Anyone considering Boycotting Activision?


Boycotting Activision  

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  1. 1. Are you going to boycott Activision in the future?

    • Yes!
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    • No!
      96
    • Maybe after MW2....
      24
    • I'm thinking about it/unsure
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if the price is too high and i can't afford it, i won't buy it. but they have the right to name their price, as people have the right to choose if they're willing to pay or not. this isn't a boycott-worthy offense, although i agree they are being exploitative and greedy.

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I'm not buying because of the high price. I'll buy it second hand from eBay or something, but no retail shops, however cheap it may be.

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While I agree they have a HORRIBLE CEO, I think they will suffer themselves for it. I will continue to buy games that are good, regardless of who makes it. If the game is to much, I won't buy it.

Give it time, if what activision is doing is wrong, and no one agrees with them, they will change.

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Boycott this boycott that, everyone says they'll boycott everything but in the end they'll buy everything they say they won't.

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No need to boycott if the market speaks for itself. Given this economy, people are wising up. If they want to increase the cost and ruin sales, let them do so. They'll learn their lesson. Meanwhile, I'm going to continue buying games off of eBay that are still new in box months after release. I got COD:WAW for $15 bucks several months ago, and Mirror's Edge a couple weeks back off Newegg for $5

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All these "boycotters" are just all bark and no bite. A lot of people said that they'd boycott EA for bringing out yearly updates to most of their games, but that never happened. A lot of people said they'd boycott Valve for bringing out Left 4 Dead 2 less than a year after the previous, well that's not happened. The reason is because these companies make some of the best games of the moment. Activision are raking their money in mostly through Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft now. EA get the majority of their money through FIFA, Madden, Tiger Woods, etc. Valve get their money through almost every single game they make from Half-Life all the way up to Left 4 Dead. And it'll carry on when Portal 2, Half-Life 2 Episode Three, and Left 4 Dead 2 come out.

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All these "boycotters" are just all bark and no bite. A lot of people said that they'd boycott EA for bringing out yearly updates to most of their games, but that never happened. A lot of people said they'd boycott Valve for bringing out Left 4 Dead 2 less than a year after the previous, well that's not happened. The reason is because these companies make some of the best games of the moment. Activision are raking their money in mostly through Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft now. EA get the majority of their money through FIFA, Madden, Tiger Woods, etc. Valve get their money through almost every single game they make from Half-Life all the way up to Left 4 Dead. And it'll carry on when Portal 2, Half-Life 2 Episode Three, and Left 4 Dead 2 come out.

There's a difference between releasing a yearly instalment and putting up the RRP on a game. The yearly instalment is purchased at the same price as the last one was, it's a case of do you want to 'upgrade' after a year or not, you're not paying any more money than you did the previous year. The biggest issue with L4D was after support/DLC, people thinking Valve were just doing to drop all support for L4D.

There will most certainly will be people who won't pickup MW2 until it's down in price, where as the usual EA moaners and people boycotting L4D2 probably have no intentions in buying either, they just want to have a chance to whine as people like to whine even if something isn't affecting them.

This new RRP however is probably going to set a standard now for each yearly instalment of Call of Duty, so put that into context with your argument, you're mentioning people complaining about EA's yearly instalments, what about Activisions yearly instalments at a higher price than every other game?

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This new RRP however is probably going to set a standard now for each yearly instalment of Call of Duty, so put that into context with your argument, you're mentioning people complaining about EA's yearly instalments, what about Activisions yearly instalments at a higher price than every other game?

Prices are evening out I guess. Since this gen began, RRP for 3rd party 360/PS3 games has been ?70 here in Portugal. ?59.90 for 1st party PS3 games and ?49.90 for 1st party Wii games. Meanwhile, the same games could be bought in the UK/US for ~20? less...

Welcome to my world, bi:rofl: :rofl:

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Prices are evening out I guess. Since this gen began, RRP for 3rd party 360/PS3 games has been ?70 here in Portugal. ?59.90 for 1st party PS3 games and ?49.90 for 1st party Wii games. Meanwhile, the same games could be bought in the UK/US for ~20? less...

Welcome to my world, bi:rofl: :rofl:

Should I jump in here with another Danish whine story about our prices .... hmmm

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I'm effectively already boycotting them, I guess. I don't remember the last Activision game that I bought, and I don't think I have one on my shelf right now.

Oh wait, is Quake 4 Activision published? That one is still sitting there, mysteriously.

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Well I'll probably be getting MW2 (probably not on release though :p) and after that I probably wont even buy any other games for a while... lol.

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I don't think i own any Activision games and i'm not planning on getting MW2 so in a way i'm already doing it :p

However i'm not going to boycott them actively. If they make a good game that i like, i'll buy it.

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This whole "it costs more to make games hence the prices increase" don't wash with me. Surely we could apply that to films? When Transformers 2 comes out on DVD it won't cost ?30+ just because it cost over 100 million to make the damn film. I will pay it, others will pay it, because we have no choice. Either pay up or don't play MW2. I'm not happy about it but there we go.

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Eh, don't need any games they make. If you want to have the game but don't want activision to profit, just wait till you can buy it used :p

I for one will not be paying their higher prices for the games. Not until the games show some quality and stop with the over used cliche's.

I think mirrors edge was on the right track sort of... and more beatem ups on the pc could be a good profit maker...

I'm just sick of all the same games, same guns, same everything. Need more innovation or better original stories and plots. But the gaming industry is in the same lines as the movie industry right now. And all the games that speak of innovation turn out like spore.... or ghostbusters.

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Yes after MW2. Then I'm going to boycott them until the next COD is out. Then do the same thing again. Oh wait, that is what I always do. :p

No really, The only game I buy from them is COD. I like Guitar Hero too but its not a game I will buy.

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I have lost count on the many hours I have spent playing, enjoying and cursing at Call of Duty 4.

In the term of entertainment value, i.e.: number of hours played divided by cost, Call of Duty 4 ranks very high in my books: much higher than <Name your awful summer blockbuster> movie tickets, much higher 20 minutes-of-wrestling-during-a-two-hour-live show.

Am I ready to pay GBP 65 for MW2? If the game is so pants-creaming good I spent days playing it, HELL YEAH!

For all the people baby-crying about the Activision CEO, let me quote Lone Starr from Spaceballs:

"We're not just doing this for money. We're doing it for a **** LOAD of money!"

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