Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2022)

Is it greedy? I was paying £30+ for a sega master system game in the late 1980’s early 1990s. Very few things have stayed as cheap as gaming did for so long. I doubt wages are the same for publishers or advertising as it was back then.

Also the industry is so diluted now. Even in the 360 days, when a half decent new game came out we all got it and your friends list was full of people playing the new tomb raider for example. Now despite a bigger list rarely see people playing the shiney new game.

So what’s the cheapest method to get this?
 
dannyjo22 said:
Is it greedy? I was paying £30+ for a sega master system game in the late 1980’s early 1990s. Very few things have stayed as cheap as gaming did for so long. I doubt wages are the same for publishers or advertising as it was back then.

Also the industry is so diluted now. Even in the 360 days, when a half decent new game came out we all got it and your friends list was full of people playing the new tomb raider for example. Now despite a bigger list rarely see people playing the shiney new game.

So what’s the cheapest method to get this?
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PS or Xbox? And do you want to create a foreign store account? :D
 
BuffetSlayer said:
Do you feel the additional digital content included in special edition versions of games actually cost the developer anything extra to produce, and is the hike in price worth a few skins and weapon blueprints?

Whilst I accept costs to produce content have increased in some ways, in others the cost has gone down. Additionally, more efficient and effective ways of working reduce costs further. Likewise revenue loss from piracy is also very limited (a previous excuse for increasing prices).

Feels more like a “new console, new price” opportunistic move rather than anything grounded in economics, particularly given the extraordinary profits made by franchises like CoD.

The £100 version is just a season pass pre-order no?
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Activision were one of the early adopters of the “new gen new base price” tax sadly so yes in that regards it is exactly as you say, though I do not doubt that costs have massively skyrocketed in game development as the sheer numbers involved to push out CoD every three years (irrespective of if you think they actually work at launch lol).

No I don’t really feel there is much to the digital items included with CoD sadly, some of it does include 50 tier skips for this season, and the rest is the various skins for WZ1 and the vault pack for MW2, so not a great deal of value there.

I rationalise it my head that a) I’ll buy the battle pass anyway so that’s £16 off the price, I also will want the Series X version which means I’m in for £70 anyway so in essence it’s what, £14 more for a few digital bells and whistles? That’s nothing really as I shop around for Xbox credit from various stores online so I manage to save some here and there vs actually having to spend the full amount.

And I know (well I hope it’s still the case this year anyway lol) that I will spend A LOT of hours on MP so the return equates to something like £2 per hour for the entertainment so it’s very worth it IMHO, if I only played 1/2 hours outside of campaign i certainly wouldn’t be dropping £100 on a game
 
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dannyjo22 said:
Is it greedy? I was paying £30+ for a sega master system game in the late 1980’s early 1990s.
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Back then you bought just a game. Nowadays every single game has some sort of store and publishers are always pushing these things onto players. Activision themselves boasted of record profits and $billions made from micro-transactions.
So, yes, it is greed when you boast of record profits and STILL increase the price of your product.
 
I've pre-ordered this as I haven't played a CoD game in years. I love that you can spend 30 minutes or so on a couple of multiplayer games during a break from work and then go back to working on whatever you were doing beforehand.
 
I've really enjoyed the campaign, granted I would never spend £70 if I was just playing a SP game but as an addition to multiplayer, it's been great. The graphics are great, the story/characters have been really good and the variety has kept me entertained throughout.

Anyway, I am yet to finish it, and not sure when I will as they have broken it with the updates that came out. Anyone got any joy on PS with the updates rolled out yesterday? It needs to update but just fails.
 
Andybtsn said:
I've really enjoyed the campaign, granted I would never spend £70 if I was just playing a SP game but as an addition to multiplayer, it's been great. The graphics are great, the story/characters have been really good and the variety has kept me entertained throughout.

Anyway, I am yet to finish it, and not sure when I will as they have broken it with the updates that came out. Anyone got any joy on PS with the updates rolled out yesterday? It needs to update but just fails.
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Same it's broken for me too, are we locked out until tomorrow or is it a bug?
 
You can still play the sp when it gets stuck on the installing screen just back out and go to quick settings and you should be able to continue with the campaign.
 
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Chatty72 said:
You can still play the sp when it gets stuck on the installing screen just back out and go to quick settings and you should be able to continue with the campaign.
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Doesn't work for me either. Following the advice on quick settings causes my game to crash.

I can get to the campaign menu by forcing it offline, but then it won't let me past the "This is mature content I am an adult" prompt

Broken.
 
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