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Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer

Posted Feb 11, 2011 at 9:00AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Activision, beachhead, call of duty

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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has long been talking about further monetizing the Call of Duty franchise. He has even wondered aloud about turning it into a paid MMO, calling a transformation into a massively multiplayer environment "the natural evolution of a property like Call of Duty".

That quote was taken from way back in 2008, just before the big Activision-Blizzard merger took place. Almost three years later, we still haven't seen hide nor hair of this Call of Duty MMO. Rumors abound, of course, but Activision has yet to make any official announcements. Recent news seem to add more weight to the possibility of a Call of Duty MMO though -- or at least paid multiplayer.

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Just recently, Activision announced the formation of a new studio called Beachhead that will focus on "the development of an innovative new digital platform and special services" for the Call of Duty community. The company wants Beachhead to "create the best-in-class online community, exclusive content, and a suite of services to supercharge the online gaming experience like never before."

Again, there's nothing very specific in the studio announcement. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, however, thinks it all points to only one thing.

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$5 is not reasonable. $2 is not reasonable. $1 is not reasonable. 50 cents is not reasonable. 1 cent is not reasonable. If they are not going to be reasonable, then neither shall I! The next game will cost enough as it is,let alone adding $ more onto it. Only for that to be wasted upon their next-next iteration

They are letting success go to their heads. I boycotted Black Ops, this one seems so too.

+1 # RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — mass23 2011-02-11 13:36

I don't think xbox 360 owners are going to like this. Having to pay for live already and now this.

# RE: RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — reylink 2011-02-12 20:27

They better not fucking make us pay twice >:/

+1 # Man... — Cooguy1212 2011-02-11 14:11

I'm really sick of Activision now. I feel bad for 360 users, because they're already paying a monthly subscription for playing online. Just because you get over 800,000 players on Call of Duty, doesn't mean that you should charge them to play online even though they have WELL over enough money then they need. They are showing that they love the money more than the customers, which shouldn't be the case.

+1 # Seriously? — SPKuja 2011-02-11 14:19

I own an Xbox, and I pay for my online play. Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudhe it, it's a decent enough service (I haven't used PSN so I cannot comment on that) But why should we have to pay to play an online game online. And lest face it, it's gonna cost about £45 to buy the game as it is! They're just milking the cash cow dry now..

+2 # RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — sawango 2011-02-11 15:24

Do you know what the ironic art of this debate is? that all the people who are bitching about the idea are the same people who will rush to pay once it comes out.

+1 # RE: — kylek 2011-02-11 18:23

false

+1 # i really dont care — bobob 2011-02-11 17:50

next in their "BRIGHT IDEA'S" Book is paid for bug fixes, game dc's every match $20 for a "fix", oh whats that we forgot to include a map on the disk and it crashes the game if you choose it, yeah thats $30, they really are going to milk this dry, but one thing they gotta realise is all the people who play cod are kids who get their mum to get them an xbox live card, im afraid 90% of their playes dont have a credit card and im pretty sure most parents dont want to give their bank details to their 13 year old kid

# Condemned to die — XcN3 2011-02-11 18:25

Honestly, if COD will turn into a mmo with montly fee, it will die for me, i pay xbox live and i dont think to overcharge it with more fees. Fortunatelly, COD has decent competition, like medal of honor, halo, unreal, and crysis. I don't think the would be so fool and greedy enough to do that nonsense with the COD franchise.... But....

+1 # lol — Skapoo 2011-02-11 19:11

no wonder they expect a decline in sales

# RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — vizard00 2011-02-11 19:53

hey guys any one who will pay them for this is coward for all gaming world , and if they succed on this we can say buy for FPS online and wellcome "game fees"

so :

ull have to pay

XBL gold or psn then pay the online service , thats just reaping and i cant imagine how people could pay for this and kill our gaming experience .

thats why IW leaved activision they want to tourn COD to a moneyt machine .

# I choose you Actimon! — EtnasPrinny 2011-02-11 20:23

"Natural evolution"? So now CoD is Pokemon? Will it turn into MagiKoD? I think I'll pass on this, Black Ops was the last straw, they want you to pay extra money for a franchise they could care less about. This is why you shouldn't be able to make games or manage franchises if all you care about is the money, it should be to make customers happy. Industries just aren't like they used to be...

# RE: I choose you Actimon! — PS360 Owner1 2011-02-11 22:57

I choose you CoDimon!

Pretty much yeah, CoD's the US's Pokémon.

