The potential of a Call of Duty boycott raises two issues:
It’s CoDmod2! Don't even pretend an extra £10 is going to stop you when we will buy games that are nowhere near as good for full retail. They know this is true; they have done the market research. They know a lot of people clocked a solid week plus playing CoD4 online. £55 for 168 hours of entertainment is still a bargain and you know it.
The role of a publisher is to take the flak for anything that fans of a series don’t like. People blame activision/microsoft/EA for the price / rushing a game out so it isn’t good / holding back on content for DLC. I can’t help but think that one of the services that publishers provide is a 'bad guy' image to take the brunt of fans anger. Do you really think infinity ward is an innocent little helpless developer having more money forced upon them by a cruel publisher?
Activision are happy to get this awful reputation to defend their developers because it doesn’t impact on other games they publish. If the proposed boycott was to have any effect then it would have to be aimed at all "Activision Blizzard" titles and be combined with actions likely to reduce their sales to other people (negative reviews on Amazon being a good example, especially considering the amount of awful dross they dupe unsuspecting members of the public to buy).
I know I can’t resist CoD, but I can gladly purge myself of other Activision Blizzard titles. Here is a guide of superior substitutes for their games.
Don’t buy Tony Hawks, buy Skate.
Don’t buy Prototype, buy inFamous
Don’t buy guitar hero, buy a guitar
Don’t buy odd numbered CoDs, save that cash for the more expensive even numbered CoDs
Don’t buy Starcraft, buy Company of Heroes
Don’t buy Warcraft, buy heroine
Real guitars are cool and all but I'm with Elsa. Buy Rockband instead of GH, it's a much better game. Also, I've been skipping the Treyarch developed CoDs forever. Activision's obvious money grab with 3 just turned me off.
I love all the CoD's(no exceptions, I've loved every single one, even the ones I know are not that good, they were fun to me).
Guitar hero is shit. Learning to play a real guitar is way more fun.
And Skate owns tony hawk. But honestly, learning to really skate is still more fun. Obviously though, people can't do all this shit, so just go with skate.
It's definitely a dick move to bump up the price for Europeans, but I still don't think that it's an unfair price for what you're getting.
If you were to figure out your money/time entertained you'd probably be in the $2-5/24 hours of entertainment range (using my own experience in CoD4 as a basis), which is pretty much better than anything else out there.
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You just told me not to buy Starcraft.
Get the fuck out. GET THE FUCK OUT.
Or better still, just shoot Bobby Kotick in the face with a howitzer. It'll be a damned sight more satisfying.
You've nullified your cause by caving to buy the one item that has the price increase. That would be supply & demand at work.
Actually instead of buying Guitar Hero I've already decided to get Rockband instead.
Guitar sucks anyways, get a saxophone.
No no no, get a Timpani!
1. Starcraft is overrated, it wasnt inovative or vastly superior to its rivals when it was released 11 years ago
2. Electric mandolin
To you, maybe. To me, it was the RTS that proved RTS's didn't suck.
I'll agree with one thing on that list.
Get Skate.
Real guitars are cool and all but I'm with Elsa. Buy Rockband instead of GH, it's a much better game. Also, I've been skipping the Treyarch developed CoDs forever. Activision's obvious money grab with 3 just turned me off.
I love all the CoD's(no exceptions, I've loved every single one, even the ones I know are not that good, they were fun to me).
Guitar hero is shit. Learning to play a real guitar is way more fun.
And Skate owns tony hawk. But honestly, learning to really skate is still more fun. Obviously though, people can't do all this shit, so just go with skate.
It's definitely a dick move to bump up the price for Europeans, but I still don't think that it's an unfair price for what you're getting.
If you were to figure out your money/time entertained you'd probably be in the $2-5/24 hours of entertainment range (using my own experience in CoD4 as a basis), which is pretty much better than anything else out there.
Wouldn't you want to get Rock Band rather then Guitar Hero?
And no matter what Activision does, I am buying Starcraft 2. WHOOOO