Beer Monkey
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There are people who bought the first run instead of waiting for a BF sale because of the bonus map.
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Treyarch pull Nuketown 2025 pre-order bonus map in Black Ops 2(Up: Back, in playlist)
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There are people who bought the first run instead of waiting for a BF sale because of the bonus map.
theviolenthero
Member
To get people to pre-order they specifically said that you would get the Nuketown 2025 map.
This was literally on every commercial & i'm sure a lot of people went ahead and pre-ordered because of that.
You should be a game developer.
gregor7777
Banned
Wow.
Hmmm. Time value of money.
Not so bright, this one.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
So not everybody got Nuketown with the game at launch?
Pretty lame all round.
But then I thought it was shitty that one of, or possible most, popular map in BO you "had to" pre-order for, which evidentially you didn't really need to when whatever retailer had it in all first release copies.
This next to all the other nonsense in BO2 is really disappointing.
But then I thought it was shitty that one of, or possible most, popular map in BO you "had to" pre-order for, which evidentially you didn't really need to when whatever retailer had it in all first release copies.
This next to all the other nonsense in BO2 is really disappointing.
What was wrong with spermatic cord's pic? Sorry, for being ignorant :/
Pre-order bonus existed for quite sometime. This is hardly a new thing. Calling for somone's head over a simple somment is silly.
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Pre-order bonus existed for quite sometime. This is hardly a new thing. Calling for somone's head over a simple somment is silly.
Looks to me like it was changed by a mod.
GillianSeed79
Member
It was a separate playlist and it was a win/win for people who liked and hated Nuketown. People who liked Nuketown could play it 24/7. People who didn't like Nuketown didn't have to worry about it screwing with the regular rotation.
Remember when Reach launched and Slayer was virtually unplayable because everyone always voted for Zombies until they made it a separate playlist? That's what Blops 1 was like, but they never made Nuketown a separate playlist until this one.
Well, for one, it solicits zero intelligible conversation into the thread, because it's either 100% genuine stupidity or an attempt to ruin the thread.
Woosh
CloakedPuppet
Member
Yep. I'm pretty much done with this franchise but even I have to admit that this is a sleazy move.
Kung Fu Grip
Banned
Hold the fuck on......cant we sue for false advertising? This is bullshit.
And i knew there was a reason they decided to make this shit a preorder.......to make the numbers higher. Fuck you up the ass real hard activition and treyarch.
And i knew there was a reason they decided to make this shit a preorder.......to make the numbers higher. Fuck you up the ass real hard activition and treyarch.
Jack Scofield
Member
The commercials advertised the Nuketown map, not the Nuketown playlist. Everyone who purchased the game because of that map received it. It's not like Treyarch removed Nuketown from the game and made it impossible to play.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
I'm pretty sure I bought the game because of it, so stuff it.
Bumblebeetuna
Gold Member
I played almost exclusively on NT 2025 24-7 and I am ok with this. Mostly because, you know, I didn't pay an extra penny for the map. And it wasn't a preorder bonus, it was included in first run copies of the game. Lastly, idk of any way they would have worked around it. If they take the 24-7 playlist down and incorporate the map into all playlists, then no one will ever get to play it anyway because:
a) they'll have to tone down the % of times it appears just like they did with Blops 1 and
b) in the rare occasion it is set to pop up for vote, it will be discarded because someone in the lobby will not have it
They could have made the playlist unranked but that would have pissed off a lot of people who only played it. And you can't tone down the XP without drastically affecting the game. So in this playlist only, you'd have an entirely separate set of XP and streak reward triggers? Doesn't sound logical.
And I would agree with people who have been saying it will be in a future map pack but while they are saying it purely in a negative sense (oh those greedy Acti bastards!) it just makes good old common sense to me. Millions will buy the map pack, NT 2025 is included, and you then don't run into problem b) listed above because way more people have it.
I do hope they come to their senses and keep the 24/7 list up though.
a) they'll have to tone down the % of times it appears just like they did with Blops 1 and
b) in the rare occasion it is set to pop up for vote, it will be discarded because someone in the lobby will not have it
They could have made the playlist unranked but that would have pissed off a lot of people who only played it. And you can't tone down the XP without drastically affecting the game. So in this playlist only, you'd have an entirely separate set of XP and streak reward triggers? Doesn't sound logical.
And I would agree with people who have been saying it will be in a future map pack but while they are saying it purely in a negative sense (oh those greedy Acti bastards!) it just makes good old common sense to me. Millions will buy the map pack, NT 2025 is included, and you then don't run into problem b) listed above because way more people have it.
I do hope they come to their senses and keep the 24/7 list up though.
Franklinator
Member
Kinda weird that they're not putting it in the normal map rotation, surely they'll do that soon.
But removing the playlist that only has this map in it makes sense, they probably want a higher population in the other playlists (assuming this was the most played playlist, I haven't played the game).
But removing the playlist that only has this map in it makes sense, they probably want a higher population in the other playlists (assuming this was the most played playlist, I haven't played the game).
ZombieSupaStar
Member
i would too if it wasnt tied to my steam account.
You really shouldn't try justifying what activision and treyarch has done here as ok. Sure, they didn't specifically advertise a nuketown playlist, but they also didn't advertise saying it would be taken away from most playlists within less than a week.
As others have said many times already, it is just plainly a shitty thing to do.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Lol the games not going on sale for BF.
The thing is they still gave the map to people ot play. It's just a sleazy move that frankly people shouldn't put up with and should be spamming the Treyarch twitter to get an answer off them.
Kung Fu Grip
Banned
The highest played playlist is TDM. There's always over 100k in there. Nuketown only had 76k on average.
PS3.
The thing is, I would still file a chargeback.
Beer Monkey
Member
"Preorders get a free six-day rental of an upcoming map!!!"
ZombieSupaStar
Member
If you file a charge back you get your steam account locked, Id rather enjoy my other 500 steam games that aren't made by Hitler.
Let me rub it in for a second.
hahahahaha
lol. feels like they rather pull the map than to give it away for free
looooooooooooooooolLet me rub it in for a second.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Nuketown 24/6
Yeah. And during the Double XP weekend, the rare times I could get into a NukeTown 2025 matchmaking it always put me on nearly finished/custom games.
NukeTown/2025/House are my favorites maps across the Black Ops games and still no biggie. The map can still be used in custom games and in my case, to play against bots and take pictures.
I figured it was implicit that you should not do that if you have a Steam account since uh, The Steam EULA lol
SJRB
Gold Member
I didn't. Not even sure how that is possible, but yeah.
Easy. I'm just saying how hard it would probably be to get your money back in this situation.