consumers to the cleaners with Micro transactions. The Virtual Console for Nintendo is none too cheap for retread past games. I have played Sony games online, and they are strong advocates of micro transactions. Basically forcing their players to buy additional content to actually be competitive in their gaming worlds.

There are no saints to be found in this area. Microsoft is no worse or better then the other two. That said its a value call on the part of consumers. I would have considered it if all three maps would enhance my big team battle experience my preferred mode. However I would only get one map. I am not a terrible fan of the ranked matches, and I hardly experiment with the forge. The result would be one map for ten dollars hardly the bargain I am looking for.

Another poster said it best wait a few months, and get it for free. Would have been nice if Microsoft had given us a free pack or had made it a more reasonable price. Oh well your not going to get everything you want.