Activision...

Continues to push the boundaries of evil. That's right, Bobby Kotick hasen't gotten enough money from you yet. And although he is trying hard, he also hasn't mangaged to kill the CoD franchise... yet. But don't worry, he hasn't given up yet. So what would his next brilliant idea be? Why charging for online service of course. Why let people play CoD online for Free when you could charge people? Oh yeah!

Speaking candidly to The Wall Street Journal (via MCV),
Kotick was asked "if you could snap your fingers, and instantly make
one change in your company what would it be?"

"I would have Call of Duty be an online subscription service
tomorrow," the executive replied. "When you think about what the
audience's interests are and how you could really satisfy bigger
audiences with more inspired, creative opportunities, I would love to
see us have an online Call of Duty world. I think our players would just
have so much of a more compelling experience."

Link - http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3180011
First the IW debacle, Next $15 for 5-map DLC and now this??? I haven't even played it yet but MoH is looking better and better each day.

i would not play cod anymore if i have to pay for xbox live and then pay again to play there game

Unless he is talking about a CoD MMO, which is just FAIL. Either way it's not looking good for the CoD franchise.

Ya that's some bs, but hey look at wow it makes a killing. There's no way I'd pay an additional charge to play a game on the xbox . Cod is awsome in all but there is no way I'm paying 20 to 30 bucks a month to play just one game on any system, then where would I get the $ for the tourneys!

i would not play it either. people sure are greedy.

Yeah people would not pay for xbl and that. They would have to offer some crazy things to get the current cod fans to do that.

yes sir


with normal PC games like WoW and star trek online the fee is 15 a month. so 69.99year of gold + 15month fee(x12) + DLC (15 each) = anal r@pe
then buy there new game every other year at another $59.99

no thank you please
this will for sure end cod if its applyed to FPS
now MMO well thats a pc thing i dont think you cant really have a MMO on the xbox , and that would be a fair thing to charge 15 a month since that is what the pc people pay anyways per game per month.

ana1 r@pe = no no wonky will not play cod

Yeah it wouldn't be worth it at all. I know their competitors would want them to make that move, it would kill the COD franchise for sure!

That guy lives in a dream world. He works on a console FPS but wishes he was on an MMO. But, if they can get 1/3 of the current players to do that they will come out ahead and not miss the rest of us.

Lol man I hope this guy is talking about making a separate MMO(another fail idea but still), because I'm not paying extra to play a game I payed $59.99 plus tax for plus my Xbox Live sub plus my map packs(they were good, but still a little pricey)...I mean come on. He would probably be like "WoW only 15 bucks per months...my game is so good people will pay twice that...30 dollars per months it is" then *signs contract to destroy COD franchise*

Yeah, I really don't like Activision lately, especially Bobby Kotick. He just comes off as such a douche and I am pretty sure he is going to run the CoD franchise right into the ground. Sad really.

Well someone on the Xbox Live forums took this the wrong way: http://forums.xbox.com/33082619/ShowPost.aspx

S7 Interseptor wrote:Yeah, I really don't like Activision lately, especially Bobby Kotick. He just comes off as such a douche and I am pretty sure he is going to run the CoD franchise right into the ground. Sad really.

so its like this huh