Modern Warfare 2 bringing $60 price tags on PC games

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#1 alexin_05
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/modern-warfare-2-bringing-60-price-tag-to-pc-games/

Activision...

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#2 pvtdonut54
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Old news...>_>

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#3 alexin_05
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ohrly

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#4 spektor_21000
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old news, dude where have you been?

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#5 alexin_05
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hospital...

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#6 Kurushio
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I guess its another reason to get it on console and ive been pretty torn.
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#7 coolmonkeykid
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will not be buying
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#8 Meejoe27
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Lame.

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#9 knight0151
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Indeed lame, but, yeah, we've known this for about 2 months now..EVERYBODY has

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#10 mudman91878
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I guess its another reason to get it on console and ive been pretty torn.Kurushio

there are zero reasons to get it on console....at least i haven't heard a decent reason to.

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#11 Einhanderkiller
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Well, looks like I won't be buying this one.
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#12 Born_Lucky
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Well, looks like I won't be buying this one.Einhanderkiller
Same here. They're testing the waters to see how many people they can get to pay that much. If enough people give in and pay the $60 - the other developers will start thinking about raising prices on their games too.
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#13 alexin_05
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I know this are old news but those news involved 360 and PS3 versions price tags, but how about PC version?

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#14 alexin_05
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I hope activision has some people looking for this type of comments, they could reconsider their decision.

Casual market will buy the game simply because they no nothing about games, but PC gamers are not casual, we wont buy this cr@p at those prizes.

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#15 musclesforcier
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I refuse to buy any $60 PC game.
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#16 DeathStar17
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Haha at everyone who says they wont buy a $60 PC game...you will soon enough, when every game is $60.
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#17 ASRCSR
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I think piraters are going to kill this game on PC.

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#18 macker33
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Wow,this is news.I dont think i'll bother,I'm sick of modern shooters anyway.

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#19 F1_2004
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Yeah, screw that. I'm waiting until the game drops below $50 to buy a rehash of MW1.
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#20 badtaker
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I think piraters are going to kill this game on PC.

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they kills every PC game.
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#22 musclesforcier
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Haha at everyone who says they wont buy a $60 PC game...you will soon enough, when every game is $60.DeathStar17
I wont. I hardly buy any games at $50 anyway. Just wait a few months til the price goes down.
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#23 codezer0
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[QUOTE="Kurushio"]I guess its another reason to get it on console and ive been pretty torn.mudman91878

there are zero reasons to get it on console....at least i haven't heard a decent reason to.

I can think of one reason: No worries about what DRM it might have. With Windows/Mac games nowadays, that in itself is something you have to research before buying ANY game now. To the shame of many PC games, I'd flat out refused to buy the computer version because I refuse to put up with insane DRM, or something that can't be worked around. There's simply no reason in this day and age that something that isn't so goddamn intrusive can't be worked out with these companies.
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#24 DanielDust
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[QUOTE="mudman91878"]

[QUOTE="Kurushio"]I guess its another reason to get it on console and ive been pretty torn.codezer0

there are zero reasons to get it on console....at least i haven't heard a decent reason to.

I can think of one reason: No worries about what DRM it might have. With Windows/Mac games nowadays, that in itself is something you have to research before buying ANY game now. To the shame of many PC games, I'd flat out refused to buy the computer version because I refuse to put up with insane DRM, or something that can't be worked around. There's simply no reason in this day and age that something that isn't so goddamn intrusive can't be worked out with these companies.

What is this "insane" DRM you are talking about? because it uses a pretty standard DRM and anti-cheat system for most shooters and nobody every had problems with IW's CoD, not with actually running the game anyway, but Treyarch's CoD.....yeah, console developers at their best. You don't have to research anything since games and DRM systems work, no matter how annoying they are (I don't know what you've heard, Securom is a necessary evil that we have to put up with, but Starforce that was the devil, good thing they never used it anymore) all you have to know is if your system can handle it and if you're telling me you are lazy enough not to bother to look at some requirements, then yeah you probably need the console version...for any game.

