Call of duty - P2P >_>

[Ashes]

According to Wedbush Securities video game industry analyst Michael Pachter, you will be paying to play Call of Duty games in the future.

Yesterday, along with the dismantling on the Guitar Hero franchise, Activision announced the establishment of Project Beachhead, a studio focused on "on the delivery, digitally, of new, innovative Call of Duty content and services" that will "enable tens of millions of players around the world to continue to enjoy the experience that Call of Duty offers." While Activision didn't go into practical detail about what that will mean for gamers, Pachter says it all adds up to pay-for-play CoD.

"Project Beachhead absolutely is charging for multiplayer," Pachter said. "I'm certain to my core."


"Activision said they are working on 'value added, premium content that is exclusive,'" Pachter said. "How do you exclude people unless you do it on the basis of whether they pay or not? What are you going to have a bouncer in front of the club where you play the content? The only way it's exclusive is if it excludes non-paying members," Pachter added.


When asked how a pay-for-it Call of Duty game would work, Pachter offered this:

"The exclusive content could be pay as you go, or monthly. Let's say Project Beachhead comes up with 'Call of Duty Universe,' and it launches with Modern Warfare 3 and they say 'if you join here's all the exclusive content and exclusive weapons and we'll charge you a dollar a piece.' Or If they say, 'for $5 a month you get unlimited weapons and all the map packs we bring out for Modern Warfare in perpetuity,' a lot of people will say, 'I'm going to buy three map packs for 15 dollars anyway, so for $60 a year, I'm getting all the unlimited weapons and achievements,' so they could do that. I don't know if that's what they're going to choose to do. I'd say $5 a month is reasonable, though."

Pachter is watching for people to switch consoles if one "side" starts charging and the other remains free. "What will be interesting is to see if it spurs PS3 sales when people switch over," Pachter said.

There have been previous rumors. This is merely confirming it...Anyone still dedicated to Call of duty now?

[HAARP]

Welcome to the future of mainstream gaming!

[~SJ~ Xarg Talasko]

That piece of crap franchise is still running?

[Leeko]

That piece of crap franchise is still running?

[=KoS= Saber15]

And yet it will still outsell every mech game ever produced, combined, even with P2P and 15$ map packs 

[~SJ~ Xarg Talasko]

Let me find a picture of a person playing a console, except he has a penis for a head, and I think we'll have found the target audience. CoD = Madden in FPS form. New game every year, still a piece of shit.

[SquareSphere }12thVR{]

this is the asian MMO model, charge for 1 time use items and lease "premium" content.

[Snow Gibbon]

Good. This should kill most of player base, meaning we can finally move on.

[HAARP]

Good. This should kill most of player base

hahahahaha yeah right. You overestimate the cocksucking dogfappers that are console players.

[(TLL)Frosted]

My friend tried to get me to play some Cod with him on xbox I proceeded to sell my xbox right afther

[Ashes]

Well, when you get down to the maps for Call of duty. You tend to notice they are half eatten concepts from single player. Sorta like they sliced a section out and planted it in multiplayer. And some doors, a barrier so people can't get loose. Do that 3 times, and you got yourself a $15 map pack...

[~SJ~Azov]

Honestly, I'm not surprised. I immediately lost hope of the franchise when 4 came out, only to be confirmed with the WaW "mod". Then having the audacity to completely ruin the pc crowd with now dedicated servers and no mod support. So let the console weenies soak it up. I dont think the developers will ever see this as a problem until its too late.

And they wonder why pirating is a problem. You create a game that is mediocre in quality and then charge me 60 dollars for it, and then charge me 15 bucks for 3 new maps?

[Ashes]

New games normally cost $100 - 120 in Australia. And the Australian Dollar is greater then the American. (Last i heard.) But lucky, i buy games on steam.

[shyrkonflex]

I still remember that dude from the Black Ops team saying they would NEVER ENVER CHARGE FOR COD MP NEVER EVER OMGOMG THAT WOULD BE CRIME TO THE FRANCISE !!!eins11
And now they appear to be doing it (or not, I can't really tell if thats coming because it will recieve a huge shitstorm from the community) ... 

Anyways, I also remember when CoD was not a game that 14Y old played on their XBoxes all day and then goshed around about how awesome they are and how they rape everyone ...
CoD skill appears to be like the new e-cock or something, its really hilarious.
I'm so glad im interested like 0.1% into a new CoD release that I might aswell install United Offensive now

I played it on PC for a couple of hours, was fun, but its really wierd to have everyone in voicechat sound like a 12Y old choirboy.

[Askis]

New games normally cost $100 - 120 in Australia. And the Australian Dollar is greater then the American. (Last i heard.) But lucky, i buy games on steam.

100-120$? Google sez: 1 Australian dollar = 1.0143 U.S. dollars
Why the heck are games that expensive in Australia?