Should Activision Give PS3 Black Ops First Strike DLC For Free?

For many Xbox 360 owners that play Call of Duty Black Ops regularly on Microsoft’s console, the 1200 Microsoft points required to expand their Black Ops experience is an afterthought, a must buy if you will. But what about PS3 gamers? If you are a one console gamer and play exclusively on the PS3 your Call of Duty Black Ops experience has been quite different than if played on the Xbox 360.

Having played all of the major Black Ops releases on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, I can undeniably say that the Xbox 360 got the most stable version of the game. Black Ops on the Xbox 360 is a great game, and you can see why it's so popular on the console. It runs very smoothly and in many ways is superior to Modern Warfare 2 at this stage in it's lifespan on the console. For many Xbox 360 owners that play Call of Duty Black Ops regularly on Microsoft's console, the 1200 Microsoft points required to expand their Black Ops experience is an afterthought, a must buy if you will.

But what about PS3 gamers? If you are a one console gamer and play exclusively on the PS3 your Call of Duty Black Ops experience has been quite different than if played on the Xbox 360. Numerous glitches have saddled the experience for many, and for some, confidence has been lost in the reputable developer, Treyarch. A development team who has delivered great experiences on the PS3 in the past. The ultimate I'm sorry from Treyarch? Give PS3 gamers the Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC "First Strike" for free. Sure, Mr. Kotick might not agree and certainly the shareholders of Activision might not agree either but if the loyal fans of your game buy the content and it has the same problems that the game has now, your disgruntled fans are soon going to turn into an angry mob. Even this would probably not right where many feel they have been wronged but it would be a spectacular PR move, not only from the standpoint that you care about the games that you publish, but the gamers that play them.

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By Bill Hess on January 29, 2011

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Rob

I’m sick to death with my ps3 version. It’s a good game if it wasn’t for all the issues. It’s an absolute joke. I can’t see this happening because they’re only in it for the money not to satisfy their consumers.
- (PSN NAME)CHEVYSS01
  
  I AGREE BUT I TRIED IT ON XBOX BUT I DIDNT LIKE IT
- The PLIMP dADDAS
  
  I have both, xbox is a million times better.
(PSN NAME)CHEVYSS01

IM TIRED OF BEING KICKED OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME SAYING LOST CONNECTION TO HOST AND THE GAME GLITCHING WHEN IM ABOUT TO SHOOT AND I END UP DIEING,BUT THE 5 NEW MAPS,NEW ZOMBIE MAP,AND NEW PERKS AND EQUIPMENT SHOULD MAKE IT A GOOD DEAL BUT NOT FOR 15 DOLLARS 10 SHOULD BE OKAY.
makavillian 209

I doubt it will be free but $5 price point sounds good ps3
adam

i dnt think they will for free they should at least give us the dlc half price
bob23424

Free?. no, but well under $15 (maybe 5-8) and they should offer a free map to all ps3 owners for the the game being so subpar on the system.
SamClark

Get over it PS3 fanboys YOU always go on and on about how PS3 free to play online well here the fact you anit ganna get free maps start paying for your online gaming and then you get more in return Sony cant foot the bill forever lol GET OVER IT
- thx
  
  Look, I’m a PS3 gamer, but the thing is is that our game it broken. They clearly put more time and effort on the Xbox version. The patches really haven’t done much to help. This issue about the DLC is trying to make up for the disaster that happened to the PC and PS3 communities. If the game were given the proper development time and ported properly there would be much less anxiety and hatred towards Treyarch and Activision. But they rushed the game for PS3 and PC and now look. Activision has been reported to the UK government, Black op’s Facebook page is flooded with negative comments, and gamers are crying bloody murder against Treyarch and Activision for lack of support.
  
  I don’t mind that Xbox gets it first.(In fact, it has benefits.) But the point on this article is that Treyarch needs to start compensating for what has happened to us.
  
  “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
  
  Exactly. If you were Activision and you knew you were quickly losing a major part of your fanbase, wouldn’t you do something to keep them interested and faithful in your game.
  
  Imagine if it was Xbox having all the problems and PS3 was the better looking title, or it got the DLC first. Don’t deny for a second that you would be demanding free DLC. I know that’s what you would be begging for.
  
