Why is this game so expensive?

[Zeno]

Hey.

I have been playing Call of Duty on and off since Call of Duty 1. I loved the game to begin with, but this love pretty much faded away after black ops 2. Now I was wondering, why this game seems to get more and more expensive, what makes this game more special than other games?
From what I can see, this is going to be an other fast paced, arcade shooter, and doesn't really offer more than other games, except a probably large playerbase and it being from a well known game series.

I can get far more realistic games such as squad or even rising storm 2 : vietnam for half the price of this game.

Please note that this thread is not intended to cause trouble or troll anyone, I just want to know if someone can answer the WHY, because I like video games same as most of you.

Cheerio.

[Byakuren Enjoyer]

rising storm is an indie game
cod wwii is a aaa game
just wait until the price drops
in like 15 years

[Zeno]

Originally posted by пидар иди нахуи:

rising storm is an indie game
cod wwii is a aaa game
just wait until the price drops
in like 15 years

Even if CoD is an AAA game, doesn't change the fact, that Rising Storm is still far better, has a much more tolerable community and also has some actual realism to it, while CoD is just a pretty average, mainstream fast paced FPS.

What I am trying to say is, the last what, 3 or 4 CoD games were far too overrated and too expensive for what it actually was, and I just doubt that CoD WW2 is going to be any better or special. We already had quite a few world war two CODs, and them going back to this theatre, without even trying something new, such as an axis campaign, just shows they are running out of ideas.

Cod:WW2 would probably acceptable, if it would costs £ 30 or £25 instead of what, 44? I am not going to pay almost a £ 50 for a series that has lost it's peculiarity years ago. I and many others, had too many bad experiences with well known game developers that are trying to reestablish the old peculiarity. Just throw a look at Blitzkrieg 3, Arma 3 or Mafia 3. Most of these games are more pay than actual play, and won't even get close to the good old predecessors.

[Pinchy]

They know a significant number of idiots will preorder a digital product (unlimited copies)

[Zeno]

Originally posted by Pinchy:

They know a significant number of idiots will preorder a digital product (unlimited copies)

I have never seen the point in pre-ordering such an expensive game. Especially not if previous titles were total crap. I would prefer to see how the game goes, before spending this ridiculous price on it ( which I won't do, except it is absolutely outstanding and will become the game of the year ).

[Emil215p]

Originally posted by Fly:

Originally posted by Pinchy:

They know a significant number of idiots will preorder a digital product (unlimited copies)

I have never seen the point in pre-ordering such an expensive game. Especially not if previous titles were total crap. I would prefer to see how the game goes, before spending this ridiculous price on it ( which I won't do, except it is absolutely outstanding and will become the game of the year ).

well i pre-ordered the digital deluxe exactly so i like rolled a dice i dont know what i will get

[Silverkite]

cause they added the #yolohoax,juices have a price and copyright too,also Kikectivision is full of potato noses and everyone and their own ashes wants their shekels

[firestorm]

Because its published by Activision and another overhyped Call of Duty title.

Biggest question is, they bringing back the base assault gamemode from united offensive?
And behind enemy lines gamemode? Not to mention vehicles?

Pretty tough going back to those roots without actually bringing back those gamemodes that created much of the hype to begin with.

Edit: Should have mentoned MOD TOOLS also..

[Ace]

Originally posted by Fly:

Hey.

I have been playing Call of Duty on and off since Call of Duty 1. I loved the game to begin with, but this love pretty much faded away after black ops 2. Now I was wondering, why this game seems to get more and more expensive, what makes this game more special than other games?
From what I can see, this is going to be an other fast paced, arcade shooter, and doesn't really offer more than other games, except a probably large playerbase and it being from a well known game series.

I can get far more realistic games such as squad or even rising storm 2 : vietnam for half the price of this game.

Please note that this thread is not intended to cause trouble or troll anyone, I just want to know if someone can answer the WHY, because I like video games same as most of you.

Cheerio.

It hasn't got more expensive, It's been the exact same price since COD 1. No idea why people keep imagining these fantasy worlds where games were somehow cheaper "Back in the day" (They technically were more expensive considering the slowly rising Min/Wage and inflation) and keep saying "It's so much more expensive!"

