MW2 Stimulus DLC doesn't work
Update: Major Nelson reckons it's fixed.
Update #6: "The MW2 Title Update is now live! It may take a few minutes for everyone worldwide to get it - our apologies for the delay." Not our words - the words of Xbox Live's Major Nelson. "It may take a few mins for you to get the update, or for it to work properly. Once things get in order all should be fine."
Update #5: The update may take four hours to deploy. "Stimulus Package update: The Title Update is currently being prepped, but could take four hours to appear everywhere once it's read," Tweeted Daniel Maher, Xbox Live editor.
"Right now the team getting things in order so this will be fixed VERY soon (within hours)," added Nelson
Update #4: Major Nelson: "If you're getting 'Can't download the update' that's us putting the latest update in place. Excuse our dust, we'll be done ASAP."
Update #3: Hryb has offered another update: "I'll have another update in about 30-mins. Until then, you may see some weirdness if you try to download the map pack or update," he Tweeted.
Update #2: Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb's said the Stimulus Package wasn't released properly.
"The Stimulus Package needs a Title Update and it didn't go out properly. We're pushing it out now - it won't be long," he Tweeted.
Update #1: Major Nelson, the voice of Xbox Live (and Larry Hryb) has waded in. "The engineers are already engaged and working on the MW2 Stimulus Pack problem. They'll get it corrected," he tweeted, moments ago.
Original story: The Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package has been released on Xbox Live and does not work.
"Stimulus Package update: We're looking into why they aren't working, but we suspect a new title update is required and is due shortly," Tweeted Xbox Live editor Daniel Maher who, incidentally, has "no direct control over the content". "Messenger = shot," he added, in a later Tweet.
We'll keep our eyes peeled for any mention of a fix.
Inside the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package are five extra maps. Three are brand-new and two return from Modern Warfare 1. They'll add "so much mileage" that "no one's going to be disappointed", according to Infinity Ward community man Robert Bowling.
The Stimulus Package costs 1200 Microsoft Points (£10.20/€14.40).
Head over to our full interview with Bowling to find out more.
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Insubordination?
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Insubordination?
Classic!
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/sigh.
great.
IW i have emptied my wallet to you on more then one occasion!
gief me damn maps D:
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Also: many lols.
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No, wait !
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can they fix the price too plz?
kthxbye.
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Oh, that's clever. What the hell's happened to QA?"
im guessing they all got sacked for asking about their Royalties...
:>
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It's called karma, bitches.
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I'm not sure what's actually worse here though, the fact that people willingly paid the equivalent of $15 for a map pack, or the fact that the map pack doesn't work.
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... I can dream >.>
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'mediocre online FPS'
Really? Surely it's utterly brilliant? Well...I thought so...
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(at the -4 (and counting!).... I really did think the online mode was utterly brilliant... The single player was a bit cack, but online it's sublime).
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Others correctly pointed out there are alternative out now which are worth playing.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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:>"
I'm beginning to think you're right
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Must be Bobby's new business plan. Sounds like it worked perfectly.
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C'mon..F.F.S! Just as the game itself wasn't subjected to an open Beta, resulting in multiple failures and 10 patches so far, the map-pack is to suffer the same fate.
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Timed Exclusive DLC...
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So thanks Activision...greedy cunts couldn't wait for the money to roll in, forgot about the game.
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Strange all these well informed comments here implied it was all Activisions fault. Very odd.
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DLC for ya.....
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In other news, the 6 millionth patch for Internet Exploder is out today.
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...no?
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Meanwhile players of Settlers 7 haven't been able to play their (full-priced) game for over a week, and don't even get a mention.
EG's writing is still head and shoulders above most gaming sites, but I'm starting to feel that it's trying to appeal to a different type of gamer than I. What happened to the interesting articles and news stories? They seem to have been passed off to freelance writers to be published at the weekend
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Not because some people just love being inoperably stupid.