  Also, let’s not forget that PS3 this year have some cool-looking exclusives coming out this year. Not only would it be about compensating, but also for competing against some pretty impressive games. Which would also mean losing a lot of their fans.
- Jak
  
  You know Microsoft could be charging a fee for several reasons.
  1. There poor and need the money.
  2. Their greedy basterds who only want money.
  3. They front your subscription fee to pay for Xbox getting DLC a month earlier then PS3.
  So please think in advance before you say something stupid again, fanboy.
  Have a nice day. :D
LooN

im a ps3 user and the issues are bad trayarch can suck trumps through straws directly from my poo pipe, i loved call of dutys thats all i used to play but now im playing need for speed more than black ops and this will carry on happening untill they fix the pile of shit. One day i put black ops on and i couldnt even get into a game its bad shit i was gonna skim the disk down the street. i think giving it us for free is stupid also what good is 5 more maps when you cant play them properly fix up trayarch this is the future things are supposed to be better pacman was more stable than this pile of crap.
Patty

PS3 gets what they pay for. You are always talking about how PS3 is so much better than box. Ya, you guys get free subscription but its terrible. There is a reason why this company puts more time into another system. I own both systems so I can make a fair argument. Xbox is the superior system. You wont admit to it but overall, its better
- thx
  
  Just because it’s free does not give good reason to make a poor quality game.
  
  Oh, and the reason why companies put more time into Xbox is because PS3 is harder to develop, so they develop for Xbox first because IT’S EASIER! NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE IT’S BETTER.
  
  Look at what happens when PS3 exclusives come out. Many hail them as technological achievements, rarely matched by anything that comes out on the Xbox 360. Developers just don’t put all they have into the PS3 because they’re too lazy to show the PS3′s full potential.
  
  But, that’s beside the point. The point here is that Black ops should be running equally on ALL systems when clearly Xbox is the only one that works. If you can’t make a game run good on PS3, don’t bother making it at all.
  
  Besides, there are other PS3 exclusives coming out this year that look fantastic.
- Frank
  
  How is the 360 better? Give me a list of good exclusive that aren’t 3, 4, or 5 years old. Tell me why Xbox Live is worth paying for. Cause you can pay with friends? Fail. Because you have ESPN, Twitter, and Facebook? Fail, I can do that on PS3. There is no fair argument as to why the 360 is better. This isn’t 2007, it’s 2011. Developers are just beginning to figure out how to use the PS3 to its full potential. Xbox? They maxed it out almost 3 years ago with Gears 2. And I own both. There is no room for growth on 360.
- mario
  
  are u serious wow. 360 is good but not better.for one the tech is better on the ps3 ign did an article on that. the exclusives. shit u got to be kidding me. 360 has a few too name. Gears is the best game wish it was on the ps3. people only name fable halo gears alan wake the splinter cell one forza thats it. ps3 has too many i will fill up my comment section lol.
- Vuka
  
  I dont see how xbox is superior 1. You gota pay every 3 months or something. 2. Your homepage is a pain in the ass.
  AND the reason trayarch are putting more effort in the xbox version of Black Ops is because they have a deal with microsoft until 2012. So get your info straight and that still doesnt excuse trayarch giving ps3 a shit version if they are making money of the ps3 version of Black Ops
- DavidJee
  
  It looks like all you Sony fanboys are the same fucking retards… none of you can speel worth shit and your arguments don’t make any fucking sense.
- DavidJee
  
  It looks like all you Sony fanboys are the same fucking retards… none of you can spell worth shit and your arguments don’t make any fucking sense.
- BOB!
  
  EVERYONE JUST SHUT UP! they are both amazing consoles, and both have their flaws. PS3 has more things to do on it, while xbox has a better connection and get stuff first.
- Scott
  
  To argue the reason for ease of development, if they were smart (like Crytek for example) they would simply develop some of the game, press a button, and *poof*, the game is now ported to the PC, 360, and PS3.
  
