{"id":6442,"date":"2010-06-21T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"shocker-bobby-kotick-wants-to-charge-you-to-play-call-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6442-shocker-bobby-kotick-wants-to-charge-you-to-play-call-of-duty","title":{"rendered":"Shocker: Bobby Kotick wants to charge you to play Call of Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Given a magic ring with a single wish, Bobby Kotick would apparently make Call of Duty a subscription enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When you think about what the audience&rsquo;s interests are and how you could really satisfy bigger audiences with more inspired, creative opportunities, I would love to see us have an online Call of Duty world,&rdquo; the reviled dark lord of Activision said in a recent interview with the<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703509404575301231400042578.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Wall Street Journal<\/a>. &ldquo;I think our players would just have so much of a more compelling experience.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think our audiences are clamouring for it. If you look at what they&rsquo;re playing on Xbox Live today, we&rsquo;ve had 1.7 billion hours of multiplayer play on Live. I think we could do a lot more to really satisfy the interests of the customers,&rdquo; he added, possibly forgetting that the same players are paying an Xbox LIVE subscription already. &ldquo;I think we could create so many things, and make the game even more fun to play. We haven&rsquo;t really had a chance to do that yet, so that would be my snap of the fingers&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>And asked if it&rsquo;s going to happen, his reply is &ldquo;hopefully&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, haters will hate, but then &ndash; oh, World of Warcraft. The popular-franchise-turned-MMO thing isn&rsquo;t exactly without outrageously successful precedent or anything.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTIBLIZZ TO MAKE AN MMO?! Oh. Wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}