PC Gamers: This Is How You Get Your Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition

25 responses to “PC Gamers: This Is How You Get Your Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition”

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   Novangel

   July 31, 2009 at 4:22 pm

   There is a slim chance I would get the Prestige version,if I do, I’ll test this out

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2. 

   Andrew Mills

   July 31, 2009 at 5:02 pm

   I don’t think I could justify forking out for the price tag.

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3. 

   Sampsanite

   July 31, 2009 at 5:02 pm

   Yeah it works I had this shady scam organised before they released it could be done best idea is to price match to somewhere like Big W. Usually they sell it cheaper then trade it in get even more bang for your buck.

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4. 

   fool

   July 31, 2009 at 5:04 pm

   yeah i use to work from eb and yeah this will work. when tradeing game no need for eb to have the other crap.the intrest is in the DISK and CASE only… GET SOME!!

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5. 

   Batiu-Drami

   July 31, 2009 at 5:07 pm

   Hell, don’t trade it back to EB for $80, trade to JB and you’ll probably get $100 for it (assuming $120 retail), and it might not even cost you anything extra to do this.

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6. 

   Aaron Clement

   July 31, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   I’ll “test” it if Kotaku wants to pay for it for me 😉

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7. 

   Jarryd Purcell

   July 31, 2009 at 6:12 pm

   or you could just import it from a site like play asia and not only save money but get it officially boxed and everything

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8. 

   Klas

   July 31, 2009 at 6:17 pm

   That way you miss out on the classic CoD though. This is disappointing because it’s probably actually better than the new game.

   The best thing to do is just buy standard. They’re only hurting themselves not offering prestige edition here.

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9. 

   helloadidas

   July 31, 2009 at 6:41 pm

   All I can see is the whole world without colors and ranks!

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10. 

    RUFiO

    July 31, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    I’ll give it a go.

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11. 

    Grim

    July 31, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    If I really wanted the PC game and night-vision goggles, I think I’d rather buy the game alone and then spend the remaining $100+ on a pair of better goggles.

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12. 

    Jackson Thurtle

    July 31, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    If you can grab the game from somewhere that does a 7-day exchange like GAME and EBGames, grab it from there, and use the rest of the cash on preorders or any other stuff you want at the time. You’ll still end up spending the price of both versions, but at least you’ll get a bunch of other stuff too. I know I’m getting Assassin’s Creed, so if I were chasing MW2’s Prestige Edition, this’d work great.

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13. 

    Jordan Dautovic

    July 31, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    Standard fare, I used to work for EB for nearly two years– People would do this shit all the time, especially with Guitar Hero, or console bundles with shit games (360 with Lego Indy and Kung Fu Panda comes to mind) Bonus, if you have an ‘edge’ card (you should have got one of those with your console purchase for free, otherwise its just not worth the $10… unless you want to do this more often) you can get an extra 10% on that $80 trade, making it $88.

    Buy the Prestige edition, pay your $199, trade in the game with the edge card, brings total cost down to $111, then pricematch the PC copy to JB’s price of $79, and your total cost is… $190.

    For all those suggesting to trade to JB instead, the only reason EB is offering the $80 is for store credit, and it will drop down to something along the $50 mark a week later, so its an incentive to spend the extra ‘trade dollars’ (they feed that bullshit to employees too) in the store. In this case, thats what you’re doing.

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14. 

    Khuntza

    July 31, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Lol… Im sure EB management are sooo pleased that this employee opened his big mouth and that its now published here..

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    1. 

       Michael

       July 31, 2009 at 8:41 pm

       Are you kidding? Once they have the game back as ‘pre-owned’, all profits from its sale go straight to them. They probably tell their employees to spread the news!

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    2. 

       brettk

       July 31, 2009 at 9:12 pm

       I don’t see how…if anything this is giving business. Potential buyers of the prestige edition, who of which don’t have a console now have news they can do it this way.

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          nulla

          August 1, 2009 at 1:29 pm

          lol 🙂

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15. 

    It works

    July 31, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    EB will definately do it for you. I’ve got the prestige edition ordered on 360, and the standard game on PC. After trading in the 360 game, and price matching the PC version it will cost $200. As for trading at JB – I did that once & it took way too long.

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16. 

    Sgt. Peppers

    July 31, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    This is encouraged throughout all stores. Nothing wrong with it – just ask them about it, and if they don’t believe you ask them to go into the intranet and look in the PC section promotions.

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17. 

    J’Jay Yabsley

    July 31, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    I will be doing this for sure

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18. 

    Aron

    July 31, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    I’m an EB employee at the moment, and I can confirm that there’s nothing shady or illegal about doing this.

    You’re free to get the prestige edition on 360/PS3 for $200, then trade in the game disc on it’s own (you can even keep the limited-edition case if you want, just trade it in with another 360/PS3 case) for $80, and then put it towards your PC version, which is only $100.

    Or, you could pricematch the PC version if you really wanted, and get it for cheaper so long as one of our competitors has it for cheaper. I don’t know any particular competitors who would have it cheaper *couch*JB-Hifi*cough* so I can’t give a particular price *couch*$79*cough*.

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19. 

    Shawn

    July 31, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    thats nice of em…they didnt need to do it, so still very nice of em

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20. 

    Jay

    August 1, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Ugh anyone could have told PC gamers that, not a freaking EB “expert”

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21. 

    kirobz

    August 3, 2009 at 5:35 am

    Is Activision moving from Game Publisher to Selling Night Vision Goggles?

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22. 

    rogue316

    August 4, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    Yeah, I pre-ordered my PC copy from JB for $79 (Apparently I’m supposed to say “cough” after that) lol.

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