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Wait just a minute. Take a deep breath. The sky isn't falling. You still don't have to spend a dime to hunt filthy mouthed 12-year-olds online in Call of Duty. Make no mistake: Activision wants your money, but it's not crazy. Call of Duty: Elite – as the newly announced service is known – will give you more bang for more bucks, but you certainly won't be left high-and-dry if you decide you're a miser, not a fighter.
In a nutshell, Elite aims to transform the Call of Duty franchise into “a true social network.” It's set to link every Call of Duty game (beginning with Black Ops and presumably ending with Modern Warfare XIV-2: Advent Precipice Child Revolution) via persistent stats, groups, and even personalized learning tools. Unsuprisingly, competition is the second biggest gun in Elite's arsenal, offering “a constant stream of events and competitions” with “both in-game and real-world prizes” on the line.
So basically, Elite's exactly what its name suggests: a bunch of new toys for Call of Duty's most dedicated, obsessive players. If you pop in every couple months to blow off some steam, it's probably not for you. Even so, most of the things we've outlined so far? Completely free. As for what a still unspecified amount per month will get you, Activision's currently opting to short-circuit our brains with a swarm of buzzwords. Seriously, before reading this, you may want to take cover:
“Call of Duty Elite will offer a premium membership with a wide range of state-of-the-art services, exclusive entertainment programming and all-inclusive game content for less than the cost of any comparable online entertainment service currently in the market.”
Which could mean just about anything. Ever. Meanwhile, in Concrete Information Land – where normal people who don't speak in fluent press release live – all DLC is a definite lock for subscribers. So that's one fairly sizable perk, though its worth will sharply increase or decrease depending on subscription price, frequency of DLC, etc.
On the upside, Activision's already accepting beta sign-ups here, with a fittingly Activision Specific start date of “later this summer.” In the meantime, though, there's always this trailer of the service in action. Now then, if you'll excuse us, we have to clean some buzzwords out of our teeth.
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niceperson_90
December 18, 2011 at 8:01am
Call of Duty has it's own flock of sheeple so there's no doubt that they'll make some cash off of this. I won't have anything to do with Call of Duty so it doesn't matter to me, but it's sad to see companies taking advantage and sucking as much money as possible from it's customers.Bungie offers the same feature abosolutely free. Except for that fact that if you want more than what they provided, you have to pay. Now that's fair.What Activision is doing is bullsh3t. Only TRUE COD fanboys would go for that kind of rubbish offer. That's my opinion about this option subscription thing btw. Contextual blogposts
PSyGN0SiS
June 01, 2011 at 12:19pm
it's just codnet with more options,wait for the LATE reveals and bad news like still no dedis,no lean no mod tools ,Cod killed their own series,but there will be them losers that will go and buy their garbage,oh well.They obviously haven't been listening (as usal) and my fave was how 402 whatever his name is was stating that mw3 was going to have substantial support,well mw2 is still broke,and jus for giggles I went online yesterday,and 5 mins later I still wasn't connected to a game,and I have a 12 mb connection???? go figure.
bling581
June 01, 2011 at 9:49am
Call of Duty has it's own flock of sheeple so there's no doubt that they'll make some cash off of this. I won't have anything to do with Call of Duty so it doesn't matter to me, but it's sad to see companies taking advantage and sucking as much money as possible from it's customers.
In the end though the only people to blame are those who put up with it and willingly hand over more money.
Joji
June 01, 2011 at 9:29am
Bungie offers the same feature abosolutely free. Except for that fact that if you want more than what they provided, you have to pay. Now that's fair.
What Activision is doing is bullsh3t. Only TRUE COD fanboys would go for that kind of rubbish offer. That's my opinion about this option subscription thing btw.
XoRn
June 01, 2011 at 1:30am
I signed up for the beta to check it out. Hopefully I'll get in and see if it's worth it. TBH if they are going to be putting up more maps and having daily contest for competitive players and way to set up pugs instantly I don't think I would be much different then ESEA so it may be worth it depending on the price.
Stewox
June 01, 2011 at 12:30am
Optional , haha , like they forced us to play it and pay :P
already jumped on BF3 bandwagon -
XoRn
June 01, 2011 at 1:32am
There's no pay to play for BO nor will there be for MW3. The service provides stat tracking and community support similar to ESEA for competitive players.
To be expected it won't be for everyone to be sure but as someone who thoroughly enjoys the competitive and teamwork side to any game it sounds like it could work out pretty well.
