Lets say Activision charges for online play in Black Ops

I still own CoD 4, so I think I could keep on with that and maybe MW2 (if that remains free) because both of those are still going and would get a lot more players when everyone with good judgment passed on Black Ops.

But to charge a fee to play a follow-up to MW2 that is made by Treyarch and doesn't even have Modern Warfare in the title? Not even they would be that near-sighted. If they're going to pull that on us, they'll first make sure that Treyarch's COD is even a big enough draw to pay a premium for.

I wouldn't play it if Activision paid me monthly to play it

It's a Treyarch game so I'm not buying. For an IW CoD though, I'd still buy it but I wouldn't pay for online play as I don't even play online.

I wouldn't play it if Activision paid me monthly to play it

BPoole96

360 users will be screwed lol. i mean pay for play online and pay to play the games online :P. thats like double paying!. as to be on topic nope. even tho i playCoD games on PS3 i wont pay for it.

I lol at the people complaining about this becasue I can gurantee you the people complaining about it would pay for it day one if it happened.

XboximusPrime

i wont be getting it even if the online free tbh

Yes, of course. I mean, who wouldn't? Activision is a very good company, with excellent values and business practices. If they enforced a subscription on BO, I would certainly pay. I want to support the Publisher as much as I can, so they can continue paying their developers in a timely fashion, so they can in turn support the game with good, worthwhile content.

Yes, of course. I mean, who wouldn't? Activision is a very good company, with excellent values and business practices. If they enforced a subscription on BO, I would certainly pay. I want to support the Publisher as much as I can, so they can continue paying their developers in a timely fashion, so they can in turn support the game with good, worthwhile content.

gandaf007

@TC

Then it will be fail. Either way I could care less about military shooters.

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Yes, of course. I mean, who wouldn't? Activision is a very good company, with excellent values and business practices. If they enforced a subscription on BO, I would certainly pay. I want to support the Publisher as much as I can, so they can continue paying their developers in a timely fashion, so they can in turn support the game with good, worthwhile content.

gamebreakerz__

No

LOL. People would pay if theres free DLC. I guess the reality is too hard to see.

Still doesn't matter anyways because Activision isn't getting any money from my wallet.

LOL. People would pay if theres free DLC. I guess the reality is too hard to see.

erglesmergle

Oh, look something to support the speculation.

Whoever voted yes, I dare you to show yourself.kweeni

I was going to get Black Ops, but if Activision does go on with doing this decision, then I'm not getting near it then.

But, I think I remembered hearing something about a Call of Duty MMO being made. Why not use the subcribtion fee's for that?

The poll results tell the story. Yes 4% -10 people No 94% - 242 people I wouldn't pay to play any game online, never mind COD.

We're all saying NO but trust me, when they start charging, a lot of people will pay up and play online. Those guys will be the CoD fans and casuals.

XVision84

Really? The casuals will pay for online gaming? I can see the "hardcore" COD fans paying, but saying the casuals will pay seems contradictory.

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I wouldn't play it if Activision paid me monthly to play it

UnArguably

The casuals will not pay for online, the hardcore will pay cause they will play for years. The problem is that stunts like this are going to kill the industry, to pay £50 for a game is bad enough, to then have to pay an additional monthly fee on top just to play online is ridiculous, fair enough I understand MMOs charging, but a COD game, no! This shouldnt be happening, I have a quote about life which is 'money is the root of all evil' and that is certainly the case for Activision, they ripped people off with the DLC, they're now gonna rip people off with this subscription service, and that means more developers will start charging for online. I hope people boycott it, the sad fact is, about 255 people on these forums have said no, 10 million people around the world, however, will say yes, Activision will make millions and everyone else will copy, long live gaming.

I will enjoy a lot to see people paying both Xbox Live subscription and Black Ops & other CODs monthly fees + paying for extra maps and new skins. In fact, I will be laughing so hard that probably will hurt my health.

Seriously: the console players deserved this kind of fate. They were all the current gen paying for all kinds on gimmicks, and paying extra bucks for unfinished games and map packs whereas most of PC developers give you tools to freely enhance the games with custom contents. They shoot themselves.

Of course, PC field isn't free of His own shadows: with Blizzard selling dope horses in WoW and menacing to demand payments for most of Starcraft II custom maps. But at the end I think that bot tactics will fall in PC: COD currently has no selling strength in PC to support a MMOFPS based on the franchise, since the MW 2 downfall.

People pay for activision games, and people will pay for a subscription.
And can someone explain to me why? I don't get it.
With the wii i understand it, with core games i understand it, with mw2 i absolutely don't understand what is selling the game.
I think it is the advertising, plus it not being horrible.
Is that all? Is that the new formula of success? Just throw the largest amount of marketing at it?

I'd pay $5 a month to get a new map or gun a month. As long as they do away with DLC packs, a subscription model isn't really much of a change.

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I wouldn't play it if Activision paid me monthly to play it

hellhund

I would too. I certainly wouldn't pay to play COD, but I would gladly accept payment to play COD. Heck, I'd even consider playing Barbie Horse Adventures if someone was willing to pay me to do it. :D

My biggest fear is all the COD addicts pay to play the thing, and we see other shooters following the trend. Gaming is expensive as it is, more fee's like this are poo. Activision has 3/5 top selling games for the Xbox and PS3. I'm sure they have enough money.

Kokuro_Kun

They would have to give me a good reason for me to pay to play Black ops online. But I dont think they will charge for Bloack ops. Dedicated servers have already been confirmed on the PC so I dont see how charging for online would work there. But if it was like a COD mmo thing.... I could see myself paying if I liked the end pruduct.

Nope. It'll play just like the older games, and they're free to play online

Aside from that, the games suck.

I doubt SONY and, especially MS would allow them to do this. If SONY and MS both say no, then activision will have to back down ... atleast for now.

They'll probably come out with there own COD plug and play games console, to get around SONY and MS

No chance, no more Call of Duty games for me.