Modern Warfare 2 to get online subscriptions?

[ledickolas]

Early access to betas and expansions? I'd expect them for price of the subscription.

Activision: in a word 'no'

in three words 'go f**k yourself'

I'm not going to start paying subscriptions on top of my Live account.

[juliancallan2]

Seems exactly like a cheap marketing ploy.

Oh and stop reporting bullshit speculation as news.

[flash501]

I really wish that Activision didn't own the cod franchise , the more popular it gets the more ways they will think of ripping off us gamers. I bet eventually paying a subscription will be the only way to access the online features.

[The_Angry_Badger]

I've always stuck by the likes of Activision with their charging for additional content like map packs, but this seems a bit too much like milking it. Come on, with MW1 the game and map pack came to about £60, that is plenty to pay, i am starting to feel like i'm getting screwed a bit with the additional content.

[svd_grasshopper]

slags, they are already over charging for the game itself. f**king RRP £54.99

i'd never pay a sub. its the main reason i got shot of my 360.

if it came to it i'd boycott the full game. seems like they are whoring it out anyway.

would the pc versions still be a subscription?! i know there are gimpy subscription games on pc, but they usually get their DLC for fuck all.

activision are parasites.

[metallicorphan]

and there's the sly dig at xbox 360,you just cant help yerself can you Grassboy?

[nottsville]

[RumbleThunder]

Ahahahaha.

Bahahahahahahaha.
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[pedroukuk]

I see no problam with this, it's no different to going to the doctors

[almanac2015]

As EA become a liked publisher, it appears Activision is going to do everything it can to convince everyone that it's a complete t**t.
Subscription to an online FPS? It can f**k right off with an idea like that, I'm not paying for exclusive game modes. And I'm sure I'm not the only person who says if this happens, I won't be buying.
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[nathar]

Good grief, what a stupid stupid idea. Its because of these types of decisions that games like this tend to be the most pirated.

[Random Hangman]

MW2 is pretty much my most anticipated game this year and the first MW is sitting in the Xbox as we speak (I also have it for PS3) but...

There is no way on earth that I will buy MW2 if Activision go ahead with a stunt like that. Additional maps? Yep, I'll bite and fork out the £5-£10 for them, but this? No way!

I will cut my nose off to spite my face over that!

[svd_grasshopper]

[StonecoldMC]

Ive being saying on here for a while now that Activision are the worst of the Publishers out there.

The way they treated Brutal Legend, Fear 2, Prototype when they dropped them was terrible, then they see that Brutal Legend looks pretty good and they then sue Tim Schafers ass.

If only I didnt want to buy MW2, damn you Infinity Ward and your truly great Games!
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[suchthef00l]

Stupid, flamebaiting subtitle CVG- Why on earth would an Activision survey (note- the PUBLISHER, not even the developer), which would be a small subset of the earliest stage of game development, be fed into changing the feature set of a game that is only a few months from completion?

As it happens I do work in software development, but I don't think you really need to to figure out that there is no way in hell this survey has anything to do with Modern Warfare 2, or any title that far through development.

Had you asked "MMO features to be added to future CoD titles" or something similar, that would be fair. As it stands you'll have every commentard up in arms about a feature that probably has nothing to do with Modern Warfare.

Sort it out please.

I just commented on this over on Eurogamer (videogangs), where I said I'd happily support something like this as long as it was robust, well supported, multiplayer only and good value for money.

I'm not sure this would work on Xbox live, where people already cough up cold cash, but as a PC title it would certainly be adopted by the competetive hardcore, as long as there was enough to it to justify the pricetag.

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[svd_grasshopper]

^ crimbo.

and the multiplayer in CoD4 is class. it aint overrated.

[WHERESMYMONKEY]

i'm giving you 3/1 that this happens.

You know what. I bet the meatheads that love these games so much'll pay it too.

bwahahahahaha!!
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[adgr19]

if this is true, they can go **** themselves. This will be just the start. Speak with your wallets (or purses) people!

[RumbleThunder]

TF2 is around 392084 times more fun than COD, and just look at the developer love that gets.


Pathetic cash in.
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[Jensonjet]

F*CK YOU ACTIVISION!

This is exactly why I've never purchased any DLC. Sure, I would love to have extra content for the games I love, but once DLC becomes very popular, that'll be the start of games getting smaller and smaller, with DLC required to own the full game.

Imagine all future games starting off as small as say this interim Gran Tourismo. A basic game engine with very little content. Then over the months, the publishers/developers release DLC packs for maps/tracks, or cars/guns... maybe even game types or features. If this is to be the future everyone purchasing DLC is edging us towards this.

[ledickolas]

[DJEnhancr]

From what I'm reading here, it sounds like the COD series is trying to do what MAG is doing on PS3.

If so, this could get very interesting.

[The_KFD_Case]

Not interested in the least. Thanks, but no thanks Activision.
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[KMakawa]

For the record, this is not aimed at Modern Warfare 2. Thanks.