This Activision sale is them just selling the games at what they cost normally.

[Eye Of The Tiger]

Black OPs 3 is $59 USD in store, with a %65 off, making it around $20 US. This is a 10 year old game.

It's such a crap sale.

[potato]

it's activision, not sure what you expected

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por Eye Of The Tiger:

This Activision sale is them just selling the games at what they cost normally.

Black OPs 3 is $59 USD in store, with a %65 off, making it around $20 US. This is a 10 year old game.

It's such a crap sale.

That's normal sale prices for Activision.

And people still buy them at that price. So, why go lower?

[nullable]

Publicado originalmente por Eye Of The Tiger:

Black OPs 3 is $59 USD in store, with a %65 off, making it around $20 US. This is a 10 year old game.

It's such a crap sale.

Black ops 3 normally costs $59. Your belief that games are obligated to be priced perpetually less as they age is just outdated, sorry. It's one of the tradeoffs for digital distribution. You don't have to make room on the shelf for new products by clearing out old inventory. Upside is you can buy ten or twenty year old games without any fuss. Downside is the pressure to reduce the price of old games no longer really exists and shock and surprise, publishers are going to adopt that.

And ultimately if you don't like the price of a game, don't buy it. You're not owed a $5 game because you only value it at $5.

Yes, for you it is a crap sale. But people only willing to spend $5 on a $20 game are crap customers, IE not customers worth having, so the feeling is mutual I'm sure.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

They never do deep discounts.

[Chompman]

Remember that digital goods like games have little reason to devalue like physical products can have happen to them as long as they are supported.

[Axø]

Worth the sale if you thinking in playing just the single player campaign.

Who we gonna lie to if you think in playing the multiplayer? With older call of duties the multiplayer component(regular MP and zombies) is a russian roulette: can still have population, empty(dead), broken, unsafe due to being outdated and no the current product of the line

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Publicado originalmente por Axø:

Worth the sale if you thinking in playing just the single player campaign.

Who we gonna lie to if you think in playing the multiplayer? With older call of duties the multiplayer component(regular MP and zombies) is a russian roulette: can still have population, empty(dead), broken, unsafe due to being outdated and no the current product of the line

I may get shot in the leg for agreeing but ya, I was one of said players at least on Modern Warfare 3 (The Original one) as I ran akimbo and RPG with flakjacket and later on in Black Ops 2 I ran once more, RPG and jacket. For those that know what the two together do then your aware how I would of been very much disliked.

The group I was with (rather clan I guess as it was that far back) disbanded after a year of Black Ops 2 release but honestly I got my fair share of fun out of them. I kept going till Black Ops 4, I always did the story then was a online player for the most part. Thing is that frankly ya, the older games are a more laced with the dangerous players, especially the computer jackers (as I called them, dont know what they were really called) or worse.

If your going to play a Call of Duty online side, people will always pick the most recent release just to stay with the largest majority of players, as much as I disliked for example, Advanced Warfare, when it released the online count of players on Black Ops 3 dropped hard to the point that all other game modes besides DM never had a full lobby...that was on day one of AW's release...

[FranVM]

I think that it is a pretty decent and acceptable price

[Yzal]

Yep, that's Activision.

[Terente22CmRecords]

if idiots buy them for that price why would activision drop the prices? let the idiots spend

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por nullable:

Black ops 3 normally costs $59. Your belief that games are obligated to be priced perpetually less as they age is just outdated, sorry.

Keeping old games expensive is also a way to price out people from spending their time in old games of the franchise instead of doing it in the latest one, boosting its numbers.

[Ganger]

Games such as COD will sell regardless of price.

[Piston Smashed™]

Developers selling games at higher prices than I want to pay for them, they shouldn't be allowed to do such a practice...

[Malfunctioning Robot]

The exact same fridge that you bought at Blops 3 release is now $100 more. Doesn't keep your food any fresher. The shirt you paid $20 for at Blops 3 release now costs you $30, doesn't make you any more attractive. 4 Liters of milk costs nearly $2 more (CAD) now than it did then, still the same milk.

Be glad that inflation doesn't hit game prices the same way.

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por Ganger:

Games such as COD will sell regardless of price.

Activision prefers if you buy the latest one though. Puts everyone in the same place.