Kotick Wants Call of Duty Subscriptions "Tomorrow"

[Hiphophippo]

Of course he does. Why wouldn't he? People will pay it and you know they will. It'd be basically free money for him.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

I already pay a for a game every month...

its called World of Warcraft....and the last thing I want is to pay for 13yo screaming fag and being camped by tards....They call that Battlegrounds OH and I pay for Xbox Live...

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Kotick also wants a unicorn, so hopefully he doesn't get anything, the rotten asscricket.

He wants it so he can drink it's blood and become immortal, probably.

OT: This is going to piss off so many people. I probably won't even play Black Ops.

 

[Sebenko]

I'd like to say "omg lol, no one will pay for this".

But they will. And I will again be disappointed in my fellow gamers.

We'll get f'ed in the a', and we won't have anyone to blame but ourselves.

But still, fuck that kotic guy.

 

[ShasoRmyr]

Fan freaking tastic no more COD for me.

 

[Delusibeta]

Honestly? I kinda feel bad paying £5 for StarCraft 1, knowing that a large chunk of that money is going towards paying his salary. (Don't give me all the "it's Blizzard" guff, Kotick is in charge of Activision-Blizzard, ergo anyone who spends money on Blizzard stuff is paying Kotick. Especially World of Warcraft subscriptions.)

 

[DEATHROAD]

time to leave CoD forever... it was a good time while it lasted.

My thoughts exactly, were i not paying for anything else atm i would consider it, but im already paying for WoW and xbox live, and even if i didnt pay for WoW, no matter what i would still HAVE to pay for live, unless call of duty online is like 2 pound a month i wont be interested.

 

[JWW]

It's becoming just like Apple.

 

[scotth266]

Snip.

I like how everyone and their grandmother in this thread has assumed that Kotick simply intends to charge a subscription fee for the multiplayer.

Considering that would be an act of proactive insanity, I'm betting that Kotick's plans run a bit deeper than that. Perhaps he intends to make Call Of Duty an MMOFPS... that would make sense, given the huge potential fanbase.

 

[Klepa]

I'm loving it how most devs, even MMO ones, usually start making a game, and announce the payment model during the development, usually in the beta phase. Most recent example, APB.

Kotick hasn't even announced a game, the only thing he has told us, is that the next game is going to be fucking expensive. Activision is sure to go belly up, once someone tells Kotick that they can make more money, if they just reduce the production costs and fire a bunch of people.

 

[RobThePrezodent]

god damn it, and I enjoyed playing call of duty as well. ah well...

 

[DEATHROAD]

Surprisingly, I think this is decision will turn a lot of people off Call of Duty. Most of its player base, at least those I've interacted with, continue to play it primarily because it doesn't cost them anything extra. I don't think that most CoD fans are the same sort of people who can legitimize shelling out $12 a month for a MMO (I'm one of them, and please leave your criticisms of that fact at the door).

Also, having a game with a subscription fee on Xbox Live is not only feasible, it's been done before. Phantasy Star Universe, for the Xbox 360, requires a $10-a-month "Guardian's License" to play online. And, FYI, when you're bored with the game and want to cancel it, it's a pain to stop those payments.

Amen,
two fucking hours it took me the first time, then they give you some code so that if you want to do it again it will be quicker, and sure enough i decided to play PSU again for a month of grinding the same 4 or 5 missions for slightly better weapons and went to cancel it again, they had never heard of the code, and i spent another 2 hours canceling it + the 30 fucking minutes it took them to verify that: "No, infact i dont know what code your talking about"

/Rant

 

[oppp7]

Hm, might work. I'm not sure how well they could make an MMOFPS after so many of the people who made the original left, but I'll hold judgement until I see the results.

 

[katsumoto03]

Uhhh... Battlefield it is then!

 

[veloper]

Yeah, it might work.
Not something for me, but I reckon there could enough console gamers to pay for something like regular COD updates.

 

[aaronmcc]

I am compelled...compelled to vomit.

 

[Doomsday11]

Seriously, is anyone surprised by this? Activision is evil incarnate and Kotick probably eats lunch with Satan daily.

I think you mean as satan
Also to echo everyone else kill him NOW!

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Kill him.

We can do it.

time to leave CoD forever... it was a good time while it lasted.

I'm with you. I'm going back to Medal of Honor, just like old times. Got my beta key and everything!

COD IS DEAD!!

 

[Treblaine]

How the HELL can two people talk about charging people more and say "audiences are clamoring for it" yet give NO REASON TO JUSTIFY THE COST!!!

I mean this is the Wall Street Journal, what kind of pansy ass interview is this if the journalist doesn't even challenge the idea, at least ask for something solid or meaningful for how any business expect their customers to pay more for the same service?!?!

Did he challenge Kotick over losing the core talent of his greatest asset (Infinity Ward) and how he could possibly hope to maintain the quality? Would not asking more money be pushing his luck and be an INCREDIBLY RISKY business decision?

I don't get how Kotick is considered a good businessman, he is just riding on other people's talent, everything he does fucks things up worse.

Exclusive interviews are POINTLESS if you just spent the entire time giving easy questions, you might as well just ask for a press release, but then again Kotick would NEVER have an interview with a REAL journalist... considering what he has done.