£10 for 5 MW2 Maps LOL

Final8y said:
No! as i work for the top 6th company in the UK in our field out of thousands of others & we charge much less than most others.

I don't believe that all companies charge as much as people are willing to pay as then you would never see the word value for money mentioned by consumers because that means they are getting more than what they think they should be getting for what they paid which means that they would have paid more.
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Perhaps that is why your not the top company in your field. ;)

In all seriousness there's not really much more to add that hasn't already been said... but as you mention not all companies charge as much as consumers are prepared to pay and I never suggested that to be the case. You can look at Activision and Valve's business models as prime examples of this. Valve could charge but they choose to offer their 'value for money' through free content updates funded by the continued sale of their product. Activision go for the direct route of charging as much as people are willing to pay which has been exceptionally lucrative for them... then in 6 months time they slash the price and there's your perceived 'value for money' factor to get those who thought $15 was to much, but $7 is ok...
 
andshrew said:
In all seriousness there's not really much more to add that hasn't already been said... but as you mention not all companies charge as much as consumers are prepared to pay and I never suggested that to be the case. You can look at Activision and Valve's business models as prime examples of this. Valve could charge but they choose to offer their 'value for money' through free content updates funded by the continued sale of their product. Activision go for the direct route of charging as much as people are willing to pay which has been exceptionally lucrative for them... then in 6 months time they slash the price and there's your perceived 'value for money' factor to get those who thought $15 was to much, but $7 is ok...
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Your explaining things again that don't need explaining.

I know the 2 models & but the flaw is that MW did not fall in price after 6 months & many games fall in price to better value levels even when they are good value to begin with.
 
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Final8y said:
Your explaining things again that don't need explaining.

I know the 2 models & but the flaw is that MW did not fall in price after 6 months & many games fall in price to better value level even if it was good value to begin with.
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I'm not talking about the game I'm talking about the DLC, which in MW1 and WAW did fall in price on both Xbox and PS3 after X months and secured another boost in sales.
 
andshrew said:
I'm not talking about the game I'm talking about the DLC, which in MW1 and WAW did fall in price on both Xbox and PS3 after X months and secured another boost in sales.
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Sorry i care for the PC platform so have not been following the console prices.
And the content for the PC was free as far as i recall.
 
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Final8y said:
Sorry i care for the PC platform so have not been following the console prices.
And the content for the PC was free as far as i recall.
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The content was free previously on PC afaik, but WAW was released some time after the consoles got it - but to save repeating myself I'll refer you to post 149, second paragraph. Times have changed.
 
andshrew said:
The content was free previously on PC afaik, but WAW was released some time after the consoles got it - but to save repeating myself I'll refer you to post 149, second paragraph. Times have changed.
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That is a possibility that only time will tell.
There has already been a case of DLC that was already on the disc with ProStreet.
People accept it then they will do it & then we all have to pay regardless if we agree with it or not.

But then again many console players are used to paying for bad value for money games so naturally will pay for bad value DLC.
 
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Final8y said:
That is a possibility that only time will tell.
There has already been a case of DLC that was already on the disc with ProStreet.
People accept it then they will do it & then we all have to pay regardless if we agree with it or not.
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Exactly and unfortunately there are far to many people these days willing to accept whatever these companies want to do. :(
 
yes the dawn of dlc is here so your in the same boat as console owners :(

its not worth it but neither was cod m2.

as for comments on waw treyarch actually had made a go if you look at the game at least they tried something and brought new stuff to the platter . they made the zombie co op mode cool now every game doing this they changed lots of things even the graphics are better than mw2 . not saying im gunna buy next cod but give trey a bit of respect they do try but its the puppet master who controls them who makes the mess we have to digest . hello activision you nabs :D

until you see someone redesign or go out on a limb with fps gaming its going to be the same for years. thing is it costs too much too mess up and thats why you get the same ol bs fps game with a few whistles and bells on
 
jimlsd have you got cod 4 cause if you have just stick to that.

basically this is how it is.

people were bored brought mw2 cause it was new then reverted back to cod mw1 cause was better then bfbc2 came out which is better than mw2 .

so in other words play cod mw1 and bfbc2 and ignore the crappola that is mw2 no matter how cheap a deal you get on it.
 
Ahahaha. I can't believe people are so furious about the crap value of this inevitable DLC. Don't you people know the story of the old woman and the snake? I cannot believe any one of you didn't know what you were getting in to, and you've no right to complain now that you've received exactly what you were promised.
 
Activision will rape Call of Duty for all the money it can while the brand is strong enough to generate sales on its own.

So are Activision the new Electronic Arts? Are they now the No.1 evil in the games industry?
 
Deadbeat said:
Ahahaha. I can't believe people are so furious about the crap value of this inevitable DLC. Don't you people know the story of the old woman and the snake? I cannot believe any one of you didn't know what you were getting in to, and you've no right to complain now that you've received exactly what you were promised.
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They promised overpriced DLC? :confused: I must've missed that press release.
 
Deadbeat said:
Ahahaha. I can't believe people are so furious about the crap value of this inevitable DLC. Don't you people know the story of the old woman and the snake? I cannot believe any one of you didn't know what you were getting in to, and you've no right to complain now that you've received exactly what you were promised.
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How many of us who are complaining were stupid enough to actually buy the game in the first place? I know I wasn't but it still annoys me as it's probably going to set the trend for a lot of other games that I do want to buy.

Why continue to try and tailor products to the PC market, develop mod tools etc. etc. when Activision are constantly demonstrating that if you spend a wedge on advertising and hype a game up beyond belief, you can screw over your target market as much as you want and they'll still throw money at you hand over fist?
 
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Thundycat said:
Stop the bickering guys.

TC.
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Thankyou. Though you missed 1 :p

It is a sad thought that more games will be released without modding tools. Its clear that most people don't actually look for mods and simply play vanilla and will accept anything official no matter how bad it is. So its only the people who actual care that will get screwed over.
 
Evilsod said:
Thankyou. Though you missed 1 :p

It is a sad thought that more games will be released without modding tools. Its clear that most people don't actually look for mods and simply play vanilla and will accept anything official no matter how bad it is. So its only the people who actual care that will get screwed over.
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Yup I had:o Apologies:D
 
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