Activison want you to pay for Online
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What is everyone bitching about? Xbox players pay to play every game online...
This isn't news to anyone...
This isn't news to anyone...
But you see, if Activision gets their way, you'll be paying TWICE as much for online. You're probably thinking that isn't much, but imagine how much they can charge you for all the extra goodies.ravens_nest said:
Say goodbye to that money in your wallet.
I rarely play multiplayer, I don't use Xbox live and i'm not stupid enough to pay a subscription to play games on my PC so no losing money for me!Pendragon9 said:
Activision wouldn't get away with charging to play CoD online through an Xbox. I'm assuming this move is only for PC's. If that's not the case then fair enough. But you'd have to be pretty stupid to pay up.
Anyway the real point at hand is what will stop other developers from following suit and charging people to play Halo online or Starcraft or any of the other popular multiplayer game. The gamers simply wouldn't stand for it. Activision may be greedy, but they won't be that stupid. He says...
no im a console person but i think rainbow 6 vegas and gears of war 1 (to main games i play) have the best online and those are dedicatedjohnman said:
which is why they fucking ruined gears 2 online by adding a shitty matchmaking for no god damn point O WAIT THAT DOESNT MAKE SENSE............but its what they did........
Very much so. Dick move after dick move.Doc Theta Sigma said:
If the general masses werent such pushovers they'd be out of buisness.
Not really. If a large number of people would be willing to pay for this service, then the game is worth it. I don't see how that is sad.Carnagath said:
Oh no! We gave them money because they made a good game! The horror!Glefistus said:
I really don't see how this is so evil. if the vast majority is willing to pay for an online service to play their games, then Activison hasn't done anything wrong. They have just made more money.
I confess myself completely unsurprised. Anyone who's been reading the kind of stuff Bob Kotick is acredited with saying would feel similar.
I'm interested to see just how much Activision can screw gamers before gamers actually abandon them. I think the time is coming. I'd like to think so anyway, especially with all the people boycotting MW2, (or at least saying they would boycott, whether they did or not is another thing entirely.) Unfortunately as Internet Kraken said:
I'm interested to see just how much Activision can screw gamers before gamers actually abandon them. I think the time is coming. I'd like to think so anyway, especially with all the people boycotting MW2, (or at least saying they would boycott, whether they did or not is another thing entirely.) Unfortunately as Internet Kraken said:
Activison can go take a burning iron shove it up their ass and boil their insides.
I will NOT pay double for my online multiplayer services!
I will NOT pay double for my online multiplayer services!
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otersonally this seems to be pc-oriented because xbox live already charges us so they wouldnt charge us again
actualy its free on ps3 also but if activision could have made 2 seperate products, mw single player and mw multi player and made ppl have to buy both of them to play the game they would have
As I recall, Microsoft tried a 'pay to play online' thing with Windows Live, and one game that used said pay-for-online was the PC version of Halo 2. As far as I know, it went belly-up.
I already think it's bad that they're making people pay for the XBox Live Gold to pay online (How can the 360 players let themselves get spoon-fed that crap!? As far as I know, the XBox was the only console to ever make you pay for online multi-player services in recent memory.)
I don't see how Activision can possibly think that making us PAY for something like dedicated servers, that some people will ALREADY BE PAYING TO HAVE THEM RUNNING would ever be a good idea. Especially after Microsoft already tried such a scheme and failed.
I'm fine with microtransactions; they're like little expansion packs. They aren't normally in the game, and you pay for the extra content in smaller chunks. Paying for online multiplayer, though, is charging people for something they are supposed to already own right there on the disc, and it disgusts me.
MMORPGs, as much as I hate them, are the only excuse for Pay-2-Play online. MMORPGs are massive, persistent worlds that need to host thousands and thousands of people each all at the same time, as well as handle all the monsters, quests, player stats, items, communications, and the countless other things. Any player simply DOES NOT HAVE the resources capable of sustaining, or even creating, such an epic-capacity server, and it costs the company a lot of money to maintain their servers for those games. They are in a whole other league as far as online goes, and the subscription is well within reason there.
Paying to play shooters online with maybe 15 or so other people... anyone can go buy a gaming server and set it up the way they want. Running such a thing is nothing special, and Activision is under the delusion that they have the right to charge players such a basic service.
if the P2P IW.net didn't piss off every gamer on the planet (Which is understandable; if they like it, then that's fine. Even if I utterly despise it, that's more a personal issue than anything), I would be very surprised if Activision had anything over 5% of their PC user-base left after they tried to do that. And if they did manage to keep a lot of their users... that would be so embarrassing and telling of humans ability to be spoon-fed such garbage as to be utterly depressing.
I already think it's bad that they're making people pay for the XBox Live Gold to pay online (How can the 360 players let themselves get spoon-fed that crap!? As far as I know, the XBox was the only console to ever make you pay for online multi-player services in recent memory.)
I don't see how Activision can possibly think that making us PAY for something like dedicated servers, that some people will ALREADY BE PAYING TO HAVE THEM RUNNING would ever be a good idea. Especially after Microsoft already tried such a scheme and failed.
I'm fine with microtransactions; they're like little expansion packs. They aren't normally in the game, and you pay for the extra content in smaller chunks. Paying for online multiplayer, though, is charging people for something they are supposed to already own right there on the disc, and it disgusts me.
MMORPGs, as much as I hate them, are the only excuse for Pay-2-Play online. MMORPGs are massive, persistent worlds that need to host thousands and thousands of people each all at the same time, as well as handle all the monsters, quests, player stats, items, communications, and the countless other things. Any player simply DOES NOT HAVE the resources capable of sustaining, or even creating, such an epic-capacity server, and it costs the company a lot of money to maintain their servers for those games. They are in a whole other league as far as online goes, and the subscription is well within reason there.
Paying to play shooters online with maybe 15 or so other people... anyone can go buy a gaming server and set it up the way they want. Running such a thing is nothing special, and Activision is under the delusion that they have the right to charge players such a basic service.
if the P2P IW.net didn't piss off every gamer on the planet (Which is understandable; if they like it, then that's fine. Even if I utterly despise it, that's more a personal issue than anything), I would be very surprised if Activision had anything over 5% of their PC user-base left after they tried to do that. And if they did manage to keep a lot of their users... that would be so embarrassing and telling of humans ability to be spoon-fed such garbage as to be utterly depressing.
I guess that will make them exercise their fingers by clicking the delete button. You think they care? Welcome to capitalism.Poomanchu745 said: