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Subject: A recommendation to those of you whom were ripped off

I'm agent Nahman Jayden, eff-bee-eye.

Cry and whine more like you do on EVERY thread.

  • 01.20.2010 2:44 PM PDT

If you ever try and fail.....erase all evidence that it was you who tried

I hate people like you, you didn't have to buy it get over the fact that you are a fool who fell for it and is mad at yourself for it, don't take it out on the people who would pay anything for a Halo game

  • 01.20.2010 2:44 PM PDT

Ohh yeah

Hi

  • 01.20.2010 2:44 PM PDT

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Alright, this has gone on long enough and I honestly have more important things to do than to fight over a price for a video game.

Compare ODST to any Halo game, and of course it's considered a flop. It's campaign is short, it lacks a PvP game mode, and it was over hyped. Halo is a huge game, and people have huge expectations for it.


But compare it to Bioschock, Mirrors Edge, and any other game with only a Campaign and Campaign Based game mode, and it'll stand up pretty damn well.

And guess what? All those games were $60 too. Why do you insist on claiming that ODST on it's own isn't worth $60?
If this were the case, then every game without matchmaking would cost $40.


That BS arguement won't work with me, are you saying that the price of this game is acceptable because there are worse games out there? That's like saying America should stop working on new technology because other countries are behind us. This is a Bungie game so I would expect them to deliver a quality game at a fair price. I don't buy many other games because I know they are a rip off also. Two wrongs do not make a right, so ODST can still be blamed, this is an ODST forum, not a Mirrors Edge forum, or any other forum. I will discuss ODST here, whether it be positive or negative, that's what a forum is for. And this topic is to help those whom feel ripped off, if you enjoyed your puchase that's great, you're choosing to argue here and really just wasting your time.

Why not?
Those were both amazing games. Everybody loved them, and no one complained about the price. Their legends for their uniqueness, and people enjoyed them.

ODST is just as good as those are, but since Halo is thrown into the title, people expected it to have multiplayer, a 10 hour long campaign, and totally new game modes. Since this was not the case, everyone claimed that they got ripped off and it was over priced, which is not the case.


I admit that Bungie didn't do the best of all jobs with ODST. But just because it didn't live up to your expectations doesn't mean that it's over priced. It was an amazing game none the less, and I, along with many others, enjoyed it. I was not ripped off in the least bit, and neither were you. ODST could of sold at $60 by it's self, be glad that you got the Mythic Map Pack pt. 2 thrown in there for free.


And that concludes my argument.


So, Bungie is wrong? They agreed this wasn't a full game and wanted it to be $40. You and them and contradicting your own arguements.

"people expected it to have multiplayer, a 10 hour long campaign, and totally new game modes."

They expected that because Bungie later claimed it was, and all reviews of the game were biased and misleading.

"But just because it didn't live up to your expectations doesn't mean that it's over priced."

My expectations? I explained to you all of the flaws of this game, and there were many, a small team took 1/3 normal time using an old engine to make what they themselves claimed to be an expansion, you continue to dodge this arguement.

"ODST could of sold at $60 by it's self"

Says whom? Even Bungie would disagree with that statements, as well as thousands of fans that felt ripped off.

"be glad that you got the Mythic Map Pack pt. 2 thrown in there for free."

The Mythic disc should have never been included, we already owned most of it, and it was involved with a different game. I could care less about the new maps because Halo 3 is old and getting boring, I would have much rather saved the money I wasted.

Perhaps you should educate yourself before beginning a debate, it tends to help your arguements.

Hey -blam!- the game would have been $60 bucks anyways do you realize that?

  • 01.20.2010 2:49 PM PDT

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Hi

Hahahaha that was random

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Posted by: Rugged Musician
you are a fool

the people who would pay anything for a Halo game
Irony.

  • 01.20.2010 2:51 PM PDT

If you ever try and fail.....erase all evidence that it was you who tried

Everyone is a fool but this guy is mad that he is one

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Posted by: Rugged Musician
you are a fool

the people who would pay anything for a Halo game
Irony.

  • 01.20.2010 2:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rugged Musician
Everyone is a fool but this guy is mad that he is one

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Posted by: Rugged Musician
you are a fool

the people who would pay anything for a Halo game
Irony.
No, everyone's a hypocrite.

Not everybody is a fool.

  • 01.20.2010 2:54 PM PDT

If you ever try and fail.....erase all evidence that it was you who tried

Am I yelling at you right now.... No..... you have to wait your turn

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Am I yelling at you right now.... No..... you have to wait your turn
Huh?

  • 01.20.2010 2:57 PM PDT

If you ever try and fail.....erase all evidence that it was you who tried

Sorry that wasn't directed towards you

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Hmmm...all I really got was, "WAHHHHHHHH I WAS NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED SO I GOT RIPPED OFF!" from Camnator. I guess being disappointed these days means you can throw around words like "scam" and "rip-off" whenever you are displeased. Still trying to figure out how the developer, someone who makes a game, is to blame for the price even when the publisher, someone who sells, funds, and advertises said game, set it.

Some things I want to respond to though.

And one more thing, I enjoyed the ODST campaign, it was pretty cool, I can both enjoy a game and realize it was a rip off.

Fine.

Firefight was dreadful, not only did they lie to us about the skulls being random, the enemies are easily predictable, it lags like crazy, and after set 5 it never increases the difficulty, even the maps were just lazily slapped in directly from campaign.

