Possible Call of Duty MMO

[Morreion]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 video game gets Hollywood-scale launch

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.

Possible Call of Duty MMO

I'll start off this section by saying that when I first read this news I was the first one to put on my conductor's hat and jump on board the excitement train. I've been asking for a new, AAA studio to make an FPS modern war-based MMO for ages. No disrespect to the folks at WWII Online who have done a great job with their product, but the idea of a game with the kind of money behind it that the CoD franchise demands makes me weak at the knees.

[Oatik]

I'm sure you could add more MMOish things to the existing CoD, but isn't it already MMO-lite? There rewards for kill quests, you get new skills and guns...

[Morreion]

Yeah, I like the idea of an MMO-FPS hybrid but the problem with this idea is that it has to be heavy on the MMO aspect, and not just a tacked-on rudimentary system. People don't tend to play FPSs for a monthly fee. Having said that, Call of Duty is a good series of FPS games!

[Regolyth]

The last MMO FPS didn't work out so well. See Tabula Rasa.

[Morreion]

True. Planetside- I think the first example of the MMOFPS- had the most potential so far. I really enjoyed playing it for a while. The fact that base defense was not incentivized hurt the game and turned it into a series of capture-abandon-capture again moves, not nearly as fun as a pitched 100-player battle over a fortress.