Games made by well known developers have been $50-$60 dollars for years, depending on your local store and region, but for the most part aside from regional differences the price has actually went down over the years from NES games. NES games were MORE expensive, and you didn't get nearly as much play time out of those.

Also, you call squad realistic which is a hilarious joke, but here's three reasons why that's just a stupid game to bring into the conversation:

1, COD has never marketed itself as a "realistic" game. It's like comparing Mario kart to Grand theft auto because they both have motorized vehicles in them.

2: This COD is getting a huge makeover. No healing over time, more squad based interactions such as squad classes, ect. So it's seemingly going to be more in line with battlefield type interactions than the lone wolf tactics you get in the recent games, as well as in games like squad, or insurgency.

3: Call of duty has always been about being there for people who want a mindless romp through a fun campaign and then dive into multiplayer and get some kills and feel good at the end of the night. It's not about trying to be a mil-sim, which even ARMA3 does terribly. It's about being a responsive and fast paced FPS.

Long story short, you've got your head in the "I want free stuff" cloud and you need to come back down to earth, and while you're on the way down you need to stop comparing things that arn't even trying to be similar.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Fly:

Originally posted by пидар иди нахуи:

rising storm is an indie game
cod wwii is a aaa game
just wait until the price drops
in like 15 years

Even if CoD is an AAA game, doesn't change the fact, that Rising Storm is still far better, has a much more tolerable community and also has some actual realism to it, while CoD is just a pretty average, mainstream fast paced FPS.

What I am trying to say is, the last what, 3 or 4 CoD games were far too overrated and too expensive for what it actually was, and I just doubt that CoD WW2 is going to be any better or special. We already had quite a few world war two CODs, and them going back to this theatre, without even trying something new, such as an axis campaign, just shows they are running out of ideas.

Cod:WW2 would probably acceptable, if it would costs £ 30 or £25 instead of what, 44? I am not going to pay almost a £ 50 for a series that has lost it's peculiarity years ago. I and many others, had too many bad experiences with well known game developers that are trying to reestablish the old peculiarity. Just throw a look at Blitzkrieg 3, Arma 3 or Mafia 3. Most of these games are more pay than actual play, and won't even get close to the good old predecessors.

Rising storm is also dead. Like completely dead, and has been for a long time, as well as has very VERY lacking gunplay. COD isn't depthy, but it doesn't have to be. It does gunplay like no other company does. It doesn't pretend to be complex by adding forced aiming stiffness or by trying to shoehorn in "realistic" elements instead of making it a FUN GAME. You know, the reason people buy games? To have fun? To experience different things in different games?

You keep citing other games that have zero relations to call of duty's gameplay. Unless you're caveman enough to think that "Both games have guns in them, therefore they're the same game."

I also garentee that Rising storm Vietnam is going to be DOA. in the matter of two weeks, the game will be under 1K players daily, and by the time two months have passed, it'll be down to 500 players a day. Rising storm has never been about bringing a polished gaming experience. It's been about being a cheap alternitive for players who got banned from the more expensive games. Lol.

[Silverkite]

Rising Storm/RO2 being dead it's all about veterans pi s s ing off new players and also Bridges 24/7.Veterans can't into ability to enjoy different maps and I do remember this being a problem on Ost Front too when TWB server started to slowly die and people throwing tantrums for vanilla maps.Vanilla maps on both Ost Front and RO2 were pure crap,also RO2 was all about grinding and cope with bugs with an unpolished game and also dealing with PB related problems and false positives they created cause muh hackers scarecrow,I never tried Rising Storm partially because I dropped the game straight after release,asked for a refund,bought it back after a couple of months then lost any hope and interest due Tripwire being Tripwire with their false promises etc

Originally posted by firestorm:

Because its published by Activision and another overhyped Call of Duty title.

Biggest question is, they bringing back the base assault gamemode from united offensive?
And behind enemy lines gamemode? Not to mention vehicles?

Pretty tough going back to those roots without actually bringing back those gamemodes that created much of the hype to begin with.

Edit: Should have mentoned MOD TOOLS also..

Well since you mentioned Base Assault I suppose that are aware on what happened when 355th,CuF,BA and a couple of other servers sent around 1000ish players on Activision forums asking if it was possible for them to add/put bigger maps even without vehicles and the Base Assault mode,right?

