COD4 map pack price cut on Xbox Live

By Tom Bramwell Published 3 November, 2009

50 per cent off Variety bundle.

Activision or Microsoft or whoever controls these things has reduced the price of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's Variety Map Pack on Xbox Live.

Presumably this is an attempt to shift a few more copies of the pack before the release of MW2 next week, and sees the price cut from 800 to 400 Microsoft Points (or £3.40 / €4.80 for boring people).

You can queue it up on the web if you're into that sort of thing.

Kotaku reports that the PS3 version is on sale in the US for $4.99, but we just checked the European PlayStation Store and you still have to pay £7.99 / €9.99 at the time of writing.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Nephirion #1 2 years ago

    how about 50% off the PC version of MW2 due to lack of dedicated servers and custom map and mod support?

  • b00n #2 2 years ago

    I like to count how many comment posts it takes before somebody types the words 'dedicated servers' in reply to news posts on MW2. So 2 this time!

  • wellzy4eva #3 2 years ago

    Pc gamers are sulking because most companies don't treat them as the primary system or even as special cases anymore...

  • INSOMANiAC #4 2 years ago

    The most shocking thing is the fact they only released 1 map pack for what must be one of the best selling games in recent years !

    They wont be making that 'mistake' again ! How many map packs are we reckoning on for this game ?

    Im going to go for 6 over its lifetime.
    Edited by 1 at 03/11/09 @ 11:14

  • mashk #5 2 years ago

    Should have made it free tbh. At least then more people would get to play them. At the moment, when the new maps come up in rotation everyone just leaves or votes for the map to be skipped.

  • sneetch #6 2 years ago

    @mashk

    Yep, that's the problem I have with charging for maps on these games; it just divides the playerbase and causes people to drop from the server when they appear.

  • Dodgymat #7 2 years ago

    @ sneetch

    Surely if players don't have the maps then they can't be put into the same lobbies where people that do have them are playing?

    Pretty sure people just leave because they don't like snipers on Creek, the random crazyness of Killhouse or the layout of Chinatown. Obviously they're too thick to realise that if they just deleted the map pack from their HD then those maps wouldn't even show up for them...

  • bratmandu #8 2 years ago

    No paying for multiplayer maps - ever! It's not like you're getting new campaign material. If you get the maps at launch, there's often no one else who has them so you never get to play them properly.

    And if you wait to get them weeks later, those who did get them have a head start advantage and know all the good spots, or else are fed up with em and vote to skip when they come up in playlists, so you still don't get to play them.

    AND if you wait till they come down in price like this one, no one is left playing the damn game.

    In short, my days of buying multiplayer map packs that I may or may not be able to enjoy are over.

  • actionfitz #9 2 years ago

    (insert derrogatory comment about Bob Kotick, something involving baby eating, sodomy, venerial diseases and goats)

  • actionfitz #10 2 years ago

    "Surely if players don't have the maps then they can't be put into the same lobbies where people that do have them are playing? "

    actually what happens is you get a message saying you dont have theat map and you're kicked :/

  • JensonJet #11 2 years ago

    Too little, too late.

  • sneetch #12 2 years ago

    @actionfitz

    That's what I thought too, although what Dodgymat said would be the sensible way to handle it.

    Either way the lack of easily obtainable custom maps (unlike TF2 where you download missing maps from the server) kinda killed COD4 multi-player for me. That said, I got a good few months out of it so no complaints.

  • Dodgymat #13 2 years ago

    I stand corrected then, sorry. Assumed it worked that way as when I joined friends' lobbies before I got the map pack a warning came up in red saying 'Variety map pack disabled'

  • Skire #14 2 years ago

    "Pc gamers are sulking because most companies don't treat them as the primary system or even as special cases anymore..."

    Well maybe that's because the PC Platform is not their primary platform anymore? They just make conclusions based on sales. Simple as that and business as usual. No hard feelings.

  • Quixz #15 2 years ago

    Should have done this 2 months ago..

  • spekkeh #16 2 years ago

    (insert derrogatory comment about Bob Kotick, something involving baby eating, sodomy, venerial diseases and goats)

    Can't be derogatory if it's a known to be true fact.

  • Nephirion #17 2 years ago

    As Activision now own Blizzard can we assume that the next WoW expansion will be £50 ^^

  • frankfurter209 #18 2 years ago

    What a joke. Squeeze every last penny out of this, then move us on to MW2. Buy it used.