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I have way too many things to say and opinions to post and not enough time. I would however like to start by congratulating the DLC and MP design team over at Bungie for making some pretty awesome looking maps (Standoff in particular) I look forward to playing them, but when that time comes is an internal debate that I must resolve by myself.
I would like to resolve a couple of issues that I have noticed that people aren't reading the article and understanding what these maps are about and what Bungie plans to do..... the first being that there Will be 3 new maps released that are fully playable in customs, MM, and Forge. Additionally these maps will be enabled with specialized customization options that the other maps did not have i.e. placeable mancannons and Foundry in particular will have an almost fully rearrangable set-up! This does not mean that this map will download blank!!!! They already have a deafult set-up that no-doubt will be in MM.
Ok, moving on to matchmaking, people are complaining that matchmaking will be messed up because not everybody will have the maps and that BTB will be impossible to play. READ THE ARTICLE! MM will identify what players have what maps and will seperate them from each other. Yes, in the beginning we will be waiting a long time to get a game loaded because not everyone is going to have the maps, guess what DLC maps on every other game have the exact same problems. Nothing can be done to fix that, even if the maps were free people that already had the maps would just be complaining that it's taking too long to find a game in MM because the server decided that it wants to load a DLC map. Sadly, someone just keeps asking if anyone knows whether the (DLC exclusive playlist) will be found under Ranked or Social? Did you read the article? Cause I did and you know what it didn't specify, so what makes you think that anyone here has powers of telepathy and knows the answer to that question????? You can only assume that it would be social for obvious reasons, but we know what happens to you when you ASS-U-ME.
So for everyone complaining about only getting 1-2 maps for matchmaking and one "Forge" only map, please stop posting and take the time to read the article again.
Yes, I'll admit I do think that Xbox live and DLC are taking advantage of consumers in a booming trend referred to as "price gouging". More than half the games released for the Xbox 360 do not deserve their $59.99 tag price nor do they deserve an additional $5 - $25 increase for "exclusive", "downloadable", "special edition", etc. etc...... content; however sometimes and to some people it is worth it.
I think everyone should respect everyone else's opinion on whether or not they choose to purchase the maps now or later, no more of this pointless bickering and biting at Bungie for just doing what it is they enjoy.
Remember that you should be able to make yourself happy with what you create, just as much as they should. If they wanna make a couple of maps that are in their own respect "good maps" then they can. Why? Because they are the ones that took those jobs.
Yes, fan and consumer based opinion is very essential to running a profitable organization! Yes, we could have used a smaller FFA, 1v1, arena style map and some more people would have been happy.... But who's to say that they are not going to??
There are still 3 maps that have been unseen that have been mentioned as DLC in the future (Moonbase Alpha, Purple Reign, and O.K. Corral) and whose to say that Frankie doesn't do another news article the 2nd week of December when the 3 new maps are available and start telling us about even more maps and content that they have created.
Patience is a virtue that I will employ, I do think that 4 maps for $10 would have been reasonable to me. And that's my opinion, I'm entitled to it without having to slander somebody else's. So I will wait until spring and be content with what I have purchased until then.
IMO Bungie takes pretty good care of their community, very few LARGE companies pay as much attention to their fans as much as they do. Yeah they're not perfect, and nobody is.
Bottom line..... Don't buy the game if you can't afford it or don't think that it's worth the purchase, and if you can afford or you will find someway to make it happen because you feel it's worth it, then by all means enjoy =)
Don't slander somebody's social status/opinion/values because they find more value in necessity over desire.
BTW, I really think that a patch would be very helpful and much appreciated and obviously more maps (fan desired) wouldn't hurt either.
But let's not forget about things like, new custom armor permutations, weapons/vehicles, and possibly even some sort of side quests for the Arbiter or something that could still easily be added to this game.
Let's not forget that "Best Multiplayer Game of the Year" is not "Game of the Year" and that Halo 3 will be judged on more than that category...
Amazing job so far guys!!!!!! Keep up the good work over there BUNGIE (criticism is still attention and attention is love =)