Call of Duty franchise map packs recruit 20 million

MW3 will be the third installment in the Modern Warfare series, and the eighth Call of Duty installment. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be released on November 8, 2011, while the Modern Warfare 3 pre-production started on April 9, 2010.

now what is is 15$ x 20million?

I love Modern Warfare 2 but there's no way I'm shelling out $15 each for the map packs. For that price I could buy Far Cry 2 or STALKER and so I did.

MW2 continues to make bucket loads of cash....

"A fool and his money are soon parted." ~ Company motto of Activision

I'm not normally into first person shooters, but my wife picked this game up for me.. and I'm glad she did. Each day for about a week I couldn't wait to get home and play it and it just got better and better with each passing campaign in story mode. Playing games for over 25 years I can easily say this game deserves all the praise it's receiving. ... oh, and I'm terrible at multiplayer :P

I agree with Thingta. The thing that really blew my mind is that for $10 more than a MW2 mappack, I could buy Bad Company 2 complete on Steam. Take a minute to let that sink in.

I'm in 2 minds about mw2, its an amazing game with a great single player, co-op an multiplayer and easily one of the greatest games of all time but maybe it's too good. You play campaign and spec ops to death, that leaves multiplayer which takes months out of people's lives leaving them pale-skinned, blood-shot eyed addicts. then you get the k**bs which run around like indestructible video game gods who get nuke after nuke cos their skills have been honed by 24/7 marathons and are really girlfriendless geeks in real life, the people who shout down their mics every time they get killed "OMG! Glitch! I so got that guy first!" You get bored of it and stay away but it keeps drawing you back in, if you are lucky and are'nt addicted then stay away from mw2, if you don't think you are but can't physically throw it away, sell it or even stay two weeks without playing on it then you are addicted but just in denial. It is too big and too powerful and messes with people's heads making them crave for more (like smoking). It's become so big that its in 10% of teenage boy's conversations and has spawned various new slang words like:pwnd, no-scope etc. It is such a good game that it is its own weakness. You can just assume I am a guy just having a go cos he is awful at COD multiplayer, but then you will be just one of those d***s you see online and you can kiss my a**.

do not like the dlc price, why can't it be $5 for dlc. god damn money whore

Oh.... THAT'S why they keep making COD

These COD heads will always buy 15$ Map packs and will most likely sucker into the Subscirption based Multiplayer. What it boils down to is that the 15$ Map pack is making the pavement for the 20$ Map pack.

I was thinking about getting this and the previous dlc. But it was too expensive so i thought i'd wait a bit and think it over. I started playing mw2 again, after a 5 month hiatus, and i hated it and did not have fun. Campers, commandoes, putting noobs against veterans (was kinda a noob to mw2 definitely not to mw1), overpowered kill streaks etc. I was not having fun and the only way i could play this game is if i used a heart beat sensor, silencer, ninja, cold blooded, javelin, tar rifle and bling. Without this, i could not play this game. If your calling me a noob your too late, i just did a while ago. I loved this combo since i was the anti-camper, i killed thier trips, i destroyed their stupid harriers, ac-130s, pavelow (sp). But i didn't like having to use to this to compete. Luckily, i tried out bad company2, and I have not turned to COD since. I love the game. I recommend that you try it. You have nothing to lose. No more meat grinder! It's so much fun. Just rent it and see how you like it. Thats wut i did. I'm so glad i didn't buy the maps!

I like CoD:WaW and CoD4. CoD2 is a simple FPS game and MW2 is good, but this hosting system sucks and oo many cheater in game -.-"

:56 WOW! COMMANDO NOOB

COD2 Great! COD4 Epic!! CODMW2 Ok... CODBO what? again?

i dont know why all this exotic awards when naming this fail game, CODMW2 to be specific. Its sad its the only good shooter out there. Im ready to hop on the next good shooter that comes out because this game is an embarrassment, glitched, campable-maps, noobtubing-dangerclose(dont know why its called 'danger close' all u gotta do is ploop from a distance and u can get a noobish multi-kill) game.

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they shoulda stopped after cod4

@omm1990 yeah different types would be nice, but almost stepping into a pure zombie game's territory.. remembers its just a side part to the game.. wouldnt want it to be like a completely separate game. But yeah different types of zombies, or aliens, or different types fof aliens.. tbh with the newer equipment i think that i'd enjoy aliens a little more.

mw2 is the worse game of 2009 for 2 months and worse game of 2010 for 10 months

although its overrated this game is amazing, they just NEED to fix online play

cod is the best shooter EVER ! ! ! !

Realize please people that this isn't just MW2, it's for the ENTIRE CoD series.

And people wonder why they have DLC and charge so much for it. It sells. Why should they listen to you people? Well, the only advice I have for you is this: once I started making more than minimum wage, the price of DLC content became trivial. Obviously these publishers are targeting similar people.

