Blops DLC pricing!

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Not played Black ops in a long time,and i heard there was some new DLC packs so i looked on Steam to see there are 3 sets of DLC priced at £11.49 each. :eek:

Seriusly why do people keep paying these prices for DLC?..no wonder the bloody game companies keep on charging too much for DLC.

Total ripoff.

Okay rant over. :D
 
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Agree. I only bought the New Vegas DLC 'cause it was on sale for like 2.50 and it's actually a decent size. 11.49 for five maps is ridiculous.
 
Nevakonaza said:
@ ins0mn1ac,So dont you agree that the pricing of DLC these days are too high?

3x £11.49 =£34.47
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Mentioning BLOPS around here though is like cause for riot. It was a rip-off to buy, it still is a rip-off, and guess what! the DLC is a crazy rip-off.

I originally bought BLOPS but I'd never entertain paying the price of the DLCs, by the time they are affordable there will be nobody online.
They've done themselves out of a fair few customers I'd imagine, not just moi.
 
I bought BLOPS and thought it was good. I hadn't played it for ages as I'd been busy with BC2 and CS:S.

I went back to it for about a month and then stopped. Wow, that game is terrible. I've never bought any map packs for MW2 or BLOPs. The prices are just outrageus. For a few maps I could buy a few entire indie games that would give me so much more entertainment.
 
Nevakonaza said:
@ ins0mn1ac,So dont you agree that the pricing of DLC these days are too high?

3x £11.49 =£34.47
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Surely it depends on what the DLC is. If it contains £11.49 of content then no. If its just a couple of maps then its hard to justify such a price.
 
I seldom buy a whole game for more than that now anyway :confused:

I would never pay £12 for a few maps.
 
iviv said:
Surely it depends on what the DLC is. If it contains £11.49 of content then no. If its just a couple of maps then its hard to justify such a price.
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Jono8 said:
I seldom buy a whole game for more than that now anyway :confused:

I would never pay £12 for a few maps.
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Indeed.

They know its a Rip-off as you can by a whole top end game for that & the development cost of those maps is nothing in comparison to the development cost of the game, but people do buy them so its money for old rope & they are laughing with mega profit margin.
 
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Final8y said:
Indeed.

They know its a Rip-off as you can by a whole top end game for that & the development cost of those maps is nothing in comparison to the development cost of the game, but people do buy them so its money for old rope & they are laughing with mega profit margin.
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Indeed.

They won't be getting my cash again until they make a new engine and go a new direction with Call of Duty. It's just a stale horrible cash cow now.
 
anyone remember when maps came in patches to keep people interested in the game and not to bleed you dry?
Good times...
 
I reckon if you play it a lot then 12 is probably a decent deal for the amount of play, plus they're probably close to mandatory to play online anyway. Why they don't just play TF2 or Battlefield though I have no idea.

For myself I just got Honest Hearts and Old World Blues for £7.50. 15 hours of content for that seems pretty reasonable.
 
World at war DLC was free on pc why not make free now? They charge £39.99 for game and then over £45.96 for 4 dlc packs?

So its clearly not development costs they need to cover I'm not buying this crap
 
OK it's me, I bought the map packs for Black-Ops.

At the moment i'm really into CoD again and am playin a few hours a day, although they are expensive for what they are, I feel I get my money's worth.

As for playing TF2 and BC2, I've never ever liked TF2 and after recently trying to get back into BC2 I came to my own conclusion that it's cack.
 
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I bought all the maps too, I play the game online everyday for 2 or 3 hours, if I didn't play it much I wouldn't have bothered, cant really blame them for charging what people will pay.
 
Rack said:
I reckon if you play it a lot then 12 is probably a decent deal for the amount of play, plus they're probably close to mandatory to play online anyway. Why they don't just play TF2 or Battlefield though I have no idea.

For myself I just got Honest Hearts and Old World Blues for £7.50. 15 hours of content for that seems pretty reasonable.
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How did you get them that cheap?, there about £5.50 each for me on Steam (still a good price though, £28 for NV and all its DLC thats currently out)

Edit: Oh they've dropped price again :D, glad I didn't buy it 2 days ago
 
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It's not a rip off if you enjoy it and will get a lot of hours out of those maps.

Not for me personally but it's clearly working for them so what's the issue :confused:
 
Shamikebab said:
It's not a rip off if you enjoy it and will get a lot of hours out of those maps.

Not for me personally but it's clearly working for them so what's the issue :confused:
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Its not as simple as that because for everything to work smoothly in a social aspect everyone really has to have all the maps & the dev & publishers know that..

I don't play BLOPs much at all but a friend was hounding me to join in one day & i kept getting disconnected & about half an hour later of trying he asked me if i had the map packs. The game does not even tell you that your trying to join a friend on a server with maps that you don't have.

So that popping on for a quick casual bash with friends is out of the window unless we all have them & i would not be playing it long enough to get my moneys worth.
 
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