Subscription based (Rumour)

[samsaBEAR]

People are taking this all out of hand, the subscription was originally planned for the action adventure COD game that some third developer is making, I think Paul talked about it on one of the episodes of his podcast. There's next to no point in charging to play MW2 or Black Ops, because I personally think they'd lose a huge percentage of their fanbase

[Nathaaaan]

Okay, here goes.

You will not have to Pay to Play MW2 Multiplayer, it was confirmed by Robert Bowling, the Infinity Ward Community Manager - http://www.twitter.com/fourzerotwo

You will not have to Pay to Play Black Ops Multiplayer, it was confirmed by Josh Olin, the TreyArch Community Manager - http://www.twitter.com/jd_2020

As for the action-adventure CoD game that is being made by Sledgehammer Games, you most likely will have to Pay to Play that.

[samsaBEAR]

Well done for saying what everyone else has said in this thread

[Fez]

Kotick said it himself he wants one.

It's going to happen.

*REMOVED*, they wont charge monthly for CoD, not yet anyway. ¬¬

I'm an idiot for knowing the inevitable? I bet even he knows that a future COD will have subscription based multiplayer.

[samsaBEAR]

I don't understand that guy, I'm pretty sure we're not all 'clamouring' to pay monthly, specially when our money wouldn't go towards us getting what we wanted, i.e dedicated servers, a reliable support team etc etc

[Fez]

I will say this in support of Kotick: Game costs (servers, development time, just in general) are rising. I don't think a sub based MP would fix it.

Not sure.