Modern Warfare 2 pre-order sales are failing hard

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Smashed said:

max power said:

Smashed said:

shio said:

Over 194k people have signed the petition!!! WE WILL REACH 200 THOUSAND REALLY SOON!!!

Fight the good fight, Sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw

You think Activision really gives 2 shits about the little petition... Over 4.5M preorders, they will be wiping tears that are shed by PC fans with 100 dollar bills.

Why wouldn't they care? 

Do you really think that, as a company, once they sell so-many-million games, they don't care about hundreds of thousands or millions more in  lost sales? 

Like I said, they have 4.5M Pre-orders, and will likely do 6-7M week one on consoles alone. Activision knows that 50% of those people who signed the petition will end up getting the game anyways, you watch, half of the people signing are just trying to see if they can get the numbers high if Activision will respond.

I bet you half of them will still buy the game.

I personally think this will cost them millions in sales down the road.  COD4 was a top seller on Steam for well over a year (at full price, too), and MW2 isn't even top 5 pre-order the week of its release.

Even if it does sell well at launch, I don't think it will continue that momentum that COD4 had, which was mostly due to its multiplayer (single-player games like Bioshock drop in price and sales like a rock that far after release).

Screwing over your fans is never a smart long-term business proposition.  This will hurt them on MW2 sales, and on future COD sales.