Price of Activision games
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That's a stupid excuse, CSS still has thousands playing daily but don't charge £20
no £16.99
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Doesn't matter whether you 'should' or not, because if you want it, you will.
Personally, no £85 is too much for me but to a fan who will play it non stop for months that will seem acceptable.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you don't like it, vote with your wallet. If you think it is too much just don't pay, irf enough people did that prices would drop.
Costs more to get all of the WoW expansions, and you can't even play those until you then cough up for a sub.
Vampire Bloodlines has been on sale at £3.74 previously which IMO is a bargain.
The official/full price of games on Steam is largely irrelevant unless they are new releases, because most people only buy older games when they are on offer anyway. Why single out Activision - plenty of other publishers have 'unrealistic' pricetags on their backcatalogue:
Bethesda:
Morrowind, over 10 years old, £12.99
Oblivion, 7? years old, £14.99
2k:
Bioshock, over 6 years old, £13.99
Rockstar:
GTA4, 5 years old, £19.99
...you get the idea, every publisher has high headline numbers on their older games on Steam.
To be fair, the Blizzard arm of Activision do seem to retain prices at high levels, I've been waiting ages for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 to drop under a tenner.
The official/full price of games on Steam is largely irrelevant unless they are new releases, because most people only buy older games when they are on offer anyway. Why single out Activision - plenty of other publishers have 'unrealistic' pricetags on their backcatalogue:
Bethesda:
Morrowind, over 10 years old, £12.99
Oblivion, 7? years old, £14.99
2k:
Bioshock, over 6 years old, £13.99
Rockstar:
GTA4, 5 years old, £19.99
...you get the idea, every publisher has high headline numbers on their older games on Steam.
To be fair, the Blizzard arm of Activision do seem to retain prices at high levels, I've been waiting ages for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 to drop under a tenner.
But Activision never give decent discounts, ever. Prototype and Vampire are the only ones which go on proper sales, but that is because both of the IPs are dead now.
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They sell at the price they want to sell. You don't like it, don't buy it. Activision is all about the money.
^While I agree Activision don't offer such widespread/good discounts as other publishers, and in particular they maintain the price of their AAA catalogue (CoD/Blizzard), I think you are exaggerating a bit. Other games they have heavily discounted include e.g. the older Transformers games (under £4) and Singularity (cost me like £2 or summat, bargain).