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

I have to say current game prices in UK are crazy!! I thought about buying Blood Bowl the other day. Asking price: £39.99. Then I checked price in Poland PLN 99.99 (about £20). You can find it even slightly cheaper online. I honestly don't see a reason behind such great differences.

 

Both Play and Amazon have their own opinions on the price at the moment.

Play £29.99
Amazon £29.99

and Amazon specifically says that they charge the lowest price they offer before release.

 

HMV NVG Prestige pack

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProduc...y:+Modern+Warfare+2+:+HMV.com+Exclusive-44193

Thats £119.99 For xbox users, for the ridiculously overpriced prestige edition, still, it is tempting, its such a piece of geek chic.

As far as i can see, they dont have a prestige version for the pc

 

Excellent observation! Joe, any chance you could poke Sony a bit about this, you know, fuel the fire?

I'm really curious what they have to say about this.

 

as has been made evident with the Windows 7 pre-order, buy/pre-order it NOW at that price, because it may well go up to £50 very soon, and once it does you won't get it for the cheaper price unless you put your order in during the lower price....

 

Well yes... I didn't think I had to say "from the time you place your order".

To clarify, my intent was to convey something similar to the following.
"For those who want the game now, don't want to pay the ridiculous price, and don't want to wait a few months for the price to come down after release: Gentlemen place your orders!" ... OK?

 

Don't buy it. Seriously.

 

I won't

 

**** that, retards.

oh they'll blame piracy and then modern warfare 3 will be console only due to "piracy"

 

things in South Africa are waaaaay over priced so same deal in Nambia I'd of thought

 

Just pre-order it from Amazon / Play now for £29.99 (PC) and they will honour that price. You dont have to pay right now.. only when its shipped.

So Ive just done that to safeguard my purchase at a reasonable price.

There is no way in hell I would pay £55 for this game, on PC or console. In fact, I rarely buy a console game at full price these days. £40 is too much to be honest. £35 max is fair for consoles, and £30 max on the PC.

 

Pre-ordered for £45 on 360, Hardened edition is £70, not worth it at all!

 

Just pre-order it from game.co.uk for £28,99 with coupon "buyat0902".

 

Cool, i'll avoid it now, they aint getting any money from me

 

This is how you increase piracy of a game :S

 

Whoa. At this rate they'll get more illegal downloads than buys (apart from the fanboys!)

 

Yup, at that price, it will be a candidate for the most pirated game ever.

I suspect they'll bang on about this price hike for a while, then knock a tenner off prior to launch, hoping to be seen as caving in to public demand.

It is a shame. I was looking forward to that game, but I won't be buying it now; I'll just read the reviews and hope it's crap.

 

Naughty mode? just come out and say your going to pirate it, if you dont like the price don't pay for it, don't go with the crowd and pirate it, that only gives them more fuel when deciding not to dev for the PC.
Video games are about the only thing that hasn't risen in price over the years in line with inflation, if they need to raise the price then so be it, don't like it, don't buy it.
Costing more than you are willing to pay is not free licence to steal it.

 

Exactly, but wait for the Pirate defenders to come here now and trash our posts. People do everything to justify piracy, wrong is a wrong.

 

Nah, they can **** right off!

Not that I'm really interested in the CoD franchise; I didn't finish number 3, didn't make it past the first mission on Modern Warfare and didn't really think much to WaW either.