Activision Formally Announces Call of Duty Online

To be fair...if you play a lot of Call of Duty and Battlefield 3, their premium services are really nice and cheaper than buying everything separately. Also, you don't need them to play games and you can still find plenty of games EASILY on any platform without any of the DLC. Gets kind of tiring to see all the mindless shit people say about the stuff when they clearly don't know what they do or who they are intended for.

@pa21ris: Because people on PC don't play COD...

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Call of Duty Online?! Now I can play Call of Duty Online online with my online Call of Duty friends! Thanks Call of Duty Online!

@Brodehouse said:

Call of Duty Online?! Now I can play Call of Duty Online online with my online Call of Duty friends! Thanks Call of Duty Online!

What an age we live it.

hello we are Activision! money?

Is the asian market really a hot bed of Gray Whitta style shoot that guy gaming? Or is just that there are so many people that we will make money no matter what we put out?

Great. Can't wait for the Chinese to be sick of this fucking game too.

[Read in Big Jeffrey voice] Big Bobby's got a plan for them chinafolk.

Finally, a multiplayer Call of Duty!

Surprised they didn't release it in eu and Us, although im sure they would make more money selling full on boxed games plus dlc so i guess it makes sense.

I think this makes way more sense than releasing another 60 dollar one. But they'll do that anyway...

Man i can not wait till COD is burnt into the ground like Guitar Hero!

Activision rely on COD way to much , which is only going to hurt them big time i hope . This shit is getting stupid!!!

That has got to be the most redundant title ever created.

people saying Acti relys on COD too much & when CODs popularity fades theyre in trouble.

not true, the time when CODs popularity starts fading (latest release sold over 30 million) & its not going to fade anytime soon, is moment Acti has already made tens of billions $$

so theyre playing their cards right at the moment by relying on COD

Is there multiplayer?

I've been saying China! China! China! for so long. Gods.

We're a few years out from seeing international Chinese consoles, Chinese developed games, and not far from Triple-A China games either. Sign me up!

Huh, maybe if it comes to America (lolyeahright) we can finally be done with the yearly installments? Also, as pointed out by numerous people in this thread.. those screenshots bear a freakishly close resemblance to MW2 Spec-Ops.

Can they farm gold?

@mosdl said:

@Var said:

Now when will something like this come to america (never)

There is a free to play Battlefield version (based on BF2) that came out a while ago.

Two Battlefield games, actually, Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play4Free, both of which have been around for a few years, neither of them especially great (though Heroes has an rather charming art style). Then we have Blacklight Retribution which is all about recreating the Call of Duty gameplay as an free to play shooter covering a lot of game types and with extensive customization.

heres an idea. how bout activision take every map from every cod and use the modern warfare 3 level up system or tweak it like the always do, whatever, and make an elite edition. charge like 100$ one disc every map. booyah! i want .05% of gross kotick! ahem mr. ceo kotick.

@Var: Something similar already did come to America. It's called Blacklight Retribution and it's out on Steam now and you should play it ASAP

"This doesn't look too shabby for a free-to-play game, but we haven't seen it in motion."

C'mon. F2P has been great looking for AT LEAST a year now. Can we stop being surprised by this?

Of course, this is Patrick writing this. Mr. "I'll just regurgitate the popular opinion on the internet instead of have my own opinions". *sigh*

I DO think it's hilarious that Mr.Kotick talks about "innovative" new games, when he's marching out the 83rd version of Call of Duty, a series that hasn't changed the formula since COD2. And whose developers are so creatively bankrupt, they're disposable and interchangeable. Activision has about 7 studios pumping out COD games, map packs and content, and no one can see any difference. If that's not the sign of "innovation", I don't know what is! LOL.

Nice marketing ploy. This is just Activision peddling a "F2P" game in arguably the biggest market, and potentially the biggest eSports market, on the planet. Then when and if they hit the saturation that they want they'll cut it off and release the full 60 dollar yearly average iteration, along with their shitty "Elite" service and make more money. The fact that people can't see through their bullshit is kind of worrying. Activision, and Bobby Kotick in particular, never EVER give anything away for free. There is clearly an ulterior motive here behind the scenes.

