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Halo |OT8| A Salt on the Control Room
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squidhands
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Only when you're dead? What is this, Halo 3? It's all about the assassinations, son. There's nothing better that watching the FOTUScorn driving that spike up someone else's space diaper, oh yeah...
That sounds... erotic.
Blue Ninja
Member
That .gif I made almost pays for itself.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Amazing...space diaper. Lol.
The Real Napsta
Member
Assassinations are for scrubs.
Other people see it too. I like maintaining a consistent online appearance. I always use the Runes in Halo games, and used the Mark VI in 3 and V in Reach.
Sure, that's one option. I know a lot of people wanted an ODST disc for $40, no Mythic disc. A console with no extraneous stuff would be nice for $250.
The other option is to do it as we've been saying and make it timed exclusive. You are a paying customer, you can have the armor exclusively for 3 years. After that everyone has the chance to earn it through our progression system.
Change it to explosion kills then.
Homeboyd pls. halo.xbox.com/en.us/career/gamehistory?gamertag=detractive#!/?game=1109598506
the thing I'd be complaining about isn't armor, it's that after dropping 400 bones on a "special edition" of an old ass console, Microsoft still won't throw in their "limited edition" Halo 4 copy which is basically the same as the regular edition except with some pieces of paper in it.
if someone is dedicated enough to buy a halo 4 console, toss in the LE.
if someone is dedicated enough to buy a halo 4 console, toss in the LE.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Yeah considering all the LE content is digital (right?) they could throw that in with the console for literally no cost to them. Has the other LE content been announced out of interest?
I still can't get over the fact that Black Ops 2 has an exclusive map as a pre-order bonus, at least the H4 armours are just aesthetic.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Wow, seriously? What an awful gen.
I haven't seen a lot of descriptions of the content, but new pics are here.
http://www.littleenglishhaloblog.com/2012/08/more-new-images-of-halo-4-limited.html
An exclusive map as a bonus? Oh wow. That's exactly the worst case scenario for this kind of parceled out content. :\
A whole playspace exclusive to preorders?
It's like every developer forgot the concept of playerbase segregation and why you should be avoiding it.
Link didn't work for me. No worries broseph... just trying to save you/him some time and effort. For instance, the medal count was nearly twice what you needed to obtain to receive the max payout amongst the other counts you had listed that were too low or too high. And if you hadn't specified "explosions" he would've tried TL kills and received 0 cR for it.
RebornYeti
Member
Not to mention that the map is a remake of Nuketown. :/
ElzarTheBam
Member
Nothing beats the story of the man who payed outrageous ebay prices for the War for Cybertron pre order G1 characters (I think 80 dollars or more per character).
Only for high moon to include them in a DLC map pack 2-3 months down the line, costing 1200 points.
Bleh. You know what was awesome? When buying one game got you a sweet early demo for another - FFVII in Tobal No. 1, H3 beta in Crackdown, etc.
The naked conversion of a player base into a business model will be the thing that finally drives me out of AAA releases altogether. But not yet.
Monetize, bro.
Hypertrooper
Member
Where did you read that?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Meaning for Blops 2. You get the remake of Nuketown for pre-ordering.
ElzarTheBam
Member
He's referring to BO2.
neoism
Member
lol is that brad?
squidhands
Member
Bourbon Dioxide? Yes, please.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Clever girl. : )
Some people enjoy armor aesthetics, why do you give a fuck?
The Real Napsta
Member
It's Nuketown though, so again, who gives a fuck?
What gave you the idea I give a fuck? If you want to pay $400 to look like a damn unicorn, more power to you.
Yeah it's a shitty practice, but atleast I won't ever have to play nuketown in BO2.
Hypertrooper
Member
Today is not my day, it seems.In the post I quoted.
It is Activision, what do you guys expect? I can even imagine the map will never be available for the public. Didn't they do something similar with MW3?
two discs, but not multilingual. meh.
I hate to go all Viewtiful/Daedalius on you, but why did you even bother posting if you aren't bringing anything to the conversation. Not posting on a certain issue is just as good, if not better than saying "I don't give a fuck, so why should you?"
bobs...onGaf
Member
Lots of people like Nuketown, it's one of the most popular maps, to the point where they run Nuketown only double exp style playlists from time to time.
My point is, they are deliberately choosing a map that they know many like as the one they segregate. If I pre-order I'm most likely never going to see it anyway considering I would need to be in a game with everyone who pre-ordered. As Fyrewulff said, it's a facepalm moment as it shows no thought towards map integration online. It's scary that not even maps are sacred anymore. Although in my last post I forgot Halo 4 gives early access to perks based on how much money you spend... I can't decide what's worse, cannibalising the maps or offering players who pay more an advantage...
Thanks for the link Ghaleon, packaging looks nice, but it's hard to tell what it houses.
The Real Napsta
Member
I'm saying if exclusive content is ugly armor and a bad map what is the point in bitching about it?
I understand it could become a problem, but right now it isn't one.
GrimBrother One
Member
Agreed. I'm always perplexed by people who give a big fuck about why people give, well, a big fuck.
EDIT: In full disclosure, yes, I for one LOVE armor aesthetics.
GrimBrother One
Member
This phrasing makes your stance make a bit more sense. <3
Well by now giving a fuck, you do actually give a fuck. Not the fuck about the subject, but not giving a fuck what other fucks think. Fuck.
As do I. Cosmetic changes are one area where I have no issue with paid DLC (on disc or otherwise), time based unlocks, paying to avoid time based unlocks, etc. I love it.
bobs...onGaf
Member
There are lots of reasons to mind. Even if you don't like the map it's just a very bad practise and shows the mentality of the marketing team/ developers.
I just don't comprehend how you can say "who cares" when it's clear that they deliberately chose a map people like rather than a map which people hated, which even then would be a bad thing.
I think it's important to keep in mind that Nuketown is probably one of the more popular maps on Black Ops, so it's not like they are doing it to content people wouldn't care about.
In your mind it's a bad map, but in they're mind it's a chance to make easy money by cannibalising a map many really like.
GrimBrother One
Member
Same here. I'd be all over New Armor DLC packs. I don't care if I'm "feeding the machine". I pay for things I want... that's the whole point! Lol
nillapuddin
Member
I think its completely reasonable for an armor pack to be out in the wild for =< $3
are you being for cereals?
bobs...onGaf
Member
My only problem with armour dlc would be that they could have spent that time making game types/ maps/ spartan ops missions.
I know it's not how it works when it comes to resources though, so maybe putting them out alongside gameplay dlc would be good.
I know it's not how it works when it comes to resources though, so maybe putting them out alongside gameplay dlc would be good.
Summary Man
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Have you ever played a COD game online? This is never an issue, as you are always matched with players who have the DLC if you do as well. You're not randomly matched up with whoever happens to be online at the time; the game purposefully puts you into lobbies with with players who have the same DLC as you do.
It works really well.
Somewhere a brain dead lower level manager in a marketing department just got a boner.
Wonders of a big population.
Yep, CoD's DLC implementation is really great. Halo could learn a thing or two from it.
If that helps him rise up to kill off time investment systems & DLC that affect gameplay, then I support his engorgement.
Doubt it. Thats one thing I think MS realizes would just piss people off. Skins and armor? Fair game.
Maybe the LE/ preorder perks would be pay DLC packs for those who wanted them later.
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