Microsoft clarifies Mod War 2 DLC deal News

30 days? That's not long. Although I'm more interested in what the DLC will consist of.

I just assumed it was going to be exclusive for at least a couple of months. I believe this exclusive deal is just wasted money for Microsoft as it was hardly marketed at all and if you were going to but the game for the PS3 then you probably don't have a 360 to play it on as it's obvious that was IW lead platform.

^I believe it's more Activision that has a lead platform.

Release date? I wonder if it might land same day as battle bad company 2, hmm...?

I wonder how much this cost Microsoft? 30 days isn't really long enough to give them any additional sales benefits I would've thought.

I dont believe its a waste of money at all. It sends a message to both 360 and PS3 owners that MS wants their platform to be first to get content for the best (selling) games.

I don't care about map packs, just give me more Spec Ops. They MADE MW2!

30 days?? lol hardly worth worrying about, although for the ADHD generation i suppode 30 days is an eternity! Anyway fuck mw2, id rather go back to cod4 s more skill based gameplay than felling cheated by people with thermal scopes, trackers and running around with akimbo bloody shotguns! more cod4 dlc please !

DLC can't come early enough.

Yet, IW should use more time on patches, to make the multiplayer stable. Right now, it's soooo unstable I could cry.

The newest patch 177 (from yesterday) is even making the IW.net worse, as many many people now experience crashes etc.

IW should turn it around amd incorporate IW.net into the XP leveling system:

If you successfully join a game, you earn 50 xp.
If you can't join a game 5 times in a row, you earn a challenge and a new emblem that says WTF

30 days is a joke! how can they really make a big deal out of that?

"a new emblem that says WTF "


ooh want



as for what the actual maps are according to a leak

Pack 1:

* Abandon
* DCWH-The White House
* Compact
* Revolt
* Complex
* Storm

Pack 2 (sounds familiar anyone ;)):

* Shipment
* Vacant
* Overgrown
* Crash

Most pointless DLC payoff ever?

It better not be 1200 points like gears, 600 maximum.

Wonder if all the hacks recently are exclusive to 360 :-)

I don't care about map packs, just give me more Spec Ops. They MADE MW2!

Really? I thought the first few were good (the duo ones in the helicopter and plane are awesome) but then it just turned into doing bits of the campaign again....

Since when did we start calling it Mod War 2 as opposed to just MW2?

They are really stretching the definition of 'exclusive'...

just like the game then a load of shit

30 days? This is just silly...

More spec ops missions please..

" but then it just turned into doing bits of the campaign again.... "

With a friend that is. Makes it pretty different from the single player campaign. Juggernauts isnt in the single player either.
Taking those down with a frind by my side where the greatest moments in the game.

Spec Ops is really the main course in MW2! The campaign SP game are noted to be much more like various Spec Ops missions hammered together into a single story! IW worked on various exciting bits and then created an excuse to link them all up.

Would have preferred them to discard the pretensions and just focus on creating much bigger, stronger and varies Spec Ops. As I think that would have made the game even better by having variety of locales, mission types and transports used as per heli or plane bits.

DLC.... exclusive may seem a bit pointless but when you look back over the duration of the hd gen console, MS seemed much more committed at getting multi platform DLC exlclusives and that do send a signal.

these maps cant come soon enough IMO

No more fucking Brazilian favela levels, please. They are my least favourite part of the game.

Sounds like wasted money for Microsoft, but think about it, this was announced last year as being simply, "an exclusive" how many people who own more than one platform bought it for 360 thinking it was an outright exclusive and might have been something better than a multiplayer map pack?

Muscleblade makes a good point too, it's money well spent in that it sends the message that MS will do whatever it takes to secure additional content to the best selling games, but equally the publishers in this case send the message that the payoff is worth more than the enjoyment of their game by their complete fanbase, it's a double edged sword really. Also in my opinion no amount of DLC exclusivity can bridge that gap in first party development between MS and the other platforms, in that regard I think it's fair to say that this and all other exclusive DLC on multiplatform titles is a major waste of money.

LOL who cares? how many people have this game on both consoles and waiting to see which one has DLC first????

