DavidM Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 If I am going to take the time and energy to focus on boycotting something, I personally would make it something that affects the greater good of humanity overall. And no offense to anywhere here, myself included, but video games do not fall into that category. Well, said. That would make sense if it wasn't for the fact that they're raising the price on a high-profile game that's guaranteed to sell MILLIONS of copies. Going by your logic, it's the smaller titles that wont sell as well that need the higher price. This is blatantly just corporate greed. To be fair, (and I don't mean to sound like an ******* when I say this), do you actually know what costs are truly involved in making a game? Especially something like MW2, the vast majority of the game was done when MW1 shipped, what they've done is make a bunch more maps and tweaked it a fair bit. Not saying its a trivial task or anything, but it certainly wasn't as expensive to make as you seem to imply. Furthermore, as stated above, this game WILL sell millions, it could retail at ?20 and still make a nice fat profit. The sad thing is that most money from game sales don't go to the developers, but rather they end up in the Publisher's pockets. That's why big publishers like Activision, EA and Ubisoft are raking in cash, but a lot of their dev studies risk getting closed down if their next title flops. I kind of agree, but can you think of another company or industry that settles for a smaller profit than they think they can make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoredBozirini Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 I don't like any game Activision makes anyways, so I guess that yes, I'll boycott Activision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gio Takahashi Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 I don't think boycotting Activision will do anything, but it's not like I play any of their games really anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remysaus Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 I won't be buying it, I will be playing it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalalawawawa Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 I will... But I won't be buying the game anyway, no matter the price. So sick of shooters/action games right now. Must... play... RPG... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undu Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 They're boycotting Starcraft 2, so I don't see why I shouldn't boycott them :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 This is getting ridiculous. The choice in this situation is simple. If you don't like how much it costs, don't buy it (at least not for that price). If they jack up the price too much, a lot more people will pick that option and they'll have to bring it down to see similar returns. As for right now, they aren't increasing the price more than what people are willing to pay for their games (which are arguably generally pretty good anyways). It's just good business practice. -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Internet boycotts are all the rage these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subject Delta Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 instead you'll support CEO's that sell the games cheap, and thus can't afford to pay their developers and artists fairly, and hires and takes advantage of fresh out of school devs, and in the current economical climate they can even take advantage of seasoned ones. Don't be fooled for one second that the developers will benefit from the price hike, it will line the pockets of Activision. I won't be boycotting Activision as the PC version of MW2 is priced well. The console version (Which I don't want) is the one that is overpriced. Good point. Not to mention, most games on consoles are overpriced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye666 Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 If I were to boycott someone it would be Electronic Arts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted August 9, 2009 Author Share Posted August 9, 2009 This is getting ridiculous. The choice in this situation is simple. If you don't like how much it costs, don't buy it (at least not for that price). If they jack up the price too much, a lot more people will pick that option and they'll have to bring it down to see similar returns. As for right now, they aren't increasing the price more than what people are willing to pay for their games (which are arguably generally pretty good anyways). It's just good business practice.-Spenser Little contradictory there, don't you think? First you say "this is rediculous", then you say that if you don't like how much something costs, don't buy it. Erm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted August 9, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted August 9, 2009 Little contradictory there, don't you think?First you say "this is rediculous", then you say that if you don't like how much something costs, don't buy it. Erm? He's not saying the price is ridiculous, he's complaining about people are complaining about the price... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastedJoker Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 What's the point of a boycott? People will always pay what they think they can afford for anything - if it is too costly, you won't buy it and boycott it anyway. Stupid internets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted August 9, 2009 Author Share Posted August 9, 2009 He's not saying the price is ridiculous, he's complaining about people are complaining about the price... Yeah, that's what I mean, he calls anyone complaining about the price ridiculous, then goes on to tell us to not buy it if we think its too much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Yeah, that's what I mean, he calls anyone complaining about the price ridiculous, then goes on to tell us to not buy it if we think its too much... I didn't call anyone ridiculous and I don't think it's an issue if you have a problem with the price. However the idea of a boycott for the reasons some of you are suggesting is ridiculous. Not buying a game because you don't like the price isn't a boycott, it's called using your money how you see fit. If it was a boycott, I'm apparently boycotting a lot of companies right now. -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted August 9, 2009 Author Share Posted August 9, 2009 I didn't call anyone ridiculous. The idea of a boycott for the reasons some of you are suggesting is ridiculous. Not buying a game because you don't like the price isn't a boycott, it's called using your money how you see fit. If it was a boycott, I'm apparently boycotting a lot of companies right now.