Other than the DRM issue (and being lazy) I don't see any other reason, any decent reason, so...yeah let's buy shooters on consoles because they have no DRM.

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#25 SpaceMoose
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Well, that's inflation for you. It isn't like games were going to stay at $50 forever, especially when development costs keep going up, even after adjusting for inflation.

That said, I don't buy most games at their release price anyway, and certainly not COD since first person shooters are kind of irrelevant to me.

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#26 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="DeathStar17"]Haha at everyone who says they wont buy a $60 PC game...you will soon enough, when every game is $60.musclesforcier
I wont. I hardly buy any games at $50 anyway. Just wait a few months til the price goes down.

Stop complaining people... Here in Australia new releases are $99 - $120..... try saving up for THAT !!!
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#27 Einhanderkiller
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Haha at everyone who says they wont buy a $60 PC game...you will soon enough, when every game is $60.DeathStar17
I actually don't buy games until they drop in price, unless they're an Orange Box or StarCraft 2 or something.
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#28 joshthor
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thats why im planning on buying cod mw when mw2 comes out lol. it should drop to a mellow 30 (FINALLY) and ill have something to hold me off for a while.

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#29 Jinroh_basic
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it will most likely sell 1 million copies on day 1 and 5 mil within its first week. what that translates into? the complaints are pointless, that's what.

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#30 DanielDust
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thats why im planning on buying cod mw when mw2 comes out lol. it should drop to a mellow 30 (FINALLY) and ill have something to hold me off for a while.

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I somehow doubt it very much, but who knows it might be at a special price on Steam or a special offer at a store :P.
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#31 Fr0st3d
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im gona buy the xbox360 version because of friend pressure :( I think il pay way more than that on the xbox I heard 69$ thats **** insane one of my friend is buying CE lol

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#32 Mr_Versipellis
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This if REALLY old news...
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#33 Tresca_
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I think I read somewhere that they would have liked to increase the price further.

I'll be holding off until it is reasonably priced. There are other games coming out. Better games.

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#34 musclesforcier
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[QUOTE="musclesforcier"][QUOTE="DeathStar17"]Haha at everyone who says they wont buy a $60 PC game...you will soon enough, when every game is $60.FelipeInside
I wont. I hardly buy any games at $50 anyway. Just wait a few months til the price goes down.

Stop complaining people... Here in Australia new releases are $99 - $120..... try saving up for THAT !!!

How is saying that I don't buy most games at release price complaining?
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#35 couly
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I'll still buy it because I know I'll be playing it for at least a year. Also, $60 in the US means it'll stay at 60 Euro in europe!! so we're really paying $85!! Australia has it the worst I think.
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#36 Gog
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I am sure there have been 60$ PC games before...

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#37 johnny27
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yeah it sucks there are no royalties to be paid on pc why do we need a 60$ game i hope this does not become the norm as that would suck and to does who say its only 10$ more not a big deal those 10$ add up over time and why would you not be against paying more!?

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#38 ninjikiran
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You know I don't pirate, all the games I have on my computer and steam where bought with my hard earned bones. But games start costing $60 I might pay for a single online game I am interested in, but i'll just get my fix in other ways for the single player games. Because I want to play the game, but the premium makes games harder to purchase. I used to purchase more console games as well but seeing that $60 price point actually discourages me and makes me consider my purchase THAT much more. It might not seem like much but theres a psychological difference between 49.99 and 59.99, a HUGE psychological difference(I used to buy new, but now I might buy used instead). Gimping the used game experience just makes me want to ignore a series altogether. I got Resistance 1 used, liked it so I went ahead and bought Resistance 2 new. If part of the original Resistance campaign was missing I wouldn't of had bothered getting it used and I would of never purchased the sequel new.

It also drove me to game fly i nthe console realm, but used games and game fly does not exist in the PC realm.