Mar 5
Call of Duty 4 MMO could be coming…or not
According to IGN, Activision CEO Bobbi Kotick said that the company is considering launching a massively multiplayer online game based off of its Call of Duty franchise.
Kotick stated that Activision looked at five years of data at publisher attempts to break into the MMO market and noticed that most of them resulted in failure or cancellation. Now that Activision and Blizzard are together, it’s a sure thing that will not be the case for the company. Kotick says that Activision will not only be able to get some World of Warcraft subscribers, but also learn from Blizzard’s half how to comprehend newer projects.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was no doubt one of the greatest games of the year 2007, and an MMO game will definitely attract several gamers. Please note, Kotick did NOT confirm that there will be an MMO game based off of the CoD franchise, but rather said it’s being talked about right now. He only briefly mentioned it in his speech at the 2008 Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, but still, this is pretty exciting speculation.
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The MMOFPS concept if pretty cool, and if anyone could pull it off it would probably be them. However, there’s also a huge chance it would totally suck. I’m not really sure what I would want.
I don’t understand why he thinks that WoW players would be into this just because Blizzard is owned by Activision now. The MMORPG fanbase is not the same (and I would assume has little overlap) with the potential MMOFPS fanbase.
If this ever does happen, we can only hope that Activision gets Infinity Ward to develop it, not Treyarch.
Definitely. Although it applies to any Call of Duty game.