Comments on: Call of Duty to get a subscription option

By: Rift: Masters of Marketing, or why Free Server Transfers = Fail

Rift: Masters of Marketing, or why Free Server Transfers = Fail — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:55:29 +0000

[...] Suckers. But who cares what we little gamers think? We’ll pay for it and love doing so, and if I was looking at this issue as a member of Activision’s executive board [Ed.: Good luck with that, lol!], this is what I’d say to the person responsible for the idea: ”PURE GENIUS, MY GOOD MAN. I SHALL BEQUEATH TO YOU 100 MORE ACRES IN THE ACTIVISION ESTATES, A PUREBRED ARABIAN PONY, 10 HAREM GIRLS, AND THE TITLE OF “COUNT MONEYBAGS” THAT SHALL PASS TO YOUR HEIRS IN PERPETUITY FOR YOUR SERVICES TO THE EMPIRE.” [...]

By: Stabs

Stabs — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:31:20 +0000

It was good while it lasted but we have been getting good deals.

£9 per month for a sub game, free online play for non sub games.

Fortunately if you don’t mind not playing triple A there will always now be free or bargain games to play but the top games staying at £9 per month? It couldn’t last.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:24:29 +0000

1. This sounds like a really awful, awful idea in the universe of XBL and Steam.

2. CoD already includes a lot of mmo style design in it. Including it’s character customisation system.

Which is, weirdly, probably the best mmo skill point style set up on any MMO at the moment despite not actually being in an MMO and the fact that new games aren’t emulating it makes me a little sad.

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:55:49 +0000

I’m hoping Blizzard will go the same route they did with SC2 – no sub.

If there is a sub for D3 then I won’t be buying it. It’s a mindless hack and slash-fest and I’ve little desire to play it on BNet.

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:52:17 +0000

These guys are idiots.

Global Agenda attempted to release with a subscription base promising more updates and content, maps, etc. That was so awesome for them that they dropped it and went F2P(ish).

APB – have people forgotten this already? There is a reason for that.

Bleh.

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:44:44 +0000

Bleh.

By: azaael

azaael — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:37:52 +0000

I can see D3 having a cash shop as well. Lots of little things-and I can actually see them offering sort of ‘art packs’ for new skins for the characters. (This is something I’d actually buy; i’m not real big on some of the character designs in D3-well except the badass Witch Doctor-but I don’t want to all be playing the same copypasta character if I play multiplayer and we all like the same class.) And as people that like to request new character skins aren’t uncommon(see how many people want upgraded models in WoW), I can imagine I wouldn’t be the only one buying something like that.

Not sure about a D3 subscription, but yeah-cash shop seems like it would be something they’d do.

Of course, the CoD thing, yeah I knew it was sooner than later. I’m not a fan of the game, but I wonder how a few of my buddies who are friends are going to take this.

By: dmosbon

dmosbon — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:45:30 +0000

Very telling to hear an SVP saying that ‘There’s money to be made there’. FPS rake in enough from players as it is but if a sub guarantees dedicated servers and ALL DLC then fair enough. But who would pay a sub to a smaller company that was less dedicated in maintaining their products online after ship date?

By: Dril

Dril — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:59:27 +0000

If DICE and EA are smart (and, you know, I’m not sure I’d bet on that) now would be a prime moment to say “hey, Battlefield 3 won’t cost you $60 dollars, won’t have a sub fee and won’t be made by the shadow of a once-great dev.”

I mean, I’ll be buying Battlefield 3 over COD anyway, but it’d be fantastic if they used this to their advantage, and not just copy them.

Still, methinks Starcraft 2 and Titan will be the last purchases I’ll be making to feed Cap’n Kotick’s (already ridiculously oversized, overstuffed) wallet. I actually can’t think of anything else I’ve bought from them in the last few years.

By: dwism

dwism — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:50:48 +0000

I’ll put on my shallow-hat and say, that the leaked trailer for the service kindda got me interesting in fps again. So that part of it sure worked. As to whether or not I’d pay for those extra features… only if it allowed me to play on my xbox with pals on ps3