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]http://twitter.com/majornelson
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The MW2 Title Update is now live! It may take a few minutes for everyone worldwide to get it - our apologies for the delay. #MW2
3 minutes ago via Tweetie
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1. Everyone focussed their energies on identifying just who exactly we should all be so furious with, which was clearly the most important thing to be done.
2. Everyone maximised their rage, so as to get the very most out of the few short hours during which this problem existed (which I guess was the second most important thing to be done).
Well done everyone. One step closer to that inevitable self inflicted stress-induced stroke.
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That made me chuckle.
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Wait a few hours and all will be fixed......
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That's it kanga, you rile up the posters a bit more.
BTW I hardly think "everyone" is raging about this, most here seem more amused than anything (enjoying schadenfreude perhaps but not raging).
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Yep, its thousands of screaming MW2 customers taking it up the arse from Activision.
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I only read the first page, that was more than enough
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this made the ps3 owner in me smile!
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well then Major Nelson is a d***
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tired of the same old sniping spots?
tough luck
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"Except the vip edition of bad company is the same price as the standard. And £15 cheaper than MW2."
Really? I paid £26 for MW2 on the day of launch and £43 for BFBC2 VIP Edition which, incidently, was £3 more than the standard version. £3 is certainly cheaper than the £10 Activision are charging for the MW2 DLC but it is still extra cash I had to put down regardless.
"Oh and 1943 was probably the best value for money online shooter ever with the same RRP as the stimulus package."
I agree entirely. However, my point was that when it launched it was totally broken. The same way that the DLC for MW2 is right now.
"You picked a bad example to back up your point."
My point was that the comments on here seem to suggest that MW2 is the first game ever to have problems with its DLC when this is clearly not the case. I am not defending Activision as the DLC should have been extensively tested to ensure that it would work properly before it was released, just as BF1943 should have been. Please explain how the above is "a bad example to back up your point". That is all.
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"BC2LE is £5 cheaper than MW2 on the rrp price." - "if you paid £43 for BC2 you're a mug"
You quote the rrp to backup your point of view, then insult me for paying the rrp? Hmmm.
"And the comments thread isn't about dlc working or not, it's about greed being rewarded with failure."
Really? Please read the title of the article, it's right there at the top of the page. That is all.
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'You quote the rrp to backup your point of view, then insult me for paying the rrp? Hmmm. ' Yes, hence the dragged down to your level comment, straight after that. I hate semantics.
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"Why don't you note which comments are the highest rated and why."
If this is a question then why is there no question mark at the end of the sentence?
"No one really gives a shit about the maps as most have decided they are a complete rip off."
You speak for all of mankind do you? You need to resort to bad language do you? I would suggest that anyone who has downloaded the DLC cares quite a lot about the maps. Otherwise why would they have downloaded them in the first place?
"We're just enjoying the karma of activision falling on their arse."
As am I. By the way, Activision begins with a capital A.
"I hate semantics."
By this I assume that you mean that you hate people pointing out glaring contradictions in your arguments? That is all.
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it has allways been like this(coD4, 5), the first weeks they are only playable over the new option, after a few weeks they will be on the normal lists toooooooo
but a really bad thing now is, you can't play them only on your prefered playlist like S&D or whatever, you have to play them an all different lists per random, i'm only playing S&D, all the other playlist i don't like , so thats really bullshit.
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This is almost as funny as Square Enix taking a huge wad of MS Dollars and making Final Fantasy look and sound shit on the Xbox360.
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Must be Bobby's new business plan. Sounds like it worked perfectly.
of course they did. they got some free time
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"I hate semantics"
You hate the meaning of words?
Oh the irony.
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Seriously, do MS think that people are going to go out and buy an Xbox, and another copy of MW2, just so that they can play the DLC Maps 30 days quicker...? No. Everyone with a PS3 are like whatever... I personally think that it was rushed out, and they messed up.
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