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Bobby Kotick Discontent with Xbox Live Model

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The diminutive Activision executive that everybody loves to hate has told the financial times that he’s frustrated by the Xbox Live model – which sees Microsoft benefitting from 3rd party online content more than the creators of said content.

Because y’know…he just doesn’t make enough money. To illustrate his point, he cited the success of Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Pack as an example – a pretty good one, considering it sold 2.5 million digital units in its first week.

“We’ve heard that 60 percent of [Microsoft’s] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call Of Duty,” said Kotick. “We don’t really participate financially in that income stream. We would really like to be able to provide much more value to those millions of players playing on Live, but it’s not our network.”

He believes new consoles – with reworked online systems – will be necessary for publishers to extract better profits.

“We have always been platform agnostic. [Consoles] do a very good job of supporting the gamer. If we are going to broaden our audiences, we are going to need to have other devices.” Kotick also said Activision will “very aggressively” support moves by Dell and HP to consolify  PC’s, making them easier to connect to TV’s.

Source : Edge

Last Updated: July 6, 2010

15 Comments

  1. D4RKL1NGza

    July 6, 2010 at 11:07

    This guy is crazy enough to bring out his own console for COD games alone. The ‘COK5000’.(Call of kotick).

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  2. Gavin Mannion

    July 6, 2010 at 11:31

    I’m personally more worried about Geoff’s state of mind coming up with that picture. :dizzy:

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  3. Geoffrey Tim

    July 6, 2010 at 11:42

    Seriously bad pun is seriously bad.

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  4. Milesh Bhana ZA

    July 6, 2010 at 12:11

    Kotick wants to charge subscription for COD, he won’t be able to do that on XBL. So he’s upset.

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  5. Bobby Kotick red-haired midget or Superawesome dude?

    July 6, 2010 at 12:11

    Which is strange because didn’t Activision agree to a timed-exclusivity deal with Microsoft over all their COD MW2 leechware?

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  6. Bobby Kotick misspells his email address because he's awesome

    July 6, 2010 at 12:26

    They’ll probably test that business model after Treyarch’s COD (or maybe we might see a subscription based model for the latest COD). EA has a sneaky EA shop attached to their games (noticed it on FIFA2010 over the weekend.

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  7. RSA-Ace

    July 6, 2010 at 12:52

    Disc-on-tent for those that didn’t get it :sick:

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  8. Nick de Bruyne

    July 6, 2010 at 13:00

    @RSA-Ace

    Disc-on-tent with Xbox Live-model, can’t forget the model 😛

    I can’t decide if this is the best or worst image ever. LOL. (it did get me giggling though) :happy:

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  9. Geoffrey Tim

    July 6, 2010 at 13:03

    it’s the whole article’s title.. It’s a bobby Kotick disc-on-tent with Xbox (live)Model.

    Also, it’s by far the worst. I rolled my eyes at myself. 😀

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  10. RSA-Ace

    July 6, 2010 at 13:13

    Ha ha. I didn’t even look at the whole thing. I hope this becomes a regular thing for your posts Geoff (and I hope I don’t regret saying that)

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  11. Deathbringersa

    July 6, 2010 at 13:35

    hahahahhahahahhahahaha

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  12. BigBird

    July 6, 2010 at 14:57

    Seriously awesome pun is seriously awesome. I was wondering what the hell that image was about. Thanks RSA-Ace for the explaination.

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  13. ReAVeR

    July 6, 2010 at 14:58

    That header image is pure win.

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  14. Gavin Mannion

    July 7, 2010 at 08:39

    oh no please don’t encourage him…

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  15. sILLYDomitri

    July 7, 2010 at 13:30

    60 percent of [Microsoft’s] subscribers are principally on Live because of Call Of Duty! SO TRUE! :biggrin:

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