Lovable, 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
jikomanzoku
“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.” KOTICK
Oh but you do Bobby, because if Xboxlive wasn’t there you would undoubtedly sell considerably less games since the singleplayer content of your games is so meagre and poor.
So that’s you, directly participating in that revenue stream – Now get back to strangling that Golden Egg laying Goose, milking cows till they die on their feet or just being the ugly face of capitalism.
cc_star
Exactly
Microsoft provide an online platform, which they make money from… he makes a game to sell on that platform, which he makes money from. I can’t see the problem.
Especially as the most recent game is a tweaked version of the last one… practically a graphical mod & map expansion, the question needs to be asked why the hell it cost so much
jikomanzoku
Because those Tie Fighters don’t build themselves!
Hell maybe next he’ll go after ISP’s?
cc_star
Yeah… perhaps he should ask my ISP for money for the 20ish hours I played on his game
jikomanzoku
If you’re anything like myself I’m guessing that includes finishing the single player “campaign” and then around 8-10 hours of MP before cursing the balancing, lack of dedicated servers, stupidity of the perks and going straight back to whatever other FPS tickles your fancy?