jedimike said:What a bunch of drama queens...
If MS was paying portions of the yearly fee to publishers, it would be to all publishers based on the percentage of XBL use. Meaning, that of the $10 increase, Activation would get $5 per person per year if Activation games accounted for 50% of all traffic.
Your $10 would be allocated according to your online use. Spend 80% of your time watching ESPN, then ESPN gets 8 of your $10.
Of course, assuming this is all true. Honestly, if I was MS I would have never cut a deal like this. Activation gets its money because of the 360's existence. Without xbox, they sell millions less product.
You've set up a straw man. The deal in question is between Activision and Microsoft. No one has said that this model is applying to all content providers, just one.