» Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:19 am
Thats because its the "newbs" first port of call in gaming due to the hype that surrounds it. Look, think about it for a minute. CoD;BO sold by the bucket load in the first few weeks, there is little "demand" left in the market for it. Yet its still priced like a new title just out, even when vids of the next game are out. CoD now frankly svcks donkeyconk (change 2nd N for C), I can say that as one of the REAL ORIGNAL CoD players (CoD/2/3/MW). Activision is treating it like a sports franchise now, with yearly releases because they know that the muppets with cash will run out and buy the latest over-hyped claptrap they are selling.
Yes I did buy BO however I got it essentially free, after trading in some unwanted games. Why? Simply because my friends being new to online gaming in any kind of competative form bought it. As soon as C2 hit the shelves, I knew it was going back because C2 at least is trying something different in gameplay mechanics. I dont want to sound like im praising EA here, but they have taken the view that big titles need time to make. BF2 showed what a really great genre defining game can do when you take time to make it and make it well. BF3 is its make or break time in this regard. If its of the SSDD variety, the online masses will leave it for the next CoD. If it retains some of its old style but brings new ideas and gameplay mechanics to the table it will go like hotcakes.
I hate to break it to you, but COD:BO is still highly in demand and people are still buying it by the bucket-load compared to other games out there. It's hard to believe, I know, but it's true. I read an article about that just the other day on a game news website. Some even buy it more than once because they played it, traded it, got bored with other games and went out and bought it again. It's a phenomenon.
FYI, I am one of the original COD players to. I have COD+EXP/2/2:Big Red One/3/4/MW2/BO. I'm not a hater of COD, I like them all and still do. COD3 wasn't that good though, but that's what happens when you rush devs. I like Crysis 1&2/Warhead also and many other shooters like all the Battlefields for example, excluding Modern Combat the first console BF. That one svcked. I don't discriminate between them. They are all good to me.
I'm going to have shell out a lot of money this November with COD:MW3 and BF:3 coming out at the same time. I plan on getting both. I never trade my games in.