-Spenser What's so ridiculous about it? The CEO of Activision's recent comments have made it quite clear what he thinks of his customers. He doesn't care about them, he just wants as much of their money as he can get his grubby mitts on. This isn't anything new, either. Activision originally wanted Infinity Ward to release a COD game every year, but IW told them to go to hell because they believe it takes 2 years to make a solid good game. That's why Treyarch were brought in, rather than just accept that quality is important, they still tried to milk the COD name while the going was good. To you, that might just sound like business, but to me it just shows how greedy Activision can be. I'm not denying that they've brought some fabulous games out, but their whole attitude sucks and I'm a firm believer that when enough people work together, you can achieve anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 So you're going to start this revolution on the neowin forums? Well you're off to a good start with 24 people. I don't mean to sound condescending, you seem like a cool person and you seem to have good intentions, but Activision hasn't exactly done anything greedy enough to warrant this as of yet. So a CEO spewed some bull****, nothing's new there. Until they actually go ahead and act on that, I don't see the point in these sort of things. When they do start to actually treat us like crap, I'll be right behind you. -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted August 9, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted August 9, 2009 So you're going to start this revolution on the neowin forums? Well you're off to a good start with 24 people. I don't mean to sound condescending, you seem like a cool person and you seem to have good intentions, but Activision hasn't exactly done anything greedy enough to warrant this as of yet. So a CEO spewed some bull****, nothing's new there. Until they actually go ahead and act on that, I don't see the point in these sort of things. When they do start to actually treat us like crap, I'll be right behind you.-Spenser They already have, hence this topic, they're the first publishers to bump the RRP of a game in the UK/EU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted August 9, 2009 Author Share Posted August 9, 2009 Well I'm not really doing anything, the talk is spread over a bunch of sites. I just wanted to see what the guys on neowin thought since I hold them in a slightly higher regard. Besides, the number is irrelevant, but check out the percentage - 25% with a possible 16% after MW2. Lets be conservative and say thats about 30% total after MW2, that could easily be a 30% drop in sales for ALL Activision titles, that's a hell of a dent in profits for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-99 ODST Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 When I think about it, it's not worth the attention this is getting. BR movies were $40 a pop and now they're the price of DVD. The market will realize who it has to please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 They already have, hence this topic, they're the first publishers to bump the RRP of a game in the UK/EU. I'm well aware. I'm not particularly convinced it's enough of a bump to start boycotting them though. Well I'm not really doing anything, the talk is spread over a bunch of sites. I just wanted to see what the guys on neowin thought since I hold them in a slightly higher regard.Besides, the number is irrelevant, but check out the percentage - 25% with a possible 16% after MW2. Lets be conservative and say thats about 30% total after MW2, that could easily be a 30% drop in sales for ALL Activision titles, that's a hell of a dent in profits for them. Do I need to bring out the whole lecture about how the internet is not representative of the whole market or can I just assume you do, in fact, know it all already. You may see 30% online, but that more likely than not translates to about a 3% drop overall maybe. Probably not even that much. The price hike will easily make up for the largely insignificant decrease in sales. Until they jack up the price a fairly significant amount, the majority of the market is sitll going to buy their games. -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 No, and they won't get my money either ... but.... I will get their games, that's better than a boycott :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 No but im not getting the game hell about 40 of my buds dropped the preorder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coresx Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 (edited) It will be priced at what the market can bare. We will just have to wait and see how it sells. Personally I'm use to paying ?30-35 for a latest release and I've yet to go over ?40. I can stick to that no matter how good the game may be. Can you imagine going into Game which probably would be RRP at ?55. I just can't imagine paying that. Sure some would but I think they may have crossed some psychological barrier with people at that price. I know prices were sky high in N64 days but that didn't last long. It might even put retailers in a bit of pickle. Activision get the full price no matter what the retailers undercut at. They either sell high or get squeezed to nothing on profit. Edited August 9, 2009 by WooHoo!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soniqstylz Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 I'd be happy to boycott if I was actually planning on buying any activision games in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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