Kevin Durawa writes:
"This week the rumors of a subscription-based Call of Duty came to a head – and exploded in the press like a sticky grenade.
Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling noted on Twitter, “Modern Warfare 2 subscription plan rumors going around. For the record, nobody has to pay to play COD or MW2 multiplayer, nor will they."
The developer of this holiday's Call of Duty: Black Ops also weighed in. Studio manager Josh Olin confirmed the soon-to-be November blockbuster wouldn't require a “pay to play” either.
A monthly subscription for Call of Duty gamers would be an extremely difficult sell to even the most hardcore COD fans. But would it improve the quality of the experience?"
Online multiplayer is back for 11 more games thanks to Insignia's XBL 1.0 replacement service running on Original Xbox consoles and the Xemu emulator on PC. Multiplayer, voice chat, leaderboards, etc. have been a monthly addition for many games from Xbox's past library thank to the team at Insignia.live! The 11 new games are now playable online once again after 13+ years.
Nah they will be tho look at rscs3 they have psn made in there emulator why not xenia bro?
Booo!! I was hoping that was Rainbow Six: Black Arrow...Boo!! again. I thought this coming to Xbox. I don't even read it I was so excited.
The video on Black Ops 1 shows some separate rooms, assets, and other features which exist outside of the boundary of the game.
From DownSights: "Black Ops is not Black Ops without Nuketown. Following the tradition of releasing Nuketown for Black Ops games, the new Black Ops Cold War game also offers a revamped Nuketown called Nuketown '84.
Nuketown '84 has the same dimensions and map layout except for the aesthetics. The map's aesthetics have changed to fit the 80s theme, with destroyed buildings and graffiti-filled walls compared to a clean 50s suburban neighborhood seen in Black Ops 1."
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If publishers want to go with the subscription model with online multiplayer, they really need to slash the price of the core game. For instance, I could see a great FPS shooter selling for $39 with only a single player campaign with a $5/month subscription for the multiplayer running on dedicated servers. If its a game you truly love, then its like paying to maintain the servers. I could see that as a fair compromise.
and it has all the best features that you can get on the x box including online play but you have to pay for it....wait they do that already. Well now we know why companies think they can get away with it.
it sadly coming and i am cheap so F that
The thing about EA's attempt is to get their hands on the money Gamestop owes them. Developers get absolutely no money from the used games Gamestop sells. Yet blockbuster is handing them a percent of their profits per game rented. So EA said eff you gamestop and thought of a loop hole around it.
Paying to play COD is NOT the way to go. There is nothing to pay for. Hell 80 percent of COD fanboys are on Xbox Live and guess what, they are already paying microsoft 50 bucks a year to play the game. So you want to tag on another 5 or 10? Sure its not alot till you realize that IP bill in the mail box at the end of the month too. Comes down to it your paying nearly 200 bucks just to shoot some people in an FPS thats no better than Medal of Honor's free to play (but pay if you got it used) model.
EA has it right, and even Kojima had a better idea. Pay to have accounts online. Get one free account, link it to your Live or PSN account, then you gotta pay for a second account. Activision already ripped us off with map packs, and did we see any improvement from the online? Nope. and the next COD is gonna have the same exact issues and run off the same engine and look exactly the same.