Author: random515
Title: Activision To Institute Paid Subscriptions For Online Games?
Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Gamers should expect a payment model similar to World of Warcraft for online games like Call of Duty, according to Activision CFO Thomas Tippl.
“It's definitely an aspiration that we see potential in, particularly as we look at different business models to monetize the online gameplay,” said Tippl at the BMO Capital Markets Conference. “There's good knowledge exchange happening between the Blizzard folks and our online guys.”
He continued, “We have great experience also on Call of Duty with the success we had on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. A lot of that knowledge is getting actually built into the Battle.Net platform and the design of that.”
“I think it's been mutually beneficial, and you should expect us to test and ultimately launch additional online monetization models of some of some of our biggest franchises like Call of Duty.”
According to Tippl, there is actually demand from the core fanbase to pay for additional services.
“Our gamers are telling us there's lots of services and innovation they would like to see that they're not getting yet. From what we see so far, additional content, as well as all the services Blizzard is offering, is that there is demand from the core gamers to pay up for that.”
Riiiiiight….In this writer’s opinion, if Activision institute something like this, they’re not going to have much of a core fanbase left.
- By Ira Herbold
Lolz, silly online gamers. While they're all fussing over nerfs and new systems like this, I'm happily throwing batarangs at Joker's thugs and assassinating Templars. Suffice to say, I like not dealing with this crap.