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Subject: Is bungie ripping us off?
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So lets get this straight:

$60 for a new campaign, a brand new cooperative game mode, every other great feature from Halo 3, Halo 3' award winning multiplayer suite with all maps ever (Including Free and Premium DLC) plus 3 new maps is your idea of being ripped off?

Then my friend, you got ripped off bad with Halo 3 and Halo 2 and Halo CE and every other game out there.

  • 07.29.2009 4:36 AM PDT

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Posted by: Deniz093
it's worth ! 60 $ for all 24 multiplayer maps and real big new (expansion) campaign ...

Yes... but most people bought all the maps available(including me =/)

  • 07.29.2009 4:40 AM PDT

I am a Halo 3 Failure.

Price:
DISC 1:
New Campaign with new features, weapons, and an open world layout: 20 - 40 dollars (I mean, look at BioShock, it's only Campaign and it's 29.99 NOW)
Firefight: 5 - 15 dollars
Theater: 3 - 5 dollars

DISC 2:
Multiplayer: 10 - 20 dollars
Forge: 5 - 10 dollars
Theater: 3 - 5 dollars
Map Packs: 22 dollars

Now if I round that up (lowest), it's 66 dollars, (highest) is 117 dollars (hey look at that). Not to mention that I was being nice to you with my estimate (Map Pack wasn't an estimate, that's how much they all cost.)

  • 07.29.2009 4:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: UsableTick
Posted by: Sanjeev
So lets get this straight:

$60 for a new campaign, a brand new cooperative game mode, every other great feature from Halo 3, Halo 3' award winning multiplayer suite with all maps ever (Including Free and Premium DLC) plus 3 new maps is your idea of being ripped off?

Then my friend, you got ripped off bad with Halo 3 and Halo 2 and Halo CE and every other game out there.


I know right.


Some people are getting the illusion they're getting ripped off because BUNGiE first said they wouldn't consider Halo 3: ODST more then an expansion.

It changed people, now it's a full game with loads of content and worth the 60 bucks.


That is in fact the problem. The moment Bungie mentioned 'Expansion', everyone and their mums latched on to that idea. Even now, when Bungie has repeatedly said that its much bigger in scope and scale, no on is willing to let that idea go.

Its no one's fault really. Bungie never knew they were going to turn ODST into something much, much more than what it originally was conceived to be. And it was stressed on the fan community that it would be an expansion pack and even in Game Informer, they mentioned that they were not looking at a full price.

But, you guys do the math.

Halo 3 had a campaign, multiplayer, Forge, Online Integration, Forge, Saved Films, Custom Games, 4 Player Online Co-op.

Halo 3: ODST has everything that shipped in Halo 3 plus 13 new maps, a different campaign and a brand new game mode. Moreover, it was developed by a much smaller team than Halo 3.

Halo 3: ODST has much more content than Halo 3 and was made by far less people in a much shorter period of time. Than in of itself, makes me salute to Bungie and buy the game. Granted, most of everything was already done but that's not what I'm getting at.

Halo 3, back in 2007, was probably the most content heavy pieces of entertainment ever, or at least on a console. Even now, nearly 2 years after ship, no game has beat that. And you're getting Halo 3: ODST that tops all that and you're still complaining? Its also probably the most supported game out there, yes, even comparing to the brilliant work Valve has been doing.

Halo 3: ODST is no longer an expansion pack people. Its a game. A huge, beefier game than even Halo 3. If you think its not worth forking up $60 for this game, no other game deserves it.

  • 07.29.2009 4:52 AM PDT

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I must say how people complain about the price only because Bungie said it was an expansion at first/
If the worded it any other way, there would be hundreds less of these "they are ripping us off" threads.
"Halo 3 ODST.It contains an all new campaign though the HUD of an ODST shock trooper in the ruins of New Mombasa. In addition, it also comes with Firefight, a new addition to the halo universe and is a survival mode. In addition, it comes with a bonus Halo 3 disc that only contains the Multiplayer, no campaign, and 3 new maps"

If they worded it somethign like that where they never said it would have been an expansion, so few people would complain.
Should've had Billy Mays write the ading for it >__>

[Edited on 07.29.2009 4:53 AM PDT]

  • 07.29.2009 4:52 AM PDT
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Trying to get recon

SSO FTW! ^_^

quit being such a hater

  • 07.29.2009 5:52 AM PDT

The Admitting Noob.

Posted by: LousyRobin
Shut up.

  • 07.29.2009 5:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: spartan11bungie
Should've had Billy Mays write the ading for it >__>

Please don't bring him up!
Anyways, I think it has to due with perception. For me it is not a rip-off because I don't have Live so I can't get the DLC for Halo 3 and I look for a good campaign romp over a multiplayer killfest. Now, for a person who bought all the DLC while it was full-priced and only thinks of the campaign as an add-on, they will feel ripped-off since the Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack was only around $20 yet Halo 3: ODST is $60 instead of around $40. So it has to do with perception.

  • 07.29.2009 7:20 AM PDT

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Posted by: timcha810
it seems to me they are ripping us off for only firefight,campaign,recon,and 3 new maps and halo 3 multiplayer which we already have it just doesnt seem like its worth 60$ to me



Call your Lawyer quick!!!

  • 07.29.2009 7:41 AM PDT

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