Kotick Wants Call of Duty Subscriptions "Tomorrow"

[Hiroshi Mishima]

OT: I think I will slowly but surely quit gaming. This, "let's ruthlessly extort the gaming crowd until we cause another Video Game Crash" is just stupid. I mean, you pay the full price for the game($60), then pay for DLCs(~$20), map packs(~$15), the online subscription(~$20/month) and the extra in-game items(~$20) too. That's a total of around $120 plus a monthly fee of $20. And that's only one game. My goddamn rent is lower than that.

No matter, after the second Video Game Crash, it'll be a bleak world for us...

A long-time friend of mine who is also in the video game industry has said similar sentiments. The current game industry is strangling itself for a variety of reasons, sexism and greed included. He's also become so dissatisfied with the current trend in gaming that he hasn't bought a new game in years, but he's getting to the point that he may quit being a gamer entirely save for the little things he does for the company he works for. It is quite sad for someone who was a gamer their entire life.

 

[BurnedPizza429]

your probably the only person who wants to pay
but thats not happening for you since no was voted most

 

[BurnedPizza429]

same XD

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

Hang on, he wants to bring this to consoles? So in other words he wants us to pay for the game, pay for XBL Gold and CoD Subscription fees? Riiiiight. See he had already lost me back when he did that crazy shiiet with IW [So far the only developers of CoD I've liked], and then he goes and does this. It's like he wants to earn my eternal hate.

So essentially now that they've fucked the creators of the franchise(once it started to get good. D, they are now insisting on fucking the actual franchise it's self.

Bobby Kotick go back to the Crazies Ward, they are missing you.

 

[luckycharms8282]

I want to say mean things about Kotick and his fat, ugly mother. He's so full of BS, it makes me sad.

 

[gl1koz3]

Kill him.

I strongly agree!!!!

Split in two groups. One take $$$, the other take the shot.

 

[Effectz]

Kotick is the sith lord

 

[Playbahnosh]

OT: I think I will slowly but surely quit gaming. This, "let's ruthlessly extort the gaming crowd until we cause another Video Game Crash" is just stupid. I mean, you pay the full price for the game($60), then pay for DLCs(~$20), map packs(~$15), the online subscription(~$20/month) and the extra in-game items(~$20) too. That's a total of around $120 plus a monthly fee of $20. And that's only one game. My goddamn rent is lower than that.

No matter, after the second Video Game Crash, it'll be a bleak world for us...

A long-time friend of mine who is also in the video game industry has said similar sentiments. The current game industry is strangling itself for a variety of reasons, sexism and greed included. He's also become so dissatisfied with the current trend in gaming that he hasn't bought a new game in years, but he's getting to the point that he may quit being a gamer entirely save for the little things he does for the company he works for. It is quite sad for someone who was a gamer their entire life.

Well, I'm only on the outskirts of the video game industry, I'm a games journalist, and really, my whining about prices and exploitation is moot, since I get my games for free anyway, so I don't wanna sound like a hypocrite, but this really bugs me. I mean, big console companies are shit out of ideas, just like game developers. Everybody is trying to play it safe, there are virtually no original titles on the market now, just copies of clones and sequels. Shooty Shooter: The Shootening, Gritty Space Marine Adventures 8, War Propaganda: Modern Brainwashing 2 and of course Gimmicky Motion-Controller Game #96: Flail Your Hands Around Like A Retard.

What did we see this E3? Sony and Microsoft, out of utter lack of ideas and willingness to innovate, they fielded their own set of gimmicky Wii-Mote clones, and now they want us to buy almost the exact same gimmicky motion controllers with the exact same set of games as what Nintendo fielded four years ago. Oh, and there is the 3D hype. Technology, that the vast majority of gamers won't be able to get for another four years at least. Am I the only one who considers these a fucking catastrophe?

 

[Caradinist]

..Wh...What?

People have been clamoring for an added subscription fee?! Why would you possibl- Is he..A..But...It's not planetside! It's not some 100vs100 battle for a base, it's the same type of matches any other FPS holds!

I mean, sure, if this means cranking out new maps like there's no tommorow, sure, please offer a elaborate reason! But why in the blue hell would you just say "Yeah, we're planning on adding a subscription fee. Why? because it'll make the game better."

A "compelling experience"? It already achieved that when the game came out.

This has to be some joke. You don't just look at Blizzard and say "Well, World of Warcraft is very popular, it has a subscription fee...Let's put a subscription fee on our number one FPS!"

This seems like a smart move, if you have the fastest selling game EVER why not make more money off of it? People will still pay.

And it would be a smart move if he even mentioned anything beneficial to it. But he didn't, his reason for it is basically "I want to put a subscription fee on it, because people LOVE IT!".


Now, i think this is a horrible idea, and I'm one of the few that aren't posting "I WANT OT KILL HIM!!11(((". But, holy shit, there is absolutely no thought process other than plain old greed, and he's not even disguising it properly.

 

[Weaver]

Good move Activision, because there obviously aren't other FPS games without monthly subs.
I said before, Kotick is going to destroy Activision.

 

[mew4ever23]

Way to kill the franchise. Good thing my online FPS of choice is TF2.

 

[Woe Is You]

I was kind of suspecting something like this would happen since they didn't want players run their own servers. I'm not glad to see my fears come true, though.

 

[Video Gone]

Another reason not to buy any more Call Of Duty games!

Which I've just added to the other 50 reasons I have.

So do you have like a thread of those? That'd be fun.

 

[Terrified Android]

I can understand the pros and cons of going with/without subscriptions, i'll just have to wait and see what happens, and hope that it stays fun, at least if it was p2p they could hopefully be more involved and offer better services.

 

[Warped_Ghost]

Well this can only help people switch over to Medal of Honor and Bad Company.
Hopefully the people who don't transfer over are the 13 year old screaming kids though.

 

[Gunner 51]

Think of it this way...

£20 per month = £240 per annum.

Who's going to be crazy rich enough to pay that kind of money just to play a simple FPS with only a few maps. (With loads of cheaters and glitchers on it.)

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Bobby Kotick, if you're reading this, go suck an electrified railroad spike. This is the stupidest idea I've heard in a long time, especially considering the COD series has pretty much nothing unique going for it that other generic FPS' can't imitate without draining their customers of money each damn month.
Bobby Kotick is either satan or Forrest Gump.

 

[wonkify]

People, please, abandon Activision games NOW. Play anything else, but stick them in their share price and thus drive a dagger in the place Kotick's heart once resided.

This is the sole thing that will kill off this chancre on the body of gaming.

 

[Kyber]

because of this i might get BFBC2 but i am gona buy Black Ops becauss i bye every CoD game cos i love em