How many maps does the pack contain ?! I've never purchased extra maps but 10 dollars looks way too expensive !

I bet they could've sold it for 2$ but went like: It's Halo stuff, they'll buy it for 10$ anyway !

Shteve

Can you pre-order it, get the code, then cancel the pre-order? I'm sure some of you have thought of it, so I have to ask!

HibikiRush

Paying for maps really bums me out...this deal sounds ideal.

ThisCharmingMan

Couldn't wait that long for the maps....must....play....Lock---err Blackout......

lionkitten

no thanks, I'll spend the $10 rather then the $60 for a game I won't play that much since I'll be playing Halo 3 the whole time.

DataScream

Epic win

I'm going to get NG2 anyway and this is a free bonus. Circuit City will get a good amount of additional sales with this.

Snuffbox

@Mr.SithNinja: Back when I was a kid, we'd have to walk twenty feet in the freezing snow to get the mail from a mail box. And the mail was on paper, and had to be transported on a truck. A truck!

Super_Nintendo_Chalmers

Or... wait 6 months or so until it is just plain free.

Franklin Comes Alive!

@Mr.SithNinja:

Driving to America, preordering it, and coming back to pick it up. That's a hassle :)

Iceking5

I'd rather wait and see if somebody is selling NG2 for cheap when it's released.

OGHowie

really good idea....but too late.
if they had been advertising it a week ago, i would have looked into this for sure.

Darthearl

Just in time! Well, I actually never intended to purchase the map pack to begin with, but a heads-up is always great... for American players at least. Should I ever choose to make the jump to these new Halo maps, 800 precious Microsoft Points will still be pried from my fingertips like stolen candy.

Fut

@z357x: Actually, no, you do.

"Did we get your attention before it was Too Late? We hope not."

Read it slowly, now.

Recoil

Hmmm just like the Crackdown/Halo 3 demo.

Clarke

No Canada again. :(

liquid_kore

@Iceking5: Hassle?? Where's the hassle? Having to wait for an email is considered a hassle? Wow....just wow....

Mr.SithNinja

WOOT! I was adamant about not buying them. I'm also adamant about getting NGII. Go me.

diablodevil2

is this an online only offer?

JoDark117

@Takuthehedgehog: I feel like you need to read a little close what they said.

z357x

@Takuthehedgehog: Hahaha- Zing!

King Seafoam

Triple Word Score! Good looking out CC!

Mr.SithNinja

Nice deal imo, I may end up going this route. I wasn't even gonna bother purchasing this map pack, but as a pre-order bonus on a game I am absolutely getting, tis a nice deal.

VonDante

apparently this news came too late, bad call on Circuit City.

z357x

Hmmmm tempting

Kyle81

Why do you hope NOT? Why bother even posting this if you don't want people to save money?

Takuthehedgehog

Oh. No.

Spoony Bard

I want both, but this does sound like a bit of a hassle.

Iceking5

Whoops.

Erwin

@dowingba: *NG2! As you can tell, I suck at Typing of the Dead.

dowingba

@Mr.SithNinja: Well it would be a hassle if you hadn't planned on pre-ordering NG2. Of course this is irrelevant because...why wouldn't someone want to pre-order NH2?!

dowingba

No love for les Canadien. We'll have to cough up our 10 loonies (or 5 toonies) for the map pack.

xanavi

@JustJake: Nah; this is not the same thing. Ninja Gaiden 2 is a big release in itself, contrarily to Crackdown, and a map pack for Halo 3 is a much smaller release than the Halo 3 beta. And there's an easy way to get the maps other than pre-ordering Ninja Gaiden 2, which wasn't the case with the Halo 3 beta.

Guizzy

Well, that would be great if there was a Circuit City anywhere near me. You people and your conveniently located electronics stores.

C22DBlueKnightOne

@Takuthehedgehog: We are bastards with typos, that's why.

Mark Wilson

Eh, Ninja Gaiden was too frustrating for me, so I won't be bothering with #2.

I wasn't going to buy this map pack but I didn't buy the last one and as someone else pointed out here $10 doesn't really get you a whole lot anymore. So I might as well stop being such a tightwad and fork over the cash.

Cloral

good deal

reptile168

Interesting that Circuit City is using the Crackdown sales tactic for Ninja Gaiden 2. lol

JustJake

I already paid for them, and I don't like Ninja Gaiden enough to buy Ninja Gaidan II for $50.

