As primarily a PS3 player, and particularly in the case of Modern Warfare 2, this Story doesn’t really affect me much directly, but I do think it’s funny how this is playing out.

Knowing that this map pack won’t be exclusive to Microsoft forever I took interest into how these new maps were going to be implemented when they went live. The original story was that there would be 2 new playlists added to the fray that roll these maps exclusively across all game types, in normal and hardcore modes… with consideration to add the maps into the general playlists as more and more people adopt the DLC. I wasn’t a big fan of this approach because frankly I primarily play ground wars with is a mix of Team Deathmatch and Domination game modes. The other modes I don’t care so much for. But I understood why they’d go this route. The only alternative would be to kick players that didn’t pay for the map pack when they rolled up. As a player I feel I get booted/disconnected from matches far too often as it is.

Earlier today I noticed FourZeroTwo tweet about adding the maps to all playlists, which we knew was coming, but I’m kind of surprised it happened so soon. Not long ago, he followed up with a tweet indicating that they would be weighted heavier so to come up more often… Now this sort of shenanigans isn’t going to effect me, for the reason cited above, and because when the maps become available I’m going to get them… but if I was taking a stand and boycotting this DLC because of the ridiculous price (A stance I would completely understand as well), I would be fuming right now… enjoy your random disconnects cheapskates…