Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack will set you back 1200MS points

[Jean-Luc]

Translated to real money, that's $15. (http://www.destructoid.com/modern-warfare-2-stimulus-package-maps-are-1200-ms-points-166985.phtml)

$15 for three new maps and a port of two CoD4 maps. Activision, is there ANY limit to your greed? The worst part is knowing that a lot of people will buy this in a friggin heartbeat.

[paladin]

What happened to 800ms points.... 1200 is too high, but you are getting 5 not 3 like the article says. Still, it pays have little kids ob xbl give you ms points. Im sitting on ~9500

[Jean-Luc]

I just can't justify spending $15 on five maps

*Goes back to playing Unreal Tournament where every single goddamn map is FREE* Much better...

[Kornman00]

What happened to 800ms points.... 1200 is too high, but you are getting 5 not 3 like the article says
2 of which are just "fan favs" converted from MW1.

[Amit]

Shit, now I have to go tell everyone I know not to buy this. I'll probably just end up spreading the word and lead them to buy it instead :ugh:

[flibitijibibo]

$3 a map? Uh... weren't entire Halo 2/3 packs like $5?

Too bad this will outsell the game itself in a matter of minutes anyway. :ugh:

[k4is3rxkh40s]

I just can't justify spending $15 on five maps


I have a feeling that it'll be a mandatory download in order to play any form of multiplayer

[Jean-Luc]

I have a feeling that it'll be a mandatory download in order to play any form of multiplayer
Then fuck them; I'll go play Modern Warfare and/or MW2 spec ops and campaign.

[Donut]

i dont think theyre going to fuck gamers THAT badly. i mean every other map pack for any game has been optional. im assuming theyll do it like cod 4 did map packs

and honestly halo 3 did map packs in the most "in your face" way i have ever seen by altering nearly every playlist to only be accessible to those with the maps. the only reason i can play now is because i have that ODST bonus disk, and even then i havent played halo 3 multiplayer for almost a whole year

[paladin]

2 of which are just "fan favs" converted from MW1.

Theyre still new maps to MW2. Look what Bungie did. Half their maps were remakes.


i dont think theyre going to fuck gamers THAT badly. i mean every other map pack for any game has been optional. im assuming theyll do it like cod 4 did map packs

and honestly halo 3 did map packs in the most "in your face" way i have ever seen by altering nearly every playlist to only be accessible to those with the maps. the only reason i can play now is because i have that ODST bonus disk, and even then i havent played halo 3 multiplayer for almost a whole year

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You got the ODST disk so that you wouldnt have to buy the mythic II maps, but you and everyone else had to buy the other map packs (4 i believe?)

Bungie also was a sleeze only leaving 2 playlists available with no maps.

[Kornman00]

Bungie redid oldies to match that of the current engine generation using new environments. Has IW produced any evidence that these are more than just drag&drops?

[Atty]

Bungie redid oldies to match that of the current engine generation using new environments. Has IW produced any evidence that these are more than just drag&drops?Willing to bet they just redid the level geometry and then dragged and dropped current textures to match what used to be there.

[Heathen]

well actually, you get 3 maps for 800, thats roughly 200-300 per map
so add two maps to that

200x2=400 obviously

800+400=1200

[paladin]

Bungie redid oldies to match that of the current engine generation using new environments. Has IW produced any evidence that these are more than just drag&drops?

We wont know until they come out. When they do ill post pictures of them for you to see. Okay?


well actually, you get 3 maps for 800, thats roughly 200-300 per map
so add two maps to that

200x2=400 obviously

800+400=1200

pretty much this.

[Inferno]

I remember seeing a leak of 10 new maps for MW2. What is this I don't even?

Maybe there going to make it 2 map packs each costing 1200.

Either way IDC. I haven't played MW2 in months. It got so infested with profags and cheap ass classes it just became unplayable.

[Rook]

It got so infested with profags

????

[Disaster]

I stopped playing MW2. COD4 is much more fun to play to be completely honest.

Also, Screw Activision.

[paladin]

I stopped playing MW2. COD4 is much more fun to play to be completely honest.

Also, Screw Activision.

What are you talking about? Elevatoring out of maps and getting below them are so much fun. Luring people in with emergency airdrops then killing them from under the map.

