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Subject: need new maps to play optimatch, wtf...
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Yea i don't know if I am the only one, but i am pretty pissed off that i need these new maps in order to play optimatch. that's pretty -blam!- -blam!- if you ask me. seriously, thats bull-blam!-, it's ridiculous that they force you to buy these new maps in order to play the game that you ALREADY OWN. How much money do they need to pump out of you in order for you to play this freaking game. I popped in halo 2 on my 360 to play and i get this damn error message, and what happened to these maps being exclusive for the 360, now i have to download them on my original xbox as well?? that's BS plain and simple, they should have made 2 seperate rotations one with the new maps and one without.. Now all I can play is party matches? Why don't you just sell an empty dvd case with no game inside, cuz that's what your pretty much doing.

  • 05.12.2007 3:58 PM PDT
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4 dollars

  • 05.12.2007 4:02 PM PDT
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They should let you play without the maps, and if you start a MM game and it comes up with that map it'll just kick you out. Yeah, it'd be silly, but most of the time you dont get matched with those new maps.

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exactly, if your attributes match then it's game, but if not kick you out, and if anything they should have added a feature to enable the 2 new maps in rotation, and yeah 4 bucks, 4 bucks is better in my pocket than in microsoft or bungies, i think they have enought money coming to them.

  • 05.12.2007 4:39 PM PDT
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Not all gametypes require the new maps. You can still play rumble pit, team training, team hardcore and btb.

  • 05.12.2007 5:46 PM PDT
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Just wait till the maps are free then... bungie said in july they should be free.

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Posted by: ThirdnFinalBeast
exactly, if your attributes match then it's game, but if not kick you out, and if anything they should have added a feature to enable the 2 new maps in rotation, and yeah 4 bucks, 4 bucks is better in my pocket than in microsoft or bungies, i think they have enought money coming to them.


Totally agree.

  • 05.12.2007 6:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: JMAN07
Just wait till the maps are free then... bungie said in july they should be free.


Will we be able to download them though if we still have the same problem we have now?

  • 05.12.2007 6:36 PM PDT
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I'm pretty upset about it too. Yeah, there are a few lists I can still play, but my favorite is and always has been Team Skirmish, which I could no longer play when I last logged on. Sure, it's only $4 and going free in July, but it's still hindering the features of a game I already paid for with no warning unless I am willing to pay up.

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right but while you did pay for halo 2 you only payed for the then current edition. since then bungie has decided to give us more. creating things like that take a lot of time money and effort. the cant run a business for free. be thankful they still care enough about the community to give us new content even after the game has been out for two and a half years

  • 05.12.2007 6:55 PM PDT
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u payed 4 halo 2 when u bought the game, not halo 2 optimatch. u can still play split screen and system link, which is what u payed 4, and u dont need 2 but hem on ur orginal xbox if u only play on ur 360

  • 05.12.2007 6:59 PM PDT
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I cant download. Help me through AIM - Bone Crusher 800

IM me and help me!

  • 05.12.2007 7:30 PM PDT
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bro ur so cheap, just pay the 4 dollars and play the game, it takes time and money to make the maps, why would they give them out for free right away, get a life, if u dont like it play another game...

  • 05.12.2007 7:41 PM PDT
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Shut up and read my posts first. I paid the 4.00, it wont let me re download the maps. It says purchase failed.

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NO IT WON'T LET ME PLAY EITHER AND I HAVE ALL THE MAPS AVAILABLE TO BUY THIS IS BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 05.12.2007 8:08 PM PDT
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Same here it won't let me redownload them either I have changed credit card numbers and everything this almost makes me hate bungie. I wouldn't have payed for these maps if I knew this bs was going to happen




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  • 05.12.2007 8:10 PM PDT
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i understand that it cost money to make these mps, but it should be an OPTION to pay for them, because they decided to come out with new stuff, I have to buy it in order to play the modes on this game that I want, that were available on the disc when I bought it??? C'mon bro, just think about it. I didn't know that the maps were going to be free in July, that cool. But I mean, not that this is my situation, but imagine yourself as a kid, your parents got u and xbox and live and halo etc. U love halo, and now you can't play online, and find joy in screaming into the mic because you gotta pay another 4 bucks into a game you already paid for?? Crackdown just came out with new content, imagine that you had to buy it in order to play the game, how would you feel about it?? Gears of war just came out with new maps, and you can still play every mode they have to offer w/o d/ling the new content. I just think that Bungie or Microsoft should have said, OK we obviously want to charge for this content, but for those who don't want to play the new maps, WHO DIDN'T EVEN LIKE THE ORIGINAL MAPS ON HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED, now you gotta buy them in order to play the maps you actually do like, it's stupid beyond belief. I know the beta comes out this week, and everyone will be playing that (that got and invite or crackdown) but what happened after they close the beta? Another factor is how these maps were suppose to be exclusive for the 360, now you gotta download them again on the original xbox as well? then contact MS and have them refund you for the 2nd transaction? that's -blam!- dumb. They screwed up, they should have made these new maps available in a download with the new new update. So for people who wanted to to just play the old maps, you would keep ver. 1.4 and for those who want the upgrade you update to 1.5.

