That's the question EA wants to know. While nothing is set in stone yet, EA is toiling with the idea of having seperate expansions for the game that are specific to what a player wants. The idea came up for the recently released Red Alert 3, and looks like it could actually happen. Examples of this would be a single player story expansion, or a multiplayer map pack expansion, or even a co-op expansion.
Producer and C&C TV presenter David Silverman has gone on record stating that this model of expansion would "be a little bit more nimble and help address the demand from the fans faster."
Sounds good to me, I'm all for co-op expansions! Frankly, standard vs. multiplayer has bored me lately.
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Thankfully, because of the anti-competitive nature of co-op, adding co-op as a patch or expansion is safer than trying to do the same with competitive games, wherein a new glitch may tip the "fairness" scales.
I'm not a big spender though, so for me to buy it there'd have to be serious replay value. I guess if they'd added extra levels for Gears of War that would have been a consideration, since I felt once you completed it there wasn't much left to go back for as I am bored with multiplayer vs modes.
I'm actually hoping that some GTAIV DLC will offer a more substantive co-op mode.
Agreed. My fingers have been firmly crossed on this for a while. One of the advantages of it being DLC is they KNOW everyone has an online connection so they can do more with it.
Also, I REALLY like Co-op where there's a STORY. That really drives me, I loved playing co-op with my nephew through the entire Halo series because of the story and the epic scale of the whole thing.
That's why I like the GRAW 2 maps, although I really wish their co-op campaign was presented in the same way as the single-player version.
So, to a certain extent yes I would buy a co-op expansion. But without co-op, I wouldn't have bought it to begin with to want an expansion. I guess if an interesting game came out, then a while later had a co-op expansion, I might be tempted to get both.
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I purchased Doom on XBLA only because it had 4-player coop - if it didn't have coop, I never would've dropped the 800 points to download it. Likewise, I refused to pick up the XBLA version of Duke Nukem, simply because it didn't have split screen (both of those game would be considered 'expansions' in my mind, since I've already owned them on previous consoles).
So, yes, I'd absolutely pay for coop expansions, and even for older games!