Online retailers refusing to sell Modern Warfare 2 PC edition due to Steam

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JaggedSac said:

shio said:

JaggedSac said:
This seems like a decision that could increase Steam sales in the short term.

yet MW2 is only staying at 6th place on Steam, far below what COD4 did. COD4 stayed 1st place on Steam for months, and it probably took almost a year for COD4 to get out of Top5.

Plus, COD4 also dominated on Direct2Drive for nearly a year, and is being sold on Impulse and Gamersgate. MW2 will sell crap compared to COD4.

People probably realize that it is pointless to pre-order a digitally distributed game.

Not true.

You get $5 bucks off usually... also you get to Pre-load the game.

So that when the game releases it takes all of 5 minutes to start your game rather then 5-6 hours downloading.

Big games on Steam usually top the charts weeks before release.