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well,i think they shouldn't of really increase the price,i'm sure its just an experiment to try out new prices,i wouldn't pay for that price though.
In a recession most companys would try increasing the sales to survive but activision being a big successful business may not need the increase of sales. I dunno its my opinion i guess
 
AltecV1 said:
not big deal for me coz i dont buy games anyway:ohwell:
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Maybe that's why they raise prices :rolleyes:

But for you all that do, don't! Fuck 'em. They want to play hardball, so get your gloves and bats ready. We're going to play!
 
come on, are you really shocked that this is happening? it will be the biggest game of the the year regardless of the price because we all know it will be good.

this si a common practice in buisness, you have somthing in high demand you can charge more for it because people want it, i know i do w@w was fun for a week but it was no cod4. i dont understand what the big out cry is for, nobody was lambasting nintendo when they upped the price on the wii which is a old peice of hardware which should cost alot less to produce today than it did then.

i got cod4 on release week for £25 and i have had way more than my monies worth out of that, so they rape on price for the next one shit happens.

they set the srp @£65 do you think that asda(walmart) or tesco will still sell it at that price? i would bet my left testy (my fave 1 bty :)) that they will have it for about £40.
 
I activly boycot any game that has DRM of any form that installs itself on my system.

And dont fool yourselves, game PUBLISHERS and developers would still make money if they sold their brand new games for 20bucks a copy, infact, its been shown they can make MORE MONEY by lowering prices and selling higher volume(look at what steam and impulses sales do for profits for a good example)

the problem is that game PUBLISHERS(not the dev's) set prices and are still wanting that 50-80bucks a copy that they wanted in the 90's, even for download copies of games!!!!

Some game publishers and developers are getting smart and going for VOLUME SALES but most arent.

Look at it like Microsoft and Apple when they charge triple digit prices for an OS, that model is falling apart because of NETBOOKS, the price of a netbook is cheaper then buying either companies OS is alone, and it probbly comes with windows XP or Linux(either is fine for ur avg netbook user.)

The software industry like the music and movie industry is in a place where its gonna have to change if it wants to stay successful.

look at it this way, if MS put out retail copies of win7 that where FULL INSTALL or upgrade that where 30-65bucks each(depending on the version) they wouldn't make as much per copy, but they would sell a hell of alot more copies, alot of people who would normally just pirate/crack the os would decide "hell with that hassle, I will just buy it", Hell I can think of at least 10 people I know who would jump on windows if the top version was 75 or even 85bucks, but who wont pay MS retail prices for an os and would rather "crack that bitch" as it where.

and dont fool yourselves the activation scheme of vista/win7 isnt nearly as hard to bypass/get around/fool as ms would like you to believe, If the links of balmer(in os and game industries alike) would just accept that they arent gonna be getting those high prices anymore and would price the os at a reasonable level, people would gobble it up, even people whos systems couldnt realy run it, and then alot of them would endup going out and buying OEM systems that come with the base version of win7/vista on them, so ms would have a double sale of their os!!!!

blah, say no to high prices!!!
 
Dammit
I'll boycott after MW2 wait I just converted that WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$85 WTF!!!!!!!!!!ok!!WTF!ohhhhh
well i'd buy the kit with the night vision for $150 but not just the game for $85 WTF!!!!!!!! I was willing to go $60 but $85 WTF!! oh no
OK you got me I'LL BOYCOTT but only cause i have to god dammit
 
activision= epic fail, they can blow themselves with them prices
 
once again you seem to forgotting the higher the demand the product gets the HIGHER the price would be,it happens all the time,if you don't like it then don't buy it all you have to do.
wether they make profit out of the usual price scheme or lowering it,and product like cod mw2 which i assume is an high demanding since everyone wants it they will obviously increase the price by the number of demands.
I'm not taking any sides im voicing out to all of you complaining about their price,if you don't like spending your money on it then DON'T buy it simple
 
Oh really? I didn't know other publishers jacked up their prices with popular games before, care to show some examples? :rolleyes:

That's bull and you know it. Stop being a sheep and making up excuses for the greedy mega-corporations who don't give a shit about you and me.
 
Im sure there not trying to piss ppl off with the price rise just chill abit theres 2 sides to every story im not happy with price rises particularly living in Oz but it happens. You dont like it dont buy Activision games easy peasy.
 
Triprift said:
Im sure there not trying to piss ppl off with the price rise just chill abit theres 2 sides to every story im not happy with price rises particularly living in Oz but it happens. You dont like it dont buy Activision games easy peasy.
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1. They clearly aren't trying to piss people off.. they're trying to make more money :slap:
2. If you have the money.. and you can rationally justify paying 55 pounds for a videogame.. then by all means by it
if you don't.. don't buy it.
eventually the price will reduce to a more sensible price.. and the sales shall increase :)
 
rpsgc said:
Oh really? I didn't know other publishers jacked up their prices with popular games before, care to show some examples? :rolleyes:

That's bull and you know it. Stop being a sheep and making up excuses for the greedy mega-corporations who don't give a shit about you and me.
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does it matter if its video games?? you see it in every other product the price WILL either INCREASE depending on the demands or DECREASE depending on sales thats all i'm saying.
If you don't like that idea then you have some small brain that need pay attention to business schemes.
Yeah they don't care about us because we are all there CONSUMERS/CUSTOMERS we BUY their product were all the same so stop being a little boy and accept the fact MW2 is a DEMANDING game due to its POPULARITY to everyone,i gurantee you people will pay that price because they love the franchise whether its a big price or not.
 
