I would buy Halo 4’s DLC, hell I would buy the Map Pack Pass, but there is only one Playlist in which DLC is required. This tells me that it’s going to be Reach all over again.
In Halo Reach I bought the first map pack (Noble), but after that I stopped buying them. You know why? I rarely got to play on them. Seriously I only have around 4 matches on Tempest, and probably less on the other two. I would have loved to buy the other maps, but I just didn’t see the point any more.
One playlist. A playlist that only ever has 300 people (from what I’ve seen). That’s all that DLC buyers are given. DLC increases the longevity for the game, but if there’s no reason for players to buy it (i.e. they don’t get to use what they pay for), then no one will buy it, meaning it was a waste of time and money for 343i to even make the maps.
If there were a couple of other playlists that required the DLC, then I, and probably many other people, would actually buy the Map Packs, because we are guaranteed to be able to play them in a variety of ways. I hope that by the release of the next Map Pack at least one or two other Playlists require DLC. The perfect candidate for a DLC-required Playlist would be the upcoming “Team Objective” Playlist that combines Oddball, KotH, and Team Regicide. This would give DLC buyers at least a variety of gametypes to play on the new maps.
Hell, maybe discount the Map Pack to 600msp so that more people will buy it, or bundle the next Map Pack with the next season of Spartan Ops.
That is a good option to those who have DLC… but i doubt 343 make that. I’m very sure the second DLC won’t sell that much.
I believe it’s time for free-to-play model to be applied to Map Packs by offering the maps for free and charging for attached digital content like weapons, armor, and personal vehicles. Ultimately you want people to populate the maps to place importance on the other items. Those who purchase the personal Content attached to the Maps are now walking and shooting billboards for the true purchases attached.
You’d spend money on the maps just so you could play the same two gamemodes on them over and over and over and over?
That’s like buying a microwave exclusively to warm up peas!
If you don’t feel that the maps are worth buying, don’t buy them. Chances are you won’t be missing out on much.
sad how they removed anniversary btb considering more people bought the Halo 1 remake than the noble and defiant map pack combined. i’m not buying any dlc unless they resttrict certain playlists.
> You’d spend money on the maps just so you could play the same two gamemodes on them over and over and over and over?
> That’s like buying a microwave exclusively to warm up peas!
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> If you don’t feel that the maps are worth buying, don’t buy them. Chances are you won’t be missing out on much.
Hmmm it seems I forgot to add something. I was going to elaborate and say that the perfect candidate for a DLC-required Playlist would be the upcoming “Team Objective” Playlist that combines Oddball, KotH, and Team Regicide.
it’s an add on. they will never make any of the other playlists require the map packs. but you’re part of the problem by saying you refuse to buy new map packs because the maps dont show up often in the other playlists. if more people bought them, then it raises the probability of getting in games where each person has the maps and thus it becomes an option. your logic doesnt make much sense. i acknowledge the first h4 map pack got some flack but you cant sit here and say the only reason you wont buy the map pack is because it doesnt show up enough. if you cant see the fallacy in that argument, i dont know what else to say. but they arnt going to randomly pick playlists where the only way you can play is spend extra money on maps. c’mon now
cuss crimson DLC maps suck, simple as that.
> it’s an add on. they will never make any of the other playlists require the map packs. but you’re part of the problem by saying you refuse to buy new map packs because the maps dont show up often in the other playlists. if more people bought them, then it raises the probability of getting in games where each person has the maps and thus it becomes an option. your logic doesnt make much sense. i acknowledge the first h4 map pack got some flack but you cant sit here and say the only reason you wont buy the map pack is because it doesnt show up enough. if you cant see the fallacy in that argument, i dont know what else to say. but they arnt going to randomly pick playlists where the only way you can play is spend extra money on maps. c’mon now
I do see what you mean, but after my experience with Reach ($15 for Noble +$30 for Anniversary) I don’t think I can dish out more money without some kind of guarantee that I’ll be able to experience the maps regularly and in different gametypes.
They need matchmaking search filters/priorities, like the following:
-Connection
-Skill
-Stock Maps
-forge Maps
-Crimson Maps (DLC)
-Majestic Maps (DLC)
-Castle Maps (DLC)
That way, they don’t need to take up playlist space, and we can actually experience all the gametypes on the DLC maps.