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  • Poll [36 votes]: Your oppinion on the new maps(only 2 maps not worth the price) and mm.
Subject: Maps, and matchmaking and costs..

Poll: Your oppinion on the new maps(only 2 maps not worth the price) and mm.  [closed]
Its Ok:  50%
(18 Votes)
Don't mind:  14%
(5 Votes)
SUCKS @$$:  36%
(13 Votes)
Total Votes: 36

Ok, so heres the problem the new maps are £2 (4$) Thats not the problem allthough i dont have money hell im relieing on the 1 month free trial for gold till i get money for a 12 month, i had originally bought the other halo 2 maps that were pay to get, its not the problem of the prices themselves Its the fact that its only 2 maps, that i hear that barely get used in matchmaking yet alone bungie and thier lazy asses just REMADE maps they cant think of anything new, i hear thats the story in halo 3 as well with last resort (Zanzibar cheap remake yet again) So what it seems is mostly theyre remaking halo 1 and 2 maps all the time which is pretty boring, thx bungie but the only decent remake you did was blood gulch (coagulation) allthough the map was a bit dull and dark id have to say.

But hey i may be -blam!-ing about the maps costing and just being 2, wrong its more than that, ANY pc game you come across just about all content (patches updates maps skins etc) WILL BE FREE, secondly you pay for your own internet thats about the only cost other than having bought your pc and the game. So what here you buy a decent pc and a game, you get all the additionals FREE. But you see whats going on here i think is microsoft is trying to even out the costs of a pc with the 360.

For example, With the 360 you pay about £300/$300 or something, then about £40/$40 a year for xbl (around $80 price for UK players £1 = $1.9 or something..) Then you basically gotta buy a tv (maybe HD) controllers, batterys, the game, and update it when theres just about every download on it is PAY for until about 4 months later or something it goes Free. But hey that may be 1 game, but what pisses me off is that ALLMOST EVERY -blam!- DOWNLOAD OF MAPS AND ADDITIONALS FOR EVERY SINGLE 360 GAME COSTS MONEY! Eventually if you equal this out you will have been paying more for the same set of games on a 360 with all the downloads than a pc with the same set of games with the downloads for free.

Tbh i know microsoft forced epic to put a price on gow's 4 new maps but hey thats 4 new maps thats kind of worth it i think allthough the games only mode with respawns is annex which is basically Moving king of the hill.. So in that update why not add death match team deathmatch and maybe ctf that would of been better thx. But what im getting at is Microsoft is the richest company on the earth and they cant slack us a few £ or $ for a small 2 map download.. 2 MAPS FOR £2... its not really the cost which is the matter its the fact you need a Credit card which i do not have nor do my parents due to financial status, hell i have the money right here problem is i cant buy the maps with it for a game no one plays anymore because halo 3 is comming out on beta in 6 days, Then they say the maps will be free in july..... -blam!- JULY IN JULY IM PROBALLY NOT GOING TO BOTHER WITH HALO 2! July is 2 months away thats pretty a long time, But what annoys me more is now theyre forcing you to buy thier -blam!- ass 2 maps that are remakes on 2 halo 1 maps which the only one i played was hang em high but on halo 1 i was more concentrating on blood gulch as i was playing team games, Hang em high is more for a all vs all or some -blam!- up team slayer match where people spawn behind each other all the time.

the £2/$4 may not seem like much, but the amount of fools that buy these maps when halo 3 is comming out in 6 days from now.. it adds up to a pretty big amount of money for such cheap ass work which bungie actually took pretty much a while to make when they probally got the original map just remodeled and reskinned and tweaked it a bit... Guarantee you, any non bungie halo map maker (Custom edition editors) would probally of been able to make those maps in a few days, on thier own... with no special mods on it.. Bungie take the piss and take months to make this crap? Was this meant to make us look foward to halo 3? If you want us to anticipate halo 3 more why not put one of the weapons veichles or maps in halo 3 into halo 2 but a downgraded version like a taster? No bungie isnt that smart they want to spam crappy maps for £2 when every pc player will get maps on any game for free and then force you to buy it by making only 2 match making playlists available without it and erase your ranks on double team and rumble pit (Yeah some reason my rank on double team reset after getting it to level 9 2 nights ago in a hour.)

