The video above seems to show a user on what appears to be the Xbox Live Gold Membership renewal page via the Marketplace in the guide, but while in-game in Modern Warfare 2 (which is in error). Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling said on Twitter: 'For the record, nobody has to pay to play COD or MW2 multiplayer, nor will they.'īowling added on his blog: 'To be clear: There is not, and will never be, additional fees required to subscribe and play Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer. It's not a secret portal to some nefarious plot to charge people for COD multiplayer - and there are no plans to do that,' he wrote on his blog.
'Since you can access a Live subscription renewal from within the Modern Warfare 2 game interface, it appears some data got jammed between two parts of Live.
Statements from all three parties were released yesterday following the appearance of a video that suggested a 'membership' was required to play Call of Duty on Xbox Live.Īctivision's Dan Amrich called the contents of the video a 'glitch'. The combined forces of publisher Activision and developers Infinity Ward and Treyarch have told gamers that they will never have to pay extra to play Call of Duty online.
