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Every Single Feature of Call Of Duty Elite Detailed - Free and Premium

Everything about the service explained in an easy to understand list.

comradestalin4617d ago

Well...doesn't seem too bad now that it's laid out like that.

thrasherv34617d ago

Kinda what I was thinking. But the monthly "DLC" seems sketchy. How often are those going to be maps instead of gametypes?

Oh, and we get to keep the DLC after our membership expires? I would have never thought Activision would lets us do that.

Caleb_1414617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

Well it makes sense - your technically pre-ordering DLC (albeit at a slightly cheaper price as an incentive to use the service) so that you can access it at a later date. This is better for Activision as they can just pocket your money straight away rather than having to wait around and heavily market each DLC as and when the developer has finished each one.

Also would you really see people choosing to use Elite to get DLC slightly cheaper over the conventional method if you couldn't permanently keep them? People would just be up in arms about this if it wasn't the case.

Besides, you can only buy a yearly subscription with Elite anyway by the sounds of it so your tied in for the entire year - so it's not like you can exploit the system by buying a months subscription and reaping a years worth of DLC.

They're trying to make it seem larger by saying you'll receive "20 pieces" of MW3 DLC. This is pretty much what they're doing already but they'll just spread out the 5 maps you get with each DLC pack (think its usually 4 per game right?) into monthly installments.

In the end your not really any better off by using Elite - by paying for a subscription you're just promoting a new way in which publishers can get to our wallets through stripping content from the main game. They try and justify it by saying that people will be able to compete for prizes but lets be honest; the vast majority of people that subscribe to Elite won't even win a single thing so it's win-win for Activision. It will be interesting to see what sort of prizes will be on offer to win and how many... considering the amount of money we all know Activision is going to make from this it would be great for them to actually invest the money back into the community that got them where they are today - still cannot believe that they don't provide dedicated servers across the board for all platforms... what a joke.

Also I don't see why anyone would want to use the tutorial services and in-depth gameplay analysis tools that Elite looks to be providing. Can people not see that by using these tools you'll be taking the fun out of the game? Why would anyone want to spend hours reading through weapon descriptions, heat maps, weapon ballistics? I just don't get it... where's the fun in that? The best part about playing games is figuring things out for yourself! Seeing yourself slowly improve through trial and error, NOT because some death chart showed you died from an exploding dog, next to a dustbin, 23.5% of the time you played Dome. It's laughable how they try to get people to take COD more seriously by providing these services, when they should look at the content they're putting in the game in the first place.

I've gone on for much longer than I thought with this... oh well, peace out.

Laughing Buddha4617d ago

I think they are specifying "you get to keep the DLC even if your membership expires," because if they didn't, people would ask "do I get to keep the DLC if my membership expires?"

Don't forget, Playstation Plus members are given "free" games each month that they lose access to if they let their membership to Plus expire.

MaxXAttaxX4617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

Most people don't need more than a year to play a game. Besides there are plenty of other advantages.
Besides, there are more discounts on content and games with Plus which you get to keep, even if it only cost you a penny.
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Now back to Call of Duty.
Doesn't COD DLC usually amount to $50 during the lifespan of the game anyway? That's the same price as COD Elite. So how are these "free maps-packs/DLC"?

[Edit]
Ok maybe I was a bit harsh. There are plenty of mini features and whatnot involved in this too. I can see that this is for people that really take their online military FPS multiplayer games quite seriously. Definitely not for me.
I won't be coming back now, lol.

gamingdroid4616d ago

After all the hub-bub, it turns out the service is essentially free with a discounted purchase of all the DLCs.

Activision is definitely greedy, but I don't see them using underhanded tactics like EA towards their customers (like have nasty terms of service, prevent you from playing your games, or even deleting your account).

HappyGaming4616d ago

Plus if you pre order the dlc like this than you friends who didnt will be more likely to buy the dlc so they can play with you ;)

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BakedGoods4617d ago

Yeah, I'm grabbing the Hardened Edition so hopefully the 1-year trial will prove it's worth it.

