Call of Duty’s Burger King Skin Is Getting Sold For Half The Cost Of The Game - Kotaku

Burger King’s proprietary Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II relation skin, a antheral with a beauteous mustache and Burger Town t-shirt, is selling connected eBay for astir fractional of the afloat game’s $69.99 asking price.

I volition repetition that for your benefit. Burger King, location of the Whopper, partnered with Modern Warfare II and brought distant from its troves of blistery grease an exclusive Call of Duty skin. It is simply a antheral with a beauteous mustache and garment that says Burger Town, the CoD franchise’s burger emporium and easter egg, connected it. The man, let’s telephone him Bobby, is listed connected eBay for astir $30.

This is not what Burger King intended. You’re expected to bargain the skin, bundled with 1 hr of treble XP, arsenic portion of the accelerated nutrient empire’s Modern Warfare II meal, oregon the Modern Warfare II Baconator Meal from Hungry Jack’s if you’re successful Australia.

But since the promotion is lone disposable successful 39 countries, excluding the U.S. and U.K., immoderate radical are near yearning for the burger antheral and volition bash thing to get him. Elsewhere, places similar Mexico and Saudi Arabia volition fto customers devour their fries from within a Modern Warfare II palace, CoD-themed Burger Kings. And successful Paris, connected October 29 and 30, customers volition adjacent beryllium capable to play the crippled connected an ordering kiosk, Adweek reports. Maybe they’ll bash Doom next.

But I’m getting up of myself successful dreaming. People tin deliberation lone of the mustache close now. It’s so…full. Ebay past shows that re-sold skins are going for as overmuch arsenic $39.99, though astir income beryllium betwixt $20 and $35, each of which is overmuch cheaper than a level ticket. The Burger King tegument seems to beryllium constricted and not really region-locked, truthful if you bash walk nine-point-five Whoppers connected an out-of-bounds Call of Duty skin, you volition astatine slightest beryllium capable to usage it.

Activision Blizzard, Call of Duty’s publisher, has its existent selling strategy determined by main selling serviceman Fernando Machado, who, earlier video games, led respective advertisement campaigns for Burger King arsenic Restaurant Brands International’s CMO. I volition commencement playing Call of Duty dialog backwards and fto you cognize if that’s each Burger King ads, too.