Rainbow Six Players Pack Black Gets Pulled From Marketplace
- Scribbled on June 26th, 2007 by Devin Grimes
- Filed in Microsoft Xbox 360, Shooter, Xbox Live Marketplace
Major Nelson informs us that the Rainbow Six Vegas Players Pack Black that was released earlier today on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 Points has been pulled. No reason why, but a betting man might assume it’s from the amount of backlash as a result of the steep price point — or it could just be some quick bug fixes.
Donning my best detective hat I’ve entered the one place where all told is truth to get the answers I needed: message boards. Here’s what I came up with:
- It seems that the content 360 owners have been paying extra for will all be included within the PlayStation 3 version of the game, sparking more debate over at the game’s official forums.
- Other speculation across the internets point to the game content prematurely hitting the Marketplace, resulting in Ubisoft pulling it and holding it until a projected release of Thursday, June 28th.
Gross, remind me never to venture into there again…We’ll let you know what the deal is once we get some more information on the matter.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Microsoft are getting to greedy for my liking and its about time us gamers stood up and refused to keep paying for all this extra download content that should be free in the first place.
These games are going to end up costing £100 a shot and its time to do something about it.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am
No way in hell they pulled it because of price complaints. If they did that just once, the bitching would just increase the next time and you’d see more and more people waiting on new releases to see if quick price drops can be forced.
June 28th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Microsoft does not determine the point costs of downloads, the developer does. So Ubisoft is to blame for the 800 point pricetag, not MS. I just want my maps…
June 29th, 2007 at 8:07 am
That’s not 100% true, I have heard reports that publishers wanted to post dlc for free but were pressured by Microsoft to charge for it. I think the publishing companies agreements with Microsoft doesn’t give them as much freedom with pricing as we think.
$10 for 5 maps doesn’t hold a candle to the Guitar Hero II complete and utter rip off scam!
Also, my friends that were able to download the maps said they were experiencing lag issues in game and very very extremely annoyingly long load times with the new maps. My bet is this is why they pulled the maps.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I found a blurb about the black pack.
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/13808/Rainbow-Six-Vegas-Gets-Players-Pack-Black-Edition/