Those players who have purchased Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) for Playstation 3 (this guy) and/or X-Box 360 have essentially signed up to be victims of a Ponzi Scheme. Essentially, upon release, publisher Activision sells consumers an incomplete game for $60 and then continues to bleed the same victims for $15, three times (for an additional $45, a total of $105) for downloadable content (DLC) in the form of “map packs.” Now, Activision does provide a decent bang for the buck: each map pack includes four newly designed multiplayer maps and one additional zombie mode map. It’s not so much the quality of the additional content that I find frustrating. Rather, it’s the method in which they are sold and the quality of the original content.
