Lems. Activision gets a cut of your Xbox live fee.

How does that make you feel?

Good? I doubt that :lol:

Because of our Blizzard experience we have an incredible understanding of how important the provision of appropriate customer service is," Kotick said, citing 2,500 World of Warcraft customer service employees for the US and Europe alone. "What we'd like to ideally see is that the investment in the subscription fees going towards the provision of a higher level of customer service [...] to see some portion of the subscription fees go towards game enhancement." Activision does enjoy a "very modest amount of the subscription fees," Kotick told us, but he's more interested in seeing any cost increase in the service go towards "directly benefitting the Call of Duty players."

So, with $60 a year out the door for many Call of Duty players ? that would be those playing on Xbox 360, as opposed to PC or PlayStation 3 ? it's already a significant $5 a month expense and Activision has only snagged a "modest amount" of that $5.

From the horses mouth, or Bobby Koticks rather.

Lems, you are paying Activision part of your sub, regardless of if you play COD or not.

Are you happy with this?

ROFL That's some serious ownage which will most certainly provoke mass lem butthurt.

Double facepalm picsts106mat

^spamming denial in the form of a facepalm.jpg

Maybe that's how they get DLC first?

Maybe that's how they get DLC first?

GD1551

I seriously doubt Lems care about how the money they spend to support thier gaming hobby with MS is used, they probably never did.

I say lems are stupid, but I doubt most of them actually belive MS uses the money they gets from them for online gameplay is used for anyting other than to line their pockets with free cash.

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"][QUOTE="sts106mat"]Double facepalm picsts106mat

Old, I thought he was talking about WoW subscriptions though, also a modest amount of $5 a month is probably to pay for the timed exclusive DLC; that doesn't come free I suppose.

I seriously doubt Lems care about how the money spend to support MS is used,.

casharmy

Old, I thought he was talking about WoW subscriptions though, also a modest amount of $5 a month is probably to pay for the timed exclusive DLC; that doesn't come free I suppose.

SaltyMeatballs

Cool.Badosh

Nah it isn't

1. Old
2. 90% of Activision bussiness tactics smell like ***
3. Paying for Live smells like ***

[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]

Old, I thought he was talking about WoW subscriptions though, also a modest amount of $5 a month is probably to pay for the timed exclusive DLC; that doesn't come free I suppose.

BibiMaghoo

[QUOTE="casharmy"]

I seriously doubt Lems care about how the money spend to support MS is used,.

BibiMaghoo

like I said, I doubt they care. You are speaking from a personal perseptive. I might think that and you might think that...but I am talking about xbox360/MS fans/fanboys.

Honestly, if they actually had any principels to how their money was spent on it in the first place, would they ever sit and try to justify paying $60 for something that is free on every other competitors alternative...Think about that!!!!!

Nah it isn'ttonitorsi

[QUOTE="casharmy"]

I seriously doubt Lems care about how the money spend to support MS is used,.

BibiMaghoo

You pay for xbox live gold, not cod dlc to be timed exclusive for 360. Microsoft uses some of that gold live money for it. Even though microsoft would stop paying for mw/cod dlc to be time exclusive, that doesnt mean xbox live gold price would drop.

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"][QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]

Old, I thought he was talking about WoW subscriptions though, also a modest amount of $5 a month is probably to pay for the timed exclusive DLC; that doesn't come free I suppose.

SaltyMeatballs

[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]

Old, I thought he was talking about WoW subscriptions though, also a modest amount of $5 a month is probably to pay for the timed exclusive DLC; that doesn't come free I suppose.

BibiMaghoo

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

I seriously doubt Lems care about how the money spend to support MS is used,.

Nohtnym

You pay for xbox live gold, not cod dlc to be timed exclusive for 360. Microsoft uses some of that gold live money for it. Even though microsoft would stop paying for mw/cod dlc to be time exclusive, that doesnt mean xbox live gold price would drop.

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"][QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]

Old, I thought he was talking about WoW subscriptions though, also a modest amount of $5 a month is probably to pay for the timed exclusive DLC; that doesn't come free I suppose.

TheShadowLord07

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[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"] Yeah, the article is old. I have never seen this pop up on SW's though. He is very clearly talking about 360 though, and that means it cannot be WOW. BibiMaghoo

[QUOTE="Nohtnym"]

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"] I'm not so sure. Paying MS for a service is one thing, paying Activision every month for 30 day early map packs is another, especially if you do not play COD. BibiMaghoo

You pay for xbox live gold, not cod dlc to be timed exclusive for 360. Microsoft uses some of that gold live money for it. Even though microsoft would stop paying for mw/cod dlc to be time exclusive, that doesnt mean xbox live gold price would drop.

Microsoft gets profit from xbox live gold, they use some of that profit to pay for mw/cod dlc to be timed exclusive. In the hopes that people buy mw/cod (and the dlc) for 360, which gives the more profit.

Even though microsoft wouldnt pay mw/cod dlc to be timed exclusive, doesnt mean that xbox live gold price would drop.

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"][QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]sounds like you're trying to claim damage control here.

TheShadowLord07

So where is the link?CanYouDiglt

Lems are known to enjoy getting screwed over again and again. :lol:

[QUOTE="CanYouDiglt"]So where is the link?BibiMaghoo

Microsoft gets profit from xbox live gold, they use some of that profit to pay for mw/cod dlc to be timed exclusive. In the hopes that people buy mw/cod (and the dlc) for 360, which gives the more profit.

Even though microsoft wouldnt pay mw/cod dlc to be timed exclusive, doesnt mean that xbox live gold price would drop.

Nohtnym

July - Kotick says majority of Live users play CoD and Activision gets no cut of subscription fees, he wants it

August - Microsoft announces XBL price hike

November - XBL price hike goes into effect (a week before Black Ops release)

November 12 - Kotick now says they get a cut of subscription fees

I'm gonna go ahead and not care about this. At all.

So where is the link?CanYouDiglt

here you go

link

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"][QUOTE="CanYouDiglt"]So where is the link?CanYouDiglt

[QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"] Me lol? How can I be trying to DC? Explain. BibiMaghoo

What's so bad about an old article

lol@butthurt lem damage control.

They ask for links cause they don't know about this, but then when they see it's true, they claim it's old :lol:

[QUOTE="BibiMaghoo"][QUOTE="sts106mat"] where is the link, i cannot see where he specifically says "xbox live" the subscription fees, could be WoW fees? i am missing something herests106mat

:lol:

Bu bu bu but it's old!!1!!111