I hate Activision. Pay £40 for a game and they withhold content then want another £30 for it

Jaystan, is that you

How much???

Who in their right mind is voting hot on this?

​Hi Sean,

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It can be found at the following link:

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​I've just messaged them on Facebook

Is this deal still available?

This is a great deal. I was lucky enough to get the game for £35 from Simplygames and now this season pass for £28.50.

Some people purchased even the standard edition for £50! and the season pass for £35. Glad I saved abit :smirk:

Thank God someone else now finally pointed this out!! £40 is not a lot for a blockbuster game that cost millions to develop.
£40 is not a lot for me to pay for a game when I will play it for a year, especially considering Sky TV now costs what, about £30 a month is it?

And £40 is not a lot for a game when I was paying about £35 for a Sega Megadrive game back in 1991 when I was 16 and that game cost me about a third of my whole weeks wage.

2 each

​I bought this this morning and it was a redeem code for the season pass, not £35 credit

Thanks, @zombrex seemed to think it was not, Trying to decide if I should go for it or not.
Never bought a season pass before and certainly not any DLC without seeing it. But this is probably as good a price as we can expect because they rarely come down in price.

Ps. It is back in stock so perhaps unexpire

lol.

Yep. Remember that for my birthday and smashing through it before school.

fraud...

​You can now. I didn't think you could anymore but you can :smiley:

I felt the same after last year's abomination however after playing the Beta on BO3, I was pleasantly surprised. Treyarch have done a decent job this year but I'm sure the damage is done for certain players after getting skimmed with Advance Warfare.

out of stock

OUT OF STOCK

Played Black Ops 1 - thought it was garbage, played Black Ops 2 - MEH - Played Black Ops 3 - An improvement over its predecessors in the series but more of the same garbage - They seem to have gone backwards in terms of what they are trying to offer the gamer - I aint just jumping on the bandwagon here either, I have been playing COD for many, many years now and sadly leaving the series.

Black Ops 3 is 1000 times better than the Advance Warfare heap of cowpat that came out last year. Only COD to surpass this is MW2 and 1

Bore of Duty: Crap Ops III - MW2 & MW3 reign supreme compared to this garbage

All the games are doing this now mate.. Destiny, Fallout etc etc..
They're rinsing us for every penny they can get away with

It's a DLC code not credit.

So this is not a DLC code and in fact just credit? Did you read this somewhere or did you find that by buying it yourself?

I ask as my wallet is pretty much full so if it's credit then it's no good to me.

Thanks

It's more than that, I think it's 4 sets of dlc, each with multiple maps in it.
Or it has been in past.

Any industry where large sums of money are involved are subject to risk. that is not exclusive to the game industry. Take the movie industry, they repeated make films that cost more than games and production companies can go out of business on the back of a few poorly received films. However, it costs far less to see a film (or own it) than it does to play or own a game because there is a bigger pool of potential buyers. The price points are set very carefully in both industries, not for our benefit, but calculated at the point they feel they'll make the most profit. If it was calculated at £50 they would only sell half as many copies than £40 then £40 is the most profitable price regardless of future DLC.

Free to play games use a different business model to the types of games we are talking about here and aren't really relevant to the original discussion, although publishers are now sneaking microtransaction in to their full price games to see what they can get away with. I think what most people forget who bring up comments about the price not changing and how we are entitled gamers (to be clear I'm not insinuating that you are saying that last thing) is that as the consumer you have a lot to do with setting the price, it just takes most gamers to turn around and say no to the practices that have crept in to gaming over the past 15 years for them to stop. Of course that isn't going to happen because people are willing to accept things like day one DLC, part of games being locked away to all but those who pre-order, microtransaction, expensive DLC (I remember UT used to give map packs away for free as a thanks to the community, now it is ok to pay £12 for a bunch of five (some recycled) maps in CoD) and all those other practices that are destroying what gaming used to be.

As for £25 games on PC blowing your mind, until mid last gen you could buy any new releases (physical copies too) on PC for £17.99 or less from stores like Play (when it used to be a good site). You also used to get new console releases last gen for around the £30 mark, now £40 seems about standard so even if the RRP hasn't risen (which I think it has by £5 anyway, although USA remains the same $60) the prices are certainly higher.

you only need to look at how many devs and publishers went pop last generation to see how risky game development is. DLC doesnt keep the cost of games down? how is it that there are so many free to play games then?

i'm just realistic, i game on PC nowadays so rarely have to pay more than £25 for a new release which simply blows my mind. Sure this is by taking advantage of regional discrepancies like pricing in brazil but it allows me to buy more games and distribute the wealth.