If L4D2 isn't enough to entice people to getting an xbox I can't imagine getting a couple of maps 30 days early will... !

Never heard of this game?

Exclusive maps is to ensure those with both consoles get it on 360 rather than PS3. Therefore 30 days is plenty, just right in fact.

Sorry Acti, but I won't be buying your 4 multiplayer maps for 800 mspoints (a guess at the content and pricing), your game is OK, but I doubt I'll play it much after March 5th.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/battle...

It just looks ridiculous when you airstike a tiny wood cabin and it doesn't even suffer damage decals! Update your tech Activision - evolution, not revolution!

As much as I like my 360, I really have to critisize MS for these exclusive deals they keep entering into. It's bad enough when it's only for a year or two.. But are any multiconsole owners with MW2 on the PS3 going to run out and get the 360 version instead because of this?

They really should focus their money on aquiring either 100% exclusives, or better yet, funding their own development teams to make new exclusive I.P's, similar to Sony..

@wintersnowblind

See Jay-ITFC's comment. It clearly matters to some folk. If I could actually finish a multiplayer game without the damn thing crashing I'd be a happy man. People say it may be my internet connection, but the very same connection gave me no problems at all with MW1...

Re: the guy who leaked the names of the maps. Abandon was a map in the Activision game Soldier of Fortune Payback. if you do a search on youtube you can see some vids of it. I remember it as a poor map and not as good as "Village" from the same game.

@WinterSnowblind: Was it confirmed Microsoft has to pay anything?
I mean, Activision was not at good terms with Sony earlier last year, which made this timed exclusivity sound more like their message to Sony. The DLC is not some huge deal on its own, but how about delaying the next PS3 CoD only by few weeks? I doubt Sony would like that.
Or maybe Activision wants to sell via LIVE because Microsoft offers better terms?

Lol!
It's just a PR stunt so M$ can talk about exclusivity, because they are so short on decent exclusives this year. If I hear another word about how "great" Halo: Reach is going to be, I'm going to start calling the franchise the most overrated in history....oh hang on, I already do.

Fur Cough gets the trophy for worst trolling attempt in EG history. The best part is that it's an exclusive trophy for the first 30 days.

30 days, big deal. Unless you spend all your free time playing COD then 30 days is nothing. Plus by the time it comes out for PS3 you will be able to see all the new glitches and camp spots that make the game so bloody annoying at times.

Why have MS even bothered getting exclusive rights for 30 days?

@Lee_Morris

"...if you were going to but the game for the PS3 then you probably don't have a 360 to play it on as it's obvious that was IW lead platform..."

I have both a 360 and the PS3 (and a Wii, although that's not relevant here). However, I bought MW2 Hardened Ed for the PS3. I don't give a shit what the lead platform was - all my friends have a PS3, the PS3 online is free and works well. Enough motivation for me.

+1 for man.the.king for making his platform choice for the right reasons, if I could give more than +1 I would.

Lead platform doesn't really matter unless the developer in question makes no attempt whatsoever to optimise the ported version, truth is that most modern games are nigh on identical, there's subtle differences obviously, but they're barely if at all noticeable to the gamer, in fact I very much doubt that most gamers would be able to tell the screenshots and videos on Digital Foundry apart if they didn't tell you which was which.

MS: 30 days for pissing you off ps3 owners muhahahahahaha


Seriously, whats the big deal?

I don't really know what to think, first, it's revenue for IW, which is good, but I doubt their publisher would leave them without the financial backup for DLC development in the first place. So Microsoft is hardly the patron.

Then, what message does this send to users of the PS3 and PC platforms? "Hello those-who-do-not-own-an-Xbox-yet, we just thought we'd piss you off for a whole month ... So you want to join the Xbox crowd."

Which... isn't working on me. At all. Quite the contrary actually. I hope moderators will forgive me, when I modestly suggest that this whole operation make Microsoft and its Xbox look like total *****. Just pointing out the inanity of a 30 day exclusivity (delay) for a locked shares market...

But then they know their job, and the bigger the numbers, the more irrational it gets. Sales numbers were the biggest on 360 after all.