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MW3: A Fool and His Money are soon parted

KingHorrorKingHorror
edited November 2011 in General Chat
I was on IGN this Morning When I Found this article of interest containing The Following:
"A leaked copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been sold on eBay for $1,725.

Unauthorized copies of the game were mistakenly released into the wild this week, when a retailer placed the game on sale. MW3 is not due to be officially released until November 8th.

One copy of the game was placed on eBay and has been picked up for nearly 29 times the retail price of the game. It received a total of 88 bids.

But early play may carry an additional price. Xbox Live's Director of Policy and Enforcement for Stephen Tolouse warned that playing the game online pre-release could result in a ban. He tweeted, "Pre-release play not authorized. Please be patient. Playing early may impact your account!"

NOTE: this Purchase was apparently for the $60 one and not the
more expensive one

Full article can be found here: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1211626p1.html.

Comments

  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2011
    To clarify, it was only bid up to that price. eBay pulled the auction before it ended, so nobody's actually paid that much for it.
  • waroftheworlds01waroftheworlds01
    edited November 2011
    Why would you pay that much when you can just wait and get it for normal price? And what's worse is that Call of Duty is one of the most generic game series of all time. How badly did this buyer want to play this game? lol

    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    To clarify, it was only bid up to that price. eBay pulled the auction before it ended, so nobody's actually paid that much for it.

    Oh okay. That good then. But still.....
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited November 2011
    waroftheworlds01 wrote: »
    Why would you pay that much when you can just wait and get it for normal price? And what's worse is that Call of Duty is one of the most generic game series of all time. How badly did this buyer want to play this game? lol

    Gamers are impatient (just look at what happen here in this very forum on releasedate of a game episode or when Steam is (like usual) releasing games a few hours later than other online services.
    Playing this game before anyone else means having the chance to be the first that reaches maximum rank/level. Showing off to your overly jealous friends. I still would say that it's not worth that price.
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited November 2011
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    To clarify, it was only bid up to that price. eBay pulled the auction before it ended, so nobody's actually paid that much for it.

    Ebaydidn't pull it before it ended. It actually ended. It was on eBay for an entire night and untill this morning. It's highly possible that it was paid.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited November 2011
    Also it seems they upped the shock value for the game from MW2. This time children will die too. FUN!
    Please activision just release the "A Serbian Film" DLC and give us the only thing that could be worse...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3iEgvQnnW8

    We are all waiting for it. Really.
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited November 2011
    KingHorror wrote: »
    Xbox Live's Director of Policy and Enforcement for Stephen Tolouse warned that playing the game online pre-release could result in a ban. He tweeted, "Pre-release play not authorized. Please be patient. Playing early may impact your account!"

    Hmmm. I'd like to see them try that on people who bought it in good faith from the shop that put them out early.
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited November 2011
    People are stupid.
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited November 2011
    Penny Arcade did a good comic on this!
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited November 2011
    waroftheworlds01 wrote: »
    Why would you pay that much when you can just wait and get it for normal price? And what's worse is that Call of Duty is one of the most generic game series of all time. How badly did this buyer want to play this game? lol




    Oh okay. That good then. But still.....

    Because the human race is primarily populated by idiots.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited November 2011
    GuruGuru214 wrote: »
    To clarify, it was only bid up to that price. eBay pulled the auction before it ended, so nobody's actually paid that much for it.

    Dang it. You just ruined my fun with this story.
  • ElvenmonkElvenmonk
    edited November 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Dang it. You just ruined my fun with this story.

    but they didn't. They pulled it after it legitametly finished. I saw the bid end and laughed my ass off, then sent it to my brother for him to laugh. When we woke up in the morning the bid was removed.
    http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/04/somebody-bid-1-725-for-modern-warfare-3-on-ebay/

    There is a picture of the ending bid. Note the status of it.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2011
    Fair enough. What a bunch of morons.
  • DaviesDavies
    edited November 2011
    Um, I hate to say this but I was the one who won the bid! Screw the haters, it was totally worth it. Besides I had to have something to take my mind (what's left of it) off the lobotomy I received last week!

    Ahem... it pisses me off that the winning bidder could have waited a week and given that extra cash to a charity. You know, to stop people dying from starvation or something! Man alive, I swear most people are braindead, but what really annoys me is that this particular moron has that kind of disposable money. I mean sure, I regularly squander my cashflow on my buttock enhancing surgery and gold plated branches for my pet tree sloth, but damn... at least I can complete a sudoku puzzle or two!

    Seriously though, I'm joking in order to conceal my utter despair at humanity.
  • ScnewScnew
    edited November 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    Playing this game before anyone else means having the chance to be the first that reaches maximum rank/level.

    Seems to me like it would be sorta tough to reach the max multiplayer rank when there's no-one else to play multiplayer with...
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited November 2011
    What annoys me is that that dude had enough money to pay that much for the game...and then got the 3-4 day delivery for four bucks. What the hell? He would have gotten the game at the same time if he just waited!

    Maybe even earlier!
  • DaviesDavies
    edited November 2011
    Alcoremortis wrote: »
    What annoys me is that that dude had enough money to pay that much for the game...and then got the 3-4 day delivery for four bucks. What the hell? He would have gotten the game at the same time if he just waited!

    Maybe even earlier!

    It occurs to me that there's only one sane plan of action at this juncture; to locate the winning bidder's household and drop by for a game of "multiplayer". They can use a spud gun and we'll be utilising live ammunition. If all else fails, then we'll nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure... to clean up the gene pool for good.
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