Call of Duty: Black Ops has moved 20 million map packs to date

@xiLeShadow Aren't they doing that for the China market?

@xiLeShadow

never thought of that, and it seems like a obvious move. like a CODlite with microtransactions. Altho i can see people already acting like a bunch of 12 year olds over the idea. even though many FPS have done it. Including BF.

@xiLeShadow

The fact that they sell more copies on release day than any other game kind of makes it silly to go free to play. Sure, they'll make a ton on map packs, but the people are clearly okay with paying a premium for the game, and another premium for the map packs. Why would Activision give for free what so many people are willing to pay for?

@BlazeKing - Amen to that, I refuse to spend $15 on a map pack, too bad others are not doing the same.

@BlazeKing

I miss those days.

The Call of Duty 4 Map Pack was Free for PC Gamers. In addition, all of the maps packs for World at War were also Free for PC Gamers.

After the poop-fest of Modern Warfare 2, which stood no where as good as COD4 PC, Activision decide to milk the PC market as well. This was also the time when Call of Duty started to require Steam.

I guess Steam made it easier to for Activision to release Paid DLC instead of the traditional Update + Free DLC Combo.

@BlazeKing

a lot of people have been thinking the same way apparently. they have sold over 25 million copies of the game itself. but only 20 million combined of like 3 or 4 map packs? thats a lot of people not giving in...but not enough to make them drop the price back down sadly

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi I prefere what halo/cod does than bf/gta where its seperate from the main mp.I hated getting booted from games cause of map packs or having a small amount of ppl playing in an expansion such as vietnam.

@BlazeKing

I never pick up map packs. They are never worth it to me. Such a small amount of content for too much money.

@Fearmonkey

I share your solidarity. Of course I've always been of the mind that people that buy these map packs at these prices, don't really have a great handle on cost vs. value mechanics.

I'm sure some would say "It's as valuable as the buyer perceives it to be" but that just doesn't fly. There was this small window when XBLA, PSN, and DLC content might have been significantly cheaper (and in my opinion) correctly priced, but during that window publishers experimented with charging more than normal and found that enough people bought it to make it worth their while.

It's not a good thing when just a few people hold all the keys. There isn't any competition at that point, and a commerce system without competition sucks for the consumer.

@CaramelZappa

Agreed, if you bought Black Ops 60.00 and later paid for every map pack it would be another 60.00 and you would've paid 120.00 to have the complete game. The only way I would spend that much is for games like GTA IV or Fallout 3 which included expansions not just maps. That's why I love TF2, they add new maps all the time and I don't have to pay a dime.

@copa
I thought Black Ops was better.

I was going to buy BO but with the wager matches and splitscreen and cheap price (Half price) i decided to grab it.

Now i havnt played anything other than split-screen co-op and even then ive played about 20 games of it, BC2 had more of my attention

@copa

I was willing to give Black Ops the benefit of the doubt when it came out. MW2 was incredibly dumb, but it was still fun, and I had the same hopes for BlOps. But having to wait weeks for the biggest game of the year to get enough patches to allow the game to be playable is unacceptable. I think the worst thing that I see is how everybody has forgotten about that little "incident"... I think most PC players here would remember about the "memory leak" in BlOps causing it to be nearly unplayable (unless you don't mind your game freezing for a split second every few seconds). But everybody has no problem blasting BF3 for having server issues. At least for EA this was the biggest game they've ever released, and maybe (obviously) they didn't realize how much resources were needed to keep the game running smoothly. BlOps is different. Activision POURED money in to that game, and they KNEW it was going to be huge, and yet they somehow managed to allow a massive error like that to be released to the public (to my knowledge the PC wasn't the only platform effected either). For me BlOps is where Activision turned off the quality valve, and turned all of their attention to profits.

@copa
I'm not a huge CoD fan, but I though Black Ops brought a lot of fun little things. Sticks and Stones, as well as Gun Games (lifted from counter strike, but still plenty fun) to me did a lot to spice up a franchise that is more or less the same every year. Maybe it's not the best game in the franchise, but the quirks like RC cars made it stand out quite a lot.

@Vampettrelli
The CODs got ridiculous after W@W in my opinion, But i give credit to treyarch for Black Ops, they did "try" to improve, e.g removing the Rollerblade knife that plagued MW2,

My top COD games -
COD4
W@W
Blops
MW2
Also bare in mind people, were on our EIGHTH (8TH!!) COD, COD8, Talk about milking it? My great grand kids will be on MW12 at this rate, They move faster than Apple

@Vampettrelli
That last comment was for "That One Guy" btw, i dont know why it replied to me

@AntZero

wow your opinion is so new and original... say, would you happen to point me to a FPS thats tehz pwn3.


you know u wanna say it....

@ChaseHammerJ

sorry didnt see where it was sum of all 4 packs not 20 million of each pack.

@ChaseHammerJ

First off, that was 15 million copies in the US. Second off, there are four map packs, meaning there is a potential audience of 60 million copies in the US alone.

......Got it?

@Ellimem

thanks for reiterating my second comment.

@RandomfragLOL

why do that when they can get you to buy a whole new game?

@foxhound

it has... a long time ago

Perhaps if it were a zombie shark from the first RE.

@cjrosa6

I think you're confused.

casual FPS players have not changed anything but casual shooters.

there are still the same amount of "core" games out there. Don't even try to tell me otherwise, Right now I'm playing through shadows of the damned, el shaddai, ico, and amnesia. if casual gamers have changed the landscape of gaming I just don't see it. they may have added to it but they certainly haven't changed what was already there.

@eat it None of which are FPS games (except amnesia, but minus the S)

He's talking about the competitive shooter scene like counterstrike, quake, halo and that stuff.