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KylieDog said:
I take it you are talking about Modern Warfare 2 map packs?


Complete rip off. For one thing CoD games map packs were already double what other games map packs are, now they've increased the price even more and 2 of the maps are just copy and pasted from the first game so had little to no dev costs.


I wish people would stop paying for them.


That won´t happen and the devs know it.



 

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Zkuq said:
DLC sucks. DLC maps packs? Even more, they can divide the community and often, especially in cases like this, cost too much for what they offer.

No, the devs don't need money, the game's sold more than it deserved even now. If the devs haven't got the money they deserve, they should leave Activision for being too greedy. And if they get, they ought to be happy.

Anyway, doesn't bother that much since I'm not getting MW2 pretty much every. (Well, maybe when it's less than, say, 7€-8€). But in many other cases it could bother me.

 

Yes MW2 made tons of money, probably more than a billion, yet they still charge $15 for their map packs which 2 are from the previous MW game. People should know better than to waste money, i don't plan on buying it or another map pack for any game. Its just maps nothing special.



I don't mind paying for DLC if the original game came with an acceptable amount of content and the DLC is priced right. In MW2's case it did not come with an acceptable amount of content and the price of the DLC is a slap in the face to all gamers.



kjj4t9rdad said:
I don't mind paying for DLC if the original game came with an acceptable amount of content and the DLC is priced right. In MW2's case it did not come with an acceptable amount of content and the price of the DLC is a slap in the face to all gamers.

3 game modes, a decent length campaign, and a lot of different multiplayer game modes, a good dozen or so maps with the entire 360 disc filled is not enough content these days?



While i think the map packs should be less than $15. I think it shouldn't be free at all.



 

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Shorty11857 said:
kjj4t9rdad said:
I don't mind paying for DLC if the original game came with an acceptable amount of content and the DLC is priced right. In MW2's case it did not come with an acceptable amount of content and the price of the DLC is a slap in the face to all gamers.

3 game modes, a decent length campaign, and a lot of different multiplayer game modes, a good dozen or so maps with the entire 360 disc filled is not enough content these days?

Yes, exactly. It has only 16 muli-player maps. It only has 4 hours of single player game play. If you want more maps they cost 15 for 5 mapswhich is essentialy 3 bucks a map. Eventually no servers will have the older maps or only 1 or 2 of the old ones, and you will lose your ability to play the game without investing another 15 bucks. This does not at all constitute as a complete game in any way to me. This is a game whipped together in 5 or less months with primary goal to be nothing but milking money from poor schlubs who don't know any better.

Imagine if you had to pay 3 dollars for every new map on let's say Quake 3, UT3, Counter Strike: Source, Half Life 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R or even Crysis. All of these games would have failed miserably.

So no, if a game only has a small amount of maps then offers only a few more at a rediculous price, and to top it off only has little to no single player in it, it is not worth 60 bucks. There should have been a map creation kit that come with the game so you can create your own maps and not be forced to buy map packs are rediculous prices just to extend gameplay that is getting boring because it is just recycling tired maps. At least doing this, there is the ability to extend the life of the game without overcharging for crap.

What's next. A 10 dollar rifle that increases accuracy over the top gun by only 0.25%?



Shorty11857 said:
kjj4t9rdad said:
I don't mind paying for DLC if the original game came with an acceptable amount of content and the DLC is priced right. In MW2's case it did not come with an acceptable amount of content and the price of the DLC is a slap in the face to all gamers.

3 game modes, a decent length campaign, and a lot of different multiplayer game modes, a good dozen or so maps with the entire 360 disc filled is not enough content these days?

The campaign was 4-5 hours on the hardest difficulty level, that is pathetic!!  Poor story filled with holes, laggy, poorly synced onlined games. The entire game including the new DLC is nothing more than a cash grab by Activision.  This game and its DLC is drasticly overpriced and it's one of the major things wronge with the gaming industry today.