Rumour Has It: A Call of Duty MMO — MultiPlayer Or MoneyMaker?

The Call of Duty series is already developed by two different studios, Infinity Ward and Treyarch, where a new report states that a third company might get in on this action. The report said that the third company is planning an MMO based on the CoD series.

“As Activision seems to be discovering this year with Guitar Hero, there’s danger when a title is overexposed with too many iterations,” explains the report. “Nonetheless, the publisher has aggressive expansion plans for Call of Duty. Although Infinity Ward and Treyarch have produced sequels in alternating years since 2005, the publisher now has a third development studio working on future versions.

“One person close to the company said it also was considering adapting Call of Duty as a massively multi-player online world. The genre, in which Activision’s Blizzard Entertainment subsidiary is a leader, requires huge upfront investments but can be very profitable as players pay a monthly subscription fee.”

The CoD MMO is definitely interesting as it might see the game based in the future. However, it does seem like another month-to-month ploy to get some extra cash out of gamers. Think WoW.