Kotick Wants XBox Live Revenue
Activision boss wants your cash. Again.Published: 12:45, 05/07/2010 by Tuffcub.
17Lovable, huggable Uncle Bobby Kotick has been voicing his concerns that Activision are missing out on some cash. This time he is rather peeved off that you are paying Microsoft for the pleasure of playing Call Of Duty online and has been talking to the Financial Times regarding the subject.
“We’ve heard that 60 per cent of Microsoft’s subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty,” he said, “We don’t really participate financially in that income stream. We would really like to be able to provide much more value to those millions of players playing on Live, but it’s not our network.”
Roughly translated ‘Microsoft are getting all the cash from COD online, give to me’.
“We have always been platform agnostic,” he continued, rather forgetting those timed DLC exclusives for COD, “Consoles do a very good job of supporting the gamer. If we are going to broaden our audiences, we are going to need to have other devices.”
Two weeks ago Kotick described how he would like to turn COD in to a subscription based game in which you would pay to play online. It appears his sights are very firmly set on squeezing extra cash out of Call Of Duty online.
Source: FT
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05/07/2010 at 12:50
Member since: Sep 2009
First to call him a prick.
05/07/2010 at 12:56
Member since: Jun 2009
don’t normally allow “firsts” on this site but on this ocassion I think it’s and decent comment.
05/07/2010 at 18:29
Member since: Nov 2009
lol
05/07/2010 at 12:59
Member since: May 2009
I totally agree, I dont get how people can like that guy…
so greedy it hurts..
05/07/2010 at 16:27
Member since: Feb 2009
i’m sure you were beaten to that honour years ago, sorry. :)
05/07/2010 at 12:51
Member since: Mar 2010
does he just say these things for shits and giggles now
05/07/2010 at 12:52
Member since: Jun 2009
i think mr kotick is going to be in for a huge shock with both wanting a chunk of live subscription plus a subscription for cod games… maybe mr “big head .. i need more cash” will stop and re think his attitude towards the people that give him all this money (us the gamers) and maybe he will keep his followers. personally this Ba***rd has had way too much of my cash already and wont be getting more…
06/07/2010 at 23:09
Member since: Feb 2009
Honestly, I would only pay for this if they could bundle it with Xbox LIVE for a year, but pretty much still make it 60 bucks a year (here in Canada) So 30 for M$ and then 30 for Activison? Seems fair to me.
05/07/2010 at 12:52
Member since: Forever
I grow weary of Kotick’s claims to want money from everyone…
We want money from him
As his organisation specialises in franchises, meaning the game engine is used & reused multiple times, why aren’t the sequals cheaper than the original games Bobby?
STFU!
05/07/2010 at 12:58
Member since: Jun 2009
ha ha, good point well made. Also the fact is a lot of people have been turned off since the last failure of MW2 (to some) and he probably wont see a huge amount of people going back. Will still be massive as the suckers still love the rubbish they churn out.
05/07/2010 at 13:01
Member since: Aug 2008
Decent point, actually. Since World at War and Modern Warfare 2 only used a tweaked version of the CoD4 engine, why didn’t they just sell people the ‘new’ version of games via downloadable patch for £25?
Same with EA. Why do we pay £40 for FIFA each year, when they could just sell us an engine update patch for £20?
Rhetorical questions, of course. We all know the answers.
05/07/2010 at 19:28
Member since: Jan 2010
Portal 2 and Half Life Episode 3 will use Source again, which is just a shiny version of the quake engine they used for the original Half Life.
The increased profits yielded by this digital recycling are spent by Kotick to maintain the Imperial Fleet and by Gabe Newell on pies.
05/07/2010 at 14:14
Member since: Sep 2008
While he is a massive cock, I quite like the idea of a Call of Duty MMO, I probably wouldn’t play it with FFXIV and Guild Wars 2 coming out, but something like MAG taken to the extreme sounds alright. Although, knowing Activision, they’ll probably just be trying to charge a subscription for the next iteration of Modern Warfare…
I do like the way he talks about supporting PC gaming in the article though.
05/07/2010 at 14:51
Member since: Dec 2009
i think the new medal of honour will destroy the cod franchise aslong as the medal of honour creaters dont get greedy like him
05/07/2010 at 12:56
Member since: Feb 2009
I hate this guy so much, he does absolutely nothing, and just wants to squeeze money out of everyone he can.
05/07/2010 at 19:14
Member since: Jul 2010
Are you talking about M$? lol!
05/07/2010 at 12:58
Member since: Apr 2009
Live won’t let him use a subscription model for COD.
He won’t want to go Playstation exclusive with his biggest franchise, which sells so much units on xbox especially, and there is no way he could get away with charging for online play on some consoles and not others, so I don’t think we’ll see a COD subscription model anytime soon.
Mind you, the amount of sales for DLC could almost be subscription revenue by themselves. €15, every few months could be subscription by stealth, while still giving players more to enjoy.
05/07/2010 at 19:19
Member since: Jul 2010
If you own an xbox you pay to play online any way! Whats the difference?
05/07/2010 at 22:05
Member since: Apr 2009
See the reason Final Fantasy XIV is (at this moment) not coming to 360.
Clue: It’s not the lack of a blu-ray drive.
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/06/25/ffxiv-definitely-not-coming-to-xbox/
05/07/2010 at 13:00
Member since: Jan 2010
Kotick is nothing more than a whore. He’ll do/try anything for money.
Hmm, why does calling Kotick a whore make me like I’m insulting prositutes?
05/07/2010 at 13:01
Member since: Jun 2009
He’s the only head I dislike more than Sepp Blatter.
05/07/2010 at 19:30
Member since: Jan 2010
can I suggest the delightful Nick Griffin, to push both of those into 2nd and 3rd.
05/07/2010 at 13:01
Member since: May 2009
I hate this guy. Oh how the gaming world would rub it in his face if the next COD sells only 20 copies.
05/07/2010 at 22:06
Member since: Oct 2009
lets hope he needs a wake up call.
05/07/2010 at 13:04
Member since: Feb 2009
He is always so full of himself and his company. Granted, they are a huge success, and Call of Duty isn’t a BAD game. But if Activision stopped existing then there’s little I’d miss personally.