Yep, the kids are going to flip out. The reason so many play so many hours of the Call of Duty multiplayer is because it is free to play.

DLC already splits the community, this will split it more, may even cause many players not to buy the hardcopy to begin with. Game Fly is going to love it, as more players will just rent the game and return it after playing the singleplayer portion.

All in the same year they are going up against Battlefield 3 for players. Good Luck.

A million angry fists were just raised from couches in basements, by people who couldn't wait for the details.

I think people will be angry about it, but then buy the game and pay the subscription after all of their friends have already done it. If only people's actions were as strong as their convictions...

I have felt for a long while like the industry has been constantly testing the waters for how much they can get away with nickel and diming their customers. Once the flood gates broke on subscription fees, everyone started scrambling to see how much they could sell on top of the initial purchase fee.

I won't say that every company has been sleazy about it. There's plenty of good value for DLC and subscriptions out there. But the whole thing is becoming a bit overdone, to the point where I find myself wondering if finished content isn't regularly sliced out of games in order to be sold as early DLC packs in the first month after release. THAT I think is sleazy.

Also asking for a subscription for content updates which could just as easily be handled as DLC strikes me as very sleazy. So these people get access to special maps as long as they pay monthly? Under a DLC arrangement the person would pay once and have unlimited access to those maps. I'm not sure why customers would be happy about this arrangement.

Idk. It's well known that many developers cut DLC out of the main game (BioShock 2, Iron Man games, Marvel Ultimate Alliance games). I agree with you though, it is pretty messed up the state in which the industry is in.