Activision defends its pricing on MW2

Bullshit. You’re charging extra because you know people will buy it anyway. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also: Grammar Nazi says “its”, not “it’s”, Mr Headline.

Translation
“Our salaries need topping up and what better way to do it than getting the consumer to pay for it. I mean, come on, we don’t make the games, but we sure as hell greenlit them just for you.”

Yeah, I’m sure that there is a massive risk involved in releasing a game called ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′, the sequel to the biggest hit of the past few years.

A load crap! They’re just greedy bastards.

@Blerk “You’re charging extra because you know people will buy it anyway”

That’s what he said with “there is a spectrum of what people can afford and what people are prepared to spend” isn’t it ?

Do not buy this game!
Boycott Activision !!!

Stop whinging anyway. If you lot had your arses even vaguely sorted out you’d have pre-ordered it from argos at 35 quid like the rest of us did

And these reasons don’t apply to the US because?

They own guns.

Do you have game consumers’ union in UK? You could try to organize a strike or something..

I like the idea of a gamers strike. “Unless you make them cheaper we’re going to stop sitting on our arses playing games all day”

At least obesity levels might drop

Chances are the supermarkets will price-gouge it down to £30 or so anyway.

There’s not much point ybfelix.

I don’t think that the amount of people willing to boycott this game that would have bought it before is going to hurt Activision in any significant way.

Anyway, I don’t think that many of the afore mentioned people are going to be complaining about paying another £5 once the hype reaches fever pitch and they see the reviews.

It was £37 on pre-order at Tesco, but that deal seems to have ended now.

I’m sure that there will be deals all over the place between now and just after release.

Especially at the supermarkets.

It’d be really funny if it was actually rubbish.

The sequel to one of the best selling games of all time, already expected to far out sell previous installments in the well known franchise.

There’s allot of ways you can describe that situation, however “risky” is most definitely NOT one of them.

Turok on the N64 was 70 pounds on release.

I’ll happily pay 55 quid for MW2 coz i know i’ll get my moneys worth worth online play. (i rent almost all my other games, which saves me an absolute fortune)

But the fact is i wont pay 55 anyway, as all the super markets will be selling it at 40

It’ll be more tasteless “shoot teh evil terrorist” nonsense if you ask me. Won’t be buying it based on the fact that I just can’t bring myself to like COD games at all.

You could send them flowers instead, but that would make for a really boring FPS.

…or they could try to write a story that isn’t one dimensional and is aimed at 15 year old yanks.

What are you talking about?

This isn’t Wuthering Heights!

It’s a game with its roots in the 2nd world war!

Did you even play CoD4?

Do you even know what sort of story is in there??

i’m getting the PC version, i suppose they could try charge us £50/$80/€200 for it but then the internet would melt from the torrent activity

Yes, I played COD4 and I thought the story was horrible.

There were terrorists in Cod4 yes, but I wouldn’t call it one dimensional at all. There was allot more to it then that, wich is why the story globe trotted between US marines in the middel east and UK SAS troops in eastern europe.

But at the end of the day, it is still a shooter, not an RPG with complex character development.

It’s disparity in pricing between the North American and Euro/UK SKUs that’s really shocking. Europuns are basically subsidising the North American roll-out.

Someone has to pay for the extravagant launch parties for the Press

im pretty sure modding mwf its pretty expensive and if we cant have mwf2 demo, just install or play cod4 since its pretty much the same.

GREEED! how about big busness stay out of gamers way. we don’t like you.

so £55 equal in dollars ??

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=55&From=GBP&To=USD&x=31&y=9

Eighty seven dollars and sixty nine cents.

“people are saying it’s worth it.”

I’m not, I have never bought an FPS set in the modern day without some sort of cool twist like Far Cry or FEAR and I probably never will.

okay mr u said that u and ur teame take time to
develop the game , no ! u just improved the game ,
there r games take lot of years and use new engins
only for one game and u come and u say u developed
the game u do all of this cauze u know that all
gamers are gonna to buy this game and im from
them , holy shit !

hmm, ok thanks G1GA <3.

and, FUCK ACTIVATION.

This game will kick ass and you will pay whatever they ask, or you will be the guy sitting on the side wanking watching everyone else have a great time.

As far as Story.. pfft.. whatever.. I beat COD4 compaign and couldn’t tell you what the story was… nor do I care.. this game was all about Multi-Player.. just like the sequel will hopefully be.

go to hill withe your game

look this page :
in kindom of saudi arabi
http://www.adslgate.com/dsl/showthread.php?t=429378

Does Satin live in Hill?

And i didnt think i’d need this again today but: LOL WUT.