HebrewHammer4617d ago

I think I might be grabbing the Hardened edition as well. Does it come with the premium Elite service, or the free one?

jimmywolf4617d ago

you save 10 bucks buying harden edition versus paying the sub separately it comes with one year of elite service an various minor stuff

gamingdroid4616d ago

You get CoD: Elite membership for a year and founder status with the Hardened Edition.

I might grab that myself... here's hoping for a sale!

RXL4617d ago

that's what she said

*giggles*

ShamefulDispray4617d ago

Well I thought DLC was already pretty awesome. Paying $15 for a new map and some old ones is a great deal. But now to think that for a "low" monthly fee I can get all those map packs for free! It's an amazing idea! Obviously we won't get to keep the stuff after our membership expires, but who cares? I mean by then the new CoD will come out, and then I can subscibe to that games monthly fee, and get maps for free again! I hope most of the map packs they release feature CoD:MW3 maps! That would be awesome. Already a day 1 buy for me, an extra $200 a year is nothing for the best game franchise out there!

Laughing Buddha4617d ago

I'm right there with you ShamefulDispray! WOW, to think that someone loves the COD franchise as much as me is just plain awesome!!! Want to join my clan? We're called "The S4rc45tic D0uc6e's," you'd fit right in! ;)

In all seriousness, the ELITE service is obviously not for you. I on the other hand am excited by the monthly DLC and other benefits the service provides for a series that I really enjoy playing.

peace

gamingdroid4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

***Obviously we won't get to keep the stuff after our membership expires, but who cares?***

You do get to keep all the DLC after you subscription expires. Perhaps research things before you condemn it?

Lazy_Sunday4617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

You mean, I not only will receive maps the same time as 360 players since the map packs are the only thing that are timed exclusive, but I can stop paying for CoD Elite at any time and keep the maps?! Holy shit!

Only now do I see the errors in my judgement.

Listen up world! CoD Elite no longer sucks ass. In fact it's the best idea ever imagined for any CoD player who was pissed off by timed delays.
Activision once did something right. And they're charging $2.50 per map on Elite, which is actually a steal, since it's $3 per map in the physical DLC.

JackBNimble4617d ago

Maybe I missed something here, but I don't recall them saying there wont be any more timed delays.

Maybe I'll give it another read, but I'm pretty sure MS has given Activision a nice big bag of cash and a signed contract for timed delays.

Who know's?... I could be wrong.

Lazy_Sunday4617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

No timed delays on content from CoD Elite. Timed delay on DLC Map Packs--this is Activision's sneaky little way of getting the PS3 and PC players back into CoD, since they already screwed themselves once and don't want to do it again. Every month they'll be releasing new maps and modes for (ten, twelve?) months, for all CoD Elite players, so that the experience never gets old. Unless they release maps right at launch--which I don't see happening, since it would cause a lot of hate, being that DLC right at launch is total bullshit--everyone will receive the same amount of maps and modes at the same time. And, for a pay service, they wouldn't not release maps a month after release, since people expect content for their payment. There is no devised "exclusivity" rights for a pay service like Elite, because it would have to be too complex. They're running into a third party service issue there--and Microsoft tends to leave those alone. They still have their timed exclusivity deal, and I'm sure it makes them think they're happy.

JackBNimble4616d ago

I guess they found their loop hole...

Christopher4616d ago

Question: Is DLC still a timed exclusive on the 360? If so, does this affect anyone's decision to go premium on the PS3?

From a psychological stand point, people tend to want to see more out of their money spent up front sooner rather than later and I wonder if having to wait a month or more longer might make them feel adverse towards subscribing to a similar plan in the future.

Just look at how MMOs are turning out more and more today, with F2P methods rather than the traditional monthly subs because people A) don't play as much as others and feel they don't get the same value out of it and B) have varying play times from month to month and want the cost to match their time played and not a base amount of expected value that may not be matched each month.

