Trade In Battlefield 3 And Get Modern Warfare 3 For 99p

[Kreett]

For 99p you can get a

It used to be bigger of course.

Probably more fun than either game.

The root of all reason has spoken!

 

[Keava]

It's hardly about rivalry guys. It's simply brilliantly evil by GameStop however.

How many people would buy two, very similar games that come out so fast one after another? The answer is not many really. So what they do? They try to coax people into buying BF3, which could have not been their choice from the get go, and then give the game back to the shop, while taking another pound for a return. You know, usually when you return a product you get full price back, but here you pay 99p, and get a product of same value in return. In the end it's a 99p + whatever stocking on BF3 would cost them for GameStop and they get to recycle a game they already sold.
Pure profit for the shop.

 

[Lug100]

Shame keyboard doesnt work w/ it....or so Im aware of.

Ive had a USB keyboard on my Ps3 for a fair while (use it for chat/messaging etc) but even if you could use if for the games (ive never actually tried)i dont know why you would want to.. I love gaming on PC and so i know keyboard is great and all, but without a mouse in the ps3 your screwed anyways...

 

[lockeslylcrit]

Trade in a Swedish Massage for a kick in the teeth. That sounds like a deal!

 

[silverbullet1989]

am i the only one who thinks this is truly pathetic? even tho its a gamestop promotion, smells to me like activison are clutching at straws with trying to outsell every game again -_-

 

[Ariseishirou]

am i the only one who thinks this is truly pathetic? even tho its a gamestop promotion, smells to me like activison are clutching at straws with trying to outsell every game again -_-

How? If anything this is good for Battlefield. They still bought the game, and it'll encourage CoD fans who might not otherwise try BF3 to give it a go at no risk. If BF3 is truly as brilliant as DICE thinks it is, they'll surely have a number of converts to the franchise who wouldn't have picked it up without the "eh, why not, if it sucks I can just play that game I was going to play anyway" motivation.

 

[JochemDude]

I predict a flamewar dead ahead
Take cover

 

[freaper]

There are people who are going to play BF3 on a console?

Hah!

Look at it this way: Console gamers don't have to go to a fucking website or download Origin to play. And they get a server list inside the game.

I'm pretty sure the web-server-browser was only there for the Beta. Besides, Origin isn't so much of a deal. It's most unlikely they'll go check what kind of pornography you're into, right?

 

[Spaec]

So you get two games for the price of one, alrighty then.

Hard to actually tell who payed Gamestop for this stunt...

Yeah, money has probably moved one way or the other behind the scenes. But if not, Gamestop is probably just trolling EA/Activision to shout "Hey! Retail stores are still around!".
Either way, it's a hilarious business move. =D

 

[Captain Pirate]

Sorry to disappoint you, Grey, but 99p is actually really cheap for an expansion pack.

Oh, snap!

OT: Yeah, this is working heavily in BF3's favour, as people who buy it just to try it still pay the full £40 for it, and it doesn't hugely matter to EA if that copy get's taken back because they'll have made the full money.

Win.

 

[Ariseishirou]

You mean there is a difference between the two games? I figured they were the same old generic army game that's been regurgitated out by lazy developers for the past half decade in shiny new packages. I suppose your average shooter fan these days isn't bright enough to notice though. Then again your average shooter fan these days probably isn't capable of reading the advert . . .

All that being said, it sure would be swell if developers would stop tripping over themselves to be the first in line to blow the knuckle dragging unwashed masses and actually produce games of substance again. That'd just be fucking awesome.

One can obviously see you've never played any of the games at any one point. Battlefield isn't about "shooting as many peoples as fast as possible" but Objective-based teamplay, it rewards that way of playing over anything else too and is quite far away from "your average shooter". It's also right up there as far as "substance" and "shooter" goes together...
It's the thinking man's shooter xD

I wouldn't bother. People like this are invariably too dim to understand the strategy involved in excelling at shooters, and their pride won't allow them to admit there's something they might be lacking. Thus, everyone else must be stupid and wrong, not them. Perhaps I'm generalizing, but virtually every person I've heard griping about the "deluge" of "identical grey brown shooters" and insulting all the poor plebes who buy them for "ruining the industry" just suck really hard at them, and are really buttmad about it. The games are no fun for them - I mean, how much fun would you be having with a 1:10 k:d ratio?

 

[Cowabungaa]

There are people who are going to play BF3 on a console?

Hah!

Look at it this way: Console gamers don't have to go to a fucking website or download Origin to play. And they get a server list inside the game.

Origin isn't any worse than Steam, and Battlelog actually works quick enough that you don't even notice it's not ingame. I'm a satisfied gamer.

And any more inconvience it might offer is totally worth it for the 64 player count.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

So you get two games for the price of one, alrighty then.

Hard to actually tell who payed Gamestop for this stunt...

Activision. With a golden Dumptruck filled with cash.

 

[robert022614]

It's hardly about rivalry guys. It's simply brilliantly evil by GameStop however.

How many people would buy two, very similar games that come out so fast one after another? The answer is not many really. So what they do? They try to coax people into buying BF3, which could have not been their choice from the get go, and then give the game back to the shop, while taking another pound for a return. You know, usually when you return a product you get full price back, but here you pay 99p, and get a product of same value in return. In the end it's a 99p + whatever stocking on BF3 would cost them for GameStop and they get to recycle a game they already sold.
Pure profit for the shop.

You do not get what you paid for returns. If you open the case it counts as used and you get less than half what the game costed at least in the U.S. anyway. It sounds like both will benefit. Ea/Dice will get money on new games sold and when they trade it in and buy COD so will Activision. It depends on if this is Gamestops doing or one of the former companies. If this is Gamestop then Activision wont care what Gamestop charges as they have already sold the games to Gamestop.

 

[Kathinka]

There are people who are going to play BF3 on a console?

Hah!

Look at it this way: Console gamers don't have to go to a fucking website or download Origin to play. And they get a server list inside the game.

Origin isn't any worse than Steam, and Battlelog actually works quick enough that you don't even notice it's not ingame. I'm a satisfied gamer.

And any more inconvience it might offer is totally worth it for the 64 player count.

and mouse control! and better graphics! and no, you don't have to have some uber-pc to play it. if your pc was assembled within the last half decade, you will be able to play on a level that looks so much better than any modern day console.

 

[Hosker]

I am almost certain there is no such thing as Gamestop here. It might be referring to Gamestation.

 

[kebab4you]

I find it funny that my 10 year old sister is more mature then both Activision and EA ....

 

[Wintermoot]

I think I,ll spend the 1 pound on something that lasts longer then MW3 like a tootsie pop!
also GROW THE FUCK UP! if you want people to buy YOUR GAME give something cool like a poster with your game or a free map pack (I don,t like map packs either but COD fans seem to like them)