Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now the UK's biggest selling game of all time, according to the holy keeper of numbers, Chart-Track. The previous title holder was Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training.
It took Modern Warfare 2 forty-one weeks to achieve this milestone, and only three of those weeks have seen the game outside of the top ten. Chart-Track didn't have any official sales numbers to hand, but it's doubtless that evil publisher Activision will be along later with the figures and the backslapping.
Modern Warfare 2 is kind of a big deal, I hear.
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12:40 PM on 08.23.2010
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Then again...maybe it is...
Modern Warfare is for casuals, bro.
brilliant.
Look, Britain, just because you gave us The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Keeley Hazell doesn't mean you can pull shit like this.
Nice casual xenophobia there bro.
I love being the minority in a majority of gamers who like playing the same generic deathmatch/ capture the flag first person shooters over and over again
"wot????? why are the Russians launching a nuclear weapon to explode above America, see? Why would they do that? Then why did General Shepherd kill you in the game, see?"
honestly what a fucking spastic
Do you think its any different where you are from? Do you not think this game is any less popular in your neck of the woods?
Not liking the game is fine, that's your call and no one can say you are wrong but stereotyping and hating the players is just straight up dumb.
That's because gamerd are split between four distinct eschelons:
1.) Kids
2.) Casuals
3.) Heavy Single-Title
4.) Hardcore
The area where the most people reside is the third, with folks only playing CoD/Madden/FIFA/Final Fantasy/etc. They live and die by one franchise alone, and forsake all othersalong the way for whatever reason the use to justify only playing one specific title.
Kids play kids' games.
Casuals play Bejeweled, FarmVille and other time-wasters, usually free.
Hardcores are the ones who buy and play games for the fact that they are there to play and experience, and usually play things that would normally pass other groups by for being something new and different, and usually of far superior quality to what the other groups would spend playing endlessly.
The problem is, true hardcores are the minority by a large degree. This is why people give you quizzical looks when you mention Symphony Of The Night or Okami.
I wasnt talking about my personal opinion regarding the game or implying that I had a problem with its fans in general.
My point was that Activision charged more money in Britain for this title for *no reason* other than it thought it could get away with it. They obviously did and, on the back of this success, they will obviously do it again (and as many times as possible). British gamers, media etc. and whatever didnt speak out or speak up with their wallets, and they have only themselves to blame next time. That was my point.
I didnt stereotype anyone.
Reading for content is important.
If people weren't getting what they believe to be value for money they wouldn't be laying down the pounds,
Your idea of worth and theirs differ so saying....
"Britain proves Activision right - you will in fact gladly pay an inflated price for no good reason"
.....is horsehit. People payed their money for a product they wanted. Nobody force them to pay extra, it's was their choice as consumerists.
Your point is only valid if you live under the assumption these people were forced to buy this product.
My point applies to the world of Warcraft players who willing spend $25 on a horse. That's the price and people are happy to pay it. That's life.
If companies like activation see this and want to hike the price on everything then that's tough. Do you expect those who can afford or just don't mind spending more to not purchase things incase it pushes the price up for you?
Shiiit. Now this is (technically) one of the best games in the history of the world ever, 1) The next game will have an inflated RRP too, and 2) I'll have to play MW2 to see what all the fuss was about.
I feep your pain.
I like MW2, it's fun. especially since I've gotten pretty good at it.
Who won the bloody Battle of Britain eh?
Fact is you may not like it but the quality is there. I wouldn't vomit on a burning copy of Starcraft if it was being cuddled by a puppy, but I do at least have the good grace and intelligence is appreciate that it is a good game
2) This doesn't include dissapointed returns / trade ins.
3) Global truth is not measured by mass appeal. Just because this game is SUPER EASY and accessable to almost anyone with thumbs doesn't make it the greatest game ever made.
"If companies like activation see this and want to hike the price on everything then that's tough. Do you expect those who can afford or just don't mind spending more to not purchase things incase it pushes the price up for you?"
The problem with this thinking, and its a line of thought shared by many people, isn't with what companies are doing per se - companies exist solely to turn a profit, what do you expect. The problem is that consumers have become so desensitized, so beaten down by the companies who *rely on their money* to survive that when individuals are taken advantage of they just say well "that's tough".
If consumers actually rallied to oppose this kind of crap and stuck by their guns about not buying or what have you, we'd see a lot less corporate bullshit.
But, we cant help giving in to marketing and we cave. I and everyone is guilty of it. People *should* mind though, whether they can afford it or not.