will say what i said in the other thread.
Posted by: tomski18
Posted by: The Fury In NJ
Spend 60 USD, but not a simple 10. Something's wrong.
spend £40, and then find out a month later if you want the full online experience (access to playlists etc.) you're going to have to spend another £7 - this is on top of the £300 you originally paid for the xbox, the £40 a year you've been paying for xbox live, the £20 you paid for a mic so you can talk to your friends and the £60 you paid for the wireless adapter. yeah, something is wrong, and that something is that we accept this as normal.
yes, microsoft and bungie have to make a profit. the thing is, they already make an obscene amount of profit - microsoft now make more money from xbox than they do from windows. you might think an additional £7 is a "simple" amount of money, but some of us are still in school, are living off a student loan or have low-paying jobs. if it's such a small amount of money, are you going to pay it for me?
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the fact that these maps were at least complete enough to show off in promotional screenshots as long ago as august just demonstrates what a cynical attempt this is at making a few extra bucks. halo reach was shipped with a small number of maps, several of which were just forge maps, and then just two months later you'll be paying more for maps that could reasonably have been included with the vanilla game.
people in this thread are contrasting bungie with infinity ward, who charged 1200 MSP for a 5-map map pack, 3 of which were remakes from cod 4. they obviously forget or were never aware of the widespread outrage at them for charging such a price, nor unfortunately the success of the scheme because people were willing to pay out of the nose for anything with modern warfare 2 stamped on it. i suspect that is the situation here. it might also be pointing out that bungie, like infinity ward, is now in a publishing agreement with activision.