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Subject: Heroic Map Pack Announced for Halo 3
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While I agree that 800 points is a little expensive for 3 maps, it will still be nice to see some more variety in Halo 3.

What I am hoping for is an matchmaking list exclusively for Forge created maps, I'm sure Bungie has seen and created some awesome variants to the maps we're already playing (as well as the incoming Foundry). And of course, I'd like to see the inclusion of some other new matchmaking lists like Team Snipers and Infection (I have never played a game of infection before (and I missed the Halloween infection playlist) but hear it's pretty fun.).

Anyways, if Bungie comes along and updates some of the matchmaking lists as well as release these 3 maps on Dec 11, I'll be a happy gamer, even at the 800 point cost.

p.s. Trip Mines are awesome, I want to see them on more maps!

  • 11.19.2007 3:35 PM PDT

Posted by: X Treme Talent
i dont get it.

first bungie is going to charge 10 freaking dollars for 3 maps!!! 3 maps!! what the....

also, there aren't any remakes included? ok? i dont get it. the community cries out for some classic maps to be redone and bungie just sits there ignoring it. what they could have done, or should do is surprise their loyal fanbase with some nice gifts come christmas mainly

3 remade maps for free!!


I think you are mistaken by thinking that the world is fair. lol

  • 11.19.2007 3:35 PM PDT

"And when I vest my flashing sword And my hand takes hold in judgment I will take vengeance upon mine enemies And I will repay those who hase me O Lord, raise me to Thy right hand And count me among Thy saints ."

This was posted earlier, but people seem to still be complaining about it. So, to all those who are complaining about the lack of smaller maps, I made one for you: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=14196112

Give it a try and hopefully if it does well bungie will see that there is a demand for it. (Sorry, I can't seem to post an actual link to it so you have to copy and paste)

  • 11.19.2007 3:37 PM PDT

Lurking like a baws. Totally. It's like totally important if I post because I barely post.

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WHO EVEN LOOKS AT SIGNATURES ON BUNGIE.NET ANYWAY???

i am certainly disappointed that I'll have to pay 800$ points, but seriously, it would have also cool for those who want it cheap to have two maps (the first one and the second one, I do not want to play on the third level, creeps me bad memories in:P)

  • 11.19.2007 3:39 PM PDT

My Best Bungie moment: finally beating all the Halo games on solo legendary.
My Worst Bungie moment: not seeing giant stuffie grunts in the Bungie store.

Maps look awesome but 800 points is way too much.
The Halo 2 Map Pack came with 3x as many maps+ bonus content and was only double the price

  • 11.19.2007 3:39 PM PDT
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Hmmm, the first 2 maps look like something that Big Team Battle would have only. Personally, I don't play a lot of big team battle so it's not really worth it plus a forge map hmmm...ok. I think the best course of action would be just to wait it out. You have 2 maps for like big team battle only they're a good 16 people going in there chances are not everyone will have it with that amount of people.

Plus you have a couple of great games that came out Call of Duty 4, Assassin's Creed, and Mass effect coming out soon. This should kill a good amount of time for these 3 maps to become free, and hopefully get a better offer than 3 maps and no remakes of the classic ones.

  • 11.19.2007 3:39 PM PDT

Your crew dont phase us, dont make you bustas pay us! Run up in your spot like CJ from San Andreas

800MS points...$10...for THREE -blam!- maps? Get the -blam!- outta here.

I would pay 800MS points just for Sidewinder ALONE, that was a awesome map. But if they remade it, i probably wouldnt, i hated the remake of Hang Em High...shiit, id pay $40 tops for every halo 1 map untouched but just ported

  • 11.19.2007 3:40 PM PDT
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these maps are really bad im very disappointed and wheres the ''purple reign'' map they were talkin about, it looks like the only thing they were focused on is how they can make BTB a better play which it never will be, i think they need to scrap these and try again

  • 11.19.2007 3:44 PM PDT
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I cant wait for these new awesome maps to come out. It'll bring all you evil Call of Duty 4 players back to the BEST GAME EVER!
WOOHOO NEW MAPS!

  • 11.19.2007 3:45 PM PDT
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Halo 3 is still sorely lacking in small maps, as others have said. Where's the Midship remake?

I don't like the price point either. I'll wait till they become free, thanks.

On a more positive note, though, I really love the art design on Standoff. Foundry looks interesting as well.

I have doubts about Rat's Nest. Maybe it's just because I didn't like that particular level in the campaign (too repetitive), but my initial impression of this map isn't a very good one.

IMO as a whole the art styles for Halo 3 MP maps look too "Human." By that I mean that they're too industrial-looking. The Pit is a good example of what I mean.

  • 11.19.2007 3:46 PM PDT
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Awesome, I can't wait
More hours to spend blowing up friends and enemies in matchmaking,also It would be great if you can pilot/forge the pelican on Rats Nest? I wonder what the other map packs will be called?