  I can’t source that tech, but I remember an interview where Crytek explained developing for the consoles in that general manner. If you port the game over, you are wasting time and are bound to screw up. More developers should try the previously mentioned technique as it would save time and increase quality on all systems.
- The PLIMP dADDAS
  
  @Frank Mass Effect 2, Forza 3 which is 1000000 times better than GT5 (GT5 is the biggest failure in the history of racing games. So there’s two for you and I admit there is a few on the PS3 as well. Demon Souls is one of the best RPG games on a console ever. Heavy Rain was also amazing and personally I loved it. Now to my issue with the PS3 and why the Xbox is still better. 1st things first, yes we pay to play online but we get massive advantages for paying this, we have dedicated servers you have P2P, we get download content before PS3 in a few cases, we get download content for cross console games that are exclusive to the Xbox. Our communication makes the playstation look like it’s communication was designed by a group of meth addicts, which I wouldn’t be surprised about. Now to the most vital point imo, the xbox controller is absolutely perfect. Look at nearly anyone that is really into their PC gaming, do many of them use controllers based on the PS3 controller? Every single hardcore PC gamer I know uses an Xbox controller. They are designed with adults in mind. I know 15 year old kids that would struggle to use a PS3 controller efficiently because it is so small and badly designed (Yes when the PS controller was first designed it was brilliant, that was a very long time ago and they really need to step up their game on this one) There are plenty of other issues with the PS3 as well but I’m becoming bored so I’m going to stop now. Try and prove one thing I said wrong.
- Sam
  
  Wow your a complete idiot, you think you get what you pay for when your paying 50 bucks a year(60 now) plus tax for xbox live??!! All your paying for is crossgame chat, cause thats the only thing 360 has over ps3. 360 uses a peer to peer connection, where as ps3 exclusives support dedicated servers which are much much better. That is simply why ps3 has 32 player games, 60 player games, and also 256 player games… lol enjoy 16 players.
  
  WHATS EXTREMELY funny is that here we all are furious with activision and treyarch cause their game doesnt run well on ps3, but Gears 2 ran even worse on 360 lmao, that online was the biggest joke of live. How do i know… well i had a 360 and it was great back in the day, but it cant compete anymore.
- jonjon
  
  lmao u see how many ps3 owners are mad cuz ur telling the truth
- Frank
  
  @ Pimp 360 DOESN’T Have dedicated servers. Halo, matchmaking. Gears, matchmaking. Resistance, dedicated, Killzone, Dedicated, Uncharted, dedicated. There are only a few games with dedicated servers on 360, like rainbow six vegas, and Blacksite Area 51.
JoeMercy

keep dreaming the DLS will never be free or cheaper. It’d be a 15 dollars rip off.
- thx
  
  What’s that? Do I hear a boycott?
Tyler

If you want better game quality and want to get the maps 1 month earlier pay 50 bucks a moths for xbox live gold if you don’t want to pay the extra get ps3 its free but don’t expect or even suggest getting a map pack for free when you get the online experience free already plus the reason your servers on ps3 arn’t good is because ps3 offers free online with a side effect non dedicated servers your not getting best quality with those heeps
- jonjon
  
  @tyler actually its only 8 dollars a month,20 dollars for 3 months and 50 for a year. how u tryin to rant on xbox when u know nothing about them
Jay

what are 360 fagboys even doing here?
ps3 thread so it makes no sense 4 you to be here.
but haters gotta hate i guess.
- The PLIMP dADDAS
  
  That’s the one… I love the way you post on an article that is explaining the failures of the PS3 then continue to stick up for it in spite of the fact the this article was written because the PS3 is worse than the Xbox 360… Go figure.
- frank
  
  LMAO @ PLIMP
  You wanna talk failures? RRoD anyone? Learn how to read dude, it talking about how the game sucks, not the PS3. Treyarch just doesn’t know how to develop for the PS3. Why? Well, technolgically speaking the PS3 is leaps and bounds ahead of the 360. The 360 is more like Xbox 1.5, all M$ did was slightly update the GPU on it. 360 sucks bro, get over it.
makavillian 209

Ps3 is harder to develop games but where is the money to develop these games for better experience overall. Ps needs to start charging for psn. Money, money, money. Ps can’t expect to get better psn when there isn’t money coming in to improve it. I wouldn’t work for anything at all if I wasn’t getting paid. I have both consoles and I can see the bigger picture. Xbox is bringing in the money with its charged service, so they can pay there employees to improve on anything and everything. Ps needs to do the same
BLACKirishREBEL

Xbox is not a superior system, but xbox live is a superior network. Like they say you get what you pay for.I have been playing Playstation since PS1. I know it is a better system. I would be more than willing to pay for online play to get the quality that is needed for the best gaming experience.
- The PLIMP dADDAS
  
