Would you pay a monthly fee to play Call Of Duty online? I can honestly say that I wouldn’t and I’m pretty sure most people are the same way.
In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Bobby Kotick (CEO of Activision) has stated that paying for a Call Of Duty online experience may be closer than we think.
During the interview, Kotick stated that paying to play Call Of Duty would enable Activision to create a world for gamers to interact in. What exactly he means by this was not talked about in detail. Kotick said that if he could, he would put the subscription based service into effect as soon as tomorrow.
It’ll be hard to convince gamers to pay $60 for a game and then pay a subscription every month to keep playing Call Of Duty. What makes it even harder is that those same gamers are already paying $50 a year for Xbox Live. So if gamers would have to pay the standard $10 a month to continue playing Call Of Duty online, the cost would come out to $120 a year. This comes out to $170 a year (after adding the Xbox Live Service Fee) not including the price of the game that is payed up front! Unless Activision created an experience that is worth this huge amount of money, its hard to justify spending so much money to play a game that is currently free to play online.
Playing Call Of Duty In A Big Open World Would Be Awesome
Hopefully Activision creates a world online for Call Of Duty that is worth the subscription fee. If they just decide to keep it as a closed world multiplayer with rooms and not an open world, that to me will just show Activision trying hard to cash in on a popular title. Let’s hope that the online experience for Call Of Duty will grow in quality with a subscription attached.
