Hey PC gamers, did you hear that? Console gamers are paying...PAYING for map packs! Ha Ha suckers!

Seriously, paying for extra maps for a game? They're joking right? No, they're not and it's turning into big business. Today we found out that the Call of Duty:World at War creatively named 'Map Pack 1' has been pulled over one million times. At $8-10 each...that's probably covered the development cost of the actual game!

Wow, console gamers are both rich and dumb it seems (I'm sort of being facetious as I'm a console gamer also). I mean shelling out aroung $9 Million just for some new maps. Hell I've never paid for a Counter-Strike map in my life and there's tons of them! Come to think of it, I don't recall ever paying for just some maps for a PC game.

Game companies have found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow it seems. They not only get to overcharge you for the games, they now get to charge you just for maps so you can keep playing their game. Maybe you should just start depositing your paycheck into their bank accounts and not even bother with all that intermediary stuff.