Seriously bungie, im not going to bother with your maps infact, this weekend or sometime me and my friends are having a lan 4v4 tournament with some people, and were going to use the old maps, because they didnt suck and they were cheap ass remakes of your old maps, im not even going to bother going online anymore anyway it lags way too much the engine is -blam!-, a guys shield down then i melee him should kill him correct? wrong it does nothing the guy jumps back away from me after and shoots me in about 1 second between my melee and his shot and that counts as him winning over me.. LAME

thx but im strictly being cheap ass with xbl now, im not buying anything from them -blam!- IT COSTS YOU MONEY TO HAVE A 50X50 PIXEL IMAGE ON YOUR GAMERTAG HOW LAME IS THAT, I CAN GO VIEW IT ON MY PC FOR FREE WHY WOULD I PAY TO SEE IMAGES? THIS IS EQUAL TO HAVING PAY PER MINUTE BROADBAND THATS EXPENSIVE ON XBOX LIVE.. anyone agree this is bull -blam!- by making the maps pay then -blam!- up all the matchmaking lists ( no one i know plays halo 2 now so its impossible to create custom games so dont say that ) another thing you could do that would be awesome would be banning people for 2 hours from halo if they quit big team battle seeming its the only thing i can play now till july, well as if i am going to halo 3 beta is in 6 days so -blam!- halo 2.

  • 05.10.2007 2:17 PM PDT

bump

  • 05.10.2007 2:28 PM PDT
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I think the maps are a good addition. It keeps me sain. I've played the others (maps) so much they've almost lost their fun. I don't play much Live, but alot of LANs. These maps ARE fun. No one FORCED you to buy the new maps. And so what if they had a few hiccups getting these maps on Live. It's not like they are working with Macs. They're working for/with Microsoft. Everything is complicated and hard to do with them.

Thanks Bungie for taking the time (i know you didn't have to) to create these maps!

[Edited on 05.10.2007 2:40 PM PDT]

  • 05.10.2007 2:36 PM PDT

I think $4 is a fine price for two maps (even though it charged me twice, but $8 is worth it too ^.^). Tombstone is awesome with Slayer or CTF and Desolation is a blast with SWAT or Oddball. I'm happy with the new content, and the new playlists don't bother me. I wasn't a high level in matchmaking so I don't mind the level reset.

  • 05.10.2007 2:48 PM PDT

These are crappy remakes though and only 2 maps and the fact that it stops me playing in matchmaking completely is a rip off................ id buy it if it wasnt just 2 maps or remakes.

  • 05.10.2007 3:46 PM PDT

$50,000,000,000 REWARD!!!

Santa Claus must be stopped! He is a menace who is not only guilty of billions of counts of breaking in entering, but also runs an illegal sweatshop of midgets forced to work for no pay using stolen materials to make gifts that infringe on every company and manufacturer around the globe, causing world wide economic disasters. He is to be taken dead or alive!

I spent five dollars on candy two days ago. Its worth it

  • 05.10.2007 3:55 PM PDT
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I personally like the maps. They are defiantly worth the money especially considering you need them to play MP now.

  • 05.10.2007 4:10 PM PDT
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You dont just get the maps you get the other half of matchmaking

  • 05.10.2007 4:16 PM PDT
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I don't like desolation. It needs a battle rifle start. But Tombstone is fine.

  • 05.10.2007 4:18 PM PDT
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You give us choices of "It's okay", "Don't mind", and "SUCKS @$$"... Gee, I wonder how you feel about this topic? I do agree that Micro$oft is overcharging for everything, but we all know that Micro$oft is all about the Benjamens. You bought a 360 knowing you would more than likely have more fees than the PS3 (PS3's "Home" is a free networking / gaming system). Sony > Micro$oft, PS3 > 360. I've had nothing but problems with my POS 360 ... I'd gladly trade it for a PS3.

  • 05.10.2007 5:25 PM PDT