Sure there are a few companies making hand over fist like activision, EA and so forth but i think you would be surprised at how many games are actually profitable.

Yep I did this

Hot from me cheers

Theres a method to get a free code here, but seems as though people don't like that lol
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/possible-free-black-ops-3-nuk3town-map-code-activision-2318885

Not really, manufacturing and distribution costs are a fraction of what they were (no expensive proprietary cartridges, games no longer come in big boxes with sizeable manuals, the global distribution network is now a much more functional and affordable service which, coupled with smaller game case sizes, makes shipping much cheaper, digital distribution makes things even cheaper, etc). Add to this that there is a larger consumer base and it is no shock that the game industry is bigger business than it was even 10 years ago. DLC doesn't keep game costs down, it just milks more money out of the users. Still, given the amount of times I've seen this comment it proves that the PR department is paying for itself :wink:

shame dont get it with US digital anymore.

I ordered this yesterday and the code worked. Heat added!

I have no issue with DLC if it's worth the money for me. I play a lot of COD and I'll always want new maps by the time the DLC is released. It adds a lot more gaming and enjoyment for me, so well worth it.

Yeah man put up a deal advising to commit to fraud....

Wow, didn't know that....maybe that's a deal on its own you should put up? Free NUK3TOWN....will get too much heat surely

^ and also Sonic Spinball from OurPrice for £54.99 :0

Heat added. Going halves with someone so season pass costs me £14 :smile:

Ah stuck in work with no access to FB :disappointed:

Thanks.

Ordered and redeemed.

Took 2 minutes.

​It's not just simply log onto Activision live chat and ask them for a Nuketown code and they'll generate one for you.

Maybe you had a pre-order physical or the firm you bought it from had some left. The only way to guarantee a NUK3TOWN map now is digital.

But yeah, I think even with production costs being more, there are so many more people gaming nowadays compared with back in the mid nineties. It's just down to Economies of scale

Not true i got it with a physical disc version

Yep, I paid £60 for Mortal Kombat 2 for the snes in Dixons back in the day...

Do you get Nuketown with the season pass?

Back in the day my mate told me they used to get copied games for whatever ancient computers they used then. The argument was your stealing from the producers and therefore they have less money to make better games. Now it looks like its turned full circle lol. Buy game for online play, servers useless, pay extra for what should've been included in the first place lol.

I hate Activision. Pay £40 for a game and they withhold content then want another £30 for it

hmmm perhaps the cost of production. adjusting for inflation games are cheaper than they have ever been (this is fact) yet production costs have skyrocketed (allegedly about 5x going from SD > HD).

i'm sure there will be a few heads in here who can tell us they paid £60 for street fighter 2 on snes

Do people really enjoy paying for something when they don't know what they're getting? How do you know you're going to like every piece of DLC bundled in this season pass? Wouldn't you rather wait for them to release first, watch some extended gameplay footage, read a few reviews and then make up your mind?

The saving you make by buying a season pass as opposed to paying separately for each map pack is so miniscule that it isn't even worth considering. I'd rather wait and see what I get before handing over my hard earned cash. These season passes are daylight robbery and how they've become so popular and mainstream is beyond me.

How much???

Who in their right mind is voting hot on this?

Its not amazing and its not right.
Why is or amazing that games still cost £40? Because they look better than last gen? Please.
That goes with the territory. Graphics get better over the years as hardware gets better and cheaper.

​I don't think it just 1 zombie map per DLC. I think they are going to add 1 remake zombie map too, I heard Shangri La & Moon. so possibly 2 zombie maps per DLC.

It isn't a season pass code it's for £35 credit....

what is a fb code

What Zombie maps do you get if any?

Damn, I just bought this for 35. Good deal though! Heat added

apart from the maps do you actually get any new decent camo for your guns? new heads costumes etc? otherwise it's a lot for just four maps.

Ive only had one instance where a code did not work. I messaged them and i had a new working code within the hour.

Some people have been getting invalid/fake codes off CD keys recently. Don't know how CD keys are when it comes to refunds/customer service?

do you know of this includes the extra zombie map?