Why is Black Ops 2 so expensive when it is a 6 year old game?

Hey there, DragonHeadJon

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This is high in price, mainly because it is a Backwards Compatible Game on the Xbox One. Thus meaning people are still playing the game even now. Also, this is the latest Call of Duty Franchise on Xbox 360 - well proper game anyway, Black Ops 3 is only a Multiplayer game on 360 with no campaign.

BossDweeb is correct. All Microsoft do is sell the game through the store. They have no control over the prices, as this solely lies with the publisher and developer.

Regards,

Because the publishers say so.... And they are not MS. The MS Store is just another on line retailer, with a few items of their

own in the mix. COD is published by Activision.

This series has always been slow to drop in price, so it must keep selling at the stupidly high price, or it would be cheaper.

I gave up after COD 1 and MW 2 finally came down to pauper price on sale.

What I've noticed in the past few years is the big on line game retailers seem to have formed a cartel of sorts as

they have all increased prices so they can make their frequent 'sales' look good (coincidental of course).

Old games, particularly AAA titles and popular classics that were down to $10- a few years ago are now $20- or more.

An A-grade marketing gimmick that makes a game that would have been $5- by now look good when

on 'sale' for $5- , when compared to the re-inflated 'full' price of $20- .

• At least it gives the shop front game retailers a bit better chance to compete. Pretty hard to make any money from

a physical copy of a game at $10- or even $20- .