Yep, its overpriced. Not much we can do about it besides not buy it.

Like how is the retail game $60 which is something like 12 (give or take a couple) online maps, 2 zombies maps, dead ops arcade, full single player and of course the online mode in general...but for $15 more all you get is 4 new maps and a zombies map? It should be $10 max.

Publishers are having trouble making money so they make optional downloads for pay to help cover costs and people complain.  Why?  It's optional and people think it's worth it to them to buy it.  You don't think it's worth it so don't buy it which is fine, I don't find the map packs worth it.  People complaining about optional downloads are annoying.  Would you rather game prices go up?  I get the complaints of DLC on story missions to an extent, but I've never played a game that I didn't think the DLC I bought was worth it.  I've bought all the DLC's for Mass Effect, Borderlands, and Dragon Age because I thought they were worth, but I would rather it be free. 

Gamers complain way to much and it's really turning me off to all  gaming websites.  Instead of discussing games and content and news, we bitch about Pacther and say reviews are biased.  I don't get how people find that fun to read and how people think anybody cares.  Some random guy hates IGN, why would anybody care?

Companies with stupid customers will routinely rip off their customers. Look at Apple, they release gimped versions of their shit then release the version 2 of that shit with *some* of the upgrades that should have been in there in the first place. Same with this map pack garbage. The days of game companies run by programmers and gamers themselves that care about being happy with releasing a full games to customers is long gone. Its all run by businessmen who do everything they can to get as much as money as possible while offering as little value as possible.

edit: To people saying that these optional downloads are to help cover costs of the game, you probably shouldnt post that opinion in a thread about one of the best selling games of the generation selling DLC for more than what comparable games sell them for. Save that for bombs like Enslaved or something like that.

Not everyone is saying it's to cover the cost of the game, it's to cover costs of being a company as a whole.  Activision sells it DLC at a premium because they know it will sell and that DLC helps cover costs of another game that didn't make money.  Look at the company as a whole, not just a single game.

I think DLC is ruining retail games. Halo Reach for example, it had 13 maps, which is decent. However 4 or 5 of those maps were remade maps from older games, and the others were campaign levels.

I don't mind DLC, and acheivements/trophies based on DLC, I just hate how they eventually match the price of the game. I never buy games new, so I almost always miss out on CoD because it's soo expensive.

Fallout is also another example, Fallout 3 was great, and I plan to get New Vegas, but only the GOTY edition cause I'm not paying $140 for 1 game.

I'm the same way, except I'm not a fan of Fighting games, but Gears of War has me on a chockhold.

It's just stupid how the mega franchises can get away with charging soo damn much, and Activision in particular never makes a map pack or a GOTY edition. Halo neither, but Gears, and Fallout always have a hardcopy expansion, and Mass Effect is just awesome.

Gears 1 only had free DLC after a set period of charge time. THAT I 100% AGREE WITH.

Even a severe price reduction is awesome. PGR4 Challenge Pack is only 80MP($1.20) now, down from 400MP ($6).

I just wish Activision and Bungie did this, but it seems with the mega franchises, this is never the case. Except for a few "Deal of the Week" offers way down the road.

Modern games adding hours of entertainment these days is only contributable to Online play. I played as much Goldeneye as I did any FPS this gen, and I definatly played more Mario Kart 64 then Forza, GT, and current Mario Kart combined.

Without online, outside the RPG kingdom, games are getting shorter. FPS's used to last 15 hours, now they last 4-5, and to make up for that they add insane difficulty setting to make up for it.

I'm only complaining about the cost of this DLC. $18 for a few maps? This is not something that really adds to the game, I just want 1 more zombie map, and space monkeys, for an affordable price.

I 100% agree, this is CoD, all they do is add levels and change the story. DLC only costs this much because they know they can sell it for this much. Nothing againt DLC, just over-priced DLC.

P.S. iPad = Tablet PC with flash memory. Not worth $500. I really hate Apple now cause my Iphone is broken only after 1 year. Android is the way to go.

I really don't like COD map packs, without the older maps in Stimulus and the other w/e it's called pack, there only would have been one DLC pack consisting of new maps. Salvage and Bailout are the shittest maps I have ever played, out of the Stimulus pack the only "alright" map was Crash. I can't justify paying £10 for one map. I personally wasn't stupid enough to buy it, a fair few friens of mine were though, so I laughed at them.