Will you buy Modern Combat 2 for $60-$65 on the PC

[thegimp03]

$60 is steep. I'll have to check reviews first because I don't want to plop that down for a piece of shit game. My guess is that it'll come out at $60 and Fry's will have it on sale for $49.99 within a month or two.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

WTF? I love CoD4, but I paid $40 for that. $60 for a game is just stupid - they should be retailing for $30 anyway. I'll wait til I can get it cheaper online.

 

[spacemanspliff1]

Unless they get some new game modes. Especially for competition. I could care less. I have tried 4 and WaW and yeah. I still play Cod2 multi more than anything else. No reason to "upgrade" for new graphics at the expense of putting up with a bunch of butt heads. Cod2 is so old only the hard core is left. That makes for some pretty good pubbing. Outlaw and IAF servers are my favorites.

 

[ronach]

$50 is my top price for ANY PC game..you want to charge more..up to you..I don't need to play any pc game bad enough to get price ripped. I can wait for a nice price drop..you may sucker in a few newbies..but not many of us older gamers. I do quality games at a reasonable price..that's it.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: ronach
$50 is my top price for ANY PC game..you want to charge more..up to you..I don't need to play any pc game bad enough to get price ripped. I can wait for a nice price drop..you may sucker in a few newbies..but not many of us older gamers. I do quality games at a reasonable price..that's it.

You realize that with inflation the $50 game you loved in 1998 is actually ~$65.75 in today's dollars?

Even with with game priced at $60 it's still less than the price you 'older gamers' were willing to pay.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: ronach
$50 is my top price for ANY PC game..you want to charge more..up to you..I don't need to play any pc game bad enough to get price ripped. I can wait for a nice price drop..you may sucker in a few newbies..but not many of us older gamers. I do quality games at a reasonable price..that's it.

You realize that with inflation the $50 game you loved in 1998 is actually ~$65.75 in today's dollars?

Even with with game priced at $60 it's still less than the price you 'older gamers' were willing to pay.

Games are selling in much larger volumes today.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: ronach
$50 is my top price for ANY PC game..you want to charge more..up to you..I don't need to play any pc game bad enough to get price ripped. I can wait for a nice price drop..you may sucker in a few newbies..but not many of us older gamers. I do quality games at a reasonable price..that's it.

You realize that with inflation the $50 game you loved in 1998 is actually ~$65.75 in today's dollars?

Even with with game priced at $60 it's still less than the price you 'older gamers' were willing to pay.

Games are selling in much larger volumes today.

And? Games cost vastly more to make today AND they're cheaper than they were before.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: ronach
$50 is my top price for ANY PC game..you want to charge more..up to you..I don't need to play any pc game bad enough to get price ripped. I can wait for a nice price drop..you may sucker in a few newbies..but not many of us older gamers. I do quality games at a reasonable price..that's it.

You realize that with inflation the $50 game you loved in 1998 is actually ~$65.75 in today's dollars?

Even with with game priced at $60 it's still less than the price you 'older gamers' were willing to pay.

Games are selling in much larger volumes today.

And? Games cost vastly more to make today AND they're cheaper than they were before.

Plus PC Games are probably selling less now then they were in 1998. Late 90's/early 2000's was basically the golden age for PC Gaming.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Not even remotely interested. All of the Call of Duty games have been crappy.

wow...thats just...so wrong.

based on the reaction it's getting, MW2 will sell well despite its price hike.

Multiplayer aside, I agree with Bateluer. I've never once enjoyed the CoD format of having enemies spawn for eternity until you pass a certain checkpoint. I am also not a huge fan of the ridiculous number of scripted sequences in those games.

But, to each their own.

 

[TehMac]

Nope, will not buy Modern Warfare 2 for 60 bucks. Will wait til price drops to around 30 bucks or so.

 

[ronach]

OK..OK..I'm a reasonable man..I have been rethinking the game price increases as they apply to me. I conclude that I will pay $60.00 max for a game that is well done..out of the box..no patches needed just to get it running. Good game companies and their employees have to make a living to. There you have it. The rest of you people can make up your own minds.

 

[slayer202]

woah woah, what is this prestige version thats apparently going to sell for $150????!?!

