"Michael Pachter tweeted not so long ago, saying “Thanks for all the kind words on CoD subscription. Activision doing it right, modest fee, will include map packs, opt-in with free preserved.”
Chance Glasco, one of the co-founders of Infinity Ward and creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has claimed that Activision once pressured the studio to include an invasion of Israel by Iran.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."
In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.
To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7
Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD
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@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
Oh forgot to say
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Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite
Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.
But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.
The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:
Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.
They didn't.
Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.
Activision has been doing it right alot. MW2 & Black Ops are the most sold shooters in history and they now bring out another feature which will be bitched about alot because it costs money (people expect everything for free), but isn't nesseccity. If you don't feel you need it, don't buy it, it won't give others an unfair advantage, it will help people overcome some of their own problems.
True, they are doing something right. Their milking techniques surpass any other developer to date.
That doesn't make the game good.
Can't blame them for trying to make a load of money, but you CAN hate them for it, because we are the ones paying.
We just need to see what the price is. Map packs are included in Elite, 3 maps packs are normally released a year, costing in total £30 in the uk at least, which works out at about £2.50 a month.
If you factor in that £2.50 a month for just the map packs and Activision plan on keeping the monthly cost under £5, it might not work out to be that exspensive.
Will have to wait for the beta and prices though before I make any decisions.
Either way Elite inst compulsary and you can still choose to buy the map packs separately.
"Other important element of Call of Duty Elite is the interactive gaming where players across the globe will join one platform to a load of things just like on a social network. Players will be able to record and share videos, create and join various groups and clans and there will be tracking system for all the stats updates. There will also be leagues and ladders where players will compete with each other for the noble prize."
Got this quote from another article somewhere on N4G which states what Elite is offering, looks to like Activision are offering for an extra premium what other games offer as part of the retail price, ROLL ON BATTLEFIELD 3!!