Savvy shoppers buy MW2 for £25
Trade-in deals bypass price hike.
Smart consumers are taking advantage of various offers at retail to buy Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for less than half the recommended retail price.
The publisher has been heavily criticised for pushing up the console RRP of the latest from Infinity Ward to £54.99, but a cut-throat retail market is providing consumers with a number of options to avoid paying the inflated price.
UK retailer Gamestation is currently offered the game for £4.99 if a consumer trades in two games from a list that includes WET, Overlord II and Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. With Play.com selling Overlord II for just £9.99, users on website hotukdeals have already begun buying two copies of the Codemasters' title and trading it in for a pre-ordered copy Modern Warfare 2.
Online retailers are currently offering the basic Modern Warfare game for around £45, but all eyes will be on the supermarkets, which have already slashed two big releases – FIFA 2010 and Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising – in order to grab sales.
Last week, ASDA admitted that it sells some games at a loss because "customers continue to tell us that computer games are an expensive product in today's economic climate so we are working hard to try and offer them consistently good value for money within the games category".
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Almost wet myself... you can never go wrong with a Lebowski line.
I always pre-order any games that I'm really interested in, but with MW2 I'm certainly waiting to see what the supermarkets do. Although if lower prices aren't offered I'll still pick it up, like others have said, the sheer amount of online hours it'll give me will balance the cost out.
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£10 + £10 + £5 = £25
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me? I buy pre-owned (or budget edition later). I don't like trading in games to buy a brand new one. I tend to keep the games I like. you never know when you'll have an itch to play that game again.
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THIS YOU BLOODY SHEEP, FFS THIS!!!!!
Don't buy it people, next time they won't try upping the price!
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Guys I work in Gamestation and this is usually the case.
Not looking forward to the angry mobs tbh. :S
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Fuck knows why the guy that said "but i accept value is a very subjective thing." got negatives - I swear if you say anything against MW you get negatives. Well, I won't be playing it online at all so to me it's worth £25 max and I'm not going out of my way buying copies of Overlord and all that malarky. If it turns out to be a great game, fantastic. If it turns out to be more of the same I hope EG give it an 8/10.... I can see you rabid fanboys making Eurogamer's first 1000+ comments on a review then!
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GAME own Gamestation but are keeping the two seperated from each other due to monopoly laws.
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Pre-ordered mine with CDWow for £27, although that was a few weeks ago and they have since increased the price (though it doesn't affect pre-orders.) Sweet!
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I would much rather pay £60-70 for a game of COD4's quality than buy two other titles that won't last me as long. If they produce a pile of shit, no-one will buy the next one. As it is, the extra profits are a just reward for producing a stellar game and hopefully the profits from this will make something extra special for Modern Warfare 3.
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Gamestation policy is that you cannot trade more than one copy of a game at a time!
These people just wasted £9.99...
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Bought my copy from Tesco Direct for £32.
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MGS 4 already passed the 1000 comments mark. I think it made it to 1300 or something.
Edit: Just checked. It has 2318 comments. So MW2 might have a tough day at the office in that regard.
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DAMN
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As an example look at the thread for Demon's Souls for PS3, when demand was high, people were paying over 40 or 50 pounds for that. One fellow paid 70 Euros and declared it money well spent.
People will pay what they think the game is worth for them. There is no doubt it may be expensive. Value for money and cost are two separate things. The amount of time I spend playing the various CoD works out to a VERY cheap cost per hour in the long term. More so than something I play for 10 hours or so and dispose of.
I ordered the Prestige version for 360 and I traded in a bunch of games at the same time. The cost was lowered and I will get an incredible amount of game time from this.