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Subject: How I view ODST's pricing.

ODST was originally a $40 expansion according to Bungie, but now it is $60. This is how I justify the price.

ODST, Firefight, and old Halo 3 multiplayer- $40.

Back in the days of Halo 2 Bungie released a map pack with 9 maps for $20.

Halo 3 ODST is also a map pack for people who didn't buy the maps online, and it has all the new maps. All 13 maps. The current price for all the maps is $28. $10 for both Mythic map packs, and $8 for the Legendary map pack, or at least it was last time I checked.

The only flaw is the fact that players have already spent $30 on the old map packs, and are being gypped(no offense to gypsies) for things they already own. I just wish they had a different version for cheap for people who already spent enough on map packs.

[Edited on 07.05.2009 8:45 PM PDT]

  • 07.05.2009 8:45 PM PDT
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i would have gotten it if it was $40. I went to gamestop and saw it was $60 and I was glad i didnt pre-order it. Bull-blam!- if you ask me

  • 07.05.2009 9:50 PM PDT

It doesn't matter. It's a full game. Full games are $60.

  • 07.05.2009 10:03 PM PDT

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if microsoft releases a game with halo on it, it will sell regardless of what we think

  • 07.05.2009 10:04 PM PDT

Frankly, I don't care at this point.

I'll get more value out of ODST than I do with the majority of $60 good games.

  • 07.05.2009 10:07 PM PDT
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I make 120$ a week working ten hours, I'm good with the 60$ pricing. It's a fair deal for a Free-Roaming (yay!) Halo game.

  • 07.05.2009 10:08 PM PDT

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Can we please stop talking about the price...I mean, it's good that you're justifieing (spellings :S) it this time but all this forum seems to be filled with is "OMG N0 WAI! 2 MUTCH 4 M3". On a lighter note: £30 for normal edition and £50 (ish) for CE with a controller isn't that bad...

  • 07.05.2009 10:14 PM PDT

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it is a full game PLUS the halo 3 multiplayer disc, it is worth $60 ppl now shut up and deal with it ALL good games start off at 60 dollars but the price will drop within a year so just wait a while if youre worried about the price just STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT IT. thank you to the op for justifying the price

  • 07.05.2009 10:35 PM PDT

First off, Bungie never affirmatively made a price. They speculated as to the price, and that was way before all the new content was being put in place. The price came down to Microsoft, who priced it at $60.

Here's how I break it down:
$20- Campaign
$20- Halo 3 Multiplayer disc
$10- Firefight
$10- Halo Reach Beta

This amounts to $60. Now I know what you're thinking: "Well all us hardcore Halo fans already bought the maps, and we shouldn't be paying for maps we already have. Blah, blah blah..." Well the fact is that this is the game to entice people who have not bought Halo 3 yet, and the people who walked away early on. These preliminary deserters, however much we dislike them, most likely did not buy the maps. The Multiplayer disc is an enticing offer along with the expansion if you abandoned Halo 3 early on, and could possible bring even more players. And even though the early buyers of the maps bought the maps for more, they've gotten over a year from the Legendary, and 5 months from the Mythic maps that the others haven't. And time is money, and I have enjoyed my time on those maps (well maybe not Assembly.)

But the fact is, it's a done deal. The ship has sailed. There's no changing it now. And I would have payed $100 for this expansion. Most of you would have probably payed $80. And we really have to stop seeing this as an expansion. Just because this game has been labeled an expansion, doesn't mean it can't be $60. This is more game than some full price $60 stand alone games on the market. If you are telling me that there aren't those lackluster shooters that get churned out with crappy campaigns, and the same generic multiplayer over and over, with the full $60 price tag, and no assurance of over 5 hours of gameplay, then you are delusional. We should be thanking Bungie for going beyond the standards that most devs make for expansions.

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  • 07.05.2009 11:02 PM PDT
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Even though I've already purchased the maps it will be nice to have them all on one disc.

I could care less about it being 60 bucks as long as it is a kick ass game.

  • 07.05.2009 11:29 PM PDT

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I say people need to get the f*** over it. You're paying the same amount for this game as anyother game, and I have to say you are mildly retarded if you honestly believed microsoft would let their biggest cash cow series be a little cheaper then anything else ONLY BECAUSE IT COMES WITH A MULTIPLAYER DISC THE SAME AS HALO.

Only reason it is considered an expansion. If it had no multiplayer it would have been price $60 anyways and just be named halo: odst.

But alot of people won't see the logic and just cry about it. I hope they go through with their "Suicide rants" like I've seen some of the BR cultists do. Clean the cesspool and make it a better world.

  • 07.06.2009 5:36 AM PDT