[Atty]

I'll still buy the maps. I play this game at least 2 or 3 nights a week with friends and have a great time, even if I only have 3 really good fun nights with these maps that comes out to $5 a night which is cheaper then anything we do when we go out, even going to someones house when you factor in gas and party favors (drink, food, condoms, viagra, etc.)

[paladin]

I'll still buy the maps. I play this game at least 2 or 3 nights a week with friends and have a great time, even if I only have 3 really good fun nights with these maps that comes out to $5 a night which is cheaper then anything we do when we go out, even going to someones house when you factor in gas and party favors (drink, food, condoms, viagra, etc.)

Finally a logical person

[Inferno]

????
TBH. MW2 players are some what harder to trole than CoD4 players.

I have no idea why. Maybe they reached levels of smug that even I can't manipulate.

[Disaster]

1. Get a riot shield, hide in a corner (camp hardcore)
2. Place claymores at the entrances
3. use scavenger to resupply
4. repeat

pisses so many people off

[Inferno]

Psh. RPG-7 sniping. +600 kills with the RPG.

[Spartan094]

They should make it so you can choose what map you want to buy. Like the 2 original maps from mw1. Or mix and match. Cause I aint running to the store to buy this shit for 1200 MS points. They should make it 1000 MS points or 800 since they HAVE enough damn money, I don't see why they want more by charging the same. Just go and reduce the price like 200 ms points or in the future do a map pack bundle like treyarch did with cod5, includes all 3 map packs for less.

[Inferno]

Or maybe they should treat the community that has supported them with a freebie for once?

It's not like it's difficult to make 2 maps and 3 ports.

[il Duce Primo]

Inferno you pirated the game and now you want them to give you more stuff for free? You're a fucking snob.

[flibitijibibo]

Inferno definitely bought the game. Until his machine 'sploded he was playing it nonstop (like, 1000 P90 kills nonstop).

He's referring to the PC version, I think.

[Rook]

TBH. MW2 players are some what harder to trole than CoD4 players.

I have no idea why. Maybe they reached levels of smug that even I can't manipulate.

http://bacon.modacity.net/img/images/umadubad.jpg

[paladin]

They all pokemon, use your masterballs

[Donut]

assuming i fix my xbox in the near future, ill probably wait it out and see if these maps are any good. as i recall, alot of people were not happy with the map pack for cod 4, and i never had an issue without it.
and like atty, when my xbox does cooperate with me, ill spend all friday night playing mw2 with my friends. i feel like if i actually went out and did something, id be spending alot more money than i do now (thats assuming i actually had more than one RL friend that i hang out with)
also fucking lol rook.

[Warsaw]

http://bacon.modacity.net/img/images/umadubad.jpg


Somebody called himself/herself "Futamaster"? Really? o_O


I'm willing to bet the decision to make the DLC was forced by Activision...

[Pooky]

MW2 is pretty much the worst MP game ever created, anyone who spends 1200 MS on this is a tool. I'm sitting in a MW2 S&D game right now just laying in my spawn, getting more kills than the people actually trying. It's more fun to listen to the people bitch than to even give a shit.

[Geo]

I'll stick to TF2, and my computer gaming with free add-ons thanks.

Also, MW2 Sucks.

[paladin]

I'll stick to TF2, and my computer gaming with free add-ons thanks.

Also, MW2 Sucks.

Good luck with that...

[MastaCheefa]

They still havent said whether the DLC will be free or not for the PC. It comes out 30 days after the xbox version I think. Im betting not free based on theyre silence.

[paladin]

I guarantee you it wont be free

[MastaCheefa]

I wonder how that will work. Ive never played a PC shooter that required money for maps.

[Warsaw]

Assuming it has a maps folder like most games, somebody could just upload the map file to you, and the necessary savegame file to activate it (or similar).

[Atty]

I'm willing to bet it'll have some assigned key for some database that will check the maps (like Halo PC did before you went online) and then ban you from the game forever if you try to pirate the maps.

[Kornman00]

Halo PC didn't check a database, it just compared your map's hash with the one on the server

[Atty]

Halo PC didn't check a database, it just compared your map's hash with the one on the serverThats all I meant, it checked over your maps.