  • 05.12.2007 9:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: ThirdnFinalBeast
i understand that it cost money to make these mps, but it should be an OPTION to pay for them, because they decided to come out with new stuff, I have to buy it in order to play the modes on this game that I want, that were available on the disc when I bought it??? C'mon bro, just think about it. I didn't know that the maps were going to be free in July, that cool. But I mean, not that this is my situation, but imagine yourself as a kid, your parents got u and xbox and live and halo etc. U love halo, and now you can't play online, and find joy in screaming into the mic because you gotta pay another 4 bucks into a game you already paid for?? Crackdown just came out with new content, imagine that you had to buy it in order to play the game, how would you feel about it?? Gears of war just came out with new maps, and you can still play every mode they have to offer w/o d/ling the new content. I just think that Bungie or Microsoft should have said, OK we obviously want to charge for this content, but for those who don't want to play the new maps, WHO DIDN'T EVEN LIKE THE ORIGINAL MAPS ON HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED, now you gotta buy them in order to play the maps you actually do like, it's stupid beyond belief. I know the beta comes out this week, and everyone will be playing that (that got and invite or crackdown) but what happened after they close the beta? Another factor is how these maps were suppose to be exclusive for the 360, now you gotta download them again on the original xbox as well? then contact MS and have them refund you for the 2nd transaction? that's -blam!- dumb. They screwed up, they should have made these new maps available in a download with the new new update. So for people who wanted to to just play the old maps, you would keep ver. 1.4 and for those who want the upgrade you update to 1.5.


rong...if you think about it, halo2 did not come with Matchmaking. read behind the halo2 case, it does not say anywhere on there that it comes with playlists or matchmaking. just online play. bungie created the matchmaking system, bungie created the playlists, and bungie is the one supporting these playlists and keeping them alive. it is a privilege, because bungie is not making you pay for their matchmaking system. hell if they wanted to, they could have a system like gears (not bashing on gears, great game, terrible online setup) and totally screw us over. when u payed for halo2, you payed for what was on the disc, not the extra DLC that was inevitably going to come.

  • 05.12.2007 9:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: ThirdnFinalBeast
i understand that it cost money to make these mps, but it should be an OPTION to pay for them, because they decided to come out with new stuff, I have to buy it in order to play the modes on this game that I want, that were available on the disc when I bought it??? C'mon bro, just think about it. I didn't know that the maps were going to be free in July, that cool. But I mean, not that this is my situation, but imagine yourself as a kid, your parents got u and xbox and live and halo etc. U love halo, and now you can't play online, and find joy in screaming into the mic because you gotta pay another 4 bucks into a game you already paid for?? Crackdown just came out with new content, imagine that you had to buy it in order to play the game, how would you feel about it?? Gears of war just came out with new maps, and you can still play every mode they have to offer w/o d/ling the new content. I just think that Bungie or Microsoft should have said, OK we obviously want to charge for this content, but for those who don't want to play the new maps, WHO DIDN'T EVEN LIKE THE ORIGINAL MAPS ON HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED, now you gotta buy them in order to play the maps you actually do like, it's stupid beyond belief. I know the beta comes out this week, and everyone will be playing that (that got and invite or crackdown) but what happened after they close the beta? Another factor is how these maps were suppose to be exclusive for the 360, now you gotta download them again on the original xbox as well? then contact MS and have them refund you for the 2nd transaction? that's -blam!- dumb. They screwed up, they should have made these new maps available in a download with the new new update. So for people who wanted to to just play the old maps, you would keep ver. 1.4 and for those who want the upgrade you update to 1.5.


rong...if you think about it, halo2 did not come with Matchmaking. read behind the halo2 case, it does not say anywhere on there that it comes with playlists or matchmaking. just online play. bungie created the matchmaking system, bungie created the playlists, and bungie is the one supporting these playlists and keeping them alive. it is a privilege, because bungie is not making you pay for their matchmaking system. hell if they wanted to, they could have a system like gears (not bashing on gears, great game, terrible online setup) and totally screw us over. when u payed for halo2, you payed for what was on the disc, not the extra DLC that was inevitably going to come.


