What are these guys on?

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Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter: Activision should charge for CoD What?!?!?! 1st I should say Michael Pachter has missed the mark on so many other predictions/recommendations before but lets not let that stop us from posting what he has to say. "...we think that the overall decline was due to a very large number of people playing multiplayer online games for free on PlayStation Network, and for an annual fee with unlimited game play on Xbox Live," Pachter noted. "We estimate that a total of 12 million consumers are playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for an average of 10 hours per week on the two platforms’ respective networks, and the continued enjoyment of this game (along with an estimated 6 million Halo online players, 3 million EA Sports players, and 5 million players playing other games, such as Battlefield, Red Dead Redemption, Left 4 Dead and Grand Theft Auto) has sucked the available time away from what otherwise would be spent playing newly purchased games." While Mr. Pachter may be out of touch, I have a feeling Activision loves this guy and will be trying to monetize their CoD MP very soon. Lets just hope it's not via Call of Duty Black Ops.

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/activision-must-start-charging-for-call-of-duty-online-play-says-pachter/

Well we already know a petition will not do sh**, so lets just not buy it

I'm convinced that at least in a SP to SP comparison medal of honor will totally own black ops ....now in MP who knows ...the beta..or alpha (cause let's be honest it was really more of an alpha) wasn't all that great, but that could also be b/c I really enjoy bc2 ...

I really don't see myself getting black ops but who knows

I hated it ...it felt way to tight (as far as movement goes) and the tdm plays a lil too much like mw2 for my liking ...but I guess my tastes have changed or I've just been spoiled by the objective based bc2 play which I've grown to love ....if you don't work as a team you fail...no way around it.

Also the graphics were a lil subpar ...and don't say its cause its a beta. While it may be true its a beta don't forget the bc2 beta and the final product look almost the same..
And MoH MP is made by the same Dev team.

I popped in BC2 the other day because ADW was pestering me, and I was reminded that I didn't like it so much because of the base raping. Honestly, it's either the attackers steam through, or the defenders base rape. It doesn't feel balanced at all when I play. So on the subject of camping, there's my two cents.

I have to agree with you, Baron, on that it's more tolerable if it's just one or two guys coming into the spawn. I used to just sneak into enemy bases and steal the UAV and then while waiting for it to come back I'll shotty camp it (at a disadvantage due to video lag). But whenever I play it's the entire team that comes in, and that turns me way off. Guess it was overhyped for me.

Personally I have yet to encounter a true instance of spawn raping even once. I can't say I've ever noticed a single enemy entering my base, he would be quickly slaughtered in most cases I feel.

The only instances that come close in games I have played in are as follows: Either the defending team on a rush map is dominating and pushes up close to the attacking team spawn (but not inside) to fence them in (which to me is a perfectly legitimate and highly effective tactic), OR when the attacking team has destroyed the comms and the base moves back, I'll stick around and camp somewhere in the old base and pick off a few enemies who are not expecting to see opposition so far up the map since those comms stations were destroyed.

Neither of these two tactics has ever bothered me in the slightest when I've been on the receiving end. I only play on full of near full servers though - perhaps spawn raping is more common in quieter servers (I would definitely find it very difficult to make it into the enemy base in a full 32 player server).

In fact the only things I can say truly annoy me on a regular basis (mentally challenged medics aside) would be Carl Gustav whores and n00b tubers.

I've aways liked having high Missile damage. It doesn't make sense that you can hit someone with a tank shell and they don't die, but you can hit them with a missile and it's a one hit kill. Instead of nerfing the CG (it was made for urban warfare, AT4 and RPG-7 makes sense to nerf), they should buff the tank shell against infantry.