Yeah, it is a nice deal for those who don't care about the disc. There are a lot of people that purchase the digital version directly from Blizzard but they have to pay the retail price.
I just bought their Call of Duty Black Ops from them a few days ago.
[quote name='persianhero']arent all pc games like $49.99?[/QUOTE]
Not activision PC games. Despite only merging with blizzard all the blizzard titles are showing signs of influence from activision from a price standpoint.
Activision price hikes their high profile pc games to 60 bucks like call of duty and starcraft. While wow cataclysm expansion stays a meger 40 dollars like usual since they make their money through subscription but the cataclysm collectors edition was price hiked to 80 dollars when every CE for wow up till now has only been 60.
Its obviously about gouging popular games though because true crime 2 hong kong for the pc is published by activision and is pre order price of the normal 50 bucks, along with the newer james bond game because they know it wont sell big.