[cod] COD2 - DVD tomorrow?

[Mark J. DeFilippis]

You know Jay, you know I am a big COD fan.
But I have an EBGames in the bottom of 30 Rockfeller Ctr
(Actually 62 floors below my office), and I usually preorder
to that store. )

I stopped online ebgames site today to check if all was still on schedule
and started reading some of the 30+ pre-reviews on the
site, and there were three types of reviews. About 30%
were "Great, love it, best thing since sliced bread",
the 4-5% that said "Just like COD, don't waste your money",
and the balance, a near 60+% that were more reserved and
stated "If you are a COD nut, you will probably buy it, but for
$60, I expect COD2 to be more than "the same old stuff"
with some added maps and graphics".  One noted, and
got quite a few commend replies that he is devoted to buying
COD2, but if COD3 is not a big jump, he won't spend his money.

Of course you have to discount the sources. (One noted
"they made COD, "The perfect game" even better, I didn't
think it possible".  Well, I beg to differ. I suppose he never
played HQ with some of it's "interesting" spawn spots,
and the list goes on....:)  Great, yea. Perfect, no.

I thought about this on and off throughout the day and
thought that if I were a single player ONLY buyer, I wouldn't
spend the money on COD2. Playing COD2 in single player
scripted only is like hitting golf balls at the range. Your not
playing golf until your on the course.

But I have 3 copies in reserve. So that is $180 for me and
my two boys.  I estimated COD2 is a $49 game, but not
likely a $59 game based on the demo I played, and my
sense of "value", which is normally "warped" towards the
overspending side.

Honestly, with DOD:S just out at $19.95, and the clan playing
it, I may just wait the month and have it come down to $39.95
so I feel like I am getting the value I am paying for.

How can they hire the BF 1942 Desert Combat mod group,
suck them in to DOD:Source, and sell it for $19.95, and
ACTV justify COD2 at $60?

I am by no means cheap, and I buy what I want when I want
it immediately. But this has me thinking...  Do I feel I am
getting $60 worth of value out of COD2? I have my
doubts now.

MD


At 03:05 PM 10/17/2005, you wrote:
>It is but as always here in America, the vendors will boost all prices for 
>new releases. If you can wait a month, they will go down to 39.99 .
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "frenton" <frenton at orcon.net.nz>
>To: <cod at icculus.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [cod] COD2 - DVD tomorrow?
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>>That's an US Store i guess...WOOOOOO i want it to come out tomorrow in 
>>Europe, too...
>>But 60 Bucks seems a little bit expensive, isn't it?
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>Mark J. DeFilippis, Ph. D EE          defilm at acm.org
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