Prestige/Legendary Edition

£85 for an RC car, badge, 4 maps, metal case and an avatar outfit? No thanks, £45 initially with £55 RRP :eek: is ridiculous as it is

However, an extra £15 for a book, case and in-game armour set doesn't sound too unreasonable for Halo Reach. Won't be getting Halo though (atleast not straight away) and won't be getting Black Ops unless Treyarch show that they aren't being turned into complete arses by Activision like IW was
 
Honestly, I don't know that I'll be getting that game at all. I really liked the first game, the balance, the simplicity of it, etc... After that, I've played the other games, and they just haven't been nearly as good, in my opinion. So, we'll see, maybe eventually I'll get the game, but it won't be for a while yet.
 
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No game regardless of what they give you is EVER worth $150. They will be lucky if I even buy the game @ $20. They also raised prices on PC games to most are $60 now and imho makes me wanna buy less and less of their games. I don't usually ever get what I payed for anymore in games.
 
The day Activision wanted PC gamers to pay for the map packs, I swore I wouldn't buy another one of their games. Plus how they completely boned over IW on paychecks, even though the game is ridiculously 60$.

Especially a prestige edition with micro transactions (extra game maps for extra money). Not like the special editions will come out for PC anyway.

Plus its Treyarch, they're going to mess it up immensely.
 
kobaj said:
The day Activision wanted PC gamers to pay for the map packs, I swore I wouldn't buy another one of their games. Plus how they completely boned over IW on paychecks, even though the game is ridiculously 60$.

Especially a prestige edition with micro transactions (extra game maps for extra money). Not like the special editions will come out for PC anyway.

Plus its Treyarch, they're going to mess it up immensely.
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I don't see why Treyarch have a bad rep, I like their CoD games.

+1 on the pay thing though, and +1 to what Twist said
 
kobaj said:
The day Activision wanted PC gamers to pay for the map packs, I swore I wouldn't buy another one of their games. Plus how they completely boned over IW on paychecks, even though the game is ridiculously 60$.
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Welcome to the Blizzard model of making money :mad:
 
Cromewell said:
Welcome to the Blizzard model of making money :mad:
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That is really unfair...Blizzard don't release a 10mb map pack for $$$ but a entire expansion pack that usually gives a lot of new gameplay/maps. I have no issue buying a expansion if it gives new items/maps/challenges/areas etc but I do hate the fact they charge $10 for 1mb DLC pack that adds a few outfits and 1 new skin. (Bioshock 2 did this kinda crap)

Mind you I am not a Blizzard fan boy but id buy their expansions before I bought any of these crappy over priced DLC packs. Just Cause 2 is another prime example of stupid over priced DLC packs.
 
Twist86 said:
That is really unfair...Blizzard don't release a 10mb map pack for $$$ but a entire expansion pack that usually gives a lot of new gameplay/maps. I have no issue buying a expansion if it gives new items/maps/challenges/areas etc but I do hate the fact they charge $10 for 1mb DLC pack that adds a few outfits and 1 new skin. (Bioshock 2 did this kinda crap)

Mind you I am not a Blizzard fan boy but id buy their expansions before I bought any of these crappy over priced DLC packs. Just Cause 2 is another prime example of stupid over priced DLC packs.
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You can call it unfair if you'd like. I'm not referring to expansions, I think that's a valid cost (although EvE Online expansions are free). I'm more referring to a lot of the things Blizzard charges for that in my opinion are just profit taking.
 
Most expensive special edition I've ever seen : 200$ for DragonBallZ with plastic dragonball and poster.... that's it.
 
Oh I see my bad then.....care to point some of them out? I mean other then online fees I never noticed anything else that they unfairly charged for.
 
Cromewell said:
You can call it unfair if you'd like. I'm not referring to expansions, I think that's a valid cost (although EvE Online expansions are free). I'm more referring to a lot of the things Blizzard charges for that in my opinion are just profit taking.
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Yeah, but to my knowledge EvE isn't as big as WoW, so the free expansions obviously aren't that important. And as a happy WoW player/subscriber, and a happy StarCraft II player, I don't see what they're doing wrong. The fact that they charge for expansions is fine, since it's usually less than a game, offers a lot of stuff, and comes out every few years. And to my knowledge, the only mandatory payment for WoW is the $15 a month (excluding the expansions that come out every other year.) I don't have a problem with that, since it pays them, the devs, server maintenance, and everything else that keeps the game running how it is. And I say mandatory because to my knowledge, the MW2 DLC content is mandatory, right? Whereas with WoW, if you don't pay, you don't play. (So it's not like you have to pay to continue playing.) And the pets/mounts they offer for an additional fee aren't mandatory.
 
Twist86 said:
Oh I see my bad then.....care to point some of them out? I mean other then online fees I never noticed anything else that they unfairly charged for.
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I don't have a problem with the subscription fee, I'm sure they are making a profit on it but I can live with that. Everyone needs to make money

If you want to talk WoW then for services a character transfer, name change, race change...there are probably others. There's no human interaction on these transactions it's all automatic. Yes I can level the same class again to get any one of these changes but if I've done it once with a given class I probably don't want to again.

Or selling of ingame items in their store, the ones for charity I get, the rest is just preying on the OCDs who need to have everything. You're right these aren't strictly 'mandatory' but to a lot of people playing the game they are.

Or selling SC2 as 3 games and not letting them interact with each other. Again, I get selling it as 3 games, then you get to put more work into each one but it can't be hard to take the relic approach with Company of Heroes and let people play against each other if they have 1 part of the game.

And I say mandatory because to my knowledge, the MW2 DLC content is mandatory, right? Whereas with WoW, if you don't pay, you don't play
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Isn't that the same? ;) If I don't have wrath I don't get to northrend but that's where everyone is now.

I'm not saying everything should be free, just that their business model is to sell everything you can get away with. They do it quite well, it works for them. I mean look at the mobile auction house. That thing is just wrong :P
 
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