- Sep 29, 2000
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Apparently there's a moderate threat of boycotting Modern Combat 2 on the PC due to Activision announcing that they will raise the price to at least $60. As someone not really into the Modern Combat games (the last CoD I bought was CoD2 on the PC), I wonder what the general feeling on this here is.
I gotta say, for me personally, this kind of is bullshit. I don't plan on buying MW2, but one of the reasons companies site the $60 price tag on console titles is due to licensing fees. No such fees are required on the PC platform, so this is basically just Activision (huge surprise here) being greedy.
The sad part will be if Activision or other publishers feel like this is something that was successful, it will not doubt trigger a landslide of new PC games hitting retail, Steam, etc. at the $60 price point.
And if you're primarily a console gamer, I wouldn't be so godamned quick to point and laugh. In the end, if this works, you can be sure it will mean the beginning of phasing console games into the $70 range.
I gotta say, for me personally, this kind of is bullshit. I don't plan on buying MW2, but one of the reasons companies site the $60 price tag on console titles is due to licensing fees. No such fees are required on the PC platform, so this is basically just Activision (huge surprise here) being greedy.
The sad part will be if Activision or other publishers feel like this is something that was successful, it will not doubt trigger a landslide of new PC games hitting retail, Steam, etc. at the $60 price point.
And if you're primarily a console gamer, I wouldn't be so godamned quick to point and laugh. In the end, if this works, you can be sure it will mean the beginning of phasing console games into the $70 range.