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.

 

[SNEED.EXE]

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.

Vimm's Lair has a near-complete set of PS3/Xbox 360 games, you just need to jailbreak your console or use an emulator.
https://vimm.net/vault/PS3
https://vimm.net/vault/Xbox360

 

[The Hero of Kvatch]

Vimm's Lair has a near-complete set of PS3/Xbox 360 games, you just need to jailbreak your console or use an emulator.
https://vimm.net/vault/PS3
https://vimm.net/vault/Xbox360

I thought PS3 games were notoriously hard to emulate on PC, due to the hardware of the console?

Either way, I just might dig my old PS3 from his grave and jailbreak that nigga.

 

[derpherp2]

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

Which leads to more devs trying to rip them off because devs are scum.
Which then leads into DOWNWARD SPIRAL.

And then we're here.

 

[The handsome tard]

Watching all of this as someone who has never touched a COD game outside of a wii entry from a pirated cd a little over a decade ago, I see this as an absolute win.

 

[wopirish]

I thought PS3 games were notoriously hard to emulate on PC, due to the hardware of the console?

Either way, I just might dig my old PS3 from his grave and jailbreak that nigga.

RPCS3 has actually come a long way.

https://rpcs3.net/download

I'm more curious as to why the og 2003 got doubled. I can't imagine that sold more than a couple dozen copies in the last five years.

 

[nostalgiasorrow]

Raising costs while the gaming market has expanded and making hand over fist from micro-transactions

 

[Socrates]

Absolutely wild to me that regulators have let 2 or 3 massive corporations buy up basically the entirety of the entertainment industry. The Activision-Microsoft merger should never have been allowed, as well as Fox-Disney. It's quite obvious that both companies are creatively bankrupt and just coasting off their dragons horde of stale IP.

 

[Absolutego]

Absolutely wild to me that regulators have let 2 or 3 massive corporations buy up basically the entirety of the entertainment industry. The Activision-Microsoft merger should never have been allowed, as well as Fox-Disney. It's quite obvious that both companies are creatively bankrupt and just coasting off their dragons horde of stale IP.

Turns out bribes timely donations are really good at motivating public bureaucrats to turn a blind eye

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

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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.

who fucking cares about this autistic shit I wanna see Simon "Ghost" Riley engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman in the new MW3 campaign.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Watching all of this as someone who has never touched a COD game outside of a wii entry from a pirated cd a little over a decade ago, I see this as an absolute win.

I gave up after Ghosts and haven't touched a CoD title since. I had a few but only because I had friends to play with but I'm more of a tactical shooter guy than an arcade shooter guy, if I play anything at all now.

Granted the franchise still has its moments but I don't hold high hopes for it now because so little has changed since 2007 gameplay wise.

 

[The handsome tard]

Absolutely wild to me that regulators have let 2 or 3 massive corporations buy up basically the entirety of the entertainment industry.

The problems began when they realized they could bribe the regulators responsible to avoid this. You would think the system should have had some plan B in case that happened because it basically depended on regulators not being corrupt fucks themselves.

When you look at the grand scheme, it all seemed to run ultimately on the honor system.

I gave up after Ghosts and haven't touched a CoD title since. I had a few but only because I had friends to play with but I'm more of a tactical shooter guy than an arcade shooter guy, if I play anything at all now.

Granted the franchise still has its moments but I don't hold high hopes for it now because so little has changed since 2007 gameplay wise.

Its just the first thing normies think when they think "FPS" these days and I dont mean that as a good thing.

Its just the "military shooter franchise". Makes me wonder how many of its current fanbase are composed of new or veteran players, the former doesnt know any better and the latter just stuck around after all these years somehow.

 

[Duke Nukem]

The problems began when they realized they could bribe the regulators responsible to avoid this. You would think the system should have had some plan B in case that happened because it basically depended on regulators not being corrupt fucks themselves.

When you look at the grand scheme, it all seemed to run ultimately on the honor system.


Its just the first thing normies think when they think "FPS" these days and I dont mean that as a good thing.

Its just the "military shooter franchise". Makes me wonder how many of its current fanbase are composed of new or veteran players, the former doesnt know any better and the latter just stuck around after all these years somehow.

The older players probably stuck around in the vain hope that things would improve?

 

[The Last Stand]

I swear, between Call of Duty and Nintendo games, those games always go UP in price over time. Speaking for console, go to any local game shop and find older CoDs for under $20. AND the DLCs are still full price as well. Fuck that.

 

[Tepes Thot]

who fucking cares about this autistic shit I wanna see Simon "Ghost" Riley engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman in the new MW3 campaign.

Keep it up, and current year Activision will make that woman Soap MacTavish. Careful what you wish for.

 

[Starved Artist]

Ah, they're pulling the rug. Digital games are supposed to be cheaper to begin with. OLD Digital games even cheaper.
Prototype is a fucking gem and for the last couple of years, you could get the first and second game for like 5 dollars. It seems like they looked at Nintendo artificially inflating their prices and finally said " If Nintendo can artificially inflate their prices, so can we "

 

[ZMOT]

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.

physical and keysites. dunno about now but you could get keys for like 5 bucks, that's what I paid for IW.
season pass you'd have to buy on steam, but if you only want the campaign it doesn't matter anyway.

blops 3 doesn't have one iirc and remakes are crap.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

who fucking cares about this autistic shit I wanna see Simon "Ghost" Riley engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman in the new MW3 campaign.

Pretty sure the modern warfare reboot teasing reboot ghost being gay.

 

[FinallyRealEmail]

I thought PS3 games were notoriously hard to emulate on PC, due to the hardware of the console?

Either way, I just might dig my old PS3 from his grave and jailbreak that nigga.

Just a heads up - the 2nd to last firmware Sony released for the ps3 has a full exploit. So anyone that updated past what was it 5.5 just update to that and full jailbreak. Tons of guides easy as shit to do

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

imagine still playing COD in current year.

Imagine playing COD after 2007.

 

[That Chris Guy]

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.

Go watch The Manchurian Candidate. Similar experience, better story.

Absolutely wild to me that regulators have let 2 or 3 massive corporations buy up basically the entirety of the entertainment industry. The Activision-Microsoft merger should never have been allowed, as well as Fox-Disney. It's quite obvious that both companies are creatively bankrupt and just coasting off their dragons horde of stale IP.

If it's any consolation, CoD has been creatively bankrupt for a while now. If Microsoft somehow ends up killing it Star Wars style, that wouldn't be much of a negative.