Activision Defends Call of Duty Elite
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for the "tiers" within "Elite" i can tell you that they haven't even said anything specific about the paid aspects for the service, so why would they name it if there is nothing to market in the first place? we don´t know what they are doing with the paid service because it hasn´t being announced, the free service is in BetaTheRealCJ said:
everything else, is just imagination on part of everyone else, the rumors and almost everything coming out of the news outlets are to catch the attention of the people that, like you, hate Activision, but this is the first time i see an announcement to the public regarding the specifics of the service
yeah yeah, i might have gone over the top to make the point that people were missing the word "Free" in the news
and when they start charging for the service in "Call of Duty 7" feel free to call me on this statement, but it would be an incredibly stupid move on part of Activision to charge for a service everyone else is giving for free, something they haven´t done before, yes its a company, yes their goal is to make money, yes they had done things that can be considered "dickish" but i have yet to see them make a business mistake as big as that one
other than that, i think we ran out of things to discuss... are you conservative or liberal? (kidding, kidding)
HentMas said:
There you go again. I never said I hates activison. I never once mentioned activison or anything related to the company. Only what I can see within the confines of MW3, and what it might mean in the future.HentMas said:
My biggest problem is: why have tiers at all? Okay, if paid "Elite" results in private-use servers, or free game updates for the life of the subscriptions, then yes, I could at least understand. Constant maintenance requires money, fair enough. That's why Microsoft charges for Xbox Live. But I game with a PC. I ALREADY have private servers I can run or join, I dont record my games to put on youtube, and persistent scores can go hang.
It may seem fairly innocuous now, but I guarantee that it will result in no short time the same way that "free to play" internet games like Runescape ended up; anyone who doesn't pay for Elite will be severely limited in their interactions with those that do pay, or even at a downright disadvantage. It's starting to happen with WoW, and it's already happened with MW2, with players without the map packs being barred from servers that use them. I never bought the map packs, because I only play multiplayer very occasionally. All my friends did though, and now it's a shitfight to find a game server we can play in together.
I see no reason to pay for this service; many of its features I could use for free from other sources. I can't see myself using it free or fee anyway because I don't feel the CoD games are really worth £40 nowadays; maybe I'll borrow future games for a play-through of the campaign, nothing more and when there is some form of paid service for that, then something has gone seriously wrong...
This. I feel its especially notable in CoD; BlOps took things way too far in my opinion.tzimize said:
Do you know what i find funny. Is the fact that all Xbox players will have to pay Xbox live gold service. Then CoD elite and then the inevitible tax of Microsoft allowing you to use Xbox live for third party software i.e. CoD elite. So people on Xbox are about to incur 3 different costs instead of the one on PC and PS3
OH! but we dont even know what is going to come when the paid aspects of the program are actually released, they can range from access to exclusive only tournaments for real life prizes, to having your avatar be the spitting immage of Samuel .L Jackson all the way to the voiceTheRealCJ said:
i mean you are acting like you have a chip on your shoulder for something that hasn´t even being announced, the only logical explanation is that you "hate/dislike/" something about the guy that is putting it out there.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.232663-Kotick-Itching-to-Sell-Cutscenes-As-Films
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.203461-Kotick-Wants-Call-of-Duty-Subscriptions-Tomorrow
Oh and
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.203461-Kotick-Wants-Call-of-Duty-Subscriptions-Tomorrow
Oh and
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Sooooo is this like Halo waypoint or summit cos i kinda like waypoint, it's a fun little thing and id kinda like it for cod 
not sure what the problem is COD could do with a services like this, personally I don't think it is going far enough, the multiplayer really should be a seperate paid mmo style service with the boxed products being standalone single player games.
getting monthly subscription money all year long, along side the 20 million christmas sale seem to be best for both the company and player base, the single player team can make a more detailed game without having to redo the multiplayer, the online team can pump out dedicated updates when they are done instead of in a single lump like a yearly release cycle.
As players if we don't care for multi the single player is better and for online heads you don't need to wait for content and more permenant unlocks
getting monthly subscription money all year long, along side the 20 million christmas sale seem to be best for both the company and player base, the single player team can make a more detailed game without having to redo the multiplayer, the online team can pump out dedicated updates when they are done instead of in a single lump like a yearly release cycle.
As players if we don't care for multi the single player is better and for online heads you don't need to wait for content and more permenant unlocks
