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CoD Black Ops: Activision Newest Money Making Scheme?

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RavenSEAL

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Your considerations fly in the face of rational thought and actual comprehension of the game's design. How about you post less for a little while?

I'm guessing someone's angry their 360 flipped and scratched his MW2 after buying the new map pack? :whiste:

Also, comprehension of game design? Have you ever heard of something called "the internet". Apparently, you can find games that use this model and are successful. Who the hell says activsion doesn't have the guts to do it? They make money, they are happy. It doesn't work, they go off and make 20 map packs and still make money. So really, who cares. As soon as i read that part of the article, it smelled like 3 year rotten fish all over the place. You're acting like an ignoramous, from the start i said it was just speculation, sorry my block of text sounded too professional.
 
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RagingBITCH

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I'm guessing someone's angry their 360 flipped and scratched his MW2 after buying the new map pack? :whiste:

Also, comprehension of game design? Have you ever heard of something called "the internet". Apparently, you can find games that use this model and are successful. Who the hell says activsion doesn't have the guts to do it? They make money, they are happy. It doesn't work, they go off and make 20 map packs and still make money. So really, who cares. As soon as i read that part of the article, it smelled like 3 year rotten fish all over the place. You're acting like an ignoramous, from the start i said it was just speculation, sorry my block of text sounded too professional.

Um, pretty much every large game nowadays has some add-on that costs actual money. Not sure I understand your rant.
 

RavenSEAL

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Um, pretty much every large game nowadays has some add-on that costs actual money. Not sure I understand your rant.

I'm not really ranting, I'm just giving my honest opinion. I could care less, its just that i laugh at how wildly people throw money at activsion and yet it SEEMS they might even try to milk out whatever is left. I played MW, but have stayed away from CoD since, the series went from legit to full of shit, online mostly...campaign still delivers.
 

dougp

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I'm not really ranting, I'm just giving my honest opinion. I could care less, its just that i laugh at how wildly people throw money at activsion and yet it SEEMS they might even try to milk out whatever is left. I played MW, but have stayed away from CoD since, the series went from legit to full of shit, online mostly...campaign still delivers.

If you don't care about CoD, especially if you believe it's shit - which, is arguably a dumb opinion considering its community size across all platforms - why did you bother to even post this in the first place?

I've maintained something like 8 days worth of playing since I've owned MW2 - I have the hardened edition, which was $80. Throw in both map packs and I've spent $100 on this game. I've paid $.52/hour for that entertainment ... as long as there's updates, and they're worth it - they'll get most peoples money. And map packs do make the game go on, even if you think they're worthless, considering they've tweaked them.

You're putting up a good fight for something you consider crappy.
 

PimpJuice

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Read more post less...I said it was MY SPECULATION considering how greedy Activision is and considering the circumstances. ]

So yes, its official, Activision has yet found another way to rape your wallets.

Thats the very first line in your post. Stay in school kid and maybe you'll learn what speculation really means.
 

RavenSEAL

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So yes, its official, Activision has yet found another way to rape your wallets.

Thats the very first line in your post. Stay in school kid and maybe you'll learn what speculation really means.

...Sure thing "Mr.Adult"...considering i'm 27 and just graduated from USF with a masters on computer information science.


BTW, all sarcasm was intended with that first line.
 

Malak

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I'm guessing someone's angry their 360 flipped and scratched his MW2 after buying the new map pack? :whiste:

Also, comprehension of game design? Have you ever heard of something called "the internet". Apparently, you can find games that use this model and are successful. Who the hell says activsion doesn't have the guts to do it? They make money, they are happy. It doesn't work, they go off and make 20 map packs and still make money. So really, who cares. As soon as i read that part of the article, it smelled like 3 year rotten fish all over the place. You're acting like an ignoramous, from the start i said it was just speculation, sorry my block of text sounded too professional.

First off, I don't have a 360. I also don't have any MW2 map packs. Wrong on both accounts.

Second off, your complete inability to comprehend what should be a simple conversation suggests it is intentional and this is just one big troll. At least I hope, because if it isn't that means you really are that ridiculous. Either way, you should be banned.
 

RavenSEAL

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First off, I don't have a 360. I also don't have any MW2 map packs. Wrong on both accounts.

Second off, your complete inability to comprehend what should be a simple conversation suggests it is intentional and this is just one big troll. At least I hope, because if it isn't that means you really are that ridiculous. Either way, you should be banned.

Because i broke the rules where?
 

fbrdphreak

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Second off, your complete inability to comprehend what should be a simple conversation suggests it is intentional and this is just one big troll. At least I hope, because if it isn't that means you really are that ridiculous. Either way, you should be banned.

Because i broke the rules where?
This thread and other posts of yours are blatantly trolling. This thread is practically a call-out thread, which IS against the rules. Stop playing stupid before you do get a vacation.