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PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online?

Posted May 7, 2011 at 5:00PM EST by Carl B

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Activision, Bobby Kotick, call of duty

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Rumors floating around on Neogaf suggest that Activision is getting ready to announce a subscription based, online Call of Duty game. Would you pay a monthly fee to play CoD online?

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has hinted at such a service in the past, expressing his desire to milk the Call of Duty franchise for all its worth. Considering the amount of people that pay $15 for new map packs, I wouldn't be surprised if a subscription based Call of Duty game was a mainstream success.

But would I pay to play it? No way.

To make it even remotely worth the money, Activision would have to make the Call of Duty game a massively online experience, similar to MAG. The problem with this is that the gameplay of the Call of Duty series suits smaller, fast paced battles. MAG is also 100% free to play, so a paid version of essentially the same game -- only with the Call of Duty brand name -- would be horrific.

What about you? Would you pay a subscription fee to play Call of Duty online? If so, what changes to the multiplayer would you want to see? Sound off in the comments section below and be sure to continue the discussion on our community forums.

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And uhh, the only part of the last two CoD games that used XBL's servers was the matchmaking service. The actual gameplay? All P2P. So ignore my last point, because if the pattern continues...

People are going to be paying two different companies extortionate fees to play on their own, home hosted servers.

I am, of course, a believer in the free market, so if they can find enough idiots to clamber on board... then more power to them. Just know that my heart will bleed for the stupidity of our species.

+1 # RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — edd2011 2011-05-07 18:26

greedy bastards

+2 # RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — vizard00 2011-05-07 18:32

1st this game is shit
2nd never on my existence

but its the last year of COD ops great game conspiracy , looking into BF3 after COD4

# so right — SuperQuest 2011-05-08 05:52

i agree with you

+2 # ... — SeRosiS 2011-05-07 18:47

HAHAHAHAHAHA, no...

+3 # WTF Man... — ...... 2011-05-07 19:11

Fu.ck You Bobby Kotick you greedy douche

# ... — Mickle 2011-05-07 19:15

Yes.
but only if they cut the price of the game, but that's never gonna happen though is it?% they'll probably charge $15 for a subscription then shortly after charge another $15 for the game, every other type of business goes by sell more and charge less but all they'll do is cry piracy as justification to charge more for their billion dollar franchise.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — Mee 2011-05-07 19:45

I think a good plot would be make a play for free CoD, but make a vip section where they could potentially bank. I won't pay a monthly fee for a game that's only half good. If they do make a monthly fee cod it'll be dead in 1.5 - 2 years.

Sounds like a good idea overall but i won't buy it.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — John 2011-05-07 19:46

I already bought the game on day-one (for pc), that's enough.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — Andy Mitchell 2011-05-07 19:53

Not a chance in f**king hell. If I wanna play something on the scale of MAG, I'll play MAG!

Greedy bastard Kotick yet again. Not content with £40 per copy of the game AND the DLC on top, he wants more.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — PS360 Owner1 2011-05-07 20:10

Uh, Call of Duty is STOOPID and UNREALISTIC, you can become smart by watching The History Channel.

Uh, in your face, Kotick!

# RE: RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — xDoRanger 2011-05-08 12:41

and you can discover things on the discovery channel!

# ewww — lordrand11 2011-05-07 20:26

That would be a big Hell No. I would tell them they could shove their Pay to Play system right up their collective asses.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — EtnasPrinny 2011-05-07 20:30

1. the game is less interesting to me than watching paint dry.
2. no, not even if they "fix" things
3. the game will probably make sales and set a standard for all games because of the CoD fankids out there whose parents probably don't care how much they spend.

# Not a chance. — GilgameshVIII 2011-05-07 20:51

No way, i moved on from the over milked Call of Duty series after Modern Warfare 2. I wouldn't ever consider buying another Call of Duty title let alone a subscription based one. I'm more than happy with my copies of MAG, and Medal of Honor. Up yours Activision.

# RE: Not a chance. — PS360 Owner1 2011-05-07 22:38

You must be happy playing MAG now, oh wait, it's online-only.

# RE: RE: Not a chance. — GilgameshVIII 2011-05-08 11:52

I think everyone forget how Xbox went down for 13 days back in '07.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — Benoit 2011-05-07 21:18

I would never pay a subscription fee for a FPS, but unfortunatly, there are still lots of people who will, mostly spoiled little kids

# FUCK — wally 2011-05-07 21:20

NO.

+1 # PFFFT — Connor 2011-05-07 21:26

FUCK NO
if cod is gonna be pay to play i'm never buying another cod game

# nope. — RIPJerryGarcia 2011-05-07 22:14

This would be dumb just because it takes away from the casual COD players. What I mean is, I am a BF player. But, everyonce in a while I'll throw in COD and play a round or two. A subscription would take away from me even buying the game. Plus, the campaign sucked. Im not saying that BF's was that much better, but at least it was easier to follow. Thanks for reading.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — anonymous1 2011-05-07 22:21

Totally agree, this is just ridiculously greedy on their part, but here's the sad part --- 4/5 of you guys can completely drop any form of pay-to-play cod, and with the 1/5 that chooses to sucker up Activision will still make a killing. And they obviously know this. They don't care about numbers of players, they only care about the numbers of bills padding thier pockets...it's disgusting...

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — kylek 2011-05-07 23:10

NO! i would never pay a monthly fee to play. thats why i never played wow and don't own an xbox. why pay for something when you can play something else just as good for free. call of duty games are going to be on the decline without the infity ward team, and if they start charging they are definetely doomed.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — SINCaliber 2011-05-07 23:25

No, no, and NO!!!!!

Greedy cooperations are killing the video game market!!

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — NakedFaerie 2011-05-07 23:36

So you make me pay for the console, then I pay for the game and now you want to make me pay to play it?
F! THAT!
Thats why I don't play on Xbox Live as I refuse to pay to play.

If you give me the game for free then I'll pay till I think I've paid enough for the game but not an ongoing fee. If you want me to keep paying then you better give me free stuff all the way along.

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — kylek 2011-05-07 23:42

if your going to charge a monthly fee to play online, then it should offer more than what other similar games offer for free...and it doesn't

# Val — Franky 2011-05-08 00:48

If the main Multi-player game code is a FREE/or cheap DL (PC/PS3/360) & the Dedicated servers will let players from all Platforms FIGHT it out!lol and the monthly/yearly payment is resonable & all DLC content is inc FREE/or cheap in the subscription.....
then I may consider it!!!!

# Cod subscription — Yeahmen 2011-05-08 09:35

If they give blackops for free and only pay for the subscription then I will surely get it =)))

# COD subscription — Kali B 2011-05-08 10:36

If treyarch does that, they can take their call of duty game and stick it up their asses!

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — Nima158_2 2011-05-08 11:52

Hell to the FUCKING NO!
That's complete capitalism, I mean what the fuck, they'd already sell soo many copies of the game, that would be much too greedy.

# . — Billy Mays 2011-05-08 19:10

FUCK NO
They sell record amounts of every installment of CoD and each copy costs 60$. The DLCs come with 3 maps from an old version of call of duty that you already paid for, and 1 new one. That costs 20$. Now they want to charge people just so they can play online? I am definetly getting Battlefield 3 now!!!

# RE: PoV: Would you pay a subscription for Call of Duty online? — vizard00 2011-05-09 00:30

COD will finish as SIMS

# HELL NAW — DJ PON-3 2011-05-09 03:06

# NO! — MadeYouBleed 2011-05-26 23:22

This is the last Call of Duty title I will purchase if they add online fees!

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