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Subject: Should the Noble Map Pack be free? (Read first)
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Poll: Should the Noble Map Pack be free? (Read first)  [closed]
Yes (I don't have it yet):  21%
(7 Votes)
Yes (I already have it):  50%
(17 Votes)
No (I don't have it yet):  3%
(1 Votes)
No (I already have it):  26%
(9 Votes)
Total Votes: 34

Should the Noble Map Pack finally be given out for free? Even though I paid full price for it, that was over a year ago and I don't feel like my purchase would be cheapened if other people got it for nothing. In fact, I feel like my purchase of the map pack is cheapened by the fact that the maps show up very rarely in Matchmaking because so few people have them.

If NMP was free and required for everyone, Invasion would get Breakpoint (a 50% increase in variety!), and every single playlist would benefit from the map additions. Furthermore, there are some great community maps on Tempest - which is almost as Forge friendly as Forge World - and Forgers would surely build more, knowing people will actually be able to play them.


What little revenue 343 might lose on NMP sales will probably be made up by a larger, more loyal Reach population base more likely to buy Halo 4 and more map packs in the future for either game.

[Edited on 02.15.2012 3:35 PM PST]

  • 02.15.2012 3:33 PM PDT

I'm about as slightly above average as you can get.

Actually, Yes.

  • 02.15.2012 3:40 PM PDT

It's some Microsoft policy apparently that DLC that comes with achievements can't be free. That's why the Legendary Mappack from 2008 is still costly.

  • 02.15.2012 3:44 PM PDT
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Posting here won't do anything.

  • 02.15.2012 3:44 PM PDT
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Halo 3 still has a map pack you have to pay for so Noble wont become free, sure it would be nice but it wont happen, microsoft wouldn't allow it.

  • 02.15.2012 3:47 PM PDT

Please don't hype for games...
They'll just fall short of your expectations and you'll complain for months.

At the very least make it half to 3/4ths off.

  • 02.15.2012 4:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Alpha00
At the very least make it half to 3/4ths off.


They've done a few 50% offs both Noble and Defiant already....

  • 02.15.2012 4:18 PM PDT
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Wont happen due to the Achievements.

  • 02.15.2012 4:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: burritosenior
It's some Microsoft policy apparently that DLC that comes with achievements can't be free. That's why the Legendary Mappack from 2008 is still costly.

I've never heard of this, is this a real thing?

  • 02.15.2012 4:35 PM PDT
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Make it free i don't have it lawl.

  • 02.15.2012 5:00 PM PDT


Posted by: the pib

Posted by: burritosenior
It's some Microsoft policy apparently that DLC that comes with achievements can't be free. That's why the Legendary Mappack from 2008 is still costly.

I've never heard of this, is this a real thing?
I don't know. That's just what I was told a few years ago.

  • 02.15.2012 5:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: burritosenior
It's some Microsoft policy apparently that DLC that comes with achievements can't be free. That's why the Legendary Mappack from 2008 is still costly.

That explains why no achievements were made for the Heroic Map pack.

  • 02.15.2012 5:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: burritosenior

Posted by: the pib

Posted by: burritosenior
It's some Microsoft policy apparently that DLC that comes with achievements can't be free. That's why the Legendary Mappack from 2008 is still costly.

I've never heard of this, is this a real thing?
I don't know. That's just what I was told a few years ago.

If that's the case, clearly Microsoft is so far removed from the actual player community that they don't care or they don't know what's going on.

  • 02.15.2012 7:53 PM PDT
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did i mention this is a good idea....

  • 02.15.2012 7:57 PM PDT