I can't argue with the guys I played L4D with the other night. I guess I have battered wife syndrome :laugh:

But I agree with some people on here that they are taking advantage of the goods. Sure I believe in 100% brutal capitalism and there is NO WAY I would condone theft. However at the same time I feel Activision is taking advantage of peoples love of gaming. Now in reality they are a corporation and they do it for the money. Not the love. I respect that. Its what I do too. But they also have to respect their fan base. After all without the fans Activision wouldn't exist. So by Activision jacking up the prices in this economy its kinda a slap in the face. If things were better on the home-front (economy) then I'd say more power to them.

When it doesn't sell as they anticipated they will blame piracy and claim the Wii's popularity is a fad. They will never admit they F$*KED up in a marketing strategy. Do I condone piracy of a luxury product? No. Do I understand it given the circumstances? Yeah. I say in the end "Don't buy, but don't steal."
 
btarunr said:
In India, they can't sell a PC game for over Rupees 999 (that's US $21).
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Btarunr, I remember, back in 1999, when NFS: High Stakes was out, it was selling for Rs 3000 (!!!) at Landmark in Chennai :laugh: Quake -II was about Rs 1500-2000...for the legal version. If you dropped by the stores on Brigade Road in B'lore, you could pick up 6 of the latest games for a total of Rs 600 at the time.;)

Now, things have changed, and it's no longer easy to get the 'other' versions so openly...but prices are also reasonable...I saw many games for Rs 600-900 (legal versions) the last time I visited B'lore.
 
Well in defense of Activision nothing is set in stone. For all we know this could been just testing the waters by some PR jackass which is now standing in an unemployment line.
 
TheMailMan78 said:
Well in defense of Activision nothing is set in stone. For all we know this could been just testing the waters by some PR jackass which is now standing in an unemployment line.
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mailman, you side with us capitalists. why do you think people are so quick to demonize companies that try to make a lot of money?
 
Easy Rhino said:
mailman, you side with us capitalists. why do you think people are so quick to demonize companies that try to make a lot of money?
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Most people hate two things. A. What they do not understand. B. What they cannot achieve. In this instance its not only both but a convenient excuse to steal.
 
Easy Rhino said:
you should applaud a company for pursuing high profits. if you cant pay the price and there are enough of you out there, then they will lower their price. simple as that.
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Do you know how long it took for lets say a Sony PS2/PS3 to drop in price in the UK/Europe-in-general???

because unless you lived in Europe for at least a year or more - you wont know or understand how it feels to the people who have no choice but to accept that thats how things are.

just because you can have 30% pricecuts on a ton of stuff in the USA doesnt mean that the same thing will instantly happen or happen at all in the UK. cost of living here alone is already expensive & since the economy went up shit creak everything else like food, groceries & general consumables also went up in price in a lot of places. & they stayed up till famlies/people started cutting back & trying to save money, followed by house reposessions that were up 70% because the banks were sinking & they were trying to recover their money...did they care that Mr blogs had 3 kids & a wife living in the house? no they didnt care at all - & it wasnt until all that happend then major retailers/grocery stores/supermarkets decided to help out by lowering the cost of everyday consumerbles like milk & eggs etc etc.


so dont think you know everything just because you live in the US because it dont work that way


Prices WONT officially go down for a lot of people & if they did then that would be up to the store owners disgression.
 
Its going to be hard to not buy games that are published/made by Activision.
 
FreedomEclipse said:
Do you know how long it took for lets say a Sony PS2/PS3 to drop in price in the UK/Europe-in-general???

because unless you lived in Europe for at least a year or more - you wont know or understand how it feels to the people who have no choice but to accept that thats how things are.

just because you can have 30% pricecuts on a ton of stuff in the USA doesnt mean that the same thing will instantly happen or happen at all in the UK. cost of living here alone is already expensive & since the economy went up shit creak everything else like food, groceries & general consumables also went up in price in a lot of places. & they stayed up till famlies/people started cutting back & trying to save money, followed by house reposessions that were up 70% because the banks were sinking & they were trying to recover their money...did they care that Mr blogs had 3 kids & a wife living in the house? no they didnt care at all - & it wasnt until all that happend then major retailers/grocery stores/supermarkets decided to help out by lowering the cost of everyday consumerbles like milk & eggs etc etc.


so dont think you know everything just because you live in the US because it dont work that way


Prices WONT officially go down for a lot of people & if they did then that would be up to the store owners disgression.
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So why is it more expensive in the UK than the US? I'm guessing it's an unfriendly business economy due to an over-regulatory government? Just a guess...

*The above question sounds sarcastic but it is not. It is a valid question.
 
CDdude55 said:
Its going to be hard to not buy games that are published/made by Activision.
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All I want is Modern Warfare 2, fuck the rest of their games. I'm already boycotting EA lol. Haven't bought a game developed or published by EA in over a year.
 
erocker said:
So why is it more expensive in the UK than the US? I'm guessing it's an unfriendly business economy due to an over-regulatory government? Just a guess...

*The above question sounds sarcastic but it is not. It is a valid question.
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The government is over-regulatory. It's quite detrimental for businesses and public sector organisations.
 
DrPepper said:
The government is over-regulatory. It's quite detrimental for businesses and public sector organisations.
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Thus you have super high prices on some goods. I would guess. I'm not stating fact but assumption.
 
Isn't the cost of doing business for a company like Activision cost more in the UK than say the US due to these regulations and such?
 
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