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WTF? part 1

WTF? part 1

by: BoH Ciotog on 11-Nov-2008 09:48:36 PM
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This is going to be sort of a series of blogs, about things that make me go WTF?!?  Now I will warn you this is kind of a rant but any way here goes:


First up ACTIBLIVEVNDI. (or Activision, Blizzard, and Vivendi)

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This is going to be sort of a series of blogs, about things that make me go WTF?!?  Now I will warn you this is kind of a rant but any way here goes:


First up ACTIBLIVEVNDI. (or Activision, Blizzard, and Vivendi)

Part 1: Call of Duty: World at War


I was at the EB Games near my work, and I was watching the people buying COD:W@W.  Let me back up a bit, first thing I noticed was that it cost $65 cdn, (and C.E. is $80)!!! Usually a game comes out at $60 cdn!!  The only thing I can think of is that because the Canadian dollar is low they are raising prices.  Which is strange considering when the dollar was strong the prices didn’t drop?

COD:W@W has about 7 skus, 7!!!  2 for PC, 2 for PS3, 2 for 360,  and 1 for PS2. PS3 + 360 cost $65 bucks with the C.E. costing $80,  pc costs $55 with the C.E. costing $80, and ps2 cost  $45.  Activision is sure to make a lot of money off this game. ALOT!!!

 
Any way I was watching the people buy COD:W@W and there were a lot of them.  And they weren’t just buy the regular one either I saw at least three(3) C.E.s sold.  

So what I am getting at is this:   I am not going to say that COD:W@W is a bad game.  That would be wrong seeing as I haven’t played the game yet.  What I will say is do we really need a new COD every year?  Why couldn’t Treyarch  just make DLC for COD4?  Or new MP maps?  And why WWII?  I think that I would be a lot more receptive if it wasn’t WWII.I will give this game a rent for sure but I can’t see my self giving COD:W@W the same amount of time I gave COD4.  

 


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CyanDahaka

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Blog Response: WTF? part 1
Posted: 2 months ago
better yet,. why not a game that took place in the 60;s, but as if ww2 never ended? (kinda like the old PC game Ironstorm?
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BoH Ciotog

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Posted: 2 months ago
good idea.  fictional future but with real guns

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CyanDahaka

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Posted: 2 months ago
exactly.

kinda like taking guns and adding a futirstic spin on them, but from the perspective of a what a futuristic gun would be from the 1960;s 40 years of world war perspective.

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Gundrill

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Posted: 2 months ago
Call Of Duty is a franchise. Activision make Treyarch an IW are forced to make them every year.

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BoH Ciotog

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Posted: 2 months ago
i understand that its a franchise, but still why do we need t o buy a new disc every year why not just make it all dlc?

and cyan your talking about  what bethesda did for fallout 3.   retro view of future.

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Lord Bling

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Posted: 2 months ago
Gundrill is correct.  The money made off of DLC is a drop in the ocean compared to what they will make on the sales of a new SKU.  And public companies have to 'comp' against the sales last year at the same time, which is why it's launching at almost the same exact time as 4 did last year.

For the record, I'm not paying for it!

/but I'll play a free copy ... lol!

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