Canis lupus
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Lol, for them custom games.
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Treyarch pull Nuketown 2025 pre-order bonus map in Black Ops 2(Up: Back, in playlist)
- Thread starter Foliorum Viridum
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Lol, for them custom games.
Gemüsepizza
Member
After the event appearing on all important gaming-sites (free PR) and after the following re-release of the map:
"Oh my god, thank you Treyarch, you are the best!!!"
"you really listen to what fans want!!"
"we love you!"
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NinjaFridge
Unconfirmed Member
Totally. Companies screwing over consumers is fine and not worth getting annoyed about.
Why couldn't they just make it so that the map wouldn't show up if people playing didn't have the map?
I swear that's what they did with the DLC maps in Black Ops.
excaliburps
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There's nothing "It's CoD" about this. It's a friggin' pre-order bonus that got yanked for no apparent reason. If they outlined this by saying that "Nuketown 2025 won't be available after the first double XP weekend" then, this might fly. But what they did is crummy and kinda senseless.
I've played about two rounds of Nuketown 2025 on Black Ops 2 and while I don't like the map now, I can understand why people would be upset. Think of it this way: Ubisoft promises a free mission for AC3, but lo and behold, they yank that mission after a week of release only with the promise that it will be back eventually. Or something to that effect.
Seriously, GAF is known to hate a ton of things for no reason...this is NOT one of those times.
Previous CoD's and other shooters handle DLC just like that, yes. It sounds like Treyarch may have bungled up.
Neuromancer
Member
hahahaha
That's really gross dude
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Every CoD since MW2 has worked that way. It's not a technical issue, as this wouldn't split the userbase any more than DLC would. For whatever reason, it seems that Treyarch doesn't want the map in the regular rotation.
Future PhaZe
Member
It better be in the first DLC map pack and in regular rotation at that point
Doug Heffernan
Member
What a dick move, thanks for buying our game, were taking away your bonus!
They have a playlist with 1/2 xp so they can easily do that. They don't want to.
HyperCubed4
Member
A friend of mine says Nuketown 24/7 is still available for the Zombies mode. Is that true?
Shatner's Bassoon
Member
Neuromancer
Member
Nuketown Zombies is a totally separate thing.
Neuromancer
Member
hahahaha
Thanks bish, really didn't need to look at poop any more today.
Kotick's been lying low for too long, he's looking to rekindle some of that heel heat.
VibratingDonkey
Member
Why would they do this? Why doesn't this map work like any of their other additional maps do and will? Or are they going to suddenly yank those out of rotation as well?
I think too many people wanted to play it or something
i used to say treyarch was an ok developpers but ... i dont get why they do this? The only way i can see this is that they dont want us to level up too fast (cause yeah the map is so small that you lvl up faster in this map by doing more points) to play longer on the game just to sold us DLC.
Jack Scofield
Member
You guys didn't pay extra for this map. Stop complaining.
SolidSnakex
Member
Well, they already did something really dirty to those that purchased the Wii U version. They had Nuketown 2025 listed on their site for the Wii U version. A guy gets the game early only to find that there's no Nuketown code inside the case. Activision then removes any mention of Nuketown for the Wii U from their website, and doesn't even explain why they advertised it to begin with.
No they didnt. They would kick you out of the game and tell you that you need to buy the dlc pack.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Kind of glad I turned down my order now. I was only getting the game for MP since the black ops series has little interest for me in regards to single player but if this is the sign of MP to come then screw it I won't buy the game till its budget at my GFs store.
Such a shitty tactic that has no defense
Such a shitty tactic that has no defense
Whether anyone payed anything or not its still a shitty thing to do. I didn't pre order and I'm pretty upset about this.
Only for those that didn't pre-order. People that have the map can still load it for those that don't in custom games. That's the problem. The only way non-pre-orders can play the map is with that playlist.
Really, it should just be released as a free content update since locking maps and shit to pre-orders only is scuzzy.
gregor7777
Banned
So, let me get this straight.
They want to sell more preorders, so they put out a popular map as an incentive. It becomes just as wildly popular as they hoped. They sell a ton of their preorders (our end of the deal), we get the map they promised (their end of the deal). Now after they get what they wanted, they pull the map?
WTF?
EDIT: and how fucking laughable is it that they called the playlist Nuketown 24/7 and it wasn't even up for a full 7? Fuck off.
it might hurt the feelings of the the people who made the other maps
My Tesco order did, card inside, and pimping an obsolete feature on the back. Xbox.
MW3 had 16 maps and was $60. BO2 has 14 maps + Nuketown and is $60. I'd say we most certainly did pay for it. Just because a corporation tells you that it's "free" doesn't mean that it actually is.
GillianSeed79
Member
I don't get why they would be concerned over boosting. Granted I didn't even get a chance to play Nuketown 24/7, but with all the past Call of Duty's there were other regular game modes that got you a lot more experience points compared to vanilla TDM. With point streaks being used now, you'd figure the objective-based game modes, like past CoD's, would be the game types where you can boost your stats the easiest.
Jack Scofield
Member
Black Ops II without Nuketown: $60
Black Ops II with Nuketown: $60
I fail to see how you paid any more for this specific map. Previous games having more maps is irrelevant.
DUFFMCWALIN
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Stop posting
tekneek2k6
Member
Hopefully this will be quickly reversed like when Infinity Ward briefly removed Drop Zone from the community playlists in MW3.
33-Hit-Combo
Member
Mine did also, PS3. But hey, I didn't preorderit.
I'm not down with the yuh uh nuh uh thing
I certainly remember it working as such. Apparently
is there a reason you feel you need to come into a thread where people are complaining about having a feature that was advertised in an effort to get them to buy the game was removed not even a week after the game's launch? I swear, there's no Activision shareholders here who are going to give you stock if they see you do free PR and damage control for them.