Call of Duty: Elite Service

Consumers are used to paying $60 each for videogames that run on consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Now the publisher behind the industry's biggest videogame franchise—"Call of Duty"—is about to find out whether it can get them to pay a monthly bill, too.

Activision Blizzard Inc. plans to launch an online service called Call of Duty Elite this fall that will work with the next major edition of the game, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," and future installments of the hyper-realistic combat-simulation game. In a move industry executives describe as a first, Activision plans to charge a monthly subscription fee for the service, which will provide extra content that isn't offered on game discs sold in stores, including downloadable map packs that give players new "Call of Duty" levels to play.

Så længe man kan spille det gratis, ja så er jeg også ligeglad. Spiller ikke andet pt (nyeste spil var netop BO), men har trods det, ikke haft råd til at investere i de nye map packs der er kommet. Så jeg tvivler derfor på, at jeg vil komme til at betale en månedlig ydelse for det.

amorbavian skrev: Så længe vi andre kan spille gratis. Selvom dette realistisk set er første skridt mod at alle skal betale for at spille online. Activision inviterer til at blive hacket. Og fortjener det. They are evil.