Activision UK managing director Andrew Brown has defended the publishers decision to price Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 at £55 RRP.
When Activision originally revealed the price, retailers warned of the effect that the increase would have on consumers, which is £5 more than other Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles on the market.
But Brown is confident that consumers will feel that they are getting a good deal with the content provided by Modern Warfare 2.
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The original Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 games have been drawing players back in
I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?
Multiplayer has worked fine but the campaign has crashed frequently and required a verification of files to continue. The Alone mission has been unplayable and it crashes at random times as seen in this video and others have reported the issue.
I have been working with Activision and they have no fix as of yet. I got past it yesterday but it crashed 3x before I completed the level. Run a defrag or optimize your drive, verify files, run a quick virus scan, and play. After each crash, verify files again and play. Not ideal but it did let me complete it. PC on Steam.
£55 is a pretty heavy price for a game, so let's hope it does contain a good amount of content to justify for it.
Just hope that other companies don't follow foot, and £55 becomes the new stand point.
Activision = Greedy
get raped, like it and ask for more.
This is not defendable sorry. 've preordered it when it was cheap, but I'm still questioning myself about just canceling and buy it second hand.
"This is an industry where things cost a lot to develop and it’s a risky business. We talk about building franchises; it is very expensive to do this from every respect. What we are finding is that for the right products, if you look at the time someone will spend playing something and compare it to something else, people are saying it's worth it."
to sum up what Andrew Brown is saying is :
Since this IS a popular FRANCHISE, I know I can overcharge and most people will still buy this game.
People will still buy it, and they know it.
It is very greedy though and might have a very bad effect for the future by raising prices of other big-name titles as well.
People should boycott this.