News Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to cost £55

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2009/07/17/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-to-cost-55/1

Activision has confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will cost £55, thanks to a weak pound.

 

Holy ************.

No launch purchase from me. Robdogs know damn well it'll be £40 within a month.

 

Who on earth will pay that for a PC game? I could just about understand that price with "console tax", but on a PC it's just silly. I wouldn't pay that for a game and I'll bet a lot of other people won't either.

 

Although it's (only?) £40 on PC.

 

another game i'll only play in "naughty mode" then

I do not mind paying for games, but prices need to be reasonable. 64 euros for one game clearly isn't. If they truely want the sharing community to come back on board, they should have prices hovering around 20-25 euros per game. That's properly in the range of impulse buys for young people everywhere, and they would double or triple their game sales easily.

This price hike will cost them money, mark my words.

 

I think this will be my candidate for most pirated game of the year with a price tag like tht!

 

Eurgh more news of price rises from companies seemingly incapable of hedging their future currency risk (regardless of which risk they are covering).

Seriously though £55 is a p*** take..... and they wonder why people pirate games....

 

Yea... I won't be buying that on release... thats a rediculas price...

 

HOLY CRAP
Who in there right mind is gonna shell out 55 quid on that, even if it is a brilliant game.
/Facepalm

 

A thought occurs.

They claim development costs are high.

Why is that not affecting the US price, then?

Why should we be paying damn near the same price for the standard edition that they do for the hardened edition?

 

You can pre-order it for £30.00 so it's not too bad (PC)

 

£25 is my sweet spot for game prices. Does mean I need to wait for a while after release until it comes down to that price. Only game I've paid full price (£34.99) in the past 5 years has been Prototype. Orange Box, Mirror's Edge, Price Of Persia, GTA:IV, littlebigplanet - all for £25 or less.

Games publishers need to take a good hard look at Steam's statistics - they sell a LOT more when games are on "sale" at ~£25 or less - it's the economy of scale, sell a tiny number of high cost items, or a shedload of sales of low cost items. The latter actually makes more profit in the long term.

 

I thought the £ had started strenghtening against the $, and wasn't it nearly paralel with the euro at christmas? Now its £1.15 to the euro so even if that was the reason, wtf?!?!?

 

"We need more money in the UK..."
"I've got a solution!.....raise the price to £55 for a GAME and increase the amount of people who will pirate it!....I mean it's not like piracy will increase if we make the price silly will it."
"That's a brilliant idea!....lets do it!"

 

I think it will still be one of the most successful games ever just because it's MW2. This is probably the one title Activision could pull this off with and not have it bite them in the ass. Of course it will have record piracy rates too, but I don't think they will have a significant effect on sales.

 

Umm what about the rest of the world?

 

Thats the sort of bs I'd expect from a politician. But Blizzard Activision are clearly used to subscription fees from 'World of Point Click' and are charging an obsurd amount to offset this. Sell cheaply and flood the market......

 

Think i'll be trying my mates version before I cough up that amount of mulah, if you know what I mean...

 

With everyone waiting for starcraft and diablo i wonder what price they're going to be, if this move is in any way "successful" in there eyes £60 diablo can't be far around the corner....

 

LOL
Console games have been costing 800,- (local) here for a while (i.e. a year+ )... converted to your currency, that's ~60GBP (thank you, XE)
the bit of a price increase on the console isn't going to make or break it for me... the PC pricing is a bit ludicrous, though...