Yes I know its a priviledge but i believe microsoft and bungie agrred to allow others game companies to use matchmaking/party system that halo 2 has in there games. Epic games wanted to add it to GEARS but it was to late when that was announced and they were on a deadline. So with this said I paid for the new maps and I can't redownload them or repurchase them at all. I don't think bungie should start forcing you to buy there maps to play online it never said that on the box when I bought the god damn game

  • 05.12.2007 9:35 PM PDT

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How many hours have you logged on H2 live? 100? 200? or so many we should be ashamed? We've been milking the bungie teet for years and they have been providing me/us with quality entertainment in that time. $4 is a very small price to pay considering the amount of time people have spent playing the game. The statement you have posted reeks of someone with no real life experiance, it is as though you have been giving everything and thus expect everything. I could be totally wrong and maybe you work for your money like I do but that is exactly why I don't feel conned for paying $4 dollars to support the Halo universe.

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  • 05.12.2007 10:06 PM PDT
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ok you have a point about halo 2 not coming with matchmaking, but what I am saying is that how can you expect people to keep throwing down money to play your game online??? I mean you already paid the 50 bucks for live, now for a game that you already own, you have to go and spend another 4 bucks just to play the game that you have been playing all along. If you didn't like these maps, you still have to buy them in order to play the modes that the game offeres already??? that's bull -blam!-. Look at gears of war, they just released 4 new maps, but if you don't download them, you can still play the game! I'm not asking for something for nothing, I just think that it's retarded that in order to play a game that you already have played a billion times, now bungie and microsoft come along and say, HEY, here's 2 new maps, you better buy them otherwise you can't play another other players in the modes that we already offer. BUt If you want play with your friends on the old maps. But if you wanna play with other people you don't know and play some team slayer, your pretty much owned for 4 bucks.

Just Imagine the same thing happing, on a larger scale with Halo 3. You know it's going to happen now, you might as well give them your credit card info for the future so that they just charge you anytime they offer some updated material. Cuz If you wanna play the game, you might as well just play the single player.

  • 05.13.2007 7:01 AM PDT

You were born Guilty

paying for xbl is different then paying for halo. paying $50 for a live subscription means you can now plays more than 100 games on x-box live. Paying $4 for 2 maps for halo2 is easy. How much have you paid for halo 2 in the last three years or more? hmmm lets see, how much are you willing to pay for at least two years entertainment?......I think we got off easy.

  • 05.13.2007 8:35 PM PDT

Stop trying to justify this. Its simple, Bungie is not giving people a full 100% functioning multiplayer unless you purchase these new maps. Personally I consider it a betrayal. I've moved on to the 360 and was loyal to H2 for years, purchasing all new maps and everything. I wanted to come back and play a bit before the beta and I found out i'm forced to have these maps to play my favorite gametypes. I can't think of any games that have forced me out of previous content available unless I buy new content. 4 dollars isn't the problem, the problem is I don't want those maps.

I was given the option in the past and now i'm being given no option. Either play these limited options or pay money. Well I suppose i'll just stick to team hardcore then. I applaud Bungie for offering new content, but content is always about options. You took away my ranks, you altered matchmaking for what seems to the be the worst, and then you force me to buy maps to access what should be typical H2 online content. Sorry Bungie, but bad move.

  • 05.13.2007 8:44 PM PDT

You were born Guilty

The maps will be free sometime in july so you do actually have a choice of wether or not you want to pay for them,....if you make the choice not to spend $4 to support the halo universe then you will have to wait until july to play full multiplayer. They reset the ranks because they added an update which hopefully makes it harder for cheaters. Now with everyone at rank one most of the high ranks you will see should be earned.

  • 05.14.2007 2:20 PM PDT
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Ok... this makes ABSOLUTELY no sense at all. I have downloaded the 2 new maps on my 360. The only two MM types I can do are training and double team... DOUBLE TEAM's RANKED! but I can't do anything else (slayer, swat, BTB, etc.); btw my "but" can be lower-cased because an exclamation can be placed in the middle of a sentence, check it out.

Anyways... why can't I do Team Slayer, but I can do Double Team and Training, the only 2... not even Rumble Pit, I mean c'mon.

  • 05.14.2007 3:27 PM PDT

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