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Activision CEO Bobby Kotick answers "I would have Call of Duty be an online subscription service tomorrow," when asked by Wall Street Journal Online what he would do if he could instantly make one change in his company by snapping his fingers. He goes on to explain: "When you think about what the audience's interests are and how you could really satisfy bigger audiences with more inspired, creative opportunities, I would love to see us have an online Call of Duty world. I think our players would just have so much of a more compelling experience." He answers "hopefully" to their follow-up question of whether this is coming, and goes on to explain that their customers have been "clamoring" for the opportunity to pay a monthly fee for multiplayer support, as demonstrated by how much they play for free: "I think our audiences are clamoring for it. If you look at what they're playing on Xbox Live today, we've had 1.7 billion hours of multiplayer play on Live. I think we could do a lot more to really satisfy the interests of the customers. I think we could create so many things, and make the game even more fun to play. We haven't really had a chance to do that yet, so that would be my snap of the fingers." Thanks Joao via CVG via VG247 via NeoGAF.
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Done right, I'll admit that I would probably pay for a CoD MMO.
What I think of as being "done right" would be something along these lines;
- Game setting is of two global super powers at war by proxy (Vietnam style conflicts)
- Players take on the role of special forces operatives from either side of the "Cold War".
- "PvP" would obviously be the main thrust of the gameplay, with persistent territory clashes directed by the developers.
- Games would feature similar modes to the existing CoD game types, but would be properly integrated into a believable story mode. For example, capture the flag would be changed to something like "Escort the VIP".
- Complete integration of the Spec Ops mode from MW2 into the game so that players can join up with friends and take part in spec ops scenarios which have a real effect on the persistent game world.
- Expansions could take the form of new conflicts in different parts of the world (new factions, new locations, new weapons etc.)
- No classes - I think this is a really poor part of MMOG design. Just allow players to make their own templates out of what's available.
- Actual gameplay must remain totally twitch based. No crappy "accuracy" skill which affects your shots.
- The ability to specialise in different skills at higher levels - for example, becoming an AC130 gunner, or being given access to high powered sniper rifles etc.
- Maybe even a mix of the Spec Ops and PvP game modes - for example, a scenario in which two players take the roles of opposing chopper gunners and have to protect their own AI troops from the other gunner. |
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