- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Okay, here goes nothing.
To those of you complaining about the lack of resetting the ranks and updating the playlists, please, shut the -blam!- up. Did any of you download the map packs in the past? Do you not remember that other than them adding a "preview" playlist, they didn't integrate the maps into the actual playlists for a LONG time? Here we are a week later and you want them fully integrated into the system even though there are thousands (I'm guesstimating) out there that wouldn't be able to play the multiplayer aspect of the game to its full potential. To tell them to go play the campaign is just stupid...why don't you do the same thing while waiting for an update you are paying NOTHING for? That brings us to the next point...
To those of you saying that you have paid for and downloaded the maps and that Bungie or M$ isn't living up to their side of the transaction, are you seriously that brain dead? You paid for the maps. PERIOD. The ability to play them in matchmaking is an added bonus and involves much more than flipping a switch and having the games available for online/multiplayer game play. Congratulations on getting the maps without any hitches and there are many that envy you and your "no-problems-download", but to say that you paid and now M$ and Bungie aren't delivering, you just don't understand much of anything do you. To borrow an analogy used earlier, imagine that 10 people want a specific car and 5 are able to obtain it right away while the other 5 are forced to wait and pull out their hair in frustration. Now, do we penalize the 5 that could get the car? No, we allow them to drive it with no issues and tell the 5 that couldn't get the car that it sucks to be them, but we're not waiting. Okay, fair enough. Now, say there is no gas available anywhere on the planet until 2 or three weeks after getting the car. Do you still want the car? Of course. Do you still sit in it and act like you have gas? Of course, you do...especially those under 16 out there. Car = Maps. Gas = Matchmaking with new Maps. Don't hate because the other 5 might get the car before the gas comes in, just sit there and enjoy your car/maps in custom games.
To those of you that think that this is user error and that those that can't get the maps are the ones that don't know what they're doing, if you would also shut the -blam!- up. These people have tried EVERYTHING to get these maps and there is an admitted problem with the download process that is stopping them from downloading them. (Just a side note here...although they probably won't, the only quick fix I see is to make the maps free...this would kill the "purchase" error)
To Bungie, I'm not hating here and I did see the response that programming/updating/releasing/patching/etc is difficult especially with the cross-platform issue we are seeing, but this is ridiculous. Can or can not the maps be put onto the marketplace? I don't want to hear bull-blam!-, I want to hear why you CAN NOT put them on the Marketplace. What is the structure of these files that make them so difficult to put on the Marketplace? Are the map packs from the past not standalone files? Is there a file in the gamer profile that wouldn't be updated if installed from something other than the in-game download manager? If so, how did you do the Halo 2 Map Pack DVD released via retail? I can keep going, but I'll stop.
To everyone. I'm one of the ones that doesn't have the maps on my 360. They downloaded first try on my original Xbox. Not good enough for me. Picking up the controller for the Xbox was so strange I honestly thought that I was suffering from arthritis. I can only imagine if I tried to play H2 with my original S- controller...actually, I'd still suck, just more than usual.
Honestly, I don't care that much if I never get them to download onto my 360. H3 is right around the corner and seeing the video of the new Zanzibar got me stoked for it. I can keep playing BFMC, GHII, and GOW till then...or I'll just power up the Wii. My point here is that I'm not completely pissed about not having the new maps on the 360...I actually like the challenge of trying to figure out what's wrong...but in this case, I'm just frustrated that Bungie, a division of M$, can't get the support necessary from their parent company to support the players that have made the Halo series one of the biggest in history and the only reason so many of us got an Xbox in the first place...let alone being disappointed, and yet super-excited, that H3 would only be on the 360.
Meh, none of it matters, but, there, I said it and I feel better.