  • 11.19.2007 3:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: Foxsnipe
You know what, I see a lot of complaints about the price and more complaints about how soon the DLC came out after the game did. Here's an idea, don't buy it and wait until it's free, then you'll have waited a longer period of time.

As for those complaining about the price, it shouldn't have shocked you. Things are expensive these days (it's not just the DLC, all prices are going up in the world). As someone else said, keep setting your pocket change aside (of course, that requires you to spend money, instead of relying on other people's credit cards... hint hint), then you'll have enough money to walk into a retail store and buy a points card. Problem solved.


I like your sense of humor but just because it is common to get overcharged for things doesn't make it right.


Here's an idea then... people should protest with their wallet, stop whining like a child, and move on to the "next best thing" which will also price gouge at some point. Verbal/written complaints fall on deaf/"don't care"/"not our fault" ears. All it does is incite a riot and cause more problems.

Honestly, I could make that $10 forgoing dessert at a "cheap" eat-in diner in two days, or work for 3 hours or less at minimum wage. For those too young to get a job, do some chores for a week and ask nicely to the parental units.

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Here's a cost rundown of previous Halo 2 downloadable maps.

Bonus Map Pack - Containment and Warlock - Free
Killtacular Map Pack - Sanctuary and Turf - $6
Maptacular Map Pack - Gemini, Relic, Elongation, Terminal, and Backwash - $12
A Little Too Late There, Buddy Pack - Tombstone and Desolation - $4

Personally, I feel that $10 is too much for three maps. There's not enough value there for $10. Gears of War had four maps for $10 (although even then I felt that the price was too high). You can get a full XBLA game, Exit, for $10 (yes it's a PSP port, but it's a big game). If it were up to me, I'd offer the three maps for $5. I don't mind paying for additional content, but I do believe in paying a fair price and not one that almost seems like price-gouging.

There is a simple solution to this. If you truly feel that $10 is too much for three maps, DO NOT BUY THEM. Resist the urge of succumbing to peer pressure and stand your ground. You can do all the complaining you want in the Bungie forum, but the only way you'll convince Microsoft to lower the price of these maps is to not buy them.

When the maps will become free next year and Bungie offers the next set of maps, they'll look at how many people bought the first pack. If the numbers are low, then Bungie and Microsoft will realize that they overcharged their first pack and will offer the second pack at a lower price. However, if people still buy the first pack in droves, then expect more 3 for $10 packs in the future. It's free market principles at its finest, and the future of Bungie map pricing schemes is up to you.

Where do you stand?

  • 11.19.2007 3:50 PM PDT

It will be nice to see a map close to Coag. Also 800 is way too much we payed 4 bucks for the last set of down loadable map and that was only 3 maps. But none the less the more maps the better.

  • 11.19.2007 3:51 PM PDT

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is DLC only playlist ranked or social

  • 11.19.2007 3:51 PM PDT

Don't tell me what I can't do.

Posted by: XxSpartan2552xX
Too bad you have to pay freaking $10.00...apparently the guys over at Bungie are not satisfied with their MILLIONS of dollars they made off of the Halo 3 release. Freaking greedy, I really did not expect them to charge for these.

First of all, bungie may not actually get the whole ten dollars and maybe even not part of it. The three maps cost 800 microsoft points. Secondly, they may not have even suggested it. It could all be Microsoft's deceptive money schemes. That is one thing that ive never liked about microsoft points. They make you spend more then you want to. and then when you buy the item that costs 800 microsoft points, you have the 200 left and they make you think hmmmmm, well. It wont cost me any money to use these up. And then you spend them on something stupid like themes or gamer pictures. It's like a horrible society or something.

  • 11.19.2007 3:52 PM PDT

Please Bungie, redeem yourself w/ Reach.
Halo 2 and 3 both stink out loud.
In the immortal words of Mr Horse: Halo 2? No sir, didn't like it.

Posted by: lukems
With the content announced and priced, we talk to a couple of the DLC leads for some more details.


click for full story


Awesome. Glad you are working on pay for content instead of addressing the plethora of issues w/ the game. Do you read the forums??

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  • 11.19.2007 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cowdisease
Here's a cost rundown of previous Halo 2 downloadable maps.

Bonus Map Pack - Containment and Warlock - Free
Killtacular Map Pack - Sanctuary and Turf - $6
Maptacular Map Pack - Gemini, Relic, Elongation, Terminal, and Backwash - $12
A Little Too Late There, Buddy Pack - Tombstone and Desolation - $4

Personally, I feel that $10 is too much for three maps. There's not enough value there for $10. Gears of War had four maps for $10 (although even then I felt that the price was too high). You can get a full XBLA game, Exit, for $10 (yes it's a PSP port, but it's a big game). If it were up to me, I'd offer the three maps for $5. I don't mind paying for additional content, but I do believe in paying a fair price and not one that almost seems like price-gouging.

