{"id":6603,"date":"2010-07-05T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bobby-kotick-reckon-60-of-xbl-subscriptions-exist-for-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6603-bobby-kotick-reckon-60-of-xbl-subscriptions-exist-for-cod","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Kotick reckon 60% of XBL subscriptions exist for COD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Activision Blizzard&rsquo;s big cheese Bobby Kotick, 60% of users who subscribe to Microsoft&rsquo;s Xbox live Gold service do so in order to play a call of duty game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft&#8217;s] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call of Duty,&#8221; Kotick said speaking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/b50ee912-8782-11df-9f37-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/b50ee912-8782-11df-9f37-00144feabdc0.html%3Fcatid%3D61&amp;_i_referer=http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5579712\/activision-wants-more-value-for-call-of-duty-xbox-live-players&amp;catid=61\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that even though they believe around 60% of XBL Gold users pay their subscription in order to play Activision&rsquo;s CoD games, they don&rsquo;t get any of that cash. But from the sounds of things, they are looking to possibly change that in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Consoles do a very good job of supporting the gamer,&#8221; Kotick said. &#8220;If we are going to broaden our audiences, we are going to need to have other devices,&rdquo; going on to state that Activision will &nbsp;&#8220;very aggressively&#8221; support devices that connect PCs to tellys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would have Call of Duty be an online subscription service tomorrow,&#8221; he said, indicating that Xbox Live may be the only thing keeping CoD free to play apart from the Gold subscription. For now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/6855-Bobby-Kotick-thinks-most-XBL-subscribers-do-it-for-COD?p=252399#post252399\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Bobby Kotick&#8217;s view of XBox Live<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I would have Call of Duty be an online subscription service tomorrow\u201d<\/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-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","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=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}