On top of the COD 5 shenanigans, Kotick wants all games to be more expensive.

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Professional douchebag Bobby Kotick, hot on the heels of Activision announcing Tony Hawk will cost £100, as well as them posting crazy profits and market share increase, responds in an interview that if he was in charge of game prices... he would raise them.
With retail and consumers alike still getting to grips with the prospect of shelling out £54.99 for November’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has admitted that he would like to push prices even higher.
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I really have to wonder how far publishers will milk this "oh no games are so expensive" BS before the entire industry backlashes and stops buying altogether. The COD price increase was hilarious enough, considering the PC version of the exact same game costs 20 pounds less.
I also laugh at the people who think this is the kind of thing digital distribution will solve when it will allow publishers even more control over game prices and eliminate used game sales.

In fact, Activision are being such douchebags of late, particularly when Kotick says stupid crap like this right after having the balls to blast the PS3 for costs, I may reverse my self-imposed EA ban and move it to Activision instead. Activision is being more of the "evil publisher" than EA ever was anyways. This whole mess is honestly nearly as bad as Nintendo raising the price on their-made-a-profit-from-the-beginning Wii in the U.K. under the silly pretext of exchange rate deficiency (even ignoring the hedge that the Wii's absurd U.K. price already created), then saying flat out the next month that the Wii costs half as much to make as it did when it first came out. I feel sorry for you Brits.
 
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Yeah, raising prices in the current economic situation sounds like a great idea. ;) But, after reading the article, it sounds more like he is referring to 'premium' versions of games, like collector's editions and games that include peripherals, not to raising prices in general.
 
Kotick embodies everything that is wrong with the gaming industry today. This sorry little troll of a man needs to learn to just STFU, since every time he runs his mouth all he does is show how out-of-touch he is with his customer base. Then again, he doesn't care about his customer base, or his developers, or anything but his shareholders. The only thing he's really fit to do is go peddle "as seen on TV" garbage at 3 am.
 
It just keeps getting better:
Considering Call of Duty 4's phenomenal success, it may come as a shock that Activision initially opposed Infinity Ward's decision to abandon World War II for a more contemporary setting. What's more, the publisher wasn't overly keen on bringing the developer's wares to consoles, either.

"Activision...did not want Modern Warfare," Infinity Ward chief creative officer Vince Zampella told Britain-based Official PlayStation Magazine in an interview, relayed by UK gaming site CVG. "They thought working on a modern game was risky and [thought], 'Oh my god you can't do that, it's crazy!' They were doing market research to show us we were wrong the whole time."

Call of Duty project lead Jason West went on to note, "We had to fight for everything. They wanted it to be World War II. Again."
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"Claim your expensive games as booty I will, yarr!"
 
As high as i would pay for a game would be 59.95 US, and i only buy game that i know are worth buying. The only games i own for my 360 are COD4 and Skate (1 and 2) I replay them constantly so buying them was worth it, other games i will just rent and rape and return.
 
It gets better. You know the PC version of the game, which is identical to the console versions except notably cheaper but will probably be the definitive version of the game anyways? Yeah. Activision noticed it too, apparently:
Hmm! Over at BashAndSlash, a Call Of Duty community website, Infinity Ward’s community manager, Robert Bowling, confirmed there would be no dedicated server option for excruciatingly-anticipated super-shooter Modern Warfare 2. Really? Apparently so: dedicated servers will be replaced with a match-making service called IWNet. This will place you against players of your own rank, and remove dedicated server lists. There will also be options for a private matches



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Yep, read that too. I just hope that IW.net is not based on the crappy console netcode from CoD4 and CoD:WaW; because if it is, I really feel sorry for PC users of MW2.
 
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