I think they should be free. If you want to create a series of games, then developing and keeping a community is key. If map packs are developed for free over time then people are more likely to stick with the game and not get bored. Charging people will only fragment the community and allow them gamers who aren't willing to pay possibly go elsewhere if they are bored. It might work for COD as one is released each year, so it is like fifa/madden a full game can keep people coming back each year. Whereas if you had a 3-4 year gap between sequels then it might be more necessary to develop map packs for free.
I didn't have anything against COD4 map pack. I spent countless amount of hours on that game and I just thought to buy the map pack as a way to show my appreciation. But with WaW there were three map packs and I only bought the first one. I didn't play the game enough to justify buying rest of the packs. Same with MW2, and I stopped playing it after Bad Company 2 came out. I played Black Ops only couple matches, so I'm not planning on buying those either. And I'll probably buy MW3 only because of the SP.
zeta
You had to pay for COD4 maps? that's lame. That must have been a console thing since maps were free on the PC.
Yeah, it was free on PC, Nvidia sponsored it. My old PC couldn't run COD 4 back then. I had it on 360.
Why are people so against $15 Call of Duty maps and not Halo Reach's $10 map packs? I think you get a better deal out of the Call of Duty map packs. I spent $20 on Halo Reach to get 5 maps.Thats a lot higher than the Call of Duty maps.
slipknot0129
People are against it because of the rumors they hear of Activision charging this/that, next time. It isn't really about the money, but the principle. This is something the younger generation of gamers, I feel, fail to understand. I will NEVER buy a $120 250gig harddrive. That is total bs and I just can't support that slimy way of doing business.
That's like 1/4 of a new game purchase. For a couple of maps on a crappy game. Waste of money if I've ever seen one. You could have just as much fun and enjoyment using the default maps. Its pretty much the same thing on every map you play. Run, shoot, run, shoot, die...
the game releases for $60 retail, a couple months later a map pack releases and you buy it. You've now invested $75 on said game. One month later the final map pack releases and you're now up to 90 bucks (keep in mind that all of the maps were already on the disc).
If you're one of those XBL sunscribers that only play games like COD online then you have now invested 150 bucks on the year just to play this game.
They're just overpriced, there's no excuse for a map pack to cost 1/4th of a full new game. As a gamer who plays pretty much anything and not just CoD there's better use for my money, right now I could pick up Bulletstorm or Crysis 2 for around the same price as Escalation for Black Ops, it's not even a competition.
I don't play shooters, but I've downloaded every DLC track in Forza 2 and 3 and it's pretty much the same thing. If you play a game a lot then a few extra bucks for more content is no big deal. If you only play a game casually then there's no reason to buy them. Also, for the PC guys who say "everything is always free"...complete BS. Look at iRacing, their entire business model is set up so you pay for each and every piece of content AND a monthly fee.
Because Halo Reach map packs come with forge? thanks to forge every map in the map pack will become the base for dozens of other maps that will be added to matchmaking for FREE.
One of the worst rip-offs ever seen in this gaming industry, and its a horrible shame people would even consider accepting this, let alone actually pay for. Yet another example of how completely broken our society has become.
for 15 bucks i can just about go buy another game. i have never bought map packs but i have bought dlc content, like expansions : dragon age and i wanna buy fallout new vegas expansions and those are not even 15 bucks and these are more then 1 hour long expansions. Its silly to me that they charge 15 bucks for maps. But if people wanna throw down that money for it go for it, i'm not stopping you but i wish people would think before they do it.
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