OMG GUYZ, THE SKULLS IS NOT RANDOM LIKE THEY SAID, THEY BE LIARS!!!!!!! As for everything else, opinions and your own technical issues.


I bought the game new, most games take months to drop in price, ODST took less than a week, it was not expected, and also shows how the public felt about the price. No stores sold copies of just ODST, or I would have just gotten that, I argue all the time that there should have been bundle packs so everyone would be happy and the forums wouldn't be clogged with topics about being disappointed with the game/price.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Different bundles! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You'd think Microsoft would do that? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!



Because it had the word Halo on it, and compared to most Halo games it was a flop, you can tell this by the small number of players this game has, Halo 3 is almost 2.5 years old and still has ten times as many players.

I would expect the main game to have more players than the expansion. Yes, I call it an expansion, but it is an expansion taht is it's own game.

"The size of the game has nothing to do with it."

Is that a joke?

You're the one who keeps posting Gigabytes and thinking it makes you point so much more valid.

This game didn't even have a matchmaking, and the campaign was far shorter than any other Halo game, where in this do you see it should cost as much as a full game?

Campaign length varies from person to person.



That's good. I admit that what ODST came with is worth around $50, so if you didn't own Halo 3, or it broke, or didn't have any DLC, or whatever, it was a pretty good deal. It's just most of us already had Halo 3 since we're Halo fans, it's an insult that we had to re-purchase maps we already had. Which is why there should have been different bundles so everyone would be happy.

Problem is, different bundles would have not been very cost effective or even suggested. Besides, if you are going to include Halo 3 matchmaking, why not include the other maps? Good Lord, an extra $10, WAHHHHHHHH!


They expected that because Bungie later claimed it was, and all reviews of the game were biased and misleading.

[b]Yeah, damn those reviewers for genuinely liking a game and having different playing experiences than other gamers.


  • 01.20.2010 3:46 PM PDT
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Thanks for choosing to whine over being a productive member of the community and possible element towards advancing Reach.

This is interesting to see people coming out of the wood work saying that when they purchased ODST they now feel ripped off because Mythic 2 is now on the Marketplace.

I don't understand how you consider yourself ripped off if you did proper research on ODST before buying the game. Anybody who claims something's wrong with ODST (other than the fact Bungie did say they didn't view ODST as a full priced game at the EARLY stages of development) is usually just sore that they didn't get what they want.

But those who actually followed Bungie's news post would know before buying the game that ODST would be a new (albeit shorter) campaign, a survival mode and would include a bonus disc that has the entire Halo 3 multiplayer experience with extra (at the time) exclusive content.

If the game only had the ODST campaign and a voucher for the Mythic 2 pack it would still be $60. As Skinny Genes said there are single player games out there that still sell for the $60 price range (Bioshock, Mirror's Edge, Devil May Cry 4, Assassin's Creed 1&2) None of those games have multiplayer but still are marked at $60.

The good thing (and admittedly the only legitimate point to the Mythic disc) is that I can clear hard drive space. The Reach Beta and (at the time) ability to unlock Recon armor with ODST are just small bonuses that don't factor into pricing with the game.

Anybody who felt ripped off simply didn't do research on the product and isn't a good consumer, and if you said you did then you're either lying or trying to start a flame war. Either way you're none too bright if you felt ripped off with ODST.

  • 01.20.2010 4:06 PM PDT

Only, I was never ripped off when I bought the ODST Collectors Edition.

  • 01.20.2010 5:14 PM PDT

Actually, if you had kept you would have noticed Bungie started by calling it a simple expansion. Then as they worked on it they said it had become a full-blown stand-alone campaign. AKA, a full game.

  • 01.20.2010 5:20 PM PDT

Laughing At Nothing

Do you honestly think that the 60 dollars you payed for was the Mythic disk? The title on the case was "Halo 3: ODST".

If anything, you got the Mythic disk for free. If you never bought Halo 3 and the never bought the maps, then you got:

1: One of the best games of the year
2: The one of the best multiplayer games ever made for free along with most of the maps.

So, if anything the only person getting ripped off is the person you sold it to on Ebay.

  • 01.20.2010 5:20 PM PDT

Oh for you it might be a cake-walk, but others its difficult and they like that. About the maps, would you have preferred them to completely make new maps and release the game later? or use places from the campaign people are familiar with and they can go less of "What the heck? where is everything!" and more of "Okay, I recognize this place, I have an idea where weapons and ammo are."

edit: Yes, you and a few others were 'ripped' off. I know personally me and all my friends in the area are quite happy with the game and don't think it as a rip-off.

[Edited on 01.20.2010 5:28 PM PST]

  • 01.20.2010 5:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: Bigfoot1010
I wasn't ripped off by anyone. I bought ODST for the campaign and firefight(both of which I enjoyed) and the mythic 2 maps were a bonus.


the latter of which are now going to the marketplace for 10 bucks...

Camnator is a rather intelligent member; i used to think otherwise, but this post proves so. Props to you.

I enjoyed ODST for what it was, but buying maps i already paid for, and not getting to play them in matchmaking now just really rubs me the wrong way.

Plus, ODST left me wanting more, and i know i'll never have that same feeling again. (like a 1 night stand...LOL)

The thing i hate/love most about ODST, is it's so hard for me to convince myself to play it, but once i do play it i can't stop playing it for a while

  • 01.20.2010 5:32 PM PDT