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[RUMOR] Call of Duty Online to be revealed in 7 hours

Update:

Debut Trailer: http://youtu.be/PmNN0210fTc

Original:

Well, it seems like Activision and Tencent Games will be announcing a new Call of Duty tomorrow. It is called Call of Duty Online and it will specifically be targeted at the Asian market. Tencent Games will be the Chinese publisher.

http://www.mmoculture.com/2012/06/call-of-duty-online-cn-publisher.html

Here is the teaser website:

http://omg.qq.com/

And Activision has registered a number of different websites in prepartion:

anheixingdong.com
anheixingdong.net
blackopschina.com
blackopschina.net
blackopsonline.net
bochina.net
callofdutychina.com
callofdutychina.net
heisexingdong.com
heisexingdong.net
jueshengshike.com
jueshengshike.net
modernwarfarechina.com
modernwarfarechina.net
modernwarfareonline.net
xiandaizhanzheng.com
xiandaizhanzheng.net

http://www.vg247.com/2012/06/28/mul...all-of-duty-domains-registered-by-activision/
 

Boss Man

Member
I wonder what they're doing exactly to target the Asian market with this. As in, what makes it not targeted towards a Western audience?
 
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Kazerei

Banned
Wait...the website is "OMG QQ"?? really? lol

Heh. QQ is a social media website that is absolutely massive in China. It's #8 on the Alexa rankings, just above Twitter at #9.

I'm not really sure what the "omg" subdomain stands for.

Edit: oh wait, it seems QQ.com is more of a portal like Yahoo. I assumed it was social media 'cause I remember my cousin from Hong Kong using the QQ instant messaging program, but that's a bit different.
 

Vormund

Member
I wouldn't be surprised if the weapons on the Chinese side are overpowered.

US or any other western nation probably just have to shoot with slingshots.

I kid.
 

Nirolak

Mrgrgr
Video games are banned in China, aren't they?

http://www.zdnet.com/china-online-games-market-to-grow-39-percent-2062304332/

ZDNet said:
China's online games market is expected to exceed US$9.2 billion by 2014 from US$6.6 billion last year, with microclient version of games emerging as a trend and the number of casual gamers growing across the region, research firms say.

In a study released Wednesday, Pearl Research noted that the growth in online games which include MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), casual, social and Web games, grew 32 percent last year. It pointed to strong revenue showing by Chinese game operators, where the top 5 companies made a combined US$5.3 billion in revenues. The list was led by Tencent at US$2.5 billion, Netease at US$1 billion, Shanda Games at US$838 million, Changyou at US$485 million, and Perfect World at US$474 million.
 

Iacobellis

Junior Member
Because China has high piracy rates and Nintendo tried to circumvent that by using a system that required the owner to download games.

I feel so misinformed now. I thought the mainstream consoles were banned for some reason. My bad.

EDIT: What reason was it for, then?
 
I feel so misinformed now. I thought the mainstream consoles were banned for some reason. My bad.

EDIT: What reason was it for, then?

Well, I might have been partially wrong. There seems to be some sort of console ban in China, but that ban does not prevent Chinese gamers from playing games on the PC, which is the dominate platform in China. The video game market is very strong in China.

There has been console releases though. Nintendo made the iQue Player which was a modified N64 that prevented piracy by having the owner download games and Lenovo made a console last year for the Chinese market. Then there are those knock-off consoles which I assume get released in China.

So this isn't available in the States? I'm confused.

No, it will not be available in the North America or Europe. It's specifically designed for the Asian market.
 

TheSeks

Blinded by the luminous glory that is David Bowie's physical manifestation.
Hie sexing dong

So I'm not the only one to read it like that, I'm glad.

Maybe if the F2P CoD is good and like TF2, maybe EA will come around and change up BF2: Play 4 Free and make it like BF2...
no they won't. ;___;
 

Boss Man

Member
Well, here was what I could find.

Japan: $5.9 billion - http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/japans-video-game-market-2011/
US (physical only? the article contradicts itself): $17 billion - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/us-video-game-sales-2011-fell-281266
Europe: I'm not having much luck here
Ah ok, that's plenty good enough thanks. I had no idea but figured it was common knowledge.


It's specifically designed for the Asian market.
How so, and also why?

All I can think is that maybe because releasing an MMO would only cut into their annual releases, but since China is big on piracy it makes more sense to do F2P stuff there?

I get this feeling like Activision is telling me I can't have Call of Duty Online because I'm going to buy Call of Duty 11, Call of Duty 12, Call of Duty 13, and Call of Duty 14 and I'm going to like it.
 

canvee

Member
Why wouldn't it be?

Because it is a series that is extremely popular on consoles, on the other hand, consoles are not very popular China. I am aware that COD is available on PC through legal and illegal means. I am simply interested in how popular a western-orientated title such as COD is in China.
 

Iacobellis

Junior Member
Well, I might have been wrong about it. There seems to be some sort of console ban in China for the last 10 years, but that ban does not prevent Chinese users from playing games on the PC, which is the dominate platform in China. The video game market is very strong in China.

There has been console releases though. Nintendo made the iQue Player which was a modified N64 that prevented piracy by having the owner download games and Lenovo made a console last year for the Chinese market. Then there are those knock-off consoles which I assume get released in China.



No, it will not be available in the North America or Europe. It's specifically designed for the Asian market.

Oh, dumb me was thinking this was a console game. I knew PC gaming was very dominant in China, but I can't see something like Call of Duty making quite a huge dent. Aren't RPGs the goto game genre there?
 

Iacobellis

Junior Member
I'm not trying to make myself sound conceited in any way, but I suspect this is fake only for the reason that the timer isn't synced with the clock on my computer. I have it set automatically using an online server, but hey, my computer could be incorrect.
 
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