@Jackmac36, because people are idiots. All this will do is increase prices of all DLC as developers know people will buy stuff no matter the cost. Bioware and EA seem to be the only companies that give free stuff or really cheap stuff that other companies would charge full price for.

Can somebody please explain to me why in the world 20 million people actually paid upwards of $10 for one single map pack?

This is just...sad. So many suckers that pay so much money for almost no content. No wonder developers make everything DLC now...suckers jump to buy anything nowadays. And no, I haven't bought a single CoD game specifically because the developers just milk the series.

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(Looked at article again...) Oh, it's a combined total of DLC from the entire CoD series. Silly me :P, but still... :(

My cousin complained about the price, and the content, of Stimulus Package, and yet he still plays the game. If LBP content, say individual outfits, each retailed at $15, I would just give up supporting to purchase their DLC. But 20 million downloads for MW2: I'm shocked in disgust by these numbers. Why can't shooters these days have the same quality of gameplay, say Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, or the Half-Life series? FPS these days are mediocrity at its lowest. I'm sorry to anyone who finds this rant of mine a bit hard to believe. I'm just saying this out of concern over the genre, that's all, sigh :(

a fiend of mine bought the map packs 4 ps3 then he share with me his username/password so i con ''redownload '' them on my system...:P no way i would ever pay that much 4 some maps that are barely used on regular matches. btw im not fan of Cod but most of gamers here are so hypocrite bashin a game that most of you have bought 2.1 times (accordin with teh sales :P) jus cuz is no ''cool '' nemore

@SalarianChemist I don't mean to disagree with you, just wanna give you some food for thought. If the people who are complaining about the map packs, then they have to be 360 owners. So why would they suddenly hate COD b/c they're not going to the ps3 right away?

demo MW2 only on PSN

C.O.D for Life!!!!!!!!!!!

god damn on these cash sucking dlcs i wont buy any dlc for any game only if that dlc is a big add on other than that they can shove it im done spending on dlcs

20 million douche bags.

Stop all the hatin' kids ... it's NOT cool.

@ melty3219 No, its called not rolling over on a companies demand to shell out 30 dollars for crap that should have most likely be in the game to begin with. *cough*ResidentEvil5Multiplayerfor5bucks*cough* And BC2 already dead? lol, people very much still play that. I find BC2 more realistic because when I shoot a rocket in BC2 at a building and blow it up killing the people inside Unlike COD because in COD MW2, the most realistic shooter according to the back of the box, If you shoot a building with an RPG, it doesn't do anything at all. Nothing, no holes, no taking the building down, let alone killing a guy behind the wall.

I'm cool... I used to like it before it was all popular and stuff... infact I'm so cool I'm gonna hate on it becasue if I don't that wouldn't be cool, and I'm cooler than that becasue I don't even game anymore and I bought it and returned it without opening becasue I'm cooler than everyone else... so I'm gonna get my copy 2 months early but II won't open it becasue I just "that cool" Excuse me while I go play the flavor of the month game that only the cool people play, it's so cool no one knows about it...cool

mw2 is wack. I lik world at war better nd its more fun cuz they hav nazi zombies a survival mode. Ifinity ward r retarted for putting spec ops. those are the same missions from story nd the story of the first. Im stickin with treyarch and gettin black ops. Plus the maps 4 world at war are 9.99 each not 15. Black ops will own modern warfare

mw2 is wack. I lik world at war better nd its more fun cuz they hav nazi zombies a survival mode. Ifinity ward r retarted for putting spec ops. those are the same missions from story nd the story of the first. Im stickin with treyarch and gettin black ops. Plus the maps 4 world at war are 9.99 each not 15. Black ops will own modern warfare

Also @ the people bragging because they didn't buy the DLC, you guys must be some real sad nerds if you gain the feeling of self righteousness for not buying something.

Lmao at the hipster Garbagefield fanboys trolling, BC2 sucks and its already dead whereas MW2 is still top after 7 months. A map sold 4x as much as BC2!

I hope Infinity Ward gets things together, or this may be the end of the great COD series as we know it, at least, a QUALITY COD series! Why would things fall apart in such a great company! This is terrible.

I played MW2 flat out for a few months but it slowly turned into a grind so I sold it - I don't hate it I just moved on. I won't buy Black-ops but I might get Jason West and Vince Zampella's next title as they were the real talent and the other team seemed to always play catch up. I think the FPS genre needs some form of ground breaking innovation so it doesn't stagnate - I was hoping MAG would do this but it ended up so-so. Maybe a rolling warzone - in real life battles rarely stay confined to a closed area so perhaps some form of dynamic environment.... I don't know anything because all these games still feel like variations of Counter Strike.

Interesting that the overpriced Resurgence map pack was only bought by a small fraction of all those who bought MW2. That's partly the problem with map packs, you can't enjoy them with nearly as many people.

i think we all saw this coming

@SalarianChemist Actually, I think the real reasons are that the map packs are overpriced and MW2 was a rushed game. I stopped playing because the COD series was going too far and getting repetitive.