COD4 map pack price cut on Xbox Live News
Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
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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wellzy4eva
03/11/09 @ 11:06
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Pc gamers are sulking because most companies don't treat them as the primary system or even as special cases anymore...
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INSOMANiAC
03/11/09 @ 11:13
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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.
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@ 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... |
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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. |
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actionfitz
03/11/09 @ 15:39
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(insert derrogatory comment about Bob Kotick, something involving baby eating, sodomy, venerial diseases and goats)
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actionfitz
03/11/09 @ 15:40
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"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 :/ |
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@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. |
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"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. |
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frankfurter209
04/11/09 @ 01:20
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What a joke. Squeeze every last penny out of this, then move us on to MW2. Buy it used.
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