  Wrong, the PS3 is a superior media center. It is not a better gaming console in any way shape or form. The controller itself is quite the epic fail IMO without even getting started on the console.
Xelloss

Im a PC gamer so i dont know how the game runs on PS3 or XBOX but in PC is horrible, too much lag, bugs and glitches in MP, and console players right now you have better support that the PC gamers (the games on PC almost always are 10 bucks more expensive) and that make me sick. Thanks to the DLC of the consoles applied to the PC the modding in dying slowly in PC ( more modding = more lifespan and fun in the game).
And yes they need give free the DLC to the PS3, XBOX and PC gamers because the next step after charging for DLC is monthly suscription and that will be the end of the series (60 bucks + 10 monthly + 20 of the ISP = angry players + illegal donwload).
HNfTw117

hey fellow ps3 black ops players. can u guys tell me wat kind of glitches and/or connection problems coz im simply curious to find out wat problems r out there. for me the main problem is a glitch with the second chance perk and also the failed host migration. the mid game disconnection is, for me, not as bad as it use to be but it still needs fixing. the glitch with the second chance perk seriously pisses me off as when i fall to the ground, the perk kicks in but im still holding my primary weapon instead of switching to pistol. wats worst is that i cant fire the gun leaving the perk useless. it doesnt always happen but it still pisses me off.

about the free dlc. no way treyarch would hand out this stuff for free. it would be awesome if they did as a sorry for giving us an inferior version of the game. but who knows maybe they might turn generous and hand it out.

now about those stupid xbox fanboys. they can think say all the crap they want. they are simply a bunch of ignorant fags with no brains. srsly they think just bcoz they pay for their precious xbox live it means they’re better than us. we however r smart enough to buy a console that does EVERYTHING better without any extra cost. how do i no all this? i unfortunately use to be one. since ive converted i no ive done the right thing.
- DavidJee2
  
  How about those stupid Playstation fanboys who can’t type for shit. LOL, you are the ignorant fag with no brain.
- thx
  
  Does the Xbox have folding@home? Nope
  Is the Air Force Research Laboratory using 1,760 Xbox’s as a powerful supercomputer? Nope
  
  Does the PS3 have folding@home? Yes
  Is the Air Force Research Laboratory using 1.760 PS3′s as a powerful supercomputer? Yes
  
  The Xbox is a gaming console
  
  The PS3 is a gaming console and science tool.
- jonjon
  
  yes the Xbox is gaming console no shit. thats what is was mad for. and i guess since the ps3 had a shitty gaming experience why not just use it as a pc
ragglefraggle1

maybe if psn charged $1.00 a year they’d get $50mil extra profit lol
darren judd

I think they should lett us hav firststrike for free… Im a MASSIVE c.o.d fan and was gutted when i picked up my copy to find poor conection.lag & glitch trubles…. Over last cupple of days ive started playing agien and problms seem to hav gone…. But tha damage has been done now….. COM ON ACTIVISION GIV BK SUM LOV TO US GAMERS LIKE WE ALL GIV YOU…
JTee

Hell nah ! If they give it free for ps3 then they should make it free for 360 too wtf !!
- phrog_4_4
  
  y would u guys get it for free if u guys get it one month before us we should atleast got half price of wat its worth on the xbox 360
- QuicKsc00pern
  
  NOOO!!!!! Cuz xbox have the best connections less laggs than ps3 and gets everything first… Why are you xbox guys always thinks that ur better cuz you gets everything first and have a better connection?? I mean if ps3 would get everything first or shine more than xbox do for once then there might be more ppl that are going to pay for ps3 one time and then play how much they want online when xbox is going to pay for it and lose thousands of “fanboys” that you call it xD
LolWhatZ?!

I wonder if the writer of the article could possible cry anymore
- LolWhatZ?!
  
  Edit : wonder if the writer of the article could possibly cry more *FIXED*
darren judd

Not at all…. If you spent money on sumfing that had massive hype bout it… Then found out for yourself it wasnt finished or was hacked and glitchy keeped kicking you out of games cozz of server problms… Youd want your money bk or to be compensated in sum way….. Its got fuk all to do wiv sony. Its activision favering one console…..