 

[mmnno]

Originally posted by: ronach
$50 is my top price for ANY PC game..you want to charge more..up to you..I don't need to play any pc game bad enough to get price ripped. I can wait for a nice price drop..you may sucker in a few newbies..but not many of us older gamers. I do quality games at a reasonable price..that's it.

World of Warcraft was the only Blizzard game this decade that could be bought on day one for less than $60, all their games sold many millions before a price drop.

 

[Gothgar]

computer games really haven't raised in price overall, in forever....

Maybe we as the consumers need to pay more to allow computer gaming to continue?



















actually, never mind, fuck them

 

[PUN]

If they raise the price, consumers will make the decisions. Some people pay $100-200 for a baseball game, feeding $20mil/year for a player. Why don't we feed $100mil to these game developers as well?

 

[Bill Brasky]

I've logged 205 hrs. playing CoD4 multiplayer, so yeah, 60 bucks is a good deal for me.

 

[EnzoLT]

cod isnt the same anymore. i tolerated cod4 to an extent. now i feel this game is bloated with hype and bandwagoners. welp, time to get back to cod2:mp.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

I've never paid more than $40 for a PC game unless it was for a game series I love (ie. Quake and Half-Life) or for a special (like when Half-Life 2 came with Half-Life: Source, a sample from the Raising the Bar book, Counter-Strike: Soource, and a mini BradyGames Guide).

 

[mmnno]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
I've never paid more than $40 for a PC game unless it was for a game series I love (ie. Quake and Half-Life) or for a special (like when Half-Life 2 came with Half-Life: Source, a sample from the Raising the Bar book, Counter-Strike: Soource, and a mini BradyGames Guide).

This is exactly the kind of thinking Activision is betting on.. I admit it's the same for me with Blizzard. Four games (well, two games and their expansions) above $50. Never again, though. My backlog is so huge I'll wait for Black Friday or a gold box deal.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
I've never paid more than $40 for a PC game unless it was for a game series I love (ie. Quake and Half-Life) or for a special (like when Half-Life 2 came with Half-Life: Source, a sample from the Raising the Bar book, Counter-Strike: Soource, and a mini BradyGames Guide).

What cost $40.00 in 1998 would cost $52.61 in 2008.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: mmnno

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
I've never paid more than $40 for a PC game unless it was for a game series I love (ie. Quake and Half-Life) or for a special (like when Half-Life 2 came with Half-Life: Source, a sample from the Raising the Bar book, Counter-Strike: Soource, and a mini BradyGames Guide).

This is exactly the kind of thinking Activision is betting on.

It's hard to imagine someone loving CoD as much as I love Quake or Half-Life. CoD is good, but it's not that damn great.

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
I've never paid more than $40 for a PC game unless it was for a game series I love (ie. Quake and Half-Life) or for a special (like when Half-Life 2 came with Half-Life: Source, a sample from the Raising the Bar book, Counter-Strike: Soource, and a mini BradyGames Guide).

What cost $40.00 in 1998 would cost $52.61 in 2008.

When I got Half-Life it was in the early 2000s when it was available with CS 1.6, Opposing Force, BlueShift and TFC. I think I got it for $30, though.

Also, why do people keep bringing up inflation? $40 to me in 2000 is the same as $40 is to me now. Even if I get a job that pays double, I'm not going to pay $60 for a damn game unless I know that I'm going to enjoy it.

 

[darkxshade]

For all the whining and crying, you should all know that Activision will still probably come out on top on all this. This is because from an economics standpoint, everybody has a price, So all they have to so is release it at $60 and profit from all the initial buyers(because you know people will buy it regardless), then drop it to $50 after the holiday season and so on and so forth to hit every pricing segment. This is how it's been done and honestly how it should be done. People who say they won't buy it out of principal are a few, Activision knows you're just making noise. Those who pirate will pirate anyway. Serious, I don't imagine someone who's willing to pay $50 for the game will pirate it because it shot up to $60.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: slayer202
woah woah, what is this prestige version thats apparently going to sell for $150????!?!

it comes with night vision goggles

 

[TridenT]

Will I? No.

 

[marmasatt]

Originally posted by: TridenT
Will I? No.

This. COD 4 was IMO one of the best single player campaigns out there. Playing through a 3rd time right now as it's better than some of the garbage that's been released since it's release over a year and a half ago...(including WAW). Too bad because I am occasionally an "opening day" guy (Bioshock, FC2) but I will be no where near this price even though I am excited for it...