As, I wrote the other day, Bungie has made it a requirement that one owns the Halo Mythic Map Pack in order to play ranked matches on Halo 3. The mythic maps are being released along with Halo:ODST in September. I, and I am sure there are others, decided to wait until ODST came out to get those maps, however I play Team Slayer all of the time and I could no longer do it because of this change from Bungie. That being said I started an online petition and would like to see as many signatures on it as possible.
Reasons for the petition:
1. If I paid full price for a game, I should not have to pay for map packs in order to access all of the features of the game. It might be more understandable if there were a notice before hand or if it was simply for access to new content. However, blocking certain features until one makes a purchase is black mail.
2. I should not have to pay for one product twice. I was planning on waiting on getting these map packs until the release of Halo:ODST. There should be some type of credit given back so that a customer is not paying for the same product twice.
3. Do not say a game is going to be one price and then make it another. Plan better or keep your mouth shut. Bungie first said that ODST was going to be less than full price. Now they are saying it will be full price.
These are just a few complaints. I for one hope that Bungie does the right thing and promises to give me my measly money back upon purchase of ODST. Other wise I will refrain from purchasing.
View and sign the petition here.
[...] release telling you all of the reasons that you should buy ODST, including new maps (which you may or may not have already paid for), new story, and guaranteed access to the Halo:Reach beta upon its release. Then I have embedded a [...]
Same concept as in the new Gears of War 2: All Fronts. They should really try and find a way to supplement the loyal customers.
I am not really all that upset about the price being $59.99. I do think that they should not have said it would be cheaper though. My main problem is that I will essentially be paying for maps twice.
I was going to blog on this very subject of the pricing of Halo:ODST but I will just reply here instead.
While I don't agree with Bungie's practice of forcing people to have a certain map pack to play online unless its free. I do agree with the pricing of Halo:ODST and here is why. The game will be a full fledge episodic game. I value that at least $30 bucks. It will include a new variety of multiplayer for Halo that was much lacking called "Firefight". I value that at $5 to $10. You get all 24 maps. So at the current rate of 3 maps for $10 thats $80 dollars in maps alone. Now I know that several of these are free now but I am going by initial cost. So that means your getting over $100 of value for $59.99. But then again I am a big Halo fanboy so take it for whats it worth.