Infinity Ward: "We're Not Charging For Multiplayer"

Rumors tend to spread in dull times, like, say, the weeks between E3 and Comic-Con. Hence the recent spate of fear-mongering that Infinity Ward plans to charge subscription fees for Call of Duty's multiplayer.

Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling put the kibosh on the rumors with this tweet:

"Modern Warfare 2 subscription plan rumors going around. For the record, nobody has to pay to play COD or MW2 multiplayer, nor will they."

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[Noctis Aftermath]

Lol, infinity ward.

[Joule]

Dey hell, infinity ward is still alive?

[kratos123]

i really hope activision does do it because that will certainly kill the franschise. from that momment on i can be a happy gamer

i am really getting sick of the COD franschise,and activision is doing there best to kill there money maker

[I_find_it_funny]

they're called Respawn now

[Hotel_Moscow]

http://i43.photobucket.com/...

[skip2mylou]

well the remainders of Infinity Ward atleast

[NYPunkster]

Dude what's with the animosity toward COD? It's a fuukin' video game. Relax. This mob mentality is ridiculously retarded. It's a good FPS that's fun to play so why not enjoy it while it's still around.

@OT

I'll reinstate my pre-order now.

[badz149]

if it's IW, then although they don't charge, Kotick will! the person in-charge is Kotick, not AW!

[moparful99]

This pisses me off.. I submitted a story that has physical evidence that they are planning on charging for modern warfare 2 but inifinity ward dismissed it as a glitch on xbox live and I had 4 reports withing 10 minutes.. I'm sick of the people that approve stories on this site.. Trash gets through but stuff we need to know about gets reported.. F*ck off.

[BaSeBaLlKiD721]

Cry me a river.

It happens to me all the time. You see me whining? no

[Akagi]

I feel your pain, bro. N4G is going downhill.

[HSx9]

bubbles

[skip2mylou]

baseballkid ummm u aint complaining because you havent submitted a story in a while

[moparful99]

Thanks for the support guys. I have trouble submitting stories because by the time I submit someone else beat me to the punch.. I finally have a chance to submit something "useful" and relevant and I get reported and my article fails.. I've been in the trainee status for 2 years because of that.. I've had 1 article pass and it whent wholly unnoticed.. I just dont now what to do, legit journalism fails...

[theEnemy]

lol @ infinity ward.

[Christopher]

Of course no one has to or will have to pay to play MW2 online! Now, MW the MMO...

[evilmonkey501]

Of course we don't have to pay ,YET. Those games are already out. There isn't enough time for them to implement a fee based system before BlackOps comes out. However, in the near future, maybe exactly on Nov 8, 2011 when the "next" cod comes out...

[Excalibur]

Activision is....;)

[BeaArthur]

Well they more or less mean they are not going to charge for MW2 but future CoD games probably will.

[Spenok]

Well then people will be playing MW2 or MW for the rest of there CoD fix. If they impliment this then as just about everyone says; "I'm done."

[theonlylolking]

You are not but Activision will be.

[UnSelf]

You are not but Activision will be.

[mrcash]

as soon as they do that, the franchise will die.... Which is sad, but will be a deserved death and will teach a lesson to activision.

[TheBalloMan]

I guess the article means that if so, they would like to avoid Activision's decision, as it will clearly drive off a lot of fans 0.o

[TrevorPhillips]

Activision obviously will

Because they're greedy for money!

[Reborn]

Bobby gets it.

[coolasj]

I think Activision want to charge.

[electricshadow]

That's nice to hear, IW, but everyone knows Activi$ion will want to. Hell, they would charge you to fully play the single player campaign if they could.

[invoked]

it's called charging you when you buy it at the store.. duh

[electricshadow]

You seemed to miss what I said. I said "fully" play the single player campaign. Think before you type.

[Mr PS3]

Because i ant Payin for it !!

[Garnett]

People, IW are gamers just like we are, they're not some big corporate A-holes like Bobby is, im sure if he tried to charge for online, IW wouldn't allow it.

[Baka-akaB]

2 overpriced dlcs and a buggy game beg to differ

[Shuklar]

They're guilty by association with Activision. The smart people left to distance themselves from the prick that is Kotick.

[Alos88]

...yet.

[Baka-akaB]

Actually you kinda are charging ... with crappy dlc no one can avoid , if they dare play with friends your average game

[dragonyght]

lol since Infinity Ward word are final i mean look what happen to them when they try to stick it to the man

[Honest_gamer]

bobbys is their boss if he wants to charge for online then he will unless they are willing to pay the online fees themselfs for all the COD players it is inevitable, think about it most people who play online play COD at least 60% of the online gaming market they dominate the real question is why havent they started to charge for it already bobby has a big point like massive over 60% of people play only COD online so why should microsoft make money of their game?

[dkgshiz]

I wonder how their liking Activision jizz on their face every day?

[BlueEye]

Ah well this is a relieve since i really like wasting time playing MW2 Multiplayer and was gonna do the same with Black Ops

[jacobdevos]

because if CoD was one day a paid subscription, there would be a HUGE uproar and everyone would be pissed..

Activision is smarter than that.. what they would think of doing is allow some pictures to 'leak' showing they are going to have a pay service.. let it settle for a bit THEN release it with some kind of DLC bonus or something..

Think about any major gaming release theres always a 'leak' first... everyone freaks out then it silently happens months later and everyone on n4g is like 'saw that coming a while back'

[Quadrix]

How cute; Infinity Ward actually thinks Activision will let them have a say in the matter. :)

[jacobdevos]

they wouldn't just fire all who appose them would they? That doesn't sound like a fair thing to do!

[The BS Police]

That's because Activision is gonna be the company charging consumers for online Multiplayer.

[SeanScythe]

Has anyone tried playing this game since the map packs came out? It's near impossible to get online and play. You don't have this map "KICK" Atleast DICE got it right with not charging to get new maps in BC2.

[gamingisnotacrime]

they are all the same sht, just some are worst than others