i was debating whether or not id buy black ops or not but if they charge to play online il pass and get medal of honor instead
i was debating whether or not id buy black ops or not but if they charge to play online il pass and get medal of honor instead
cr00mz said:
i doubt anyone would pay for live subscription if a silver account would give access to online gaming. So basically live and fee based MMO are the same. you pay to play online. |
As always, it depends on the value. If silver account let you play online but had no moderators, no reporting, no stat collection, no matchmaking, and no voice chat while gold had all that then people would certainly pay for that. Same reason why people pay to play in CEVO, or pay for reserve slots on servers, or any other thing - the perceived value. Frankly, there doesn't seem to be ANY value added to what activision is asking for, they are like a drug dealer - they just want to get people hooked and then get them to pay. Well, for most people money is still more important than gaming. Not to mention there are 100x more FPSs out there that are just as good, if not better than MW. Here's hoping SC2 turns out to be ok, otherwise it will be a sad day when even Blizzard falls to Kotick's money grubbing ass.
youarebadatgames said:
As always, it depends on the value. If silver account let you play online but had no moderators, no reporting, no stat collection, no matchmaking, and no voice chat while gold had all that then people would certainly pay for that. Same reason why people pay to play in CEVO, or pay for reserve slots on servers, or any other thing - the perceived value. Frankly, there doesn't seem to be ANY value added to what activision is asking for, they are like a drug dealer - they just want to get people hooked and then get them to pay. Well, for most people money is still more important than gaming. Not to mention there are 100x more FPSs out there that are just as good, if not better than MW. Here's hoping SC2 turns out to be ok, otherwise it will be a sad day when even Blizzard falls to Kotick's money grubbing ass. |
that is a very very very small amount of players. I'm not saying if silver players could play online that suddenly there would be 0 (ZERO) amount of gold subscribers but i am positive that the numbers would drastically drop. I am pretty sure that people subscribing for xbox live gold are people that want to play online, sure there are those 2-3 people paying for netflix or facebook, but the majority pays for the online gaming feature.
That seems like a bad move. Looks like I'm getting Conduit 2.