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Nobody has confirmed anything, but let's assume someone on Activision Blizzard's payroll is currently creating a massively multi-player
Call of Duty game. The company's CEO, Bobby Kotick, recently expressed enthusiasm toward subscription-based games during the company's fourth quarter conference call. "If you think about the success that we've had in other product categories on subscription [presumably
World of Warcraft, which had as much to do with Activision as I did with the Manhattan Project], you can get a sense of the direction that we want to take that franchise [
Call of Duty]," he said. Or translated from corporate-speak into English: "You're damn right we want to make a
Call of Duty MMO. Monthly fees to have people play pew-pew-pew? Yes, please." But is that a wise move?