Business Activision Have Put the Prices up of Various Call of Duty Games

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Written by Ayoub, October 17 2023

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Summary

• Several Activision titles have received a price hike on Steam.
• Steam price changes have been reported in Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey so far.
• No Activision games have been announced for Xbox Game Pass as yet.

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Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision was confirmed last Friday after the UK’s approval came through, ending years of waiting and speculation. The acquisition was formally announced by Xbox with a video featuring several blockbuster games from not just Activision but also from Blizzard and King.


As gamers wait to see Activision titles eventually get added to Game Pass, Activision has raised the price for some of its best titles on Steam, including several Call of Duty titles and a Crash Bandicoot title as well. This price increase could just be a major hint at the titles that will arrive in the Xbox Game Pass library.

Several Activision titles have quietly received a price hike on Steam, Valve’s video game digital distribution service and storefront. Activision has not released any statement with regard to the reason behind the unexpected price hike for these games, but for now, the price increase is only seen on Steam.

It’s also unclear whether the same price hike for these titles will be applied to the Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo console editions as well. Here are some of the affected titles with the price hike from yesterday:

• Call of Duty (2003), from $9 to $19
• Call of Duty 2, from $9 to $19
• Call of Duty: Black Ops, from $18 to $29
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, from $21 to $49
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), from $9 to $19
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), from $50 to $55
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, from $40 to $55
• Crash Bandicoot 4, from $55.50 to $66.50
• Spyro Reignited Trilogy, from $30 to $38
• Prototype, from $9 to $19
• Prototype 2, from $18 to $38

These price hikes have also applied to the DLC bundles for the games. The price hike has been reported in the regions of Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey so far, while other regions might also see a change in price over the coming days.

Notes:

• I don't put other remaining paragraphs here due unrelated to CoD series price hike.
• The price hike also affected most regions, if not worldwide. See it for yourself at SteamDB.
• From my personal observation, Activision remains the highest discount rate at 50% during sales day despite they increased base price on the games, because fuck you.

 

[Haramburger]

I just bought Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 Remaster on Steam(new as of 10/3/23) for half-off retail, $20 bucks and am very satisfied. YMMV cawwadooty enjoyers.

 

[Drkinferno72]

Oh no, not the same game every year going up in price

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

Not really an online shooter guy, but always wanted to at least play through the single player of the older titles... but the fact that the price never went down to anything reasonable (we are talking about CoD singe player here... so not worth much I imagine) always put me off. Guess I'll just continue not playing them.

 

[Troonos]

People retarded enough to play these shitty games deserve to be ripped off.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

Bro I just wanna see Ghost's dick in the new MW3

 

[11 Herbs and Spices]

Oh no, not the same game every year going up in price

The newer titles have already launched at higher prices with more aggressive monetization; this is a price increase (some more than doubling) on games dating back two decades. They are dead games in terms of online multiplayer and will only be more dead with price hikes, which I assume is the intended goal. Removing them outright looks bad. Taking the servers offline they just made a big deal of turning back on looks bad. So just make the prices high enough no one will pay for them so they just stick to the newest goyslop instead.

 

[The Hero of Kvatch]

$50 dollars for Black Ops II.
Now, I love Black Ops II as much as the next guy, but fucking hell.

But either way, increasing the sales prices for logs of horse shit don't change the fact that they're still logs of horse shit.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

imagine still playing COD in current year.

 

[batterybee]

I want to but the first black ops game so I can play the campaign again, since it was fun as a child but they still charge $100. lmao
Id be happy to pay like 20-30 for it but 100, you have got to be trolling.

 

[ForTheHoard]

If I'm not mistaken, CoD 4 Modern Warfare was the first big title to raise their price from $40 to $60. I still blame them for fucking up the price model of games.

edit- I was mistaken.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I just bought Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 Remaster on Steam(new as of 10/3/23) for half-off retail, $20 bucks and am very satisfied. YMMV cawwadooty enjoyers.

I just wonder did anyone actually do the required Goals in the OG THPS or did we all just use cheat codes to get the level select? Finding Skate is generally easy but some of the other goals can be a pain in a 2 minute time span.

 

[Coolio55]

How much are the xbox360 / ps3 disks on ebay?
Not too much I'd imagine?

Not that I play CoD. I played LBP instead.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

The last call of duty that had an effect on world building and setting was Black Ops 3, cyberpunk Cold War 3. The post-dollar reserve currency, post-EU and post-Chinese manufacturing setting deserved to be in a better game.

 

[dustbuster]

They're welcome to raise the price all they want.
I didn't buy it before and sure as hell won't buy it now.

 

[The Hero of Kvatch]

How much are the xbox360 / ps3 disks on ebay?
Not too much I'd imagine?

Not that I play CoD. I played LBP instead.

I imagine they're not that expensive, considering 7th Gen (PS3/X360) aren't as popular anymore with newer generations of consoles.
You'd probably have to get them on disks, which are much cheaper compared to digital. I believe the digital store on PS3 was taken down years ago, though I could be wrong.

As for LBP, I fucking loved that game. That's where I first learned about CWC.

 

[Fruttasecca]

Cod was shit after WaW, MW2 is trash, BO II is trash, its all trash with shitty netcodes, matchmaking instead of servers, spawn camping, grinding, kill streaks, console focus and a US slop kitsch single player.
I am fucking sick of the squeaky voiced kids from back in the day now being nostalgic for that garbage. It really shows that its not about producing quality, but keeping your slop in the public conscience for long enough that retards become nostalgic for it.
With every generation, the standards are going down.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

If I'm not mistaken, CoD 4 Modern Warfare was the first big title to raise their price from $40 to $60. I still blame them for fucking up the price model of games.

No, the $60 game thing was pretty much standard for every 360/ps3 game from the start. I remember articles talking about how that generations games were gonna be more before that gen even dropped.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I imagine that they're putting their prices up because they are so flush with cash and making profit, that they don't need to do this to balance the books.

Just to point out, it's no longer Activision putting the prices up, but Microsoft. Gamepass and gameprices have both increased. Gotta get that 70 billion back somehow

 

[TV's Adam West]

MW2 is trash, BO II

Really earned that triangle, retard.