Michael “Toilet Ghost” Pachter has once again brought up the subject ofCall of Dutymultiplayer fees, declaring that the newly announcedProject Beachheadwill “absolutely” charge for online experiences. This man isobsessedwith the concept.
“Project Beachhead absolutely is charging for multiplayer,” said the analyst. “I’m certain to my core.
“Activision said they are working on ‘value added, premium content that is exclusive. How do you exclude people unless you do it on the basis of whether they pay or not? What, are you going to have a bouncer in front of the club where you play the content? The only way it’s exclusive is if it excludes non-paying members.”
Pachter also shared his vision of how this would go down: “The exclusive content could be pay as you go, or monthly. Let’s say Project Beachhead comes up withCall of Duty Universe, and it launches withModern Warfare 3and they say ‘if you join here’s all the exclusive content and exclusive weapons and we’ll charge you a dollar a piece.’ Or If they say, ‘for $5 a month you get unlimited weapons and all the map packs we bring out forModern Warfarein perpetuity,’ a lot of people will say, ‘I’m going to buy three map packs for 15 dollars anyway, so for $60 a year, I’m getting all the unlimited weapons and achievements,’ so they could do that. I don’t know if that’s what they’re going to choose to do. I’d say $5 a month is reasonable, though.”
At this rate, I almost want Activision to start charging forCall of Dutyjust so Michael Pachter can finally get some peace of mind that he was, after several years,finallyright about it.
[ViaG4TV]
