| The Fury said: Are Activision, EA, Rockstar, 2K and other 3rd party developers getting money from the subscription services? Gold and PS+ require you to pay to use MS and Sony stuff but what of the game makers themselves and their servers? I remember there being an argument between Activision and MS once, Activision claimed that as they are providing a huge number of the subscribers because of Call of Duty they should get some of the money for using it as MS don't host the servers, Activision do. I never did find out how this was resolved. I guess I'm stuck in a mentality that as part of buying a £40 game, it includes the rights to play that game whether it's single player or multiplayer, so it includes the rights to play for on their servers as well. Much to the reason I was against 'Online Pass' as I felt that the right to play online went with the game not the person, so if they sold it second hand, whoever the new owner is, also go the original owners right to play it online (I mean it's not like the original owner is on there anymore). The value of a £40 game isn't the same anymore. £40 in the PS1 could get you a puzzle game, IQ or Devil Dice would have been RRP, games that now people wouldn't put for more than £10 on download only probably. Like I said before, we expect more but expect to pay less. One of my biggest gripes from last gen was Mass Effect 3. If you loved the ME series, had it one Xbox but didn't pay for Gold, you could not increase Galatic Readiness without paying more. They essentially removed an entire section of the single player game. This was a gaming sin as far as I was concerned. EA payed mind you for other things wrong with that game but that I thought was bigger than anything. Gold required to play a single player game, disgusting.
Sorry, if I've diverted your thread, I went off on one. |
Activision basically said they were getting small piece of Xbox Live money. I recall Sony fans getting angry about that and saying Activision is taking money from people not playing CoD. Considering they are big reason people subscribe, it seems fair to give them a piece of Xbox Live money.
EA operates their own servers and I think we can all agree it would be best if they didn't.
Anyhow, from my understanding publishers benefit financially from not having to operate their own servers on Xbox Live. I'm not sure who else is getting money directly from MS.
I completed ME3, but I never played it online so I don't know anything about "galactic readiness." I'll just say single player and online play should be kept seperate.
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