So what's the point exactly of Drop Shock?

I heard there is some Avatar item but you have to reach Level 35 in Castle DLC, and that’s not happening with a team? Any other benefits to Drop Shock?

No one knows what it means. It’s provocative. It gets the people going.

A half baked attempt to revive the Halo 4 population by slapping it over the home page, rather than focusing on the real issues.

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> I heard there is some Avatar item but you have to reach Level 35 in Castle DLC, and that’s not happening with a team? Any other benefits to Drop Shock?

If you supposedly get a reward for reaching a certain level in the newly released DLC playlist, it is obviously an attempt to get more people to buy the DLC(Castle map pack) = just a ploy to bleed more $$$$$$$ from the community.

You also get an avatar t-shirt from playing Spartan OPs. That’s the one I’ll be going for since I’m only a CSR 2 in Castle after trying to focus on the achievements in my first few games.

> > I heard there is some Avatar item but you have to reach Level 35 in Castle DLC, and that’s not happening with a team? Any other benefits to Drop Shock?
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> If you supposedly get a reward for reaching a certain level in the newly released DLC playlist, it is obviously an attempt to get more people to buy the DLC(Castle map pack) = just a ploy to bleed more $$$$$$$ from the community.

Don’t be so cynical. The avatar t-shirt is a nice reward/bonus to help celebrate the map pack and to encourage people to give it a fair trial and test it out properly over the coming week. I don’t think they ever intended it to try and persuade people to buy the map pack in the first place - people should be buying the map pack for the maps.

The blues fan is right… oh god I just said that… I personally don’t have the time and the will to deal with bad teammates and try to get a good CSR without my friends. We are all busy so I don’t really care much about Drop Shock Week.

> > I heard there is some Avatar item but you have to reach Level 35 in Castle DLC, and that’s not happening with a team? Any other benefits to Drop Shock?
>
> If you supposedly get a reward for reaching a certain level in the newly released DLC playlist, it is obviously an attempt to get more people to buy the DLC(Castle map pack) = just a ploy to bleed more $$$$$$$ from the community.

WOW I GOT A TEE SHIRT FOR REACHING LVL 35 IN A BROKEN PLAYLIST? MY REWARD FOR THAT WORK IS A TEE SHIRT

come on you can do better.

> > > I heard there is some Avatar item but you have to reach Level 35 in Castle DLC, and that’s not happening with a team? Any other benefits to Drop Shock?
> >
> > If you supposedly get a reward for reaching a certain level in the newly released DLC playlist, it is obviously an attempt to get more people to buy the DLC(Castle map pack) = just a ploy to bleed more $$$$$$$ from the community.
>
> WOW I GOT A TEE SHIRT FOR REACHING LVL 35 IN A BROKEN PLAYLIST? MY REWARD FOR THAT WORK IS A TEE SHIRT
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> come on you can do better.

They didnt HAVE to give anything with its purchase. They did, its good marketing and might attract some people to return. Not you or I neccasarily, but someone somewhere may want it. Either way, I dont understand the logic of paying for MAPS and being upset because something extra was with them.

> > > I heard there is some Avatar item but you have to reach Level 35 in Castle DLC, and that’s not happening with a team? Any other benefits to Drop Shock?
> >
> > If you supposedly get a reward for reaching a certain level in the newly released DLC playlist, it is obviously an attempt to get more people to buy the DLC(Castle map pack) = just a ploy to bleed more $$$$$$$ from the community.
>
> Don’t be so cynical. The avatar t-shirt is a nice reward/bonus to help celebrate the map pack and to encourage people to give it a fair trial and test it out properly over the coming week. I don’t think they ever intended it to try and persuade people to buy the map pack in the first place - people should be buying the map pack for the maps.

Don’t be so naive. 343 is not a charity. Also, you can’t knock 343 for tugging at the cash cow. It’s how the world works.