Let the Call Of Duty MMO rumors begin (again)
Last year, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick hinted at a possible Call of Duty massive multiplayer online game, commenting that Blizzard’s solid experience with MMO and heavy weight in the gaming community were assets to the company that were considered heavily before purchasing parent company Vivendi. Now, a recent LA Times article about the Call of Duty phenomenon had an interesting tidbit about that very thing, mentioning that Activision has taken on a third developer (currently, Infinity Ward and Treyarch alternate development of COD titles) and are looking into making Call of Duty an MMO:
One person close to the company said it also was considering adapting Call of Duty as a massively multi-player online world. The genre, in which Activision’s Blizzard Entertainment subsidiary is a leader, requires huge upfront investments but can be very profitable as players pay a monthly subscription fee.
In other words, Activision and Blizzard are currently working on a way to milk you on a monthly basis like the MTN DEW addicted WoW fiends! How nice of them! On the bright side of things, though, it might be nice to see an FPS MMO on the market. Would you play a COD MMO?
I don’t think I need to say how well an MMO version of this game could potentially be. From someone who has extensively played the MMO and RPG genres, I can tell you that this would do well as an MMO. Take Borderlands for example. It’s an FPS RPG, a very unique and rare genre. However it wasn’t so good, poor implementation, especially with a terrible story. Considering Blizzard is the company behind this, we could see some great things. Lets just hope for the best.
Yeah as far as FPS MMORPGs go, maybe its best to just hope this Fallout MMO stuff works itself out!