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Activision May Be Considering A MMO Call of Duty; March 4th, 2008
Topic Started: Mar 4 2008, 10:12 PM (151 Views)
DynoMite
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Activision May Be Considering A Massively Multiplayer Call Of Duty

The head cheese at Activision, Bobby Kotick, recently made headlines for his assertion that, in order to compete properly with World of Warcraft, publishers may need to invest nearly a billion dollars in such a venture. Fortunately for Kotick and crew, they now have access to the big brains at Blizzard and Vivendi, a group of folks who know quite a bit about the MMO business. How then, can Activision exploit its biggest earners into even bigger financial monsters?

The Activision CEO says that during the first few months of integration planning with Vivendi, they asked themselves some serious questions about what they consider "the fastest growing markets in the world", including Asian markets and MMOs.

As an example, Kotick said to investors at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, "What would be the natural evolution of a property like Call of Duty into a massively-multiplayer environment and how do you monetize that?"

Kotick parlayed that into a thought on in-game advertising, in which he pointed to Starcraft as a model for short-session, ladder tournament play that can easily support ad spots. While a Call of Duty MMO may be a long way off, if it ever gets off the ground, it's starting to sound like Activision execs may be giving it serious thought and we'd expect it to be a big focus for the publisher's ad revenue model.


LINK: http://kotaku.com/363843/activision-may-be-considering-a-massively-multiplayer-call-of-duty

I hope they don't do this. I was looking forward to CoD 5. :(
uh-oh KB limit now.
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Ron
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I think either way they do it. There won't be a CoD5 for atleast a year.
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Cody
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Wait, can't they make both? I wan't Call of Duty 5 more than an MMO, considering that I don't have live yet.
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Ron
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I wouldn't mind either one as long as the MMO didn't cost XX a month.
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SMS
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yea i don't mind either. I will buy both.
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Ron
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It would be interesting how they would design it. Maybe it will be like WoW where you start out with a very weak gun and level up into different area such as a sniper or a medic. CoD 5 would be interesting seeing as how number four is superb already. They can use up 100gb of space on those damn disks, so it could be great!
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I'd buy CoD5, as long as they come out with it for 360.

Then i'd be happy.
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