Ayepecks Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 The Call of Duty games have a massive multiplayer following on Xbox 360. But is the series going to make the leap to a massively multiplayer online game? Nothing is confirmed yet."We've heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft's] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty," Activision Blizzard honcho Robert Kotick says in a recent Financial Times interview. "We don't really participate financially in that income stream. We would really like to be able to provide much more value to those millions of players playing on Live, but it's not our network." With World of Warcraft in its stable, Activision Blizzard knows a thing or two about just how successful MMOs can be. Kotick is platform agnostic ? and claims to always have been. Consoles are great for the players in the sense that they provide a uniform base. There is no worrying about specs, no concern about upgrading one's machine so it can play a certain game. They provide a standard. Consoles and platform holders, however, do take a cut of money as evident by Kotick's comments regarding Call of Duty and Xbox Live. And PCs, which are and always have been a viable option, have a serious piracy problem. Steam, though, certainly does provide a robust option for PC games, but it does not apply to large MMOs like World of Warcraft. "[Consoles] do a very good job of supporting the gamer," Kotick said. "If we are going to broaden our audiences, we are going to need to have other devices." Some of those other devices include efforts by Dell and HP to connect PCs to televisions, something Kotick says Activision Blizzard will support "very aggressively". In 2008, Kotick poped this question to a group of investors: "What would be the natural evolution of a property like Call of Duty into a massively-multiplayer environment and how do you monetize that?" Guess we'll find out. From: http://kotaku.com/5579712/activision-wants-more-value-for-call-of-duty-xbox-live-players Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b50ee912-8782-11df-9f37-00144feabdc0.html?catid=61 (subscription required) Someone please slap this man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eilegz Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 such a douchebag, now that IW its gone treyarch will have to do something great if they want a space against bungie halo reach... so far black ops looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konstanov Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 He's funny, I claim 100% of the world only has internet connections to look at porn. Prove me wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I'm chipping in ?5 for an assassin, anyone else wants to join in on that pool? LingeringSoul and Green_Eye 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastedJoker Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 The rise in piracy at sea is linked to the rise in the sale of 2010 calendars :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJD Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Someone please slap this man. Slap him? We should give this guy a medal!! One with a gps tracker in it and then shoot a guided missile at the prick. :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastedJoker Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Slap him? We should give this guy a medal!! One with a gps tracker in it and then shoot a guided missile at the prick. :shiftyninja: And we bemoan the press' fixation on video games encouraging violence :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreKe Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Someone please slap this man. Um, why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted July 5, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted July 5, 2010 He's saying all this while accepting Microsoft's money to make map packs come out first on the 360 for the next 3 years or whatever it is? Man Kotick should actually be put under Douche in the dictionary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 He's saying all this while accepting Microsoft's money to make map packs come out first on the 360 for the next 3 years or whatever it is? Man Kotick should actually be put under Douche in the dictionary. Exactly. I don't care for exclusivity agreements, but if you're going to sign a deal to do such a thing, don't go around bitching about the person you signed the deal with. What an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 This guy is a dolt for sure. LingeringSoul 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookie Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Bookmark this and then tick off all the names that still go on to buy Black Ops in November. ;) I just wish they would hurry up and do a subscription based CoD, do it to a few other games and cause a industry crash so we can reset like in the 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted July 5, 2010 Veteran Share Posted July 5, 2010 Leave them to find out the hard way...No doubt a lot of people would subscribe to a CoD MMO, but it'll never take off like the installments do on consoles. People will simply move onto another franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hammond Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 If they turned it into an MMO with a big open world where you had to do missions and what you did affected the war then id pay for it, if its just MW2 but paid for he can shove it up his arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Leave them to find out the hard way...No doubt a lot of people would subscribe to a CoD MMO, but it'll never take off like the installments do on consoles. People will simply move onto another franchise. I have enjoyed every single COD, and I plan on getting every future COD (so long as I don't have to pay extra to play online). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LingeringSoul Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 I have enjoyed every single COD, and I plan on getting every future COD (so long as I don't have to pay extra to play online). I just wonder how much longer the multiplayer can continue to captivate people, especially with Infinity Ward out of the picture. It's easy enough to make each new CoD enjoyable from a single-player perspective, since all they have to do is throw in some new clich? storyline and some new backdrops. Multiplayer is a different matter, though. Treyarch has never been great at creating innovative new features (that was IW's job), and I wonder how much longer CoD can survive in the multiplayer scene if it's just a re-skinned version of the same underlying game. In any event, I've never played an MMO and I have no plans of starting. As for the regular CoD installments, the fact that Halo Reach is coming out this year means that there's a 0% chance of Activision gaining a sale from me for Black Ops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoredBozirini Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Kotick is 100% correct. I hope he makes Activision work for more COD games. Even if they release a COD where you have to pay monthly I wouldn't mind (as long as the monthly fee is not over $50 of course). Kotick is god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 I just wonder how much longer the multiplayer can continue to captivate people, especially with Infinity Ward out of the picture. It's easy enough to make each new CoD enjoyable from a single-player perspective, since all they have to do is throw in some new clich? storyline and some new backdrops. Multiplayer is a different matter, though. Treyarch has never been great at creating innovative new features (that was IW's job), and I wonder how much longer CoD can survive in the multiplayer scene if it's just a re-skinned version of the same underlying game. In any event, I've never played an MMO and I have no plans of starting. As for the regular CoD installments, the fact that Halo Reach is coming out this year means that there's a 0% chance of Activision gaining a sale from me for Black Ops. Well, if multiplayer does indeed start falling apart going forward, then yes, you can count me out of future purchases of COD. I buy COD because of the MP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massiveterra Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 He's funny, I claim 100% of the world only has internet connections to look at porn. Prove me wrong. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livin in a box Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 There are people saying here that an MMO style COD wouldn't take off- but I have a feeling it would. Think of the kinds of people who buy COD in the first place- they're mostly immature 10-16 year olds. No disrespect to anyone on here, you're all lovely, but when you go online and just have a headset on it all becomes clear. And they are the type of people who would end up paying for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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