There are many factors that increase the gaming expenses of Turkish players, especially the exchange rate. Steam and game developer companies, which subsidize the increase in the exchange rate up to a certain level, reflect the increase in the dollar and Euro to the games after a certain point. In this context, high price increases were made for Activision games on Steam, the famous game platform owned by Valve. players, especially Increases coming to the Call of Duty series met with sadness.
Activision Games Increased on Steam
Activision, which was tried to be incorporated into Microsoft with the process that started 2 years ago, was incorporated into Microsoft as of last week, thanks to the completion of the process. After the approximately 70 billion dollar acquisition process, which was completed thanks to the approval from legal authorities, Activision is now a Microsoft company. This week, bad news came from Activision and Steam to Turkish players. There were major price increases in the company’s popular games. Here’s the raise Activision game prices:
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) increased to 519 TL.
- Call of Duty Black Ops 2 increased to 1559 TL.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) increased to 1559 TL.
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – increased to 1299 TL.
- COD: Black Ops 2 Bundle – increased to 2599.99 TL.
- COD: Modern Warfare Franchise Bundle – increased to 3639.99 TL.
- COD: Ghost Complete Bundle – increased to 4679.99 TL.
- Prototype – increased to 519.99 TL.
- Prototype 2 – increased to 1039.99 TL.
- Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy – increased to 1039.99 TL.
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice increased to 1559.99 TL.
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How Did the Players Receive the Raise News?
The price hikes for many games on Steam, especially the Call of Duty series games, made gamers angry and upset. Especially to old generation games Many game lovers, who do not think it is right to raise this level, expressed their reactions on social media. To reflect some of these reactions to our valuable Mobile readers:
“Increasing prices at this level is contrary to reason and logic. “I also have these games, but I feel sorry for other gamer friends who will buy the games new.”
“Preparation for Gamepass “They are doing it. We will no longer be able to buy old games at affordable prices. This was the drawback of gathering these game studios under one roof, that is, purchasing them.”
“Microsoft says that if you don’t want to use Gamepass, you will be forced to use it.”
“It is unethical to increase prices at this level for 20-year-old games. Microsoft buys Activision “He started early to justify those who tried to prevent him from taking it.”
“Such an increase rate is nonsense… I wish the competition authorities had disrupted their purchasing process more.”
“This Dollar based prices of games I was going to say okay if there was an increase, but I saw that the dollar-based prices are the same. There has been no significant depreciation in TL recently. It is stuck around 27 – 28 lira against the dollar. So why these increases?