It comes out to each map being the same price as a new Pinball FX2 table and it get's the same if not more use out of it. Nobody bitches about the prices of the tables, but they want to whine about a $3 map. It's just the usual "Valve/PC gives us these for free, Activision sucks because all the care about is money", not realizing that Valve can give away maps because of all the extra cash they get rolling in selling other peoples games on Steam.Ephraim J. Witchwood said:
Gamers OK With CoD DLC Prices, Says Treyarch
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Nooo, about 20% of the community like the price, and a good proportion of the remainder go along with buying it because they are fed up they can't play with their friends on the maps they keep playing! Why keep playing the same 4 maps over and over, because THEY PAID $15 for it, they want to get their moneys worth.
Remove the peer-pressure element and I guaranteed these DLC pack sales wouldn't sell a 1/4 as well at this price.
Remove the peer-pressure element and I guaranteed these DLC pack sales wouldn't sell a 1/4 as well at this price.
The hell we are OK with that price.
Luckily is for a POS game, so I have no problem whatsoever if the millions that inexplicably paid for clone of duty 7 also let themselves be ripped off with map pack number 2 at a quarter the price of the full game.
At least Treyarch is not recycling maps. It's sad, but Infinity Ward (or what remains of it) is even worse. Bravo for both developers.
Luckily is for a POS game, so I have no problem whatsoever if the millions that inexplicably paid for clone of duty 7 also let themselves be ripped off with map pack number 2 at a quarter the price of the full game.
At least Treyarch is not recycling maps. It's sad, but Infinity Ward (or what remains of it) is even worse. Bravo for both developers.
As a side note they are releasing a black ops modding kit for PC,tzimize said:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/numb-thumbs-blog/2043956/duty-black-ops-pc-mod-tool-release
They'll probably charge for it though
I'll take that as a compliment, it's way better than what we PC gamers call console gamers:Ephraim J. Witchwood said:
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I think in general people are willing to pay a little bit more than what they think is fair to get something they think they want, even if they are getting ripped for some cash.
People may be thinking ehhh this is only worth maybe 5 or 10 and that's still to much for some maps, but all my friends are doing it and I can ***** about it the whole time.
Besides I feel some people who don't own steam and aren't into pc games get taken for a ride by the consoles. compare what the idea of a sale is to xbox and steam. Take the potato sack you get $154.87 worth of games for like 38 bucks, and they introduced a highly entertaining side promotion within these games. Consoles might get to pay what 100 bucks 125 and get told its a steal and to buy up, we're getting hosed.
People may be thinking ehhh this is only worth maybe 5 or 10 and that's still to much for some maps, but all my friends are doing it and I can ***** about it the whole time.
Besides I feel some people who don't own steam and aren't into pc games get taken for a ride by the consoles. compare what the idea of a sale is to xbox and steam. Take the potato sack you get $154.87 worth of games for like 38 bucks, and they introduced a highly entertaining side promotion within these games. Consoles might get to pay what 100 bucks 125 and get told its a steal and to buy up, we're getting hosed.
gamers don't have a choice, there's nothing about this that is "fair" when you don't even have the option to pay less for it. less you want to play this multiplayer game where every time a server swaps to a map you don't have, you get booted from the game <.<
The only people really complaining about teh price are those who don't even play CoD anyway, the people who would maybe download the DLC if it was free and then play it once before never touching it again. The people who still play CoD and would get use out of the maps are fine with the price. Sure they wouldn;t complain if the prices were lower, but to them the value is there. That's all he's saying.
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the thing that annoys me the most about the map pack cost is that ea likes to copy activision (damn you 60 pc games) so Im worried they might do this with battlefield 3 when it comes out, make over priced map packs
Why I chose DLC over an equally priced new copy of Bioshock I will never know. I don't like any of the new maps, especialy stadium, spawn kills everywhere. If I can get a good game for the price of overpriced DLC on a bad game then somethings wrong with Activision's business model, however obvious a fact that is.
And what the critics are saying is that these maps are over-priced compared to the effort it takes to make them. They could sell the map packs for $5 and still make huge profits. They could release the map packs for free and make significant profit based on the positive community reaction and higher front-end sales on the next CoD (because hey, they support their games and make sure people get lasting enjoyment out of them; that's what games of the past relied on and it worked). Instead, Activision seems intent on making as much money as possible out of their players. Of course, that's 100% perfect business sense, but it leaves the community feeling like a squeezed sponge. No one can really fault Activision for having good (short-term at least) business sense, but they're obviously not out to make friends or good-will amongst the player-base.StriderShinryu said:
15 bucks could also nab you a copy of Bayonetta, or Darksiders, or Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. Much superior games compared to useless DLC maps.kman123 said:
Now, if they made a $15 ZOMBIE MAP PACK with 3 or 4 new Zombie maps, i'd be ALL OVER that shit.
Meh. Treyarch hasn't seen a cent of my money since MW2, and isn't likely to at this rate. the way games nickel and dime you to death in general these days grates on me.
I remember being able to go to wal-mart with $15 and come home with a jewel case version of a AAA game... ah the good ol' days...
I remember being able to go to wal-mart with $15 and come home with a jewel case version of a AAA game... ah the good ol' days...
Actually, they aren't okay with it. The cluster of CoD fans round here bitched endlessly about the rising prices, and made several good points... then went on to faithfully buy the DLC like a good little *****. Almost there guys. Almost.Zhukov said:
Only one of them snapped out of it and went "well you can just fuck right off." All in all, the fans don't like it, and if prices keep rising, it'll snap them out of their stupor.