No. The community sucks, kids or no. Everyone blames the other guy for hacking or using some "Cheap" perk.gbemery said:
Call of Duty to get WoW-Like Subscriptions?
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Congrats Activision buttheads. Go ahead. Make my day. And then watch the number of online players plow down like the fucking Dow Jones. For once I decided to play COD and now you decide to fee? What will separate you from EA if you do that, anyway? XBOX guys already pay their online fees and since most of COD players are on XBL, how do you think they are gonna react? Are you asking for a boycott? Have at thee, motherfuckers.
I agree. Indeed, there is a big difference, and a Pay to Play First person shooter with the same scale of conflict as all the other Call of Duty Series (by which i mean, 8-12-18 players, one match, one map.)GodsClown said:
To suddenly make it pay to play is not a matter of necessity, for example keeping the servers afloat, they do it perfectly fine the way it is. Suddenly making it pay to play would make it a matter of pure greed.
Good thing I never cared for cod piece may it die a violent death and take activision down with it....
But anyway for games like this a 2-3$ monthly fee you can get 50$ off of if you pay a year up front is not a bad idea, but the pings and speeds have to be hell of a lot better not to mention 20$ worth of free stuff a month for having to pay the monthly. I mean if wow is making hundreds of millions anyone with a pop MP game can make millions with 2-4$ a month and 30-40$ up front..... then again they want 70$ a game and 25$ a month ......
But anyway for games like this a 2-3$ monthly fee you can get 50$ off of if you pay a year up front is not a bad idea, but the pings and speeds have to be hell of a lot better not to mention 20$ worth of free stuff a month for having to pay the monthly. I mean if wow is making hundreds of millions anyone with a pop MP game can make millions with 2-4$ a month and 30-40$ up front..... then again they want 70$ a game and 25$ a month ......
Its as simple as either you go with the 30-50$ a game and support it, 20-70$ game and no support or 10-50$ game with a 5-25$ monthly superscription to pay for support. You a a game dev have those choices, if you can not keep to one you may as well go out of business and let someone else do it better... there are more than enough people ready and able to replace any stagnating developer or publisher.cainx10a said:
Oh, effing hell he's just killed his franchise! Damn, this had better be one hell of an elaborate prank. Charging for an FPS? It'll help kill their 360 sales for sure! And making what was once free pay-to-play is about as smart as eating arsenic. Activision employees, sell your stocks starting... NOW! GOGOGOGO!!
no dedicated servers and now plans to force subsciption IW suck my balls i wouldnt pay monthly for ANY game not even ur overhyped pos
for this too work Activision would need to provide seriously high levels of clan support as well as frequent upgrades and changes
and the reason WOW has a subscription is because its an MMO
i seriously worry about how these big companies are gonna ruin gaming
valve ftw!!
and the reason WOW has a subscription is because its an MMO
i seriously worry about how these big companies are gonna ruin gaming
valve ftw!!
Umm.. The amount of online content required for cod pales in comparison to blizzard. One blizzard worker probably does more work in a day then the entire activision gaming division.
They made approximately 100 millions USD+ in net profits from COD MW2. That's not even counting them most likely weasling IW out of their cut because they were a in-house company.SilentVirus said:
It's not witty to use somebody else's joke.Marq said:
What a great way to suck more money out of their legion of loyal followers. They think about what makes themselves happy, not their followers, because they know that almost all of them would pay at least $30 for more new things.
Very crafty.
Very crafty.
Well, IF they were to add a fee, think of all the content they would have to add in order to make it really worth the fee.
While it would be an extra thing you would have to pay for, It could be good due to the amount of extra content. It's sort of a win for us while being a win for them.
While it would be an extra thing you would have to pay for, It could be good due to the amount of extra content. It's sort of a win for us while being a win for them.
Guild Wars is not a MMORPG, yeah, it's Multiplayer RPG for sure, but it does not have the components of a typical MMO that would warrant monthly payments. The towns were merely lobbies where players would trade and group up, and the heavily instanced game in turn only reflected the Online CRPG nature of Guild Wars.Acrisius said:Well aren't you a sharp-tongued little demon?cainx10a said:
I have no need to prove anything, Guild Wars is already an excellent example. I doubt the Guild Wars people are working for free over at ArenaNet and NCsoft, don't you? It's all a matter of HOW they make their money, I was merely saying that it's obviously possible to make money without becoming bitches. An FPS game has never had a subscription requirement BEFORE, so only something as stupid as the public would allow them to do something like that NOW. Didn't Valve try to do that back in CS 1.3 or 1.4 or something? I don't remember, but it obviously didn't work
Then again, ANET released 2 Campaigns and one Expansion pack as well as introduced micro-transaction elements to get moar moneh . I purchased the 2 campaigns ($50 each) and the Expansion pack ($30+), as well as more than 5 character slots, the PvP pack ($50) for Nightfall because I didn't have the time to unlock everything for my PvP toons. Fact is, Guild Wars allowed the players who wanted to play without having to buy anything else to have a good, if not, great time.
But the new elements the other campaigns introduced pretty much warranted that players who wanted the best form of entertainment in Guild Wars, MUST purchase those so-called new chapters, whether Factions to enjoy playing as an assassin class or fight in casual PVP like Alliance Battle or Nightfall to enhance their PvE experience with a wonderfully crafted high-level focus campaign as well as customizable henchmen (heroes).
So yeah, it was F2P, but you did spend a fair bit of money on it. The game is currently available on steam, the trilogy for $25. A friend just purchased it, so I'll be playing it along with l4d2/mw2 .
No free-2-play online games including mmos and other action games like Combat Arms would last without monkeys spending peanuts in their online store for tastier bananas.
Guild Wars was never a really free experience if you consider that expansions and add-ons sales were needed to generate revenue over those years. And as far as I can remember, for a free game, it only had around 1 million to 2 million people (and that was eons ago, I doubt that many are still around), compared to WoW with it's ever increasing numbers.
Now, if you are going to talk about an FPS game, dare I say, FPSMMO, which is not completely unheard of, and by no mean, another CoD game targeted at moi who likes his MW2 free-2-play experience with DLC to bolster the experience and increase the lifespan of the product. However, in the greater scheme of FPS games, BF2 is where it's at for Fun+War-Stuff. Maybe BF3 will gameplay type that doesn't just involve capping flags conquest-style.
They are probably just saying they talked to people who wanted this when they really didn't because come on who the hell really wants to pay more money to exactly what you can now? Nobody that's who. Anyway if they say they asked people they think it'll go over smoother if and when they do it. Because they can fall back and say what? you asked us to do it! =D