Gamers OK With CoD DLC Prices, Says Treyarch
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No point in arguing with them, they've already proved that the flock of cod sheep will pay £45-50 for the game and £11 for 5 maps. I personally wouldn't and don't but millions of people do.
It's still overpriced and even my wife (the CoD fan of the house) wont buy them.
I'm sure it does sell well though.
CoD has a lot of fanboys and fanboys are notorious suckers.
I'm sure it does sell well though.
CoD has a lot of fanboys and fanboys are notorious suckers.
Some devs make their games to the same quality as all platforms. Bioshock, Dead Rising 2, Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2, Just Cause 2, Bad Company and Arkham asylum to name a few. I will judge a game's quality on how it arrives to the platform I got. I even bought Bayonetta, which despite have longer loading and inferior graphics, felt so incredible I didn't care. I do think the devs were lazy, but I also think they made a high quality game. With Black Ops, I don't have the same feeling.Ephraim J. Witchwood said:
That said, I have enjoyed games on some platforms and not others. Oblivion for example, I found dull on PS3 yet awesome on PC. Still, this doesn't exclude Black Ops from it's "Monster Closets" of the campaigns, nor does it excuse it of the big priced DLC.
Calumon: ...Are you guys gonna argue all day?
I seem to recall the Battlefield team making games before the Bad Company series... what was that one that came right after 1942's expansions? I could have sworn they just recycled content from Vietnam. Sure they built the maps again in the new engine, but it's still recycled content. I would much rather have 5 new maps, than the same maps I played years ago. If I want to go play Battlefield Vietnam I'll go install it on my computer again.Jack and Calumon said:
I think that the cost of the DLC is fair, and the people that complain about the price either think they are entitled to content, or don't play or put the time into the game to warrant the DLC, at which point it's not the cost of the content it's the amount of time you personally would use it for. Where I am a movie ticket is 12 dollars. That's for 2 hours of enjoyment. Should I go and tell all the people that are happy with the price that they are wasting their money? Is it the movie makers' responsibility that the ticket price is so high? The answer is no it's up to the theater to set it's price. One entity makes the content, another set's the price.
Well, there are some old games you can buy in store that have plummeted in price, but downloadable games is what I'm mainly referring to. Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a fantastic game and I've probably put more hours in that than I have Call of Duty because I just have to get all the trophies.Ironic Pirate said:
Then lose my PSN account because of a typo when changing my e-mail address. : (
Calumon: You could even buy Monopoly! :O It takes really long to finish...
Saying "some people" doesn't mean you're talking about the community as a whole. Just thought I'd point that out. These people do exist, sadly. I've known of a few people in my times playing COD who have been signed on playing when, by their own admission, they should actually be at work. Still, their choice at the end of the day....Ephraim J. Witchwood said:
Consumer gaming zombies. Creating a terrible precedent that stimulates, corrupt monetary incentive in the industry since [incert number here] .I almost forgot that, not only consoles had them.
Well I might mind when I know I'm paying $60 for the base map pack with some shitty story tagged on. Then I gotta pay $40 dollars (total so far) to get the other maps with no extra benefit except differetn shapes with more variety of brown, grey and snow.
it always annoys me that they charge so much for dlc with games, think about it, $100-$150AUD (game and varying levels of bonus stuff and one that adds something like another $100) for the game on release day, $15 per dlc, of which there's usually 2 or 3, XBL time so you can use dlc... no wonder people get ps2's, you can get the console, several games and a few controllers for that much. i got my ps2 for $80 with 2 controllers and ethernet back piece and any of my fiends games for $5 a piece.
oh, btw, 200 posts
oh, btw, 200 posts
I'm not ok with the outrageous gas prices, but since I still already bought a car I pay it instead of having to resort to walking or taking a bus...
You all pay for it so in that respect he's 100% correct. It's like the pricing of games in Australia, you can't complain about it if you don't do anything to stop it. At the end of the day the consumers are the ones with the power, it's just that no one seems to realise it. "That's outrageous! However I am a fanboy and can not survive without my CoD DLC so have my money good sir."
I myself never buy games locally because I refuse to pay more than twice the price for the same product as someone else, hell somtimes it ISN'T the same product. Does my single protest make a difference? No, apart from my own wallet of course, but if ALL Australians simply stopped buying locally suddenly publishers would do something about it. Same thing goes for DLC.
I myself never buy games locally because I refuse to pay more than twice the price for the same product as someone else, hell somtimes it ISN'T the same product. Does my single protest make a difference? No, apart from my own wallet of course, but if ALL Australians simply stopped buying locally suddenly publishers would do something about it. Same thing goes for DLC.
No, basicly the industry is trying to see how much they can rape our wallets, they will keep raising the prices to see with what prices they can get more money/sales ratio.Ephraim J. Witchwood said:
This 15$ for 5 maps isnt because making maps is expensive, its because that at the price of 15$ they know that people will still buy them. Dont try to defend their greed, its worthless.
Also, if people didnt bought the MW2 DLC's I bet that this DLC and the previous one for COD:BO wouldnt be 15$. The fault is only on the people that bought those DLC's for 15$
No he doesn't have a point, some of these gamers only ever pay games like gta, sports and shooters, so frankly they don't know any better. Do you see any other companies still charging practically the same price for their games as on launch day? I don't think so.
As a reformed Call of Duty player and someone who has never bought one of these map packs, I can't speak for their value. I want to congratulate Treyarch, though, on taking another bold step toward the development of geomodding technology that's almost as advanced as the original Frostbite engine from 2008. Keep up the mediocre work, guys!
Escalation Map Pack. It's right there in the title. My guess, it's supposed to be a gauge of how much people are attached to the idea of buying the packs.C2Ultima said: