Fri, Sep 10, 2010 | 16:41 BST
Treyarch: Black Ops multiplayer is free, will always be free
Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia, has said the team plans on “supporting the hell” out of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and believes you don’t need Online Pass to deter used games sales.
Speaking with MCV, Lamia emphasized the multiplayer is included with the game you buy, and you don’t need a download code to play it.
“I want to take that in the other direction and bring consumers really great reasons to keep their games, rather than trade them in,” he said. “Multiplayer is critical to the success of this series. It has such tremendous staying power – there are millions of people playing Call of Duty every day.
“It’s entertaining people on a magnitude that’s mind-blowing and we work really hard to make sure it’s supported for a long time.
“The effort that goes into the multiplayer is a living thing – we have a team that continues to work on it for World At War. We’ve done that for a long time and expect to do so for this game.
“We’re going to support the hell out of Black Ops. That will be our focus post-release: making sure we keep our fans engaged, and hopefully as a result, they’ll want to keep playing our game and won’t want to trade it in.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops is out November 9 for PC, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360, Gary Oldman and Ed Harris included.
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Tags: Black Ops, call of duty, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Mark Lamia, treyarch
11 comments
#1
DSB
10/09/10, 4:52 pm
Kinda hard to sell something that everybody else is giving away for free.
#2
Gekidami
10/09/10, 4:53 pm
Treyarch: “Fuck you Pachter!”
#3
hiddendarksdopel
10/09/10, 5:10 pm
Don’t act like you are being generous, Treyarch. This is a normal thing.
#4
spiderLAW
10/09/10, 5:31 pm
I hate when any company says Free with their product….we are not getting multiplayer free. We pay $60 for a complete package. That $60 includes payment for multiplayer. They should say “Black Ops multiplayer will be available at no extra charge.”
#5
freedoms_stain
10/09/10, 5:33 pm
Black Ops isn’t the game to introduce payment schemes, the majority of CoD players will just say “fuck it, I’ll stick with MW2″, they need to wait until MW2 runs out of steam and then bait the hook with something with MW2-like hype behind it.
#6
Moonwalker1982
10/09/10, 6:24 pm
I would quit with COD games if they would ever charge for it, its that simple. I simply don’t care enough anymore about the games to also pay for playing online, not to mention it would be outrageous. Especially if you look at how cheat ridden MW2 used to be, and still can be.
#7
Killerbee
10/09/10, 6:29 pm
Free… Apart, presumably, from the over-priced map packs and any othe DLC they come up with.
Okay I know BFBC2′s VIP map packs were disappointing but I actually prefer the Online Pass idea as an incentive to buy new if the DLC is free.
#8
endgame
10/09/10, 6:57 pm
these guys r complete and utter ******s if they actually think they have the final word on that. because they do not, Bobby does. he owns your sorry ***es u sorry excuses for game devs.
#9
Dragon
10/09/10, 9:44 pm
Is ‘CoD4 multiplayer’ free? How about MW2?
#10
Samuel
10/09/10, 11:59 pm
Let’s all bookmark this article so we can laugh when in a few months they announce that Black Ops multiplayer will be a subscription service.
Just kidding. Everyone knows that won’t happen.
Until MW3 comes out.
#11
DarkElfa
11/09/10, 1:44 am
@DSB, tell that to the hookers.