Winston Churchill.Cortheya said:
"Democracy is the worst system of government. Except for all the others that have been tried."
Activision Defends Modern Warfare 2 Pricing
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"Democracy is the worst system of government. Except for all the others that have been tried."
It's only horrible when the people living it are ignorant.SachielOne said:
Democracy and Capitalism could both be pretty bonerific if people weren't at large passive and ignorant.
Just my two cents
.Likewise another good Civilization IV quote is " Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.Tony Harrison said:
Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC)"
A cold view that has existed for at least two millenia
. Nothing stopping folks from changing it.Glad that in my country will be 45? (maybe 40 if the competition will be god from other stores).
Bullshit it's ''only £5'' more. New games for 360/PS3 typically retail for £39.99 or £44.99 so Activision are overcharging by up to £15 or 37% more.
MW2 is hardly an example of an incredibly expensive title as it's only been in development for 2 years and in that time being Activision has made a bucket load on WAW in the intervening period. Now Killzone 2 is a game that justifies a high price point as it will have relatively limited sales while the development costs were HUGE, instead it went platinum (retail at half price) within 6 months.
The game costs virtually nothing to print on disk and distribute and everyone knows that this will be a huge seller. Activision increasing the cost is just blatant milking.
I'm not even going to think of buying the PC version till it has dropped in price to about £25.
I think I have more patience than Activision.
MW2 is hardly an example of an incredibly expensive title as it's only been in development for 2 years and in that time being Activision has made a bucket load on WAW in the intervening period. Now Killzone 2 is a game that justifies a high price point as it will have relatively limited sales while the development costs were HUGE, instead it went platinum (retail at half price) within 6 months.
The game costs virtually nothing to print on disk and distribute and everyone knows that this will be a huge seller. Activision increasing the cost is just blatant milking.
I'm not even going to think of buying the PC version till it has dropped in price to about £25.
I think I have more patience than Activision.
I'm still against this whole price rise thing. Personally, I'm fine with a standard pricing policy for games - it helps me calculate how much money I can spend on games with ease, and having different prices for different games would just become confusing, as I need to review each individual case upon how much money I spend on them - films rarely vary in price that much, so why should games?
The new price point may also encourage others to attempt the same, but with lower quality games. I REALLY don't want the new standard price point to be higher than it already is, and this whole shinenanigans has been one of the major reasons why I've decided to wait until the Game of the Year edition of MW2 comes out.
The new price point may also encourage others to attempt the same, but with lower quality games. I REALLY don't want the new standard price point to be higher than it already is, and this whole shinenanigans has been one of the major reasons why I've decided to wait until the Game of the Year edition of MW2 comes out.
I have seen it happen before. People charge too much for something, others refuse to pay for it.Abedeus said:
I hope this price is for the prestige edition, not the standard.
I can't believe he said this
"The idea of "standard" game prices strikes me as rather odd"
This man fails to understand the basics of supply and demand. They aren't the only ones making games, and if people see something cheaper, they go for it until the price goes down.
Remember the N64 cartridges? How they were more expensive than Playstation games? Yeah, they were like 20 dollars more new. Wonder which console sold more units...
It's all about the multiplayer. This is just Activision's way of putting a price on the amount of time people will spend in the multiplayer. Although any future map packs will be free on PC but most likely cost money on all other platforms, or not and this hike is just to cover that?
Owned by Vivendi. Not going to buy it.
Almost five years since I swore I'd never buy another vivendi published game, and its times like these I relish my choice.
Almost five years since I swore I'd never buy another vivendi published game, and its times like these I relish my choice.
Ha ha, just checked the Spore link out. 2664 one star reviews. In a twisted, mean and spiteful way...it made my day.Alucard3Dark said:
Also I agree with everything you said. Use your consumer vote to kick Activision where it hurts. Only way to do it. I really hope the game flops but I doubt it will.
Wow that is total bullshit. I don't want to pay for a game that is one-third the price of my damn console.
A pity marketing doesn't work like that.
NOTHING is "worth the price raise" or "good value".
But, seeing as MW2 has 1,547,920 Xbox 360 pre-orders and 492,172 PS3 pre-orders in NA I suppose they can get away with it.
NOTHING is "worth the price raise" or "good value".
But, seeing as MW2 has 1,547,920 Xbox 360 pre-orders and 492,172 PS3 pre-orders in NA I suppose they can get away with it.
Bad Move Ol Kotick. High Prices equals more pirates.
It'd be funny if every other person just pirated the games down there because they didn't wanna get raped by the prices.
Either that or all of them just imported. Seriously, 110 is ridiculous! How do you go day to day without killing one of the retailers?
This makes me wonder actually. How many pirates do you think exist in Australia?Onmi said:
It'd be funny if every other person just pirated the games down there because they didn't wanna get raped by the prices.
Either that or all of them just imported. Seriously, 110 is ridiculous! How do you go day to day without killing one of the retailers?
All we have to do to keep Activision and others from repeating this 'test' is refuse to buy it. The price would drop awfully fast if first-week sales turned out to be disappointing. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure they won't be, so I guess we can look forward to more of this in the future.