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WhiteAlexander wrote:
ARCY wrote:
WhiteAlexander wrote:"£55 is a bit too much though, so a lot of people will take longer to buy it. But, me personally, I'll buy it because there's no better game than Call of Duty. I know that for a fact."
The people interviewed on radio1 said the same as you "It's a bit dear but I'll still buy it because it will be brilliant"
I just think that this will give game developers the green light to start charging higher prices.
I personally will be waiting for it to drop a bit. Still each to their own.
Read the article, I'm quoting some silly fool from that, there's no way I'm paying that much, nor do I think Call of Duty is the best game out there, by far.
Sorry mate I just mis-understood your post.
I'm hoping it will be cheaper around Christmas time.
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Makes you wonder where else the BBC gets there sources when theve picked a COD fanboy off the street and interviewed him. From my perspective:
Majority of gamers are teenagers,
Majority of these teens have parents who will buy them games for xmas etc, but at £55 thats a **** of a lot.
Those teens who do not have this luxury (ie me) will have to find £55. As a student this is between ridiculous and impossible.
COD might be good, but if MAG comes out at ten quid cheaper, (or less, as it has no offline mode) COD will suffer. I believe BF:BC 2 is out at a similar time. The COD dev's are havin a giggle.
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it will only be £55 in the top high street retailers. HMV, Game, and depending on the area Gamestation.
www.play.com, www.game.co.uk, www.gamestation.co.uk and www.hmv.com already have it priced at £45 which straight off the bat is £10 cheaper than the price these guys are saying will be the retail.
then you have the idies, you really think grainger games, or chips are gonna sell it at the £55 rrp? i think not, and as such any gamestation in the area will price match it.
then you have the supermarkets. who in general are a little cheaper than game.
when u think that game sold ghostbusters for £45 and it did alright that £5 more than the average 39.99 may not affect the game too badly.
Activision have already been greedy by putting the rrp up... now the question is will retail sell at the rrp or will they all sell at the typical £40 mark because they know in this climate it just wont sell aswell....
thoughts?
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rossthebassist wrote:Activision have already been greedy by putting the rrp up... now the question is will retail sell at the rrp or will they all sell at the typical £40 mark because they know in this climate it just wont sell aswell....
thoughts?
You make a valid point, though personally £45 is still too much, i dont buy games for £39.99, the last game i bought full price was battlefront 2, and that was £30 for PS2. Hopefully some supermarkets etc will drive down the price, I certainly hope so, but Game and HMV wont drop the price ever, MW1 is still £40 at most stores.
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You make a valid point, though personally £45 is still too much, i dont buy games for £39.99, the last game i bought full price was battlefront 2, and that was £30 for PS2. Hopefully some supermarkets etc will drive down the price, I certainly hope so, but Game and HMV wont drop the price ever, MW1 is still £40 at most stores.
i can explain the preowned prices easily. and its because i work at a game shop.
our local grainger games is selling modern warefare 1 for £25 pre owned.
but they never have any in stock. and thats because my work places trade in value is £25.
it means for grainger to sell it at £25 they take it in for allot less. (dont know there exact price)
so as such MW1 gets sold higher our store preowned. NOW! i know that dont explain the new version of the games.
my understanding of new products is that activision havent lowered the buy in price. so the sell price has not changed.
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What a rip off, just greedy dev's trying to cash in on mw1.
Don't they know there is a recession on?
They will suffer with people waiting to buy the game at a lower price.
I have had it on preorder at play for 6 months at £39.99
And how many map packs will they sell, mp3 is out in August for waw another rip off.
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£45 for a game, that will most likely get very little support from the devs, and maybe 1 map pack. MW1 got what, 1-2 updates? and one map pack, that wasnt even that great! Because these games come out every year, i think the devs just go right into making the next installment, instead of supporting the current game...very much like Vavle with L4D1 to be honest.
P.S: Even though WaW wasnt great, Treyarch supported WaW much better, than IW have supported any of there games.
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I remember the days of Streetfighter 2 on the SNES, it was £70+. Let's hope we don't go back to those days. But then again it was on cartridge.
Maybe they should bring the game out on DVD instead of Blu-Ray (no difference for a multi-format game) and save us all a couple of quid.
Everyone who wants this game will pay whatever, if they want it, they will find a way. I mean look at drug addicts... 
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