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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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giant_frying_pan
02/11/09 @ 17:30
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I think the lowest the supermarkets will go will be around £35-£40.
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@cabbadgecase
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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the_dudefather
02/11/09 @ 17:55
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you also trade in COD4 in Game to get MW2 for half price (the store price, not rrp), but you have to preorder I think
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metalangel
02/11/09 @ 18:00
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LOL @ Dragon Rising being put on sale. They know it'll be (quite rightly) consigned to a bug-infested bin when MW2 comes out.
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being able to keep a steady stream of new games coming in is becoming more and more like a delicate art.
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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EarlBassett
02/11/09 @ 18:23
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Methinks there will be a lot of pissed off tight-arses with 2 copies of Overlord II on their hands when GAMESTATION shut this deal down in the next day or so
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RandomHero
02/11/09 @ 18:45
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"I expect there will be some small print, somewhere, saying you can't trade two of the same games."
Guys I work in Gamestation and this is usually the case. Not looking forward to the angry mobs tbh. :S |
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curtlikesmeat
02/11/09 @ 19:15
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Nice work on shoe-horning in the Lebowski quote, I did laugh!
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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curtlikesmeat
02/11/09 @ 19:21
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Actually, maybe I'm wrong but I could have sworn I read somewhere that GAME and Gamestation were actually the same company?!
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RandomHero
02/11/09 @ 19:27
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"Actually, maybe I'm wrong but I could have sworn I read somewhere that GAME and Gamestation were actually the same company?!"
GAME own Gamestation but are keeping the two seperated from each other due to monopoly laws. :) |
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Wolverfrog
02/11/09 @ 19:38
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Shame there's no Gamestation where I live...living in a small town sucks.
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Triggerhappytel
02/11/09 @ 22:02
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Doing this isn't hurting ActiBlizz though - they still make the sale and the retailer still bought the stock at the same price. Ultimately it's Gamestation who are going to end up with thousands of copies of Overlord 2 they can't sell and they'll take the hit!
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CB.Gamestation
02/11/09 @ 22:04
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Yeah t's and c's are that you must trade both games in at the same time as buying the game.
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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CunningLinguist
03/11/09 @ 00:59
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@curtlikesmeat
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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M_of_the_sys
03/11/09 @ 09:15
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If I can't get the deal in GAME to get MW2 for half price when you trade in COD4 then I won't buy this game. There are more games on my radar that sound better than this for less money.
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I am very much looking forward to playing this, but I can't condone the price hike by purchasing it day one. I know it won't make a jot of difference since it will sell in the millions at the full price, but I don't want even the smallest part to play encouraging this sort of practice in the future.
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