…and I had to buy the map packs.
If I recall, it was the separate disc of three map packs.
After I installed them, I went over to 3 friend’s houses so they could install them for free.
Because I wanted them to have the maps so we could play together.
Halo 2 LE didn’t have the map packs. The Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack Disk was a separate disk, with it’s own case, released for 20$ in-stores around 2006, or mid 2005, 1 1/2- 2 years after the game’s release. And quite a while after the initial Xbox Live release of all 3 of the map packs.
This is COMPLETELY different.
If I remember right, you paid for maps in Halo 2 for early access, then a few months later they were released free anyway. I liked that system. You knew that was how it worked so you understood you were buying into early access to the maps.
The way it ultimately worked was that everyone got the maps in the end. Which made the whole DLC playlists unnecessary and the maps merged into MP much better than they have done with 3, Reach and now, 4.
> …and I had to buy the map packs.
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> If I recall, it was the separate disc of three map packs.
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> After I installed them, I went over to 3 friend’s houses so they could install them for free.
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> Because I wanted them to have the maps so we could play together.
You trying to make a point? If so, I don’t see one.
… this doesn’t apply