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
TSBonyman
I’m getting tired of the Ryan-Air mentality that’s invading our games.
jenkosz
I want some of those live subscription fees too, but I guess you can’t always get what you want.
BrendanCalls
If Hitler is to politics, then Kotick is to Video Games
newsky87
Off to ze cooler with you!
jikomanzoku
The Godwin principle is thus revealed.
Porcupine_I
whenever this man opens his mouth, it comes down to the following: “i like money, your money”
BIGAL-1992
WTF is this? 1984? This is turning into Big Brother here for all the wrong reasons.
DeathByNumbers
“you know, people use their eyes and hands to play OUR games. I really don’t thin it’s fair that specsavers etc are eating into our profits so we are going to introduce extra charges into OUR games. But we love the consumer, ugly annoying little shits, ahem, so these charges will certainly be VALUE added charges that are fair to all. One thing we like is EA’s pass system but we think we can do better and have a value added scale we can apply to all OUR products, the first 50seconds of video is yours to keep, after that we take away the primary colours one at a time unless you cough up, plus the right stereo channel will operate for 30 seconds every 10 minutes unless again you pay a small fee. OUR approach really is unique, everyone will get an individually tailored experience. But, freeloading, 2nd hand buying, renting shits beware as removing the disk from the drive it is originally played on without my express written consent will cause it to shred”
seedaripper1973
excellantay!
iAvernus
Dude don’t even joke about that! Kotic might read this!
Danza Di Fuoco
Agreed its the same to every publisher
a inferior race
I don’t really see anything wrong with this. Developer makes games, maintains them and rebalances the online MP but MS acquire all profit from it.
A better system would be MS take £20-£30 of the money from xbl and then they pay the rest to the Pubs/Devs as without them there would be no need for xbl.
jayjay119
To be fair to Activision, they have created a huge product that microsoft are cashing in on, virtually for nothing. I don’t blame them wanting some of the enormous revenue MS are getting for their product but it should be MS they are attacking not the consumers!
BrendanCalls
But MS give them millions and millions for the rights to have COD DLC released on their platform earlier than on any other. They’re profitting from the subscription already, because they would have just released it all at the same time for no extra money otherwise
jayjay119
Ah right ok, I’m not really a COD fan so I didn’t know this.
iAvernus
Exactly! Millions goes towards those exclusive, time realeased, maps. How much more does this man wants?
He should just STFU! Unless he talks about something for free!
Foxhound_Solid
interesting to see how this will pan out considering how MS and Act are now best buddies…..
DrNate86
I thought this. *Insert foot firmly into mouth*