Where is the content I have paid for?

[Sneaky G Wizard]

I cannot believe it's legal to sell map packs you basically can't choose to play.

 

Each map pack should have it's own playlist so you can actually play what you've paid for!

 

I played all afternoon and NO DLC maps came up at all. The only thing new was a bunch of really crappy communtiy forge maps that look rubbish and play badly. Having to wait for an entire lobby of people with the DLC is not only very unlikely but completely unacceptable. On the off chance the DLC maps do come up, it foesnt mean it's even a game mode you would want to play either. Everybody involved in making it so you can't choose to play content you've paid for should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. I'll join one of the numerous boosting sessions being held, get the poorly thought out achievements out of the way and ditch the Halo universe for good. 343 had a chance to turn around this same mistake made previously but have just copied it instead.

[The Stig]

I have the Same problem in Halo Reach. I downloaded the Noble, Defiant, and Anniversary Map Pack, day one they became available, but after they removed the DLC Playlist, they never appear in regular matches. 

 

The Algorithm that 343 uses to pair/match players who have the DLC has already been modified to give the highest probable chance of getting the maps to appear in the voting round... But the problem is not the coding or the system itself... It's the fact that the people who own All of the map packs are few and far between. You almost have a better chance of a perfection every game, for 10 games in a row, than you do getting a DLC map.

 

If Micro$oft would just Make everyone of Halo 3's, and Halo Reach's Map Packs free, and then make every playlist DLC Required, then it would fix this issue. But M$ are tightwads so don't count on it.

 

 

 

[Sneaky G Wizard]

Exactly.

 

That's what I meant by a mistake made previously; the same thing happened with Reach. It's completely outrageous.

 

I don't understand why everybody is just sitting there taking it and 343 are getting away with it? What is wrong with people?

 

I can't see how this would happen anywhere else. 343 are notable by the lack of ability to contact them directly with a problem. There must be someone the community could harass until it was changed? You're right of course; not enough people own the map packs - why? - because people don't want f****ing map packs rammed down their throats all the time. This isn't limited to Halo 4 of course. Map packs are the cheapest, laziest way to make money out of people and more and more games have a season pass no order to do so.

 

I'll say it again, I'm disgusted with the whole situation. I bought the season pass because I wanted to believe that 343 were going to turn things around but instead they have just swapped gravy trains with Bungie. I won't be fooled again by them.

 

Gears of War 3 is still WAY better. There I said it.

[Marc Cole]

Couldn't agree more.
I was late picking up the season pass so missed the Crimson and Majestic Playlists. Having tried to use the Castle playlist confirms that I didn't miss much though.
I want to play Slayer or Big Team but if I use the Castle Playlist I'm often forced to play KoTH, Capture the Flag or the god-awful Regicide. Then I have to endure a match that plays weird because most of the players are looking to pick up the achievements they need before the playlist disappears.
Trying to get a Crimson or Majestic map on regular matchmaking is such a random lottery that I have given up even expecting to see the maps appear in the vote. Especially now that the playlist has been dliuted with pointless Forge maps that all look the same (again, if I wanted to play forge maps I'd use the relevant playlist or just download them and play custom games).
What it boils down to is that I spent money on a service that isn't reliable or readily available and that just isn't good enough. 
I'm assuming that 343i won't create a DLC playlist as they're fearful of fracturing the community? Well, it's pretty simple; the unfractured community is now dying. Less than 3500 worldwide people playing Big Team yesterday... well done 343.
 

[Trifle10]

the specific dlc playlists (crimson and majestic) were only up for 1 week (at time of release). i do agree that we need an offical dlc playlist (not just castle)

 

i do see some crimson maps (wreckage and shatter), but only if everyone in the lobby has the map pack

 

once someone complains to 343, we might get "Team DLC"

[Sneaky G Wizard]

That's my point though

 

I am complaining. So are other people.

 

There isn't enough people complaining and there isn't anywhere to complain; other than here which is unfortunately a waste of time.