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IxisNaugus on 16 July 2009

As if games weren't expensive enough over here. I know they must have their reasons but come on... £54.99. Are they trying to piss us off? Modern Warfare 2 shall remain off my list until it drops below £40, i already have far too much games to purchase already. I cannot wait to purchase my fresh copy of Little King's Story for £20, it's probably gonna be one of the last times i purchase a great game so cheap without it being preowned.



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Barozi on 16 July 2009

Not good for British people, but still an affordable price for people in countries with Euro-currency. (Me )



haxxiy on 16 July 2009

Well done Activision. Also they should raise the price on the USA to $79.99. I'm pretty sure MW fans will pay for it.



 

 

 

 

 

kiefer23 on 16 July 2009
kowenicki said:
Ail said:
Seeing how a gallon of Gas is roughly 10$ in England (granted the english gallons are a little bigger) I wouldn't say game companies are the one doing most of the profiteering......
Or a movie ticket is 8.5 pounds in London ( $14 or so) or a can of coke 0.6 pounds ( $0.90, it's $0.33 in the us if you purchase packs of 12 cans...)


Again you show you know nothing about our economy.... petrol (gas) - 70% of that is tax!  Pack of 12 cokes is about 4.00, nowhere near 60p per can in supermarkets. 


We also use Litres not Gallons. I don't know if the US use Imperial Gallons but 1 Imperial gallon is 4.54 litres. 1 litre of unleaded petrol (gas) can cost anything from £1 to £1.20 and Diesel is usually 10-20p more per litre. It but burns alot slower in the engine giving more mileage but less power.

And off course Movie Tickets in London will cost considerably more. They are the most classy and expensive in the country! Go anywhere not mainstream and it will be cheaper.

PS. I know you know this Ail. Its aimed kowenicki but I quoted your post because you already corrected most of his/her speculation.

Edit: Woops I ment its aimed at Ail not you Kowenicki, Sorry!

Name mix up.



sabby_e17 on 16 July 2009

Arggh I fucking hate Activision so much. I hope they go out of buisness so some other company can buy MW2




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Taz! on 16 July 2009

Thats only the RRP. The game will sell for £44.99 here, still a f**king joke.



kiefer23 on 16 July 2009
Ail said:
kowenicki said:
Ail said:
Seeing how a gallon of Gas is roughly 10$ in England (granted the english gallons are a little bigger) I wouldn't say game companies are the one doing most of the profiteering......
Or a movie ticket is 8.5 pounds in London ( $14 or so) or a can of coke 0.6 pounds ( $0.90, it's $0.33 in the us if you purchase packs of 12 cans...)


Again you show you know nothing about our economy.... petrol (gas) - 70% of that is tax!  Pack of 12 cokes is about 4.00, nowhere near 60p per can in supermarkets. 

 

Well pack of 12 is 4$ here so exactly same ratio between coke prices and game prices ( actually game price should be 60 pounds to get the same ratio).

 

Yeah but we shouldn't have to pay for the things at the same ratio of dollars. $60 dollars is £36. We should never have to pay £60 for games. How would you like paying $98 per game?

Games have always been cheaper in US anyway. 4 pounds cheaper.



kiefer23 on 16 July 2009
Ail said:
kiefer23 said:
Ail said:
kiefer23 said:
JOhnyBravoos said:
What the fawck! That's £15 more than any games I've payed for!!

Lets start a petition stating that we won't buy at that horrendous price :D This is milking the cod to the extreme, the cod games are good but worthy of 137.5% the price of the other top selling game... I think not!

Or you could go to the Argos website, order Modern Warfare 2 for your console of choice for 44.99 and type in GAME20 on the promotional code part at the end and get 20% off so the final price comes out at 35.99.

This is UK only and you will be charged once you place your order not on dispatch!

This is my Fuck You to Activision for being Rob Dogs. They seem to think they are the only ones in a financial crisis when nearly everybody in the UK is being effected by it one way or the other. Close to 3 million unemployed now.

Using the financial crisis as an excuse to raise prices and fill their own fucking pockets with gold. I bet you now, no other publisher will do this.

Heres the link to the order page.

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500001501&langId=-1&searchTerms=Call+of+Duty+Modernwarfare+2&Submit=GO+%3E

You should be able to enter the promotional code near the end of the order before confirming it. Don't forget you will be charged instantly! Not when they dispatch it in 97 odd days. Argos only ship within the UK to everbody else around the world.

 

Hate to say this but watch when the PS3 and the Xbox360 finally drop price and that price drop isn't applied in England.

It has nothing to do with profiteering from the crisis and a lot to do with the fact that English Pound has lost a lot of its value.......

 

PS : and you're not robbing any money from Activision by ordering at Argos lol. Where do you think Argos get their copies ? All it means is that Argos will make no profit or might even loose cash for every copy they sell that way. For Activision it's all golden :P

 

Consoles are already reasonably cheap over here and where did I say I was robbing money from Activision? Please find it for me. Either way, your paying alot less then what Activison are asking for (£54.99) £20 less in fact so it still makes you feel better inside.

And looking at the specualtion, rumors and leaks there will be no console pricedrop. Sony will introduce a new SKU (Slim) and Microsoft will replace the pro with the Elite. Don't know whats happening with a Wii. Already have 2 Xbox 360s and a Playstation 3 and a Wii in my house so the console price drops don't effect me.

 

I bolded the line where you said roughly what I implied :P

 

Thats my Fuck You to Activison because I stopped them robbing a extra £20 from me or anybody else that orders the game through that method



kiefer23 on 16 July 2009
kowenicki said:
@kiefer

you fuel prices are off.... unleaded 0.99 everywhere these days (excpet motorways) and Diesel is about 10p more... well it was when i filled up today....

Yes, I failed to knock 1 penny off the minimum.

Cheapest by me is 99p and goes up to £1.14 but I have seen some ridicolous prices before up into the £1.30's.



Ail on 16 July 2009
kiefer23 said:
Ail said:
kowenicki said:
Ail said:
Seeing how a gallon of Gas is roughly 10$ in England (granted the english gallons are a little bigger) I wouldn't say game companies are the one doing most of the profiteering......
Or a movie ticket is 8.5 pounds in London ( $14 or so) or a can of coke 0.6 pounds ( $0.90, it's $0.33 in the us if you purchase packs of 12 cans...)


Again you show you know nothing about our economy.... petrol (gas) - 70% of that is tax!  Pack of 12 cokes is about 4.00, nowhere near 60p per can in supermarkets. 

 

Well pack of 12 is 4$ here so exactly same ratio between coke prices and game prices ( actually game price should be 60 pounds to get the same ratio).

 

Yeah but we shouldn't have to pay for the things at the same ratio of dollars. $60 dollars is £36. We should never have to pay £60 for games. How would you like paying $98 per game?

Games have always been cheaper in US anyway. 4 pounds cheaper.

It's a lot more complex than that.

First prices include the VAT in British price when they don't include it in the US.

From what I found on the web the V.A.T, on a 55 pounds game is about  7.5 pounds.

 

So really you have to compare 60$ to 47.5 pounds.

And then there are a lot more things to take into account.

Minimum legal salary in England is a lot higher  than in the US. so retailers probably have bigger margins than in the US to account for that ( the fact that retailers tend to drop price of games quickly in England while they do not in the US makes me believe they have higher margins too..)

England is well an island and most likely the costs to ship the products to retailer are higher than in the US or continental europe due to that....

 

In the end what you would really want to know for a fairer comparison is how much Acitivision charges Gamestop for a copy of MW2 compared to what they charge a big english retailer chain....

 



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