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With a movie, say, Titanic, the price I pay to watch it is not proportional to the cost of production and marketing. Why should the games industry be any different? Or should we perhaps look forward to Transformers 3 being £20 a ticket in the cinema?

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Its there mistake though that the budget costs $50 million, no one told them to spend that much on a game(you could argue that gamers tell them but that isn’t true either, who were the first ones to put extreme graphics on the cover for selling point: They were so there to blame if people want more extreme graphics not us) And anyway I actually don’t think the game does cost $50 million to make. Since with 3D art you reuse which means your not paying more for graphics your actually paying a bit less. For sequels the budget actually goes down for that very reason. And if the budget is bigger tis usually for advertising reseons which technically isn’t sopending more on the game.

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Also, why are people who are AGAINST Bob Kotick discussing the best strategy FOR Activision to profit (less price more sales vs the opposite)? If you truly wish his downfall, shouldn’t you let them do the unwise (in your opinion) and eeeevil price hike and hence ultimately less profit for CODMW2?

Because the stupidity of people is such that it will take years for Activision to recognise that the price hike may have been a mistake. Meanwhile, those of us who actually like games, rather than buying into them because the Xbox 360 makes the frathouse cooler, will have to suffer from DRM and increased prices in order to buy our games legitimately.

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It seems dumb that games that cost $50million to make, and games thet cost $1million to make have to cost the same price. It’d open up the field more, and allow lower budget games a chance to compete with the big boys.

Right now budgets are through the roof, games have to break the top 10 to make a profit, and pc games prices are lower than 10 years ago. That’s just weird.

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Also, why are people who are AGAINST Bob Kotick discussing the best strategy FOR Activision to profit (less price more sales vs the opposite)? If you truly wish his downfall, shouldn’t you let them do the unwise (in your opinion) and eeeevil price hike and hence ultimately less profit for CODMW2? If you hate a corporation for charging you more, but can’t legitimately criticize it for maxing profit legally, please don’t use this “it’s for you own good” pretense, just don’t buy the product.

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MW2 sure has some nice new guns to shoot mans with.

In all seriousness though, it’s an insta-buy for me, I’m still playing CoD4 MP. When the whiners come round, just calmly switch to your two-rifles-with-grenade-launcher or sonic boom-three-nade-martyrdom rig.

Clears them out pretty fast, OR makes for hilarious rage.

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“Cod4 is good”
“Not it isn’t”
“Yes it is”
*snide and pointless comment from someone*
“NO IT ISN’T”
“YES IT IS”
*snide and pointless comment from someone*

There you go.

Aside from a bit of ad hominem here and there this has been a decent debate in parts about the qualities or lack of in CoD4. People with different opinions discussing and debating them on a comment section of a post about said game franchise, say it ain’t so!

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