Maybe the guys over at Activision realized how screwed they are now that their top devs got shitcanned, because it looks like they’re trying to milk as much cash as they possibly can from the Modern Warfare franchise before it falls apart.  That’s the only justification I can think of for why a map pack, the  McDonald’s hamburger of downloadable content, could possibly be priced at 1,200 Microsoft points.  However, Activision seems to think that Modern Warfare 2 players will pay anything to cure mapathy, and I’m sad to say that they’re probably right.

Destructiod managed to get the map names before they vanished from the Live website:

New maps:

• “Bailout,” a multi-level apartment complex
• “Storm,” an open industrial park littered with heavy machinery
• “Salvage,” a snowy junkyard fortified by stacked debris and crushed cars

Modern Warfare maps:

• “Crash,” a war-torn urban environment
• “Overgrown,” which features a massive dry creek bed

$15 bucks for five maps?  No thanks.  I think I’d rather put that money into a different game than get my eyes gouged out by Activision.  Bad Company is looking better and better by the day.