Evil publisher Activision loves the color of money, and apparently having the biggest game franchises in the world just doesn't rake in enough cash for the nefarious company. With that in mind, Activision is looking at ways to profit even more from big names like Call of Duty, "monetizing" the experience even more than it does now.
"It's definitely an aspiration that we see potential in, particularly as we look at different business models to monetize the online gameplay," says CFO Thomas Tippl. "There's good knowledge exchange happening between the Blizzard folks and our online guys. We have great experience also on Call of Duty with the success we had on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. A lot of that knowledge is getting actually built into the Battle.Net platform and the design of that.
"I think it's been mutually beneficial, and you should expect us to test and ultimately launch additional online monetization models of some of some of our biggest franchises like Call of Duty."
Does that sound bad to you? It shouldn't. Activision apparently thinks that people like you "demanded" to pay more for Call of Duty: "Our gamers are telling us there's lots of services and innovation they would like to see that they're not getting yet. From what we see so far, additional content, as well as all the services Blizzard is offering, is that there is demand from the core gamers to pay up for that."
Did you tell Activision that this is what you wanted? Own up, who bloody gave Activision this idea!?
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9:00 AM on 11.15.2009
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Fucking Call of Duty 7 is going to have pay to play aspects, I'm calling it. And all because Treyarch will just be like "OKAY! THATS COOL!" leaving Infinity Ward fucked the next time they make a CoD game.
WHAT exactly happens?
We all know there's a big and sad probability that they will make this monthly payment thing true and most of you idiots will gobble it up.
All those that picked up MW2's on launch day with the hiked up price tag, that's who. Me? not one of them, i'm surely getting it, don't doubt it, but i'll wait a bit for a second hand or a price drop when the hype madness cools down.
I love you, however, if you turn Battle.net into Xbox Live 2.0 I will have no choice but to kill you all, forever. Okay? I swear to christ if Activision somehow get's their stupid paws into Blizzards work on Starcraft 2 it will be the end of PC Gaming as we know it. DO.NOT.MESS.WITH.STARCRAFT.AND.BLIZZARD.FANS.
Something like 10 million people have shown they are willing to pay monthly for World of Warcraft. Something like 15 million pay to use their own internet on Xbox Live. Consumers have shown they will pay fees for things like this, and if they start a monthly fee based Call of Duty multiplayer game, where your $15 a month or whatever gets you new maps and weapons and such on a timely basis and perhaps dedicated servers and consistent anti-cheat, TONS of people would pay for it.
TONS.
Don't blame this man for seeing an opportunity. If people wouldn't pay for it he would never do it... but people will. Lots of people will.
Depending on how you use your comp Win7 is massively better and worth every penny. Gamer? Graphic artist? Sound designer? Web professional? I would suggest Win7 very much.
If all you use your comp for is surfing the web though, you can probably stick with XP until you need a new comp altogether.
Side note: Win7 is $30 for students, very nice price.
Like I say about Acti all the time they may not be morally just but they have a sound business strategy with exception of the PC version of MW2 which was just bullocks.
I mean how many times does somebody post a comment suggesting an idea an then say something like "I'd pay a hundred billion dollars for dat har har har." Koticks just takin' you up on your offer.
NOTE: Didn't buy MW2. Just thought I'd toss that out there.
a p.s. to your letter:
Blizzard, there is a reason people still play diablo 2 online on battle.net today. if you mess up diablo 3 by making me pay, i'll cry
TRUTH. HE SPEAKS IT. That's why I will never buy another CoD, tony hawk, Guitar Hero, OR BELOVED BLIZZARD GAME, unless it's used.
Real fucking scared.
I think this could be the answer to that question.
Fucking people. Bitch about price increases and shit, then go out and buy the game anyway.
Or do numbers only count when they prove that fucking people over will help them.
This is where we're going, like it or not; as much as those of us with brains would like to do about it, I think you need to talk to anyone that bought MW2 on PC about that.
It's ironic how HD/"hardcore" gamers screamed that the Wii was going to alter the industry for the worse, when in fact the HD business model has done far more harm than the Wii perhaps ever will.
Also news flash, Jim Sterling is a genious. Enough ranting, I'm going to play MW 2. I hope they drop a map pack soon. This game is the tits!!
There's tons of evidence for it, but I give you the No LAN debacle. After announcing the lack of LAN, people bitched, and we got "connected lan". Problem with that is...ever try running a 30, 50, even 100 person lan? Keeping them all connected, or getting any of them connected considering most large lans are hosted in warehouses and the like, is a pure joke.
This is why I have a wii. Occasionally I get a gem like No More Heroes or Muramasa, and there's none of the drama. Noone's coming after my old-school for cash.
$60 is a lot for a game in the first place. If you're not going to support it for free or cheap, why not just rent it for $5? There is no way I'm going to download like 3 DLC's for a game at $10 a pop so that when all is said and done, I've spent $100 on the game.