Headline of the day right? Look, we all know Bobby Kotick is an evil corporate dick who can eat shit and die, it's common knowledge, but when I saw this section of an interview he did with the Wall Street Journal posted on Neogaf, it is just too much to ignore.
WSJ: If you could snap your fingers, and instantly make one change in your company, what would it be, and why?
Mr. Kotick: I would have Call of Duty be an online subscription service tomorrow. When you think about what the audience's interests are and how you could really satisfy bigger audiences with more inspired, creative opportunities, I would love to see us have an online Call of Duty world. I think our players would just have so much of a more compelling experience.
WSJ: Is that coming?
Mr. Kotick: Hopefully.
WSJ: Are the customers ready for it?
Mr. Kotick: I think our audiences are clamoring for it. If you look at what they're playing on Xbox Live today, we've had 1.7 billion hours of multiplayer play on Live. I think we could do a lot more to really satisfy the interests of the customers. I think we could create so many things, and make the game even more fun to play. We haven't really had a chance to do that yet, so that would be my snap of the fingers.
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Yeah. What kind of dick head thinks the people who buy his product are "clamoring" to pay him more money, just so they can play Call of Duty?
You know what your audience is REALLY clamoring for? Call of Duty to be given away for free! Yes, but you can't do that can you? And just because you can put a subscription fee on Call of Duty, doesn't mean you should be. Medal of Honor's multiplayer really looks and seems to play like Call of Duty, so I'd gladly stop playing CoD if this was ever to happen, and I most likely will anyways.
So yeah... Bobby Kotick is pretty much just the new Lex Luthor, so theres one thing left to do...
CALL THE JLA!
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To be honest, from what i read and the few little vids I've seen MoH is like CoD but better, looks better, seems to have that BF feel that I love, and I adore the whole actually playing for a different faction that actually plays differently thing.
Most of us LOVE playing popular, fast paced FPS games but to be able to do so without fueling Bobby Cockdick's cunt fire is going to be so much better.
hehe, cuntfire, that was straight off the cuff and i impressed myself.
Anyhow what I think he's implying, ridiculous as it may seem, is something like Xbox Live only CoD centric. Seeing as how XBL is a thing people pay for his line of thinking is "Why not pay for a Call of Duty Live? Or an Activision Live?"
I'm not defending him but I'm just sayin'. If you think he's implying that they should charge for the service they already provide that's not what he means. I know you're so far over it won't change your opinion but just a little different perspective.
Also, Kotick is a dicknose.
... nothing to do with COD fees or anything, it's just that COD online isn't a team oriented game, and I don't think at this point it's possible to make it into one. Everyone that plays is just playing solo (even in the team modes) and I don't think the player mentality can change. This is THE game to just jump into and kill stuff. Personally I just prefer more teamwork and team based strategy in a game.
Also, "Knife of Mutey: Glitch Borefare 2?" Talk about stretching...
I'll chalk it up to being tired from all teh E3 happenings.
Well maybe if you weren't releasing them on such a tight schedule you could make time.
Looking forward to Medal of Honor, mostly because I love Dice.
bow down before the one you serve...you're going to get what you deserve...