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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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with the doritos and mountain dew promotion ,and other ways to get double xp such as pre ordering with certain company's,i doubt there will be allot of double xp weekends.Looks like they will use double xp to make more money
They normally do them around the map pack releases though so in a way they are making money by doing that as it encourages people to buy the new maps. I suppose not so much now though with there being a lot of people getting the DLC thrown in with elite.
They also sometimes do them to compete with new releases, I seem to remember they did double xp around the release of GOW3 to try and stay top of the Xbox Live charts.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was £25 at a large variety of supermarkets on release date.
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Is there any video`s on all the kill streaks for MW3 yet ?
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WRONG
1 supermarket had it for £26, and i tried every branch they had in my area for a week and zero copies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/nov/09/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-price-war
Based on information given to us for the story below about supermarket chains competing for sales of Modern Warfare 2, we reported that Sainsbury's had the game on unlimited offer at £26. This assertion has proved incorrect; Sainsbury's pricetag is currently £44.99.
Retailers around the country will open at midnight tonight in a bid to attract gamers desperate to get their hands on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – and the good news for consumers is that most will be offering big discounts.
Although the recommended retail price for the Xbox and PS3 formats is £54.99, consumers will be able to get their hands on a copy for almost £30 less, and cost cutting by big supermarket chains means that Modern Warfare 2 will be cheaper on the high street than it is online.
Sainsbury's has slashed the price to just £26 for PS3 and Xbox formats (on the Wii it costs £29.99, while on PC it costs £34.99), while Tesco is offering the game for £25 to customers who buy another top 20 title for either console. Those who do not want another game will be charged £39.70.
Both retailers will be offering the game from midnight at some stores. Tesco is selling it at all of its stores which are usually open round the clock, while midnight sales at Sainsbury's will be limited to five shops: those in Dulwich, Haringay, London Colney, Forest Side and Greenwich. Other branches will be selling the game later in the day.
A spokeswoman for Sainsbury's said the retailer expected the game to be its biggest seller of the year, with 120,000 copies expected to be sold in store and a further 2,000 online. She added that the £26 price tag was not a limited offer.
Asda is charging £32 for Xbox and PS3 formats and £32.71 for the PC version. It will have the game available from midnight at more than 300 stores. A spokesman said the retailer was expecting queues, with as many as 1,000 gamers expected to visit its Derby store, but he assured customers there was "lots of stock".
Specialist retailer Game will be opening 342 stores at midnight to hand over precious copies of Modern Warfare 2 to customers who pre-order it before 5.30pm this evening. Gamestation, which is owned by Game, will open 250 outlets.
A spokesman for Game said all of the stores would be decorated and many staff would be dressed up – "our staff are gamers and they are just as excited as our customers". At 11 UK stores there will be additional special events and a raffle where customers would get the an Xbox 360.
"We have had record pre-orders," he added. "If all the predictions are true it's a favourite to be game of the year."
Xbox and PS3 owners will pay £44.99 while PC owners will pay £34.99. In store it is offering the game at half that price to those who trade in one of a list of games. Online it has waived postage and packaging fees for customers who order today.
Gamers who really want to splash out can blow £99 on an exclusive Veteran Package at Game. As well as a special steel box for the game itself, it includes a statue of Captain Soap MacTavish, one of the game's heroes.
Also online, customers who are able to wait for their fix can get free delivery at Play.com whenever they order. It is charging the same as Game – £44.99 for Xbox and PS3 formats and £34.99 for the PC format.
This afternoon Amazon cut its prices for the game. PS3 and Xbox players can now pick it up for £32 (it was £43.99 this morning), while PC users pay £34.96. A special Christmas offer means delivery is free on all orders.
Pre-orders of the Xbox version have already made Modern Warfare 2 the site's bestselling game, and sales are already 50% higher than they were for last year's hot game, Grand Theft Auto 4.
• This story was amended on 13 November. Based on information from Sainsbury's, it originally said the store was charging £26 across all formats for Modern Warfare 2. This has been corrected.
i got mine for £65 (plus possible cashback)
Not bad at all! I only ordered yesterday though so pretty late! The price changed literally about 5/6 hours after I ordered lol.
Inb4 they end up charging me the £89....will kick off!
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sainsburys had very little stock, they used a new tactic, put the price below what they buy it for, but only have like 20 copies in every store.
they hoped people would come, see its out of stock and buy something else.
MW2 was £30+ in the supermarkets who had decent stock.
im guessing black ops was the same, and so will MW3 be.
anyone who thinks they can get MW3 for £25 when it has never ever been that price before (£26 the lowest in small quantities), is deluded.
im going to go out on a limb and say supermarkets will charge you £34.99 this year at the minimum on launch day in store, unless you buy another game or shopping.
its best to order it off the net now using codes for £32.
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i was watching that stream last night and was waiting to see if they have made the objective flags disappear if you look down your sights,instead of them blocking your view like in mw2.I didn't hear anything get mentioned about this,anyone read or heard that they have done anything about it?
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Not bad at all! I only ordered yesterday though so pretty late! The price changed literally about 5/6 hours after I ordered lol.
Inb4 they end up charging me the £89....will kick off!
£89 makes it no point, you can get it for £32 using codes, then pay the £39.99 or whatever it is for elite membership.
you end up with the same thing then, no?
Considering I was out by all of £1, that is a particularly long and pointless reply. Sainsbury's had load of stock, and did it for £26 last year. I expect the same, and will not be preordering.
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that doesnt make sense, do you mean he has to pay £35 on the night?
as above, tesco are doing it for £35 if that is correct, do you really see another supermarket undercutting them by £10, i think not, £32 is the cheapest you can get it for using codes online.
sainsburys never had any stock near me and they were £26 (2 years ago)
the game was released worldwide on November 10, 2009
2 years on, and there is no way you will get it for anywhere near £26, your looking at £35 average price, unless you buy another game or shopping.
So he pays £45 in total (£5 deposit, pay £40 on the day as you state), then gets £5 back?
I think I liked this forum better when you could not discuss shop names etc...
At least then we could actually discuss the game not just the fact I could save 10p by turning up at some shop at 3:06am wearing my pants around my head!
At least then we could actually discuss the game not just the fact I could save 10p by turning up at some shop at 3:06am wearing my pants around my head!
Yes sir, not denying that. However I've paid £77.
Haven't ever pre-ordered a game in this sense before, get a bunch of random cr@p with it too which will be cool.
To be honest I confused myself, I just re-iterated what my brother text, will confirm!
Yes, I certainly do. Sainsbury's did last year, and I bagged it from them with some wine
Which is exactly why they will likely do it again! They make the £10 they have 'lost' on selling the game cheaper back by putting in the shopping conditions. That doesn't bother me though, and I'll be stocking up on a few good bottles of wine I would have bought from them anyway
Which is exactly why they will likely do it again! They make the £10 they have 'lost' on selling the game cheaper back by putting in the shopping conditions. That doesn't bother me though, and I'll be stocking up on a few good bottles of wine I would have bought from them anyway
Or a box of tissues or two for when you first turn the game on and sit there watching the intro.