: This times a thousand. I honestly felt like I wasted my money paying for the
: DLC maps in Halo 4. Though I've played over 1000 matches in MM to date,
: there's several maps that I've only played a tiny handful of times, as in
: single digits. Most of the matches I've played on DLC maps were in the
: dedicated DLC playlists because there was no other way to play them, and
: once that goes away you don't really get to play them. They just don't
: show up in regular playlists because most of the people online are fucking
: cheapskates. In Halo 2, 3, and Reach, I saw DLC maps regularly without
: having to go into dedicated DLC playlists. In the case of Halo 2 & 3,
: some DLC was eventually made mandatory, and in Reach it just did a better
: job of matching you with others who had the DLC.

: Map packs should be free to prevent these issues. If they want to generate
: additional revenue, then they should release microtransactions in the form
: of bonus armor permutations, emblems, and other aesthetic things that
: don't affect anyone's gameplay experience. If someone doesn't pay a buck
: for the Locus armor set, it doesn't effect me, unlike when someone doesn't
: pay for a map pack, which makes it to where other people they get matched
: with can't play those DLC maps.

What about just not removing the DLC playlists?