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The Call Of Duty MMO: Planned
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The head cheese at Activision, Bobby Kotick, recently made headlines for his assertion that, in order to compete properly with World of Warcraft,publishers may need to invest nearly a billion dollars in such aventure. Fortunately for Kotick and crew, they now have access to thebig brains at Blizzard and Vivendi, a group of folks who know quite abit about the MMO business. How then, can Activision exploit itsbiggest earners into even bigger financial monsters?
The Activision CEO says that during the first few months ofintegration planning with Vivendi, they asked themselves some seriousquestions about what they consider "the fastest growing markets in theworld", including Asian markets and MMOs.
As an example, Kotick said to investors at the Morgan StanleyTechnology Conference, "What would be the natural evolution of aproperty like Call of Duty into a massively-multiplayer environment and how do you monetize that?"
Kotick parlayed that into a thought on in-game advertising, in which he pointed to Starcraft as a model for short-session, ladder tournament play that can easily support ad spots. While a Call of DutyMMO may be a long way off, if it ever gets off the ground, it'sstarting to sound like Activision execs may be giving it seriousthought and we'd expect it to be a big focus for the publisher's adrevenue model.

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