User blog:Austin Power Man/Why DICE is a rip-off.

If there was one element that DICE and EA should have learned from top games like Modern Warfare and Halo, it is that if the heart of your game is multiplayer - you MUST keep the multiplayer experience fresh. How does Bungie and Activision do this? 4 letters M-A-P-S!

Halo 3 with all of their packs have around 24 multiplayer maps for gamers to indulge in. Heck, ODST has a disc just for multiplayer maps on it. Modern Warfare 2 launched with 16 maps out of the box. The majority of those had different variants for different gametypes. On top of those 16, Activision has released 2 map packs that added 5 maps a piece to that suite. So they have around 26 maps for gamers to indulge in.

Have you scrolled through your Bad Company 2 Map list lately? Do you find yourself in familiar territory every few games?

Conquest and Rush (Which are the two most played) have 8 different maps you can play on. Now, if you add to that total the 5 VIP Map Packs that have been released it comes out to............ugh........wait a min...............well my calculator is saying 8.

Players have 8 maps to play on and it took 5 Map Packs in order to get there? Seriously, this should be a joke. If you enjoy Squad Rush or Squad Deathmatch then you are really screwed with only 5 maps to play on. Or maybe you invested some money into the DLC which brought a totally new gametype and a total of 4 maps to that gametype. At this rate, maybe VIP Map Pack 30 will bring us closer to Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2 numbers. This is the first VIP club I have ever been a part of where I do not feel like a Very Important Person.

EA and DICE can put lipstick on a Map Pack, but everyone knows these have only been Mode Packs.

Yeah, Mode Packs should be free for those who rent and buy used, as someone with a degree in Dumbassery could make them, map packs (with new maps) should cost 1200 points with 5 maps (notice that this is fair compared to MW2's small memory maps), and since they like to rip off MW2, make one map from Bad Company 2 and the other map from a past Battlefield game, just modernized and with the new engine and such. Mode Packs are less then useless, Map Packs are great fun.