Sunday, November 6th 2011
Call Of Duty Elite: Out For Consoles, Maybe For PC, Eventually
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, due for release on 8th November, will feature a new social network called Call of Duty Elite. However, this will only be available to console owners, which is sure to disappoint PC gamers loyal to this gaming series. Call of Duty Elite offers gamers a premium membership for $49.99, offering competitions, training videos and $60 worth of DLC, along with all the usual stats tracking and social features. OneOfSwords interviewed Beachhead Studio's Chacko Sonny, who explained the reason for this:
Call Of Duty Elite official site: www.mw3elite.com
Source:
AnandTech
The issue here is that the PC is an insecure platform. Without a central, trusted resource for stats, a lot of our competition features become unfair. We can't give away prizes when people can easily cheat their stats. Leaderboards are less fun when a lot of the users are there unfairly.It's not really clear in what way the PC is an insecure platform, so this apparent "insecurity" leading to "unfairness for gamers" may not be the only reason for the delay. The Call of Duty franchise is now console oriented and it seems that extracting money from console owners is somehow easier than PC owners. Therefore, Activision will be bringing Elite to the PC platform when they've worked out the kinks and can properly monetize it. However, it's not all bad news, at least dedicated servers will be supported at launch, unlike the previous MW2, which lead to a significant outcry.
Call Of Duty Elite official site: www.mw3elite.com
43 Comments on Call Of Duty Elite: Out For Consoles, Maybe For PC, Eventually
Plus i never care about the social media accepts to games, i just want to play the game, not socialize.
Of course, they'll probably make it more expensive to buy DLC separately.
The OP says every $50 subscription will get you $60 worth of DLC, meaning the 3 map packs will go up to $20 per. They'll bolster console Elite subs because the Hardened Edition comes with a year sub included.
I'm totally happy to skip this release.
This company is teribad now, they can fuckin go on the streets beging for bread for all I care now :shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu
50$ for Elite premium and 60$ for the game :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:shadedshu:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
If anybody trys to justify the 50 dollar premium price tag,
REMEMBER, CODMW1 IT WAS ALL FREE, MW2 FREE, BLACKOP FREE, COD5W@W FREE.
Nothing justify's this bullshit, period.
I can bet that after all said and done with the 50$ premium service, there's going to be a big 20-30$ DLC pack that you will still have to buy separately down the road.
Just strait ass money laundering NOW. :mad::shadedshu
Doesnt suprise me at all.. IMO they dropped punkbuster for the same crap that STEAM uses which is far from perfect compared to PB
MW2 became a fucking botfest. I encountered a lot of bots in the random 2hrs of that game I played, and since the game doesnt run on dedicated servers - there are no admins to boot or ban hackers.
players can cheat their way to the top using aimbot.
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What Activision are doing here is exactly what EPIC GAMES did a few years ago - They left the PC market to focus purely on consoles because they claimed Piracy was getting the better of them/their sales when in reality, they just failed to make an awesome game that every PC player wanted to play.
If they suddenly turn around and say Elite wont be made available for PC not now & not ever then that wouldnt suprise me at all.
Not to be disrespectful but, only console fags are dumb enough to pay a $50 subscription charge for a $60 game. which gives them extra features which most of them dont even need.
I dont think many of the PC community really care about whats happening as they wont be buying the game anyway. I know i definitely wont.
theres just a lot lot more of them on PC - Hell in the BF3 Beta. there were HUNDREDS of them and they were all signed upto the same fucking platoon and were from the same fucking forum that makes the hacks