Gholsbane wrote:Hehe, people *are* arguing that they aren't up to par with the built in maps, because some of them aren't
Also, what constitutes a Bungie map? No one can seem to agree on that one either.
Also, there are maps that some people consider *better* than those maps, some of which weren't even completed. Bungie never really packaged those maps as "official", they just made them for fun and put them out there, just like any other 3rd party map.
Too me it seems that no one is arguing about including Leagues from Nowhere, Boil and Bubble and Pheonix Rising.
So if people are complaining about the other maps, then fine don't include them.
As for 'what constitutes a Bungie map'? I would say something made by bungie themselves, All the Myth 2 maps, all the Myth 1 maps, and the 5 done by bungie that didn't ship with the product. While Vista Cartel and Badlands might have had Bungie members in them, they were released under their own banner, with different styles then the ones found in the normal Bungie maps.
Bungie didn't package the maps with the game because for the first 2, Cryptic Wightings and Going to Town, because they were never finished. The other 3, Leagues from Nowhere, Boil and Bubble and Pheonix Rising were not released because they were complete post release. Another reason was that at the time the majority of people still had 56K modems, making any download far too big for most players of myth, so bundling it with an update would have been unwise.
I agree with Gray, while I don't like WoW, I believe they have it down, include some new content with updates, constantly adding to the life of the game. I don't think one could argue with this.