Next Halo 3 map pack coming April 15, includes Sidewinder remake

Brrrrrrrrrrr.....

The first three new ones were cool and all. I broke down and bought them but other than the dlc hopper you never get to play them so I definitely felt like I wasted ten bucks. I think this time ill wait until they're free.

too busy playing brawl anyway. jerks.

Remake of Sidewinder??
Damn, that almost made me shell out $10 bucks...but sorry the COD4 maps will get that instead.

Good thing these will be free someday.

There's whole games i never got the chance to play that cost 10 dollars or less. Cool if you're hardcore, but if i've learned anything from hardcore players, they f34r (sic) change. Chances are, the maps are only good for a week.

I'm pretty so-so at Halo 3 multiplayer, am I likely to just get murdered repeatedly at an obscene rate if I were to jump online with these? Also, when does the other map pack become a free download?

Like the above commenter, I'm also a little too consumed with Smash Bros, but don't want to forget about my ol' pal Halo.

Too bad I can't use Wario in Halo online and just fart on people. Sigh.

I generally have no problem paying 10 dollars for new maps, but paying for them in Halo 3 is just a waste because they never come up in matchmaking, whereas in a game like Gears they were plenty worth it since those maps were immediately added to the rotation. I know they are supposed to show up if everyone in the game has them in Halo, but that has literally not happened to me a single time.

The only way to play them is to play the unranked DLC playlist, and then you play ONLY those maps and there's no way to play them in a ranked game.

They should've just split the community. As it is they only become useful when everyone has them, and that only happens when they become free.

I thought I remembered hearing that the last set of maps become free when these one ones release (so April 15th), but I could be wrong about that.

Ugh, that was supposed to be a reply to markez. Is this comment system ever going to get fixed?

I think I will spend my money on COD4 map packs insted. You see them a lot more often than the halo map packs.

I'm getting them on tax day then. I've been wanting a remake of Sidewinder so bad that I mention it just about every time we play Capture the Flag. It's always been my favorite map.

I'll gladly shell out $10 when they release blood gulch/coagulation. I really don't play halo 3 because I feel the maps on halo 2 are much better, and my friends and I always switch to it after a half hour of so of halo 3.

Small map packs should be free to keep the game selling and keep the multiplayer community playing.

Paying for 3 maps just encourages developers to release games with anemic map selections so that can finish the ones they already got and charge you for them later.

Why can't these be free from the beginning?

To cover the cost, can't they (Bungie/Microsoft) just put some ads in the maps? Not like a "hey you have to watch this commercial to play this map" ad, but more of a poster on a wall or something.

The "gamer" demographic is already an advertiser's dream demo, so Bungie/MSFT shoud be able to get a decent deal (decent in relation to other ad deals).

I think this would shift the focus for Bungie/MSFT from "let's make new maps every 3 months or so" to "lets change game types to keep people playing." It might spur more innovation.

I'd be willing to put up with dying in front of an "AXE Body Spray" ad if it meant the maps were free from the beginning.

Yeah, I have a huge issue with this. DLC should always be priced so that it covers the cost of making the DLC plus a little bit of profit. 3 Halo maps for $10 is so fucking mind blowing. You know that at least 500k of the 7.5 million Halo 3 players are going to buy it.

I also wish map packs were free. To demonstrate this, I don't buy map packs. If/when they become free I download them.

I bought the Heroic pack just to give the game a little life since I haven't play it since October of 07 then I play it January and I have to say I totally forgot how to play online so it was a disastrous experience until I finally remember how to pwn again (Git teh shutgun,crouch nd pwn teh n00bs thin procede 2 teabag) well I totally waste 800p and now they are giving the maps for free so no thanks I guess I’m going to use these 800p for what I should’ve done in the first place..Get REZ HD

I meant I wasted 800p.

whats worse is 1 guy makes a map. suppose it takes him around 3 weeks of work @ 8 hours a day to make a quality map. 8x15= 120 hours. Suppose his salary is like $80 000 a year, which its probably not, Then your looking at 15 days work out of around 250 work days in the year = $4800 to produce one map. If it sells for $10 for 3 maps, Total cost of map pack is around $14400. Once 1440 people purchase the map pack, its profit time.

Lets assume at least 50 000 people download the map pack (and im sure more then this do), Thats $485 600 Of profit. Well lets take away some for bandwidth fees to host the map for download, We are still looking at $400 000 profit from only 50 000 downloads.

Now lets assume the map packs get 500 000 downloads. Thats nearly $5 Million pure profit.

They are deffenitly overcharging for these maps.

Don't buy these maps!

DLC matchmaking is horribly broken. There aren't enough players, so you get totally destroyed by roving bands of bored generals and brigadiers.

My k/d tanked after buying Heroic DLC. Even ranked games are more balanced.

Remakes should be FREE folks. If they are releasing NEW maps that have never been seen.. ok maybe $2 a map.

WAKE UP SHEEP!!

REMEMBER,

MS is the one who is controlling the prices. Bungie has stated this. The way they said it, basically hints that they dont agree either but what can you do?

I was very disappointed with the first Map Pack. Sorry, but to me it turned out to be a waste of money. I didnt spend much time playing that playlist because frankly, it got boring and I just didnt enjoy the maps much.

Rats Nest is decent. Nothing special.
Foundry is cool.....when you play on some user created maps. Definately not cool the way Bungie has it set up.
Stand Off seemed like the best of the bunch, but after playing it several times, something just isnt right about it. Its okay but definately something Ill be vetoeing when it makes it to all playlists.

The new maps LOOK like they have potential. At least the 2 shown to us. I am not sure if ill buy yet. I might wait and get some opinions from buddies of mine. Definately not from here because it seemed too many people thought the last Map Pack was actually good.
And if the Moonlight map does turn out to be Lock Out, man I sure hope they dont screw it up. I loved that map on Halo 2. I have a feeling this will be like a movie sequel and "Lock Out 2" will come up way short when compared to the original.