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In a weird turn of events for Black Ops 2, Treyarch has pulled the pre-order incentive map, Nuketown 2025, from the online playlists.
David Vonderhaar tweeted the following:
"Double XP weekend is official over. That means Nuketown 2025 / 24-7 is as well. I know. RIGHT? Don't kill the messenger."
"Nuketown 2025 / 24-7 will be back for special events. You can always play it with your friends in Custom Games."
While reasons have been thrown about on Twitter, he seems to have casually moved on from the topic, making it appear to be out his hands and no official reason to the matter has actually been issued.
This, to me, is actually gross. Although it might not have not earned the pre-order from some, I know some people who went out of their way to obtain the map as soon as the pre-order incentive was announced. If you are very much into Call of Duty then it is safe to assume that you want all of the Call of Duty you can get. Limiting players to custom games post launch is wrong, especially when people already have complete access to it.
On Twitter, players are bubbling with anger thanks to the lack of reasoning and the fact that custom games do not actually award XP. Without the inherent competition that the series is known for, what reason do players have to play or enjoy the map? Unfortunately, this is probably just a ploy to start including Nuketown 2025 in a DLC Map Pack later on down the line.
If Activision or Treyarch give us a reason, we'll update this post.
Comments
11 years, 5 months ago
Pulling out a pre-order incentive map? Yeah, they had to have expected the backlash that would come from that. They'll definitely have to come up with a reason sooner or later.
Welcome to the team by the way.
11 years, 5 months ago
This decision makes zero sense to me. The amount of marketing power thrust upon gamers yapping on and on about the super awesome Nuketown remake included with every pre-order was nearly drowning in volume and density. Adding a 24/7 game mode that ran only that map was an interesting way to provide a way to play it. That setup could have possibly sold $5-$10 Nuketown 2025 post-launch dlc packs for those who didn't pre-order (cuz' admit it, Activision would have priced it that high, if not more). Pulling the map from any sort of official listing and limiting it to only custom games seems absurd. What's next? Pre-order content that is only available for 3 days after launch, at which point it turns into a wallpaper image for your desktop/console theme?
11 years, 5 months ago
I imagine the reasoning is to stop the player-base from being split for matchmaking.
11 years, 5 months ago
Wow. A couple of my friends were pestering me to get this and I've been holding out because it seems like it's basically the same game as MW3 (which I already own) but seeing this garbage makes me not only want to never buy BLOPS2, it's making me reconsider buying any Activision/Treyarch games going forward. This is just reprehensible.