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Subject: A minor playlist gripe...
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Why is it that I can't play the DLC-only playlists, just because I haven't bought the Halo: Anniversary release?

1) There is a complete section of playlists entirely devoted to those people who have Anniversary already....

2) The description of the DLC playlist only states that the Noble and Defiant map packs are required...

I have bought both the Noble and Defiant map packs - neither of these are realistically playable within the normal playlists as they never show up due to people not having any DLC.

I appreciate that the Anniversary map packs are also DLC but, seeing as there is the dedicated Anniversary playlist set (and anniversary isn't strictly Reach DLC, but rather just a compatible set of maps from a completely different game), surely the DLC-only playlist should just require the actual Reach DLC.

It's basically made the Defiant and Noble maps completely redundant, and a waste of money, and probably made baby jesus cry.

not happy.

  • 11.30.2011 10:51 PM PDT
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1)Yeah and those playlists all have anniversary settings, Premium doesn't. So there is a difference.

2)Because it hasn't been changed? Derp?

Premium = ALL DLC. Deal with it.

  • 11.30.2011 11:09 PM PDT
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Yep - it's not the 'recommended' message...it's the 'flashing 'you do not have the maps required for this playlist' message.

Nope - don't have CEA. I'm currently away in Australia for a year, and am stuck with a stupid 10GB per month download limit that's shared with 3 other people so can't buy digital download atm, and i'm totally not down with buying new games over here as they cost about 3 times as much as back in the UK. (Seriously, Aus and US dollar are about 1:1 at the moment, and a new game typical price is ~$100).

To the other guy - cheers for the constructive reply. I know that premium is for DLC. My problem, as i stated, is that the anniversary maps are hardly actually DLC for Reach - the maps are for a different game ( Halo: CEA and Halo: Reach having different entries in the xbox live online activity charts).

It's just something i find irritating. The same thing happened with Halo 3 when ODST came out...had bought all the previous map packs for Halo 3, and didn't want to buy ODST at the time as i had a number of other games to play/finish, and try tyo stick to a budget when buying games. All of a sudden, I found that I couldn't play any of the DLC playlists as i didn't have the Mythic disc, whereas I actually had bought the mythic map pack for Halo 3, and just didn't have the ODST disk.

I just think that there should be an intermediary set of playlists for game specific DLC. At the end of the day I have supported the game by buying the DLC for it, and I shouldn't be penalised for not buying a different title.

The fact you can still buy the Noble and Defiant map packs independantly infers that you can play them without having to buy any other DLC, whereas in reality you can't...doesn't exactly encourage player loyalty.

  • 12.01.2011 4:05 AM PDT

just buy the CEA maps you silly cheap -blam!-.

  • 12.01.2011 6:33 AM PDT
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343 changed it so you will match others with DLC more frequently. Actually played on Penance last night in regular matchmaking.

$15 for 7 maps. Buy it.

  • 12.01.2011 6:40 AM PDT