Call of duty - pay to play online

MrLOL said:
i'd be willing to pay for this.

Would stop a load of the idiots that pay online and provides an easy mechanism for banning them completely from playing the game. Would make activision a pretty penny every time they banned somebody and with held fees somebody who was cheating in game.

If they did it properly, it could be really good.

If it turns into effectively a rolling subscription for map packs. Not so much.
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Doubt it would work like that, only the idiots would pay for it.
 
BF3 is obviously going to beat cod in my opinion because unlike cod they havn't spammed bf games out and have plently left to give in the IP where as I don't really feel cod can go anywhere now.

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Might I point out I'm not including the cod versions of the battle field series as to me there has only ever been 3 bf's and the third was really bf 2.5
 
If this turns out to be a game you buy for £30 and only start online MP with a pistol and a knife because you have to buy everything else through microtransactions, i'll literally laugh my **** off.
 
If COD can make it something like a persistant war/storyline MMOFPS then Id be interested.

I mean, just for arguments sake the world map is based in America.... the say 2 teams are USA and USSR/China hybrid or something. The map is 'sectored' with resources that impact the whole game... so say they can host 500 men on 1 server/sector at a time, 250 v 250 with vehicles, then you could have say i dont know, LA/California being invaded by air/sea - the bonus for winning for the USSR is a beachhead/fort to begin deploying on US soil.... for the US this region is not only important to defend access to the west coast... but also say it impacts production of rifles, so they are limited for people to chose from when deploying.

Divided the US up into say 100 sectors.... give each region a meaning, + / - bonus points for each team, and let the game evolve. Obviously input rules like a secotr cant be overrun if its not defended by x number of players and make the front line the persistant area of battle... so if LA was taken, then the 'sectors' around that can be fought for.... and if the USSR can expand into another, then more sectors open up.... or vice versa, the US take back LA, then the USSR have to fight for the beaches again... or maybe go Alaska

Ive waffled, but you might get the gyst of it :D
 
Adrianr said:
If this turns out to be a game you buy for £30 and only start online MP with a pistol and a knife because you have to buy everything else through microtransactions, i'll literally laugh my **** off.
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it will work as it does with WOW

You can play the game normally, or use the micro transaction to speed up your progress.

As already said, this can work - if they do it properly. If they just take the existing game, and charge you micro transactions to get half of the stuff you currently would get for free, then it won't wash.

They're going to have to bring the genre on, and offer a lot more new and innovative content to make charging for it work.

Not just chop off half of the new COD game and make it micro transaction only.
 
Forde said:
Hopefully, it'll be a total flop, then. They would have to implement an awesome game with a massive amount of features to get a sustained subscription base.
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Dont think so, as long as it has Call of duty labeled on it I bet their are millions who would be willing to pay to play.

Edit - In fact, it's Michael Pachter. who's only a "Gaming Analyst", far as I'm concerned he can shove his predictions up his job title.
 
Strife212 said:
Not only can you not play WoW for free, it also doesn't even have microtransactions.
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Thats what some are predicting - that you won't be able to play COD multiplayer for free, you'll need to buy the game and pay the monthly sub just as you do with WOW.

And yes WOW does have micro transactions, granted very limited so far, but expect it only to get bigger now they're shutting down franchises like Guitar Hero.
 
DAvE18 said:
:confused: You think paying monthly for a fps is a good idea?
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From the publishers POV, definitely. Activision-Blizzard are raking in the cash from WoW (gotta be over £1bn annual revenue right?), subscription models are definitely the way to go for games with popular multiplayer components.

Charge £20 for the base product then a fiver a month to play online, job done.
 
HangTime said:
From the publishers POV, definitely. Activision-Blizzard are raking in the cash from WoW (gotta be over £1bn annual revenue right?), subscription models are definitely the way to go for games with popular multiplayer components.

Charge £20 for the base product then a fiver a month to play online, job done.
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Not that these tarts would ever get my money anyway, but I'd just like to thank you, and others like you for volunteering the rest of us for some bum love from Activision
 
JimAroo said:
It's funny because it will still be popular. People will still pay to play without a doubt, look at what happened with MW2.. people claiming they won't buy it because of no dedicated servers yet people still buy it.

They are walking all over us, because they know they can.. they got away with it once and they probably will again.
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Pretty much this.

I am so glad I resisted the urge to buy Black Ops now. I feel so much better that I did. Roll on BF3, Crysis 2 and my new graphics card!
 
I bought MW2 and played it P2P and it was OK
I Bought BLOPS and played with "dedicated" servers and it was OK.
I will not pay for MW3 to play on-line. I will Dload a pirated version for single player - and about 10 million others will too
 
It will not flop, people will buy the game and pay the charges.

That does not include me, though. Me, and many people like me who only play online every once in a while will not bother, instead they (not me of course!) will just acquire the game by other means to play the single player and that'll be it.
 
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