Activision says gamers should expect to see World of Warcraft-style pay-to-play systems transitioning to other games, including Call of Duty. Surprisingly, this isn't coming from Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, but rather the company's CFO, Thomas Tippl. "It's definitely an aspiration that we see potential in, particularly as we look at different business models to monetize the online gameplay," said Tippl at yesterday's BMO Capital Markets Conference . "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," added Tippl.
"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."
If that doesn't infuriate you enough, he was also bold enough to say that there is a demand from the company's fanbase to pay for more services, saying, "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."
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THAT! we pay for maps. we pay for the game. xbox people. PAY to play online. WHAT ****ING ELSE DO THEY WANT FROM US.
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dt0x Reply:
November 16th, 2009 at 8:18 PM
..WHAT ****ING ELSE DO THEY WANT FROM US….
an arm, a leg, and your first born son.
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Question is what don’t they want from us?
If there trying to be dicks, its working, very well.
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With the ammount we pay for the game xbox live and dlc now they want us to pay and play, you can kiss my spotty backside if you think I’m paying anything else to your all ready huge wage bonus.
Me thinks your taking the piss a little bit activision
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I wonder in that last paragraph whether they are talking about services such as “dedicated server access” and “multiple display support” or innovations such as “leaning”.
It all makes sense now….they took out dedicated servers and all the other features so that they can charge us for the “additional content”
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The boycutt of MW2 and now this, I believe this requires a full boycutt of the companies that support such stupidity.
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