Call me a pessimist, but why else would they release a F2P game in the Chinese market when they make billions a year off of an expansion pack elsewhere in the world? It's all about exposure. Hook them and reel them in, then swim in the money. They're businessmen. It's what I'd do.

That bridge. That fucking bridge.
 
@Bobby Kotick said:

We think China is one of the most exciting places in the world for us to grow our business and to develop innovative new games.

yea lets tap into that well of chinese consumers that love to play as US marines shooting muslims or russians or muslim russians in the face with high tech assault rifles.

Kind of up in the air whether or not this game is even going to come in the US, but if it does, I hope it just gets looked over because everyone is already Playing Blacklight: Retribution. That game is doing the Call of Duty thing just as good as Call of Duty itself, plus it's actually doing a couple interesting things as well. We'll see, I guess.

@Var: http://store.steampowered.com/app/209870/

Just saying.

I play Battlefield Play4Free and Battlefield 3 ... they're such different games, and 3 is much better gamer, but Pay4Free is still a good time waster now and then on the laptop. I wouldn't write it off just yet... if EA can get it done right(ish) Activision probably can too.

This would never work, unless you can play with one hand and smoke with the other

I have three questions about this game:

1. Is it being developed by Treyarch?

2. Is it running on the Black Ops or Black Ops 2 versions of the engine instead of the IW version?

3. Is it the original Modern Warfare?

If the answer is no to (1) then the game as evidenced by all the other non-Treyarch CoDs is woefully unbalanced. If the answer is no to (2) then the game is running on an inferior version of the CoD engine. If the answer is no to (3) then the game is not fun.

@TPoppaPuff said:

I have three questions about this game:

1. Is it being developed by Treyarch?

2. Is it running on the Black Ops or Black Ops 2 versions of the engine instead of the IW version?

3. Is it the original Modern Warfare?

If the answer is no to (1) then the game as evidenced by all the other non-Treyarch CoDs is woefully unbalanced. If the answer is no to (2) then the game is running on an inferior version of the CoD engine. If the answer is no to (3) then the game is not fun.

There's a large contradiction in what you want this game to be. Don't think too hard; it's Call of Duty.

@Var said:

Now when will something like this come to america (never)

Not as long as people are willing to shell out 60 buckos for yearly installments along with a 50 buck elite subscription. Its much more profitable to keep the yearly dev cycle churn w/map packs rather than settle on a F2P title.

@Jayzilla said:

Activision: Spying on and firing employees to keep them from royalties, and keeping you buying our games year after year! Thank you consumers for continuing to allow us to do whatever we want and to treat our employees however we want without consequence!

To be honest I dont give a fuck about Activision employees and if I want to buy an Activision game I will.

@vinsanityv22 said:

Of course, this is Patrick writing this. Mr. "I'll just regurgitate the popular opinion on the internet instead of have my own opinions". *sigh*

Oh Jesus, give me a break. This isn't an editorial, it's just a blurb. Get off your high horse for fuck's sake. How many opinion pieces and editorials has Patrick written here? Does this story really warrant some long-winded in-depth critique?

@laserbolts: Hey, I've got this great new video game. Wanna buy it? In a year, I'll remake it and you can buy it again! I'll even throw in a "new" story and "tweak" some settings so it plays better!

Today, on the 4th of July 2012, at 8PM, I've read "Free" and "Activision" in the same sentence. Our calculations were off, for December 21st 2012 isn't for another 5 months. My god...

@RivenD3ll said:

Today, on the 4th of July 2012, at 8PM, I've read "Free" and "Activision" in the same sentence. Our calculations were off, for December 21st 2012 isn't for another 5 months. My god...

No, it's not too late! There can still be hats! Or extra guns! Anything to avoid the rapture!

@LikeaSsur said:

@laserbolts: Hey, I've got this great new video game. Wanna buy it? In a year, I'll remake it and you can buy it again! I'll even throw in a "new" story and "tweak" some settings so it plays better!

Sure why not?

Call of Duty on the internet? It'll never work.

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Stupid people, stop buying call of doodie games

I thought there already was a F2P FPS made in the Quake 3 engine.