A user on 360Junkies has recorded a tale and a video that demonstrates something could possibly be afoot on Xbox Live Marketplace with the multiplayer portion of Infinity Ward's lauded and ever-popular shooter. According to this user, "PwnShop," while browsing to jump into a friend's room the other day, he was greeted with a menu asking for some sort of membership fee.
UPDATE: This video is a fake. More below.
Call of Duty is so widely played, it's subjected to a larger variety of unusual abuses than most games. This also means that an even wider audience of talented tricksters is in the game's user pool. So, to be fair, this could be nothing more than a clever fake created to stimulate massive response from the game's dedicated and large fan base.
The question as to why Activision would bother slapping a membership fee on a rather old game as opposed to, say, Treyarch's forthcoming offering is certainly a valid one. I've contacted an Activision representative about this video's integrity and will update when I get a response.
UPDATE: Activision still hasn't responded to my inquiry, but no worries--Infinity Ward's community manager Robert Bowling has squashed this rumor via Twitter. "Modern Warfare 2 subscription plan rumors going around," he said three hours ago. "For the record, nobody has to pay to play COD or MW2 multiplayer, nor will they." Josh Olin, Treyarch's community manager, has also chimed in. "No, you will not have to pay to play [Call of Duty: Black Ops] multiplayer either," he said.
http://fourzerotwo.com/post/833729222/modern-warfare-2-subscription-false
what he said
But, in the end, that would be Activision's call, wouldn't it? Terrifying!
Glad that most of the MW2 I play now is at a friends house on a PS3 with t-rex sized tv in offline MP. Silly activision idea, guess if they put that idea out when the game came out along with hosing the dedicated servers it would have tanked the whole thing.
i'll just buy a different game... i'll give someone else my money before putting up with this greedy bs...
I don't doubt they have something cooking for Black Ops, though.
I don't see how this isn't the death of COD, MW, whatever game tries to charge it. Why would anyone pay when there are so many other games like it out there for free?
I would have thought others would feel the same way but then again there was a bunch who paid those extortionate prices for the map packs...
also, the only way id ever pay a sub for a cod game is if 1) there are a shit ton of maps and modes! 2) its fully hack proof and 3) all dlc is free!
untill those requirement are met i wont even consider it
But I don't like it enough to pay monthly.
When is Reach coming out again?