" http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/108/1082840p1.html   I totally agree considering how rabid the fan bases of multiplayer games are.  No doubt they could've got away with $20.  It's the same reason WoW items can sell on Ebay for $400.  People pick online games and stick with them. "

Yeah, I agree that Activision can get away with $20 for a map pack. Its the wallets that votes people, keep that in mind.

I've got a certain set of prices I am willing to pay for DLC. I'll pay up to
 
5 dollars for maps
10 dollars for more single player (Borderlands, Fallout)
15 dollars for a full game

Well it's Activision, they could get away with it.

" I've got a certain set of prices I am willing to pay for DLC. I'll pay up to  5 dollars for maps 10 dollars for more single player (Borderlands, Fallout)15 dollars for a full game "

" @Asurastrike said:

" I've got a certain set of prices I am willing to pay for DLC. I'll pay up to  5 dollars for maps 10 dollars for more single player (Borderlands, Fallout)15 dollars for a full game "

I never heard of any map DLC that costs $5. "

Some people have more money than sense...

stats and facts and shit

15 dollars was already too high.

It's quite obvious that $15 wasn't too high. 
 
Those of us in the know might think $15 is absolutely ridiculous (which it is), but there are a huge amount of people (the "Madden" crowd as it were) that play MW2 and only MW2 who need those maps. 2.5 million+ of them I'd say.

$15 was already $5 too much.

My guess is that they will charge $20 dollars for next map pack but it will include all the previous COD4 maps.

Well that's good.

I remember free maps....

Thats pretty crazy. And where are the titles and emblems that were promised for us in the map pack? 
 
Saddened by Activision.

" I remember free maps.... "

FUCK THAT

MW freaks would have paid more, I concur. Let's not pretend this is anyone's last time dealing with Activision. You're going to bend over again when Starcraft 2 comes out. You're like a crackwhore man, you'll do anything and they know it.

Considering how many they sold, they left a lot of money on the table. 
I don't even own MW2 since the first never really grabbed hold of me.

wow, those "analysts" can go suck a big cock. $15 so we can play the game on a couple of new layouts in multiplayer?! fifteen fucking dollars just for that?! its ridiculously overpriced as it is.

Analyst: They could probably get away with charging more, evidently people still buys it at 15 bucks.
Gamers: Fuck you, go suck a cock you're not charging us more!
Analyst: ... *I'm* not the one putting up the price tag for MW2... I'm just an analys..
Gamers: Fuck you fuck you fuck you! 15bucks is already overpriced
Analyst: As I said, I'm not..
Gamers: Shut up, fuck you

Poor analyst guy, probably getting a lot of crap in his email.

" I remember free maps.... "

I don't even understand how $15 is a lot for the map pack.  I'm no diehard Modern Warfare 2 player, but that doesn't strike me as a particularly large sum of money.

$15 was already stupidly high.

Ahh, I remember Burnout Paradise,  
 
9 out of 10 nutritionists think the other one is a frigid bitch. 
 
The more you know.

" I don't even understand how $15 is a lot for the map pack.  I'm no diehard Modern Warfare 2 player, but that doesn't strike me as a particularly large sum of money. "

This analyst is an idiot. The reason it sold so well is because its biggest market is the adolescent market (12-16) who beg their parents for money and scrape together what they can to buy it because all their butt buddies are buy the map pack as well. Now the older gamers (19-??) are the ones who begrudingly bought the map pack, while mumbing under their breath, mostly because $15 is not that expensive but its not chump change for a few new maps. I think the majority of the older gamers would instantly refuse to buy the map pack if it reached a $20 premium because honestly thats the price of a Platinum/Greatest Hits game or for some the price of a decent used game.  Sure a lot of people will buy new maps for $20 but by raising the price they would lose a huge following.  
 
Why sell 2.5 million at $15 and not, lets say, lower the price to $10 and potentially sell 4 million or more?

It's worth what people will pay for it.  If you're playing MW2 day in day out, then it's a small price to pay for the hours you'll get out of it.  The game itself is insane value for those that do end up playing it that often.  I played it for exactly how long it took to finish the campaign, but I knew that would be the case before I bought it, so I can't really complain.
 
I'm not really a big fan of these little bits and pieces of DLC tbh.  I'd rather have just had one proper Borderlands or Fallout 3 expansion for $25 or $30, for example - those DLCs come out and every time I just think "this is hardly worth bothering with".  I thought DA: Awakening was great - better than the OC in fact.  Bring back proper expansion packs I say.

" Why sell 2.5 million at $15 and not, lets say, lower the price to $10 and potentially sell 4 million or more?"

I would have bought them if they were $10 or less, did not do it now.  I'm not blaming anyone, but it's a shame that it sold as well that it did..

 cool

So all signs point to $20 map packs, gee thanks. I can't wait to see what DLC prices will be a year from now.

" FUCK THAT "

The scary thing is that the analyst is correct. Seems 2.5 million douchebags where dumb enough to pay 15$ for it, meaning in the future such packs WILL most likely become 20$.
Way to go consumers.

" The scary thing is that the analyst is correct. Seems 2.5 million douchebags where dumb enough to pay 15$ for it, meaning in the future such packs WILL most likely become 20$. Way to go consumers. "

Over the last year I have bought four things that cost 1200 points: Braid, Physconaughts, Shadow Complex and the MW2 map pack.
I can compare their respective values in different ways:
I definitely have spent the most time playing the MW2 map pack.
Shadow Complex is the best game listed and i would have happily paid twice as much for it.
Phyconaughts has a few issues but was one of the most memorable and funny games I have ever played and I will still be talking about it in 10 years.
Braid was very short, but very beautiful (like  Kylie Minogue...sorry)
 Even though I have spent the most time with the MW2 map pack, it is the one that one day I will have completely forgotten about even owning. So is it good value? Well it wasnt £40, so sure it was ok value

" Well it's Activision, they could get away with it. "

Oh, they'd absolutely get away with it. I'd be willing to bet they can do it with an even 2000 points/$25.
 
That mindset is why I shipped off MW2 through Goozex.

" Well it's Activision, they could get away with it. "

They could have charged so much more.  Even if they charged $20 for the map pack and one third of the 2.5 million people didn't buy it they would still have made a $2.5 profit. 

$15 is overpriced for just maps. You can buy an arcade game for that price.

I say they just should have went for the gusto and charged $25... STILL would have sold a truck load of maps.

^^ +1
 
 those MW2 junkies got away easy, they should have charged  $25 for it.