If not since I was there here's what happend (beta testers and devs/mods words)

-You have Battlefield for maps with vehicles,go there and don't bother us
-As they said there is Battlefield for bigger maps why y'all move there and F yourselves?
-I don't want vehicles cause everytime I joined a server which had them there it was always some clown driving over me
-Maps like Foy or Ponyri were just too big,I got easily lost inside them and when I found back my way I got killed by a random camper hidden somewhere
-Nobody liked that game mode,it was cheap,chaotic and pointless cause infinite respawns and lame arty calls
-Yeah Base Assault was a funny mode,especially when people decide to throw smoke grenades to cover their sorry 6 while trying to plant the bomb on our bunker
-I was once in a server with AWE mod,some random Stuka crashed on my head and killed me
-EF that mode,EF AWE lame tripwires and people shooting the gun out my hands with a stray bullet
-The competitive scene on CoD is all about S&D,please don't waste our time demanding crap nobody asked for
-etc etc etc plus complains about REAL big maps like Broadsword,Berezina,Tuchola Forest or Barbarossa

CoD4 for me was DoA,a friend of mine ried it,told me that MTL server with LoTR maps was not a thing,biggest map at that time was just The Rock and probably a couple of others and I never bothered with any other CoD,actually I hoped that they were at least releasing a certain expansion for CoD 2 but it didn't happened,never bought CoD 2,only bought a extra copy of CoD and his expansion and that's it.Was interested with WaW but GFWL and Securom made me laugh and discard it.Then they killed 3rd party server support,mod tools and whatever,went fulll ♥♥♥♥ with DLCs dumbed it down for the console crowd so what are you expecting now?

Better watch a let's play of it on youtube than wasting your time hoping for something good

[Frankie158]

I don't understand. All triple A games release at this price. And with Call of Duty literally being the best selling franchise year after year, why is it even a question? Fallout 4, even GTA V cost that same price. Nier Automata, Prey, Resident Evil, etc.

[Silverkite]

and they are all crap

[Jackal]

Originally posted by Pixel Zed:

Originally posted by Fly:

Hey.

I have been playing Call of Duty on and off since Call of Duty 1. I loved the game to begin with, but this love pretty much faded away after black ops 2. Now I was wondering, why this game seems to get more and more expensive, what makes this game more special than other games?
From what I can see, this is going to be an other fast paced, arcade shooter, and doesn't really offer more than other games, except a probably large playerbase and it being from a well known game series.

I can get far more realistic games such as squad or even rising storm 2 : vietnam for half the price of this game.

Please note that this thread is not intended to cause trouble or troll anyone, I just want to know if someone can answer the WHY, because I like video games same as most of you.

Cheerio.

It hasn't got more expensive, It's been the exact same price since COD 1.

Hmm, I bought MW2, MW3, Black OPS 1/2 for £39.99, like an awful person throwing away money. But WWII is going to be £10 more...

[Zeno]

Originally posted by Pixel Zed:

Originally posted by Fly:

Rising storm is also dead. Like completely dead, and has been for a long time, as well as has very VERY lacking gunplay. COD isn't depthy, but it doesn't have to be. It does gunplay like no other company does. It doesn't pretend to be complex by adding forced aiming stiffness or by trying to shoehorn in "realistic" elements instead of making it a FUN GAME. You know, the reason people buy games? To have fun? To experience different things in different games?

You keep citing other games that have zero relations to call of duty's gameplay. Unless you're caveman enough to think that "Both games have guns in them, therefore they're the same game."

I also garentee that Rising storm Vietnam is going to be DOA. in the matter of two weeks, the game will be under 1K players daily, and by the time two months have passed, it'll be down to 500 players a day. Rising storm has never been about bringing a polished gaming experience. It's been about being a cheap alternitive for players who got banned from the more expensive games. Lol.

I was more talking about Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. The game is far from being dead, since Beta wave 7 starts in exactly 7 hrs.

[cat_biscuits]

this is ANOTHER abosolutely silly post. good grief. if you think it's too expensive then simply don't buy it...have a big mac instead.


i wish these posts had some meat (more than a big mac for sure) instead of this nonsense.