A 7 year old game's retail price being increased is the same as not getting a $1 subscription trial for a new game.
You took the bait
Technically, they are. By charging more, and knowing that this is CoD, they’ll actually bring in more overall revenue.
People will moan, to be sure, but they’ll give in as well!
Hmm...
maybe. People still know it's COD, they know it'll go on sale a few months after launch. And if they only care about COD, they know that buying it outright is the better deal than paying $20 a month for access, especially if they plan to play it for the year.
Even $190 (COD Day 1 & GP Core for 12 months) is a better deal than GP Ultimate if the person only cares for COD. But I'm guessing MS are hoping most aren't like that, and that most people are so bad/lazy with money when gaming that they'll just get Ultimate for the game.
And that’s due to the factor that MS still wants to charge people money to play online on consoles just like Sony
The biggest scam of video games . Their biggest games don’t even run on their servers .
Just a pure scam. And they can’t do that on PC, so you see the price difference of 10$ or whatever
It’s my number 1 reason why I don’t game on consoles .
Fuck the graphics difference between pc and consoles . Who gives a fuck if it has better texture and 20x zoom or not as clear as the pc version. At the end of the day fundamentally I am playing the same game ( talking about online games )
But you ask me to pay 100$ + per year just to play online ? Shove that console up ur ass one transistor at a time.
It’s bad enough the games on these consoles sometimes twice the price of them on pc if not more, you also want to scam us just to play online.
Right . That mentality from the ice age of Xbox first gen needs to stop
Something is
definitely going to have to change about the online paywall next gen. The lack of that paywall on PC, is probably one of the biggest reasons it's been making market share gains against the consoles over past 5 or so years.
Yes a good custom gaming PC may cost more upfront, but if you're a hardcore/core enthusiast chances are you know where to look for gaming deals and maximizing your play time & money. So if you do things even halfway decent (and are okay with your PC games performance potentially degrading faster over time vs. console, if you don't go for an absolute beastly build), you'll save more money going PC long-term.
Nintendo can get away with the online paywall a bit longer because their service is the cheapest by far (it's also the least robust), but Sony & Microsoft? Considering how places like Steam are encroaching on their demographics more and more (I mean look at how badly Xbox has fallen this gen), they'll have to really think about being more competitive in ways like the online paywall.