# ... — symbal 2011-02-11 20:35

At least when you buy a car/tv or whatever the more they sell the cheaper they get, but Activision will just charge as much as they can possibly get away with, i mean i can see £70+ for MW3. And after Black Ops success i'm sure they gonna suck every bit of revenue possible from the next one knowing very well they gonna murder the franchise with excessive greed. I'm really starting to miss EA as the top megadeveloper because they were never this bad.

# ..... — ???.... 2011-02-11 20:39

I dropped COD once the killzone beta was up...and if u want to kill some zombies fire up LFD2

# Modern Warfare X? — GilgameshVIII 2011-02-11 21:08

Pretty sure Activision does not have rights to the Modern Warfare name. The 2 former CEO's of Infinity Ward took that with them.

# RE: Modern Warfare X? — vizard00 2011-03-04 15:44

yep , they use the name to ripp people . COD is dead after COD4

# RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — PS360 Owner1 2011-02-11 21:55

Another broke CoD game lool

# Charge to play sounds right — Snowserpent 2011-02-11 22:54

Yeah and you can blame it on the kids with filthy words as well as disgusting Emblem's in Black Ops! PS3! this is why! Activision is getting sick in tired of the complaint's coming in on there phone line's as well as on the forum's about the losers hacking & cheating on the Call Of Duty server's! Well I would tell them that it's your fault for not fixing Call Of Duty in the first place :P. But will it fade away in 2011-2012?.. Charge to play is the only option right now but don't have crappy server's! Dedicated is a must! Ban people like they do on Xbox Live! PSN is a complete Joke as we speak..

# RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — SarcasticGamer 2011-02-11 23:09

AWESOME!! I can`t wait for this!! Imagine the gameplay!! Go online, shoot, kill, killstreaks, level up and kill again..The quest! Dont forget the quest! Kill x of Spec Op!!

Oh, the event!! Valentine`s event would be soo AWESOME...killing with love!

+1 # Wow. — anon123321 2011-02-11 23:59

IF this happens it will be the single dumbest thing I have ever seen. No, not because Activision would actually do this, but because morons would actually pay for it.

It's almost unfathomable how people would let this go on... if this happens, I only hope the majority of the gaming world will see what a fucking joke this is.

Activision has made BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of dollars off of the COD franchise already. They could easily afford to provide dedicated servers for all their COD games across all platforms... Sony can do it for Socom... MAG... Resistance... and those games have not generated even a fraction of the profit Activision has made off of all the COD games.

Yet instead they would CHARGE people to play online instead? I bet the servers would STILL not be dedicated. You know why? Because they know people will still buy it anyways.

I honestly hope that there are enough sane people on this planet that will boycott this if it ever happens. If not, you might as well take gaming, turn it around, and fuck it in the ass... because more and more developers will pull more and more shit like this if Activision gets away with this.

Please people... for the love of all that is gaming... don't let this happen.

# RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — loui3 2011-02-12 00:04

I still miss the original Infinity Ward studio. Modern Warfare is so much superior to the CoD games made by Treyarch.

I haven't bought black ops and I don't think that I will.

Activision is just further exploiting the Cod fan base for extra bucks. And its not fair that 360 owners will pay for extra subscription to play their CoD game.

Fux you Kotick! I hope that Infinity rapes you in the lawsuit like you deserve it.

# RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — lalalala 2011-02-12 10:28

if there's any game company that loves to leech money from its customers, it's Activision.

# RE: RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — vizard00 2011-03-04 15:46

Treyarch is just a stand-by studio to let IW take their time making the real COD

-2 # well — Plaztek98 2011-02-12 19:14

as a XBL subscriber, i wont mind maybe paying extra to play online with it, but for 1, its gotta hella lot better then black ops, 2 their MUST be dedicated servers, and 3 if it will limit the amount of dumb@sses that play online miltiplayer
when i got black ops i had it for 2 days, i didnt like it to begin with because of the corny graphics,but when the room lag'd out because of the host, that was the last straw, i WILL NOT buy another CoD unless there is dedicated servers
i dont mind paying for dedicated servers, you cant go wrong with dedicated servers

+1 # OOOOOOOooohh NOooooo — 000002 2011-02-13 20:35

Whats the point in rating games if kids still get them anyway!!!!!!!!

# RE: Pachter: Activision gearing up for paid Call of Duty multiplayer — vizard00 2011-03-04 15:47

RESPAWN what are u doing

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