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Rumor: Infinity Ward hiring SOE devs for MMO

by Griffin McElroy on Jan 8th 2010 11:00AM

Once more, we must throw another rumor into the gurgling vat of faint indications that Infinity Ward is planning a subscription-based MMO. This time 'round, Destructoid cites the wise council of anonymous "industry sources" that reportedly suggests that Infinity Ward is hiring developers from Sony Online Entertainment (and borrowing a few human resources from Blizzard) to work on the new project.

Now, if these reports are accurate, there's no earthly way of knowing for certain if the project is an MMO, or whether or not it will even be based on the Call of Duty franchise. Then again, considering our current kill rank in Modern Warfare 2 is like 5,314,592, doesn't that mean Infinity Ward's already made an MMO? Food for thought, folks. Food for thought.

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Tags: activision, blizzard, call-of-duty, Call-of-Duty-MMO, infinity-ward, mmo, modern-warfare-2, rumor, soe, sony-online-entertainment

Reader Comments (38)

I wonder if there will be a spawn camping skill..

You've obviously never played Killzone 2 if you think Modern Warfare has a spawn camping problem. Never, EVER, play Body Count on Radec Academy.

Twas a big fan of KZ2 until i get sick of the aforementioned campers.

Granger, I love those though, they're so frantic, I just go with the shotgun and throw grenades about, you can rack up some good kills in those situations.

Killzone 2 didn't really have a spawn camping problem. Tactician with Boost solves any kinda of camping issues. It's just that most online players were too dumb to do this.

Shooot heeeer!

Clever girl!

Perhaps they are making a JRPG?

:obligatory MMO joke goes here:

People who think they're clever but aren't always seem to write that phrase in some form or another.

I'm gonna let you slide son. Just this once.

SOE is about the WORST company to look to for how to make an MMO.

Wait, nevermind. They're great at making MMO's, they just screw them up later.

Wonder how an MMO will work with just P2P matchmaking.

Are you implying that IWNet is not the be-all, end-all networking infrastructure they had made it out to be. That's just craz--HOST MIGRATION IN PROGRESS...

Hey at least there won't be anyone pira- errr I mean ninjas.

*shifty-eyes*

Oh i was a big fan of KZ2 for about 2 months after it was released until i got sick of the campers.

yep me too. Altho i think i stopped playing after I maxed out my points

Subscription fees will be $30 a month.

So the company that shit on pc gamers is hiring the company that destroys MMO's (SOE). This is going to fail.

I think people misinterpreted your comments.

What he said is what Infinity Ward said about pc gamers.

Activision would love nothing more that to milk a monthly fee out of those millions of COD fans and this is how they could do it. The sad thing is, count me in. I've never paid for an MMO before, but this would be the first.

In that same vein, could you imagine how much money could be made with a Halo mmo?

Be still my beating heart, could I finally have a planetside 2?

That is exactly what I was thinking.
Maybe it's the other way around. SOE is hiring IW?
Please

SOE is already making planetside 2.

MW2 has all the grinding and hooks of an MMO minus the persistent world. I bet they're finally adding vehicles on their next outing and SUBSCRIPTION FEES BAM!

They should charge a monthly fee to play MF2 online.

I know I'd pay up to $50 a month if I had to in order to get my fix.

MF2????

Stay Frosty, SOE.

Oscar Mike

My insane impossible fantasy: SOE has tapped Infinity Ward to develop the PlanetSide sequel and these employees are just the current PS Live Team being transferred over to work on the new game.

If that were somehow true, I would be the happiest man on the planet. A PlanetSide (a game with a brilliant concept but horrible execution) made by IW (masters of FPS execution)? Greatest. Game. EVER.

I will never buy a subscription-based MMO game, and this would ruin the Call of Duty franchise if this is going to be a Modern Warfare MMO. I hope that Infinity Ward dose not take a step in this direction.

i'm sure about 75% of the millions of people playing MW2 would make the leap to this, assuming it's a first person shooter. somehow, i don't think IW will miss you.

A 25% drop in sales is a pretty big deal. And I think it will be even more than that. I assume that because only 3 out of every 10 of my friends (that play videogames) would even consider playing an MMO. This is And since my age group is probably the largest on the CoD servers, upper teens, they would lose alot of buisiness.

well that's my point, an MMO from infinity ward that is high profile and not based sci-fi or D&D-esque folklore would pull a lot of people into an MMO that wouldn't have touched the genre otherwise.

and 75% of MW2 players transitioning to the new game doesn't mean a 25% drop in sales, that doesn't take into account all of the other people who would get the game who never played MW2.

That's not a fairy, its air drop crates stuck in the sky. Had it happen to me on Scrapyard the other day. Lost a Sentry Gun and an AC130 to that damn issue. Don't throw smoke markers towards the red dumpster down from the B flag, shit gets stuck above it.

That's "Ramirez, shoot her!"

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