Kotaku is reporting that the newly released Call of Duty 3 Valor Map Pack for the Xbox 360 just plain doesn’t fucking work. There’s 5 new maps in the pack, costing 800 MS Points and weighing in at approximately 800MB. The problem is, users can’t select the maps in the game. Anywhere. Yeah.

Let’s break this down, shall we? Microsoft supposedly has huge certification processes for games and all forms of content. Hell, we’ve seen demos and stuff delayed because of it all the time (can anyone say Crackdown?). Now, to get content onto the Marketplace, it has to go through the developer’s QA (if that even fucking exists anymore) and Microsoft’s certification process. How the bloody fuck did no one test this? You would think selecting the map in the game would be the first place to start with testing. If you can’t load the map, you can’t test if something is broken in it. I seriously would LOVE to know how this passed any form of QA or certification.

There’s a huge uproar on the Xbox forums over this, and rightly so. The developers state they’ll have a fix out “as soon as we possibly can.” That means a few months. I would hope that Microsoft and the developers would make this right by the people who shelled out their hard earned money, but we all know that’s never going to happen.