Heyyou27

3 maps, most other map packs for games (ie COD4) are the same price.

HibikiRush

@Iceking5: I forgot this was a "global community". ;) My bad...

@Super_Nintendo_Chalmers: That's nothing! I had to walk up hill BOTH WAYS in a blizzard-ami (that's a blizzard and tsunami hybrid) to get my mail when I was your age. (shakes cane in the air out of general frustration with the world)

Mr.SithNinja

@Takuthehedgehog: Why would they hope they got to us "too late?" THEN there would have been no point in posting.

If I could actually wait a week to get the code, I would do this, but, alas, I am an impatient being, so when work is over, color me downloading.

zenpoet

@Shteve:

Definitely true, and I agree... I paid $70 for the LE version of Halo 3, add in 2 map packs on top of that at $10 each and it's nearly a $100 game.... It gets a little pricey that's for sure. That's why I'm trying to score these maps for free with this deal! ;)

HibikiRush

@HibikiRush:

Only 3 ! Sorry for my lack of knowledge on DC pricing but I never thought people were stolen so easily ! At that price I'd prefer sticking to what's in the game, I'd get bored faster but there's so much great games that need my attention !

Shteve

Just placed my order, guess we'll see in a few days if i'll be able to cancel and keep the maps...

*crosses fingers* Here's hoping I pull one over on the man!

JerrD74: hates the media

Hmm... Interesting... Unfortunately I don't live in America and we here in Dreamhackland don't have any Circuit City... Fortunately I don't have Halo 3 and am not planning on getting it!

eskimo-bob

It's online only... Says Internet deal on the site...

[www.circuitcity.com]

l0stn0tfound

@HibikiRush: Umm, yeah, I am also curious about this...guess i'm gonna be the one to try it lol

JerrD74: hates the media

@HibikiRush: What I never understood is why the Legendary version didn't some with a little something more than a stupid helmet. What would have been the greatest was a special armor or game variant that only us suckers who got the version would be able to have.

Nothing along the lines of the flaming codpiece, but how about instead of the Hyabusa sword, one of those bright orange bicycle bike flags? That would be the bees knees.

zenpoet

@Shteve: ...I see what you did there! You acted like you didn't know anything about the pricing of DLC to make a point about how you think Halo 3's map packs are a ripoff! That was very clever.

I love how people complain that there is more expansion content for a game. Like Halo 3 didn't have a full multiplayer component at launch. Yeah, ok.

NPlace

@NPlace: I really don't understand what you're trying to advance ! There was no acting of any kind. Do you have some kind of paranoia problems, like you're seeing people plot against you everywhere ...

Shteve

@NPlace: The best part is that back in the early 90s we would have committed grisly acts of violence for the opportunity to expand our console games with new maps and levels...but for some reason today it only pisses people off? I mean yeah, I'd love it if they were free myself, but you should either pay for them or don't, no amount of whining about what a rip off DLC is in general is going to change its price.

DaiMacculate

Well, this works out well for me! I can't really play my 360 anyways until Friday.

Mini-Boss

Is there any way to specify which maps you want to play? I know in COD4 it doesn't let you choose. I dropped 800 points on their map pack and then couldn't even find a match in one of the new maps. Fucking A! I rarely play Halo 3, but I'm not gonna make the same stupid ass mistake if I can't easily make use of the thing I just paid for.

unicronband

or what you could do is pre-order and after you get the maps for free cancel the preorder...

hardkorie

@Snuffbox:

I wish people would stop comparing DLC to fast food. It's really getting old fast. Heres an idea: I don't buy fast food that often to start with becuase Its cheaper (and healthier) for me to make my own meals.

You fail to realize just how much DLC adds up. Theres a reason its called Mirco-transactions. Both map packs total $20. If halo 3 came out for $70 (game disc ONLY) and Bunggie and MS tried to defend the price by saying "bubub we gave you alot of maps!" there would be backlash.

This isn't about entitlement, this is about people taking advantage of a good deal. Hell, I wanted NG2 anyways so maybe I'll get this and dust off my copy of Halo 3 and get all six new maps for free now and play it again.

Free DLC keeps people happy, keeps people from trading games in. Some DLC for GRAW just got cut by 50%. Stuff like that is GREAT for the community and I wish that more older DLC got slashed in price.

