As for the price of Modern Warfare 2, at 64.99$, it’s higher than a Nintendo game…… HIGHER THAN A NINTENDO GAME, DO YOU REALIZE???????

BUT…. remember 80′s kids, how much was Final Fantasy 3(American version)??
MORE than hundred dollars.

What about G2Play?

The thing that made me think is that somewhere in that steamforum there was mentioned that even legit keys, bought in germany (maybe it was on another news site where i read this) have been banned.

It seems to me, that the Keybans are not limited to the U.S.

Still I’ll stick to my theory of not using the multiplayer though, since I’ve convinced myself that this is quite reasonable :D

Thanks for your replies again :)

Peterbus

Anyway, what I wanted to ask: Can anyone confirm, that their Key was banned AFTER playing in MW2 Multiplayer? (not Coop) My theory is, that only keys used in Multiplayermatches have been banned but its just a theory (since almost everyone said he’d played to lvl xy in MP). If so and you purchased your key from a Key-Seller like G2Play -> Don’t use the MP and you’ll be able to at least participate in Co-Op and Singleplayer. (Coop is, as far as I could tell, hosted locally and so there are no keys submitted to any server except the steam verification server which seems only to care if the key is legit)

Greetings Peterbus

Besides this lesson, the important point I was making is “selling for the price people will buy”. Things are sold for the price people are ready to put. Or they wouldn’t sell, simply.

After, I have no doubt you are an expert in all this, thank you for taking the time to slap my answer. You are great and all this.

PS: I was curious why the icons rating were enabled for my own post, I clicked, and was surprised that indeed it voted for it. Glad you don’t “need” to do the same.

All the best.

Valve already made Tier 2 for such countries, but Activision is just keeping its crap policy.. the cheapest retail Modern Warfare 2 in my country(CZ) is around 58€ shipped! Even $60 for a game is too much. I admit. I’m not living in a poverty, but that doesn’t mean I would spend $90 for something that somebody else can buy for $20.

Singapore Average Employment Income
Disposable $19,176
http://www.worldsalaries.org/singapore.shtml
Russia Average Employment Income
Disposable $9,945
http://www.worldsalaries.org/russia.shtml
Whoever is behind the prices should really consider getting back to their studies.

Again. Thank you Dragoon

To prove you wrong about the 1$=1€ and the lowest income took me 1 minute.
http://www.worldsalaries.org/ They get their data directly form the government agencies.
United States Average Employment Income
Disposable $31,410 http://www.worldsalaries.org/usa.shtml
UK Average Employment Income
Disposable $26,312 http://www.worldsalaries.org/uk.shtml
Germany Average Employment Income
Disposable $25,146 http://www.worldsalaries.org/germany.shtm
(Disposable means after paying taxes. They money they actually have to spent)

Explain to me why USA and UK have usually much lower prices than Tier 1 or Tier 2 or even sometimes Tier 3?
Once I called that IP-Racism and exactly that it is.

About G2Play and other Resellers. First G2Play is not an Illegal shop.
Understand G2play does NOT selling drugs or contraband of any kind. G2Play don’t sell goods that are forbidden, they sell software.
All what G2Play ever has done was buying software in Singapore where Modern Warfare 2 cost 15€ and then resell it. G2play is a reseller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reseller If G2play would limit selling only to Singapore there wouldn’t be even a problem.
It’s called free market! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market. That is the reason we have free market at all. To have competition, competition bring fair prices and better products. It made us strong.

I give you an example to understand. I go to a farmer and ask him how much for the liter milk. He gives me a price I find it to high and I go to next farmer and he gives me a better deal. I then ship the milk to the city and where I make cash. Buy where prices are low to sell where prices are high. The basic of every merchant. Would you call me illegal for selling milk?
You don’t call software companies illegal for cutting DVD’s in Asia and then shipping and selling them to EU or USA, don’t you? Reseller are not cheating like you claim, but the corporates does as they don’t allow us to have the same right they claim for themselves.
Making profit is not enough. They want every damn penny we have in our pocket and suck you us dry like a vampire sitting my neck. Shame on them. They can lick my shoes.

The funny thing is would G2Play resell copies bought in UK or Poland or any country inside the EU Activision/Valve couldn’t do anything about it because the EU Exhaustion of rights.
The Exhaustion of rights allows a copyright holder (Activision) the right to chose when and how to sell a product. But inside the EU a copyright holder loose that right after the first sale.
That means after the first time it is sold everyone can buy and sell the product the way he likes to everyone. Unfortunately this does not count to products imported from outside the EU and that is the true crime. Because they can manufacture and import products to the EU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_import
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_of_rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

Prices are what they can be. There are people spending all their time thinking these prices, according to the region, the money people earn, the amount of money they are ready to spend for the games.

So yes, prices are not the same in different countries, leading to the 1€=1$ we all know. That annoys us mostly because we had it in the good direction. Let’s face it, we were able to buy games for cheaper than the “normal price”, we lost it, that’s why we complain.
Price of games is what it is, some think it is the correct price (most of, if it’s selling at this price), some think it’s too expensive, but this is another debate.

The problem here is that we consider the lowest price possible, from some country with lower income, as the “normal price”. But it’s not like this, this price was adapted, simply.

If you absolutely want global, international pricing, you would get the highest one, simply. Prices are adapted low for some countries, they are not adapted higher for “richer countries”. If there was only one price for all, it would be like 50 euros for most new pc games, as it is the highest possible currently. Finally, even Steam was like that a year ago, proposing only one price. We were glad because conversion was 1.6$ for 1€, but if it was the opposite, we would have been begging for this 1$=1€. Think about it.

These discussions about “illegal” shops like g2play or onlinekeystore are simply about that. They get their prices by cheating the regional system, that’s all. They get their games in the country where they can get them for the lowest price, and sell them for higher anyway.
Sites like play.com get their prices by cheating the taxes system. There are plenty other examples.

But these are not “normal prices”, that we would compare to “overpriced steam or else”. The real price is the regional one, the one matching (usually, I agree that some games are too expensive) to the people’s income. Keep that in mind.