PC users beware! Modern Warfare 2 bringing PC games to $60!

Price rising on PC MW2

Why $60 and not $50 like the norm?? This is not looking good!

Maybe it has to do with development. The better a game gets, the production value rises. That may be why.

Who knows, but PC games have always been at a set price for such a long time now.

And? Console games were set at about $50 for a long time too. Rising development costs means higher prices.

SpartanEvolved said:

And? Console games were set at about $50 for a long time too. Rising development costs means higher prices.

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And? I'm old and change is not welcome! *shakes my cane*!

It's hard to accept this after years of fairly priced PC games.

I fail to see how any Call of Duty past CoD 2 warrants more than a $20 price tag for the game seeing as they've only changed the skin of it each time, the engine essentially remained the same. Hell, a few buddies and I could pull Modern Warfare 3 out in a few months if we follow their strategy of releasing games.

Well, I mean $50 is a fair price to the consumer, but rising costs do necessitate the need to raise the price every so often. The Call of Duty series has always been quality and I have no problem paying $60 for a game good enough that I will be playing it in 2 years.

trkorecky said:

I fail to see how any Call of Duty past CoD 2 warrants more than a $20 price tag for the game seeing as they've only changed the skin of it each time, the engine essentially remained the same. Hell, a few buddies and I could pull Modern Warfare 3 out in a few months if we follow their strategy of releasing games.

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Yeah, development costs are not high enough to justify a $60 price tag here, especially when you consider that Modern Warefare 2 will EASILY sell 10 million copies. Activision could probably sell the game for $50 on every console and still end up with more money than Oprah. Assuming it sells 10 million copies, the game would make $500 million. There is no game that has ever cost more than $100 million to develop (I think GTA IV cost around $100 million) so clearly development costs don't justify an increase in price.

It just seems to me that Activision knows people will pay almost anything for Modern Warfare 2 so they're taking advantage by jacking up the price. It's not that I won't buy Modern Warfare 2 because of this, it's just that Activision seems to be abusing the popularity of the series (what with development cycles that can't go longer than two years (don't know how they're going to find the time to create a new engine when the old one becomes outdated), a new release EVERY year, special editions that cost as much as a PSP, and now, an unnecessary price hike for the PC version).