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Activision wants more money from CoD online

Posted on Monday, 16 November 2009 by Speed, source: ign

this is called "monetizing plastic"

Activision boss Tom Tippl has stated that his company has plenty of plans for the Call of Duty series, amongst which there are new modes and most of all more ways to cash in on it. Especially the online gameplay is supposed to become a cash cow and for that they're looking at their neighbours Blizzard, and the other way around.

It's definitely an aspiration that we see potential in, particularly as we look at different business models to monetise the online gameplay. There's good knowledge exchange happening between the Blizzard folks and our online guys.

We have great experience also on Call of Duty with the success we had on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. A lot of that knowledge is getting actually built into the Battle.Net platform and the design of that.

I think it's been mutually beneficial, and you should expect us to test and ultimately launch additional online monetisation models of some of some of our biggest franchises like Call of Duty.

He's also not afraid that fans of the series will be all but happy with this strategy. According to him gamers are asking for more services and innovation they've haven't yet received, and are willing to pay for that.

Our gamers are telling us there's lots of services and innovation they would like to see that they're not getting yet.

From what we see so far, additional content, as well as all the services Blizzard is offering, is that there is demand from the core gamers to pay up for that.

Some can now protest or start up crazy petitions and boycots, but you only have to take a glimpse at the sales figures of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to realize that Activision - Blizzard doesn't care one bit about that. This successor has become an overwhelming success with numbers that pale even GTA IV.

The lack of dedicated servers could only upset a small group of the small community that PC gamers have become and it's now a game of wait and see whether these decisions will have a bad influence on the longer term success of the series.

In that regards, my bet for now stands on "no".

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Anonymous

Where is this world gettin..
Could someone please shoot every person that is trying to kill the PC platform, or changing what it was before MW2 got out!

Where is this world gettin.. Could someone please shoot every person that is trying to kill the PC platform, or changing what it was before MW2 got out!

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Posted on 23:15, November 16th 2009

Anonymous

Wow, a small group of the small community that pc gamers have become? That must include me and a few of my friends then, not the thousands I see playing COD alone, or the million or so playing WOW. The problem is that consoles get more attention and more people talk about them. When I talk to my pc gamer buddies, they talk about the games, not the platform. Console players talk about the console as well as the games. It's only an illusion that there arn't many pc gamers out there. Activision doesn't care about us, but they make more money off of consoles, so in the end, they're doing their job. It sucks for us but we'll just play other games and leave the simplified stuff to the consoles.

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Posted on 01:45, November 17th 2009

Speed

I'm an avid PC gamer myself but that doesn't mean that I delude myself into believing PC gaming isn't small when counted in $$$
The fact that apparently only 10% of revenue on MW2 is generated on PC already says a lot.

And yes, 200.000 people have signed the petition against MW2 but when looking at how many PC gamers there are internationally, I wouldn't call that a lot.

It sucks but the big companies (Activision, Microsoft, ...) are indeed killing PC gaming

I'm an avid PC gamer myself but that doesn't mean that I delude myself into believing PC gaming isn't small when counted in $$$ The fact that apparently only 10% of revenue on MW2 is generated on PC already says a lot. And yes, 200.000 people have signed the petition against MW2 but when looking at how many PC gamers there are internationally, I wouldn't call that a lot. It sucks but the big companies (Activision, Microsoft, ...) are indeed killing PC gaming

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Posted on 22:53, November 17th 2009

Anonymous

if tahts the fact and people like microsoft want to exclude PC's then we should all switch to linux lol

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Posted on 02:11, November 20th 2009

Anonymous

Idiots at IW want a war, we can give hem a war. They don't want my money that's fine, but I have a PS3 and a PC and they won't get a dang dime from me at all ever again, I don't care how good the games are they make in the future. My bet is that there are more people just like me that are mad as hell at IW\Activision that own more then one type of media to play games. To me IW\Activision can suck it, they will NEVER see one dime of my money again.

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Posted on 02:15, November 20th 2009

Anonymous

every year there are discussions of the "death of PC gaming" but hmm it never dies? Why not just sit and wait for Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 so you can all laugh in the face of consoles. In the mean time, I'll be playing MW2 on my 360.

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Posted on 19:44, November 20th 2009

Anonymous

That's the problem I guess, yes there are over 200,000 who signed the petition and probably more than half of them are having a fit over this, but over half of them also own consoles. So really there is no one to blame but our selves. I personally do not see the appeal of consoles and will never own one, controls suck, graphics... well PC's evolve faster than consoles can keep up unless you are made of money, most games are simplified for to the point of retardation... well consoles suck. Surprisingly this does not surprise me, at times I feel like I live in South Park and the only one sane ... haha...!

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Posted on 10:47, November 22nd 2009

Anonymous

I refuse to pay for anything beyond the plastic disc my games are printed on. It's distressing to read bullshit about gamers begging to pay money for things that have been and, should continue to be free. Someone somewhere realized if the product is good enough, the consumer will voluntarily bend over and take it up the ass.

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Posted on 06:50, December 10th 2009