Activision Unveils New Call of Duty Online Service
- Thread starter Logan Westbrook
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Lame. Just get it over with and charge 5 bucks a month and hand out new maps every three months. Why are they beating around the bush? There is little point in creating another "pro" service that punishes anyone who buys a used copy (and devalues the game when bought new).
Go all in or quit this lameness.
(sorry, double post and I can't delete one)
Go all in or quit this lameness.
(sorry, double post and I can't delete one)
Two things will happen if they do offer maps to these subscription schmucks. One, you'll join a game and get booted the instant they change maps since you don't have that map. Two, you'll only get paired up with players who don't have the maps.TheRightToArmBears said:
Map packs are notorious for splitting communities. In some games you don't really notice it but once the second map pack comes out or the third you'll start to see the impact.
Interesting.
I'm not gonna pay any form of subscription fee for a game I go on multiplayer occasionally for.
As long as the actual stuff is free, whatever let em do what they want, If I have to actually pay for online now, then fuck that I'll wait until it drops down to 20 bucks in 3 years
I'm not gonna pay any form of subscription fee for a game I go on multiplayer occasionally for.
As long as the actual stuff is free, whatever let em do what they want, If I have to actually pay for online now, then fuck that I'll wait until it drops down to 20 bucks in 3 years
So wait...if most, if not all, the kids and lone wolf people, who think they are 'one man armies', are goin to be on this and MW3.....that means BF3....will be....full of team play?.............*ponders then face of questinon turns into face of excitment*Dark Harbinger said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-eZZb3Iirk
(more or less the air guitar part)
My point still stands, while yes, it wouldn't be as good if it was free(whatever that "it" is as we still don't know) that doesn't mean it couldn't be as good if it was free if Activision decided to lower their existing profit margins by just a slight bit.Logan Westbrook said:
So to say that money is the issue why they have to charge for it, as if their original intent was to create something that would be at no extra charge and not something that would further increase their profits, well, that is kinda BS.
As long as it dosent affect me when I want to play the odd game of deathmatch- I really dont care if the 'pro' CoD players want to pay for an elite service to keep them away from all the common rabble and all in one place where they can seriously circlejerk focus on their professional gaming.
I think a monthly rate is a bit much, though. Especially since Call of Duty already costs $60/year to play (trollololol)
I think a monthly rate is a bit much, though. Especially since Call of Duty already costs $60/year to play (trollololol)
You're making quite the assumptions there. You don't know how much the service will cost to run, so you can't make claims about how much it will or won't impact Activision's profit margins.VanBasten said:
Besides, the subscription is an optional part of an optional service. It's a bizarre thing to get upset about.
Looks like activision's let's try to squeeze every dollar out of the people who already spent 60 dollars on our game department is working overtime. This is why I refuse to buy DLC maps. They should have been shipped with the game in the first place, they were just holding on to them to extract another 15$ from the people who buy them.
it's funny because people think that this is the only thing wrong with the CoD series. i think its fine. its like getting Bungie pro or what ever it was called that gave u more room in your file share. its not going to affect the normal game its just going to get bonuses to people who pay for it. it'll probably have yearly subscription cards u can buy at gamestop for like $20. i for one welcome it. i don't usually play cod but if i could pay a little extra to not get matched up with the prepubescent 12 year olds i will.
as long as there are a few decent maps I can play without having to subscribe to this.....I really don't care and won't buy it.
I'm making an assumption that they made this to make even more money of an already extremely popular and profitable game. I really don't think that's an unreasonable assumption.Logan Westbrook said:
The fact that it will be free but with optional stuff tells me the infrastructure for it is probably not that costly to support the majority of non paying members, and that the optional stuff will probably be easily and cheaply produced stuff(reskins, customizations, maybe an odd map or item here and there, early access and such) that guarantee huge returns of investments.
I'm basing this on general trends in the industry, and I don't think I'm far off on those assumptions.
As I've said before, that's all fine by me, charge away I say, just don't present it as if you don't really want to charge for it but must due to an unfortunate lack of money...Logan Westbrook said:
i'm pretty certain that black ops already had all this shit. These guys are just filthy gougers.