There is a simple solution to this. If you truly feel that $10 is too much for three maps, DO NOT BUY THEM. Resist the urge of succumbing to peer pressure and stand your ground. You can do all the complaining you want in the Bungie forum, but the only way you'll convince Microsoft to lower the price of these maps is to not buy them.

When the maps will become free next year and Bungie offers the next set of maps, they'll look at how many people bought the first pack. If the numbers are low, then Bungie and Microsoft will realize that they overcharged their first pack and will offer the second pack at a lower price. However, if people still buy the first pack in droves, then expect more 3 for $10 packs in the future. It's free market principles at its finest, and the future of Bungie map pricing schemes is up to you.

Where do you stand?


I agree. I refuse to buy them if they're overpriced. I can wait a few months.

  • 11.19.2007 3:55 PM PDT

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  • 11.19.2007 3:55 PM PDT

The Rivers Jiggly Bah

Posted by: Not A Taco
what happened to moonbase alpha?


yah, i was wondering that too....

  • 11.19.2007 3:57 PM PDT

Posted by: syco saga
this thread is full of so many retards that its ridicules

Posted by: Acid Gambit003
DLC has to be the worst thing to happend to gaming.


I agree entirely. While I think DLC is a cool idea, I think it's currently being abused. When sports games begin charging (or expecting us to waste hard drive space for that matter) in order to download alternative jerseys you know there is a problem. Game developers and the companies that have created networks like Xbox Live (aka Microsoft) are forcing consumers to double up on purchases and, like suckers, we are. Remember when stuff like being able to wear a team's throw-back jersey was free and included on the disc of the game you purchased? Seems like a long time ago.

Worse yet, DLC has become a crutch for developers who don't bother adequately testing their games before launch. Yes, it's nice that they have the opportunity to send out patches to fix some bugs and glitches that come up, but a vast amount of games out there have issues that are being corrected by these so-called patches that should have been corrected in the developmental stages.

I really think DLC is a good idea in theory, just not in practice (at least currently). As of right this moment, DLC is nothing more than a marketing tool being used to get us to pay for things we used to get for free - and don't even get me started on stupid crap like profile pictures and themes. The current state of Live's "marketplace" is an absolute joke.

I usually don't reference Gears of War on Halo-related forums, but their marketing team did a great thing when they had their batch of new maps be sponsored by Future Weapons. I can live with blatant commercialism like that so long as they pay for my maps. Hell, I'd even watch the show in appreciation. There is no doubt in my mind that Microsoft and Bungie will make a killing on the 800 Microsoft price they set for the three maps, but it seems more and more companies are forgetting who exactly they're killing.

[Edited on 11.19.2007 4:09 PM PST]

  • 11.19.2007 4:03 PM PDT

Please Bungie, redeem yourself w/ Reach.
Halo 2 and 3 both stink out loud.
In the immortal words of Mr Horse: Halo 2? No sir, didn't like it.

Posted by: xxJG0Dxx
THANKS BUNGIE,,,,,,to all those people who are still whinging about mlg game types and what not,,,GET OVER IT,,,no other game has put out dlc so soon,,,so STOP WHINGING,,,


Yeah it's because these were supposed to be in the shipped game.

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  • 11.19.2007 4:03 PM PDT
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They don't really look like $10 worth....I'll test them at a friend's and I'll only buy them if they really blow my mind (which I kinda don't think they will...)

  • 11.19.2007 4:04 PM PDT

My Best Bungie moment: finally beating all the Halo games on solo legendary.
My Worst Bungie moment: not seeing giant stuffie grunts in the Bungie store.

I agree DONT BUY THE MAPS SO THAT THEY HAVE TO LOWER THE PRICES, even if the maps look awesome.

  • 11.19.2007 4:05 PM PDT

Please Bungie, redeem yourself w/ Reach.
Halo 2 and 3 both stink out loud.
In the immortal words of Mr Horse: Halo 2? No sir, didn't like it.

Posted by: Infiltrate09
wow, some of you are really pathetic. Why don't you just suck bungie's balls?

This is really upsetting. Two of those maps looks like they were taken out of the level "Crows Nest" which was a horrible level for the campaign. (lets not forget the last two levels of course, which were obviously much worse)

But seriously, like bungie haven't made enough money on the H3 xbox, controllers, backpacks, headsets, missile cases(?), and let alone the game itself. Bungie might as well take a giant crap on all of us because this just isn't fair.

Greed is a horrible, horrible thing when it comes to money.

With Call of Duty and the new frontlines demo coming out soon this game just isn't worth my time anymore.


I could care less about CoD but yeah, they are milking their fans and their customers and a lot of them are like "thank you sir can I have another". The one thing that CoD is doing right is they are informing their customers about the upcoming patch. H3 has been out a lot longer than CoD yet we haven't heard 1 word about a patch although, hey, we got pay for it DLC. Woot! </sarcasm>

~telengard

  • 11.19.2007 4:06 PM PDT