Whether or not Activision ultimately decides to introduce a subscription-based service for its Call of Duty titles, fans will be pleased to know they won't have to pay to play multiplayer matches, at least for now. A purported YouTube video surfaced last night that showed a possible membership program was in the works for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Addressing the video, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling said the 'Modern Warfare 2 Membership' menu shown was an error and that there will never be 'pay-to-play' Call of Duty multiplayer. "To be clear: There is not, and will never be, additional fees required to subscribe and play Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer," he said on his blog. "The video above seems to show a user on what appears to be the Xbox Live Gold Membership renewal page via the Marketplace in the guide, but while in-game in Modern Warfare 2 (which is in error)," he added. "It does not however, prove a pay-to-play subscription model is in the works for Modern Warfare 2, because no such plan exists for this or any other Call of Duty (including the upcoming Black Ops)." "That said, feel free to cease freaking out." Treyarch community manager Josh Olin addressed the rumors saying Call of Duty: Black Ops will also be free to play online. "No, you will not have to 'Pay to Play' multiplayer either," he said. "Rumor -> Squashed." Activision issued a statement to IGN further reinforcing what Bowling and Olin had stated, saying the company has no plans to charge for online multiplayer. "Reports of a subscription membership in Modern Warfare 2 are not true," a spokesperson said. " Activision has no plans to charge gamers to play Call of Duty multiplayer." This news comes just days after industry analyst Michael Pachter preached that publishers such as Activision need to begin to monetize multiplayer by including subscription fees, starting with Call of Duty: Black Ops this November. Im just happy that the fees idea is somewhat gone. Yeah! **Copied from Ign.com**
You already made a thread about the online fees, why don't you just bump it a little bit? also, this Activision isn't stupid, they know how many gamers would refuse to buy and play a game that charges them extra fees when the players are already paying for xbl.
If you pay $7 a month to play Xbox LIVE, no company would charge extra to play titles that are competing with other top companies such as EPIC, Bungie and EA. This would just knock them down a peg and take Modern Warfare off of it's pedestal.
I can't really bump it if it says "activision must start multiplayer fees". This was confirmed. Im not doing it to get more posts. I doing it because millions of player like myself are really pissed at activision for starting up a stupid fee.
I think it was obvious from the beginning that the online fee wasn't going to take hold on this current generation. By E3 2012 (or possibly 2011, but I doubt it) we will have at least one new console announced, and seeing as how the largest reason the 360 has outsold the PS3 is due to it's head start, I think it's a safe bet that Microsoft will launch first once again. Once this new console is released, it most likely will have no online fee, and that will allow Activision to implement a subscription fee fairly quickly, seeing as how many were once used to paying one for XBL.