BaronVonCrogs

Thanks for the heads up, Mark! To think I was tempted to pay for the map pack...

Iocarios

@NPlace:

Well said- the sense of entitlement in the gaming community is absurd. Look at how much people pay for piecemeal add-ons for the Sims for comparison.

10 bucks is two meals at McDonald's for most Americans. I like saving money as much as anybody, but this is getting out of hand. Now I see people complaining about paying for DLC for GTA IV. Like you said, its not like the games were shipped in an incomplete form.

Snuffbox

@Snuffbox: I would much rather pay the .99 cents I remember growing up. :(

BigPete7978

@BaronVonCrogs:

Fast food was just a convenient example. I could list a litany of other things that put the cost of DLC in perspective. I could easily substitute McDonald's for Starbucks OK? Non-sequitur, but OK.

Oh, and thanks for assuming that I "fail to realize how much DLC adds up." Really- I didn't know until now that I have no grasp of economics. Damn that Econ major that I (kinda) worked hard to get.

Tons of people, millions actually, fork over 60 bucks each year for roster updates in Madden. 10 bucks to give a game additional longevity is not a big deal.

Halo 3 was a complete multiplayer experience out of the box just like GTA IV will be. Without the potential for rewards for continued support of their products, developers would have all the incentive in the world to abandon released games. DLC gives a strong financial incentive for developers to stay in the game. Yes, it is entitlement that is responsible for all this bitching about paying for DLC- why should developers continue to make maps, etc. for these games?

It's the same sense of entitlement that causes people to complain about gas prices. World demand is irrelevant, I want to pay 2 bucks a gallon for gas!

Snuffbox

Well, it is hard not to have resentment for DLC when you do some comparing to the same PC versions of the games. PC games strongly benefit from user-created content which completely expands on the game. We are already paying a premium of $10 over PC games. Why is this? And why is it skyrocketing even higher with this DLC content?

There have been articles recently on Valve fighting to bring new Team Fortress 2 maps for free to the Xbox 360, as they have done for the PC. The reason? Customer appreciation and value. Yes you heard that right! Same story with Epic and map content for the UT3.

It's Microsoft who is controlling DLC pricing. And when you hear of instances where developers are having to fight over providing free content to the users, and situations where the DLC does not actually contain new content only a key that unlocks said content on disc (Beautiful Katamari -- whose DLC totaled up to be $20, thus negating its "budget" price if purchased), I can see why people are getting fed up.

HibikiRush

The deal is actually online only. I'll have to try it later but it's an awesome deal.

Samos42

And the Team Ninja/Bungie love-in continues!

By this point, I fully expect a Covenant energy sword in NG2.

I also halfway-expect a MJOLNIR-inspired costume for Ryu.

Zero_Beat

Ooh, ooh, ooh! Oh, wait, I have to buy Ninja Gaiden II to get this? Probably expect me to shell out for Halo 3 to use it as well. And a 360. Thanks, but I think I'll pass.

Purple Dave

@BaronVonCrogs: The first Halo 3 DLC did get slashed in price...to free. Doesn't get any better than that.

If you pay for the DLC in this case, you're paying for the premium of getting it early. If you want the DLC but don't want to pay, either don't pay, or wait 3-4 months.

Captain Impulse

Hot shit! Time to cancel me that pre-order at stupid Gamestop! Thank you, Kotaku!!! Mark, in particular. :)

Hell, down the line I guess I even thank Joystiq and Circuit City. :P

@Zero_Beat: You know, I heard Team NINJA tried to get the Gravity Hammer into NG2, but it didn't work out. Whether they had a back-up plan I don't know but, yeah, something, anything would be awesome.

Xiedo

Still waiting for this email! Urgggg.... I've missed the Halo 3 action!

HibikiRush

i got my code 40 min. ago.

cbflip2000

@xanavi:

Wait, what? We have TOONIES?!?

eggwhich

Just pre-ordered NG2, lets see how long it takes them to send me this code.

Tungstun

so pre order i really awsome game that is a sequel to an awsome game, get a map pack for a ok game thats a sequel to a bad game that was a sequel to a great game. ( ie halo 3 was ok, halo 2 sucked, halo 1 was awsome)

kotordeusexfan