Turning to this sort of subscription service with individual games could be a hit or miss, but it all depends on the perceived value by the community, which the differences between consoles will not help to improve, IMHO.

Can't wait to see the statistics of the program and community response once it is live.

DeFFeR4616d ago

IF the maps are released simultaneously, I'd pick this up for my PS3 (the Hardened Edition - I have a $100 gift card balance from Amazon to use up...) but if there is still a timed delay in map DLC even with Elite, it's an easy decision on which console to get this on.

SteveSmith4616d ago

Lol, you people are easily brainwashed in accepting being ripped off.

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NinjaCameraman4617d ago

Activision Doesn't Understand Proper Nouns When Making Charts Apparently.

SuperStrokey11234616d ago

So you are going to police them but you are going to capitalize every first letter in your post?

DeFFeR4616d ago

SuperStrokey - You Obviously Didn't Look At The Charts, Or You Don't Understand What A Proper Noun Is, Or What To Do With It Grammatically.

Dart894617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

LMFAO charging just to have a golden clan tag name??

Like i said only idiots will pay for this crap.

It's a sad day when you know people will actually pay for this crap SMH.

Sillyace924617d ago

You mean like hats in TF2? Not so stupid when it's not CoD, right?

NinjaCameraman4617d ago

Hats are Hats. Clothes in Home are Clothes in Home. Golden Clan Tags are not a purchase item, they are thrown into a list of items designed to make you think this monthly fee is a "bargain."

jimmywolf4617d ago

the hats you can make a market for buying an selling various things with steam beta trading the COD maps are just that maps nothing more

ATi_Elite4617d ago

yeah but i can sell my TF2 hats and make some real cash! You can not do that in COD so STFU!

Sillyace924617d ago

@ATi_Elite and @jimmywolf

So tell me, you're selling or trading the hats to someone, correct? Doesn't that mean someone else on the recieving end is essentially buying those hats?

The ability to trade doesn't deter from the fact that people buy useless things in game. So if you were intelligent you would realize that it doesn't only occur in CoD.

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MrBeatdown4617d ago

I guess you missed the part about all the DLC being included.

DirtyLary4617d ago

and we all know dlc is going to 90% game modes / challenges 10% maps. Still a scam.

MrBeatdown4617d ago

@DirtyLary

Uh, yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about it.

Activision is also selling all the maps like they normally do. Activision isn't going to stop making maps in favor of modes, then sell them in $15 packs. Nobody is going to spend that kind of money on new game modes.

Use some common sense.

shooter7474617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

It's either your brain is half-developed or you didn't have a happy childhood you are filled with senseless hate that made you what you are today, a dysfunction in the society.

DirtyLary4617d ago

sounds like the same stuff wow players pay for and eat up

jimmywolf4617d ago

hey when i paid $25 for that mount it was worth it .... maybe

-Alpha4617d ago

All you did was pick the smallest thing they are including under the Elite service and ignored everything else.

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Cpt_kitten4617d ago

i wonder if they have to tell themselves that this is a good idea in order for them to make themselves feel better, prolly just how they tell themselves that call of duty is still a relevant game even though it still looks like its from 2007 and will have twice the bugs as the last game

Mikeyy4617d ago

Why start this bullshit you troll?

Cpt_kitten4617d ago

how am i troll when the game is terrible, that sir is a fact sorry your to close minded to understand that

perdie4617d ago

@Cpt_kitten your a troll because you are bashing the game and saying something is terrible is all your opinion and honestly no one cares about your opinion when there opinion is a conflicting one.

Mikeyy4617d ago

Opinion is not fact.

Good day sir. and these Battlefield trolls already claimed one of my bubbles.. You are sad sad idividuals.

aquamala4616d ago

How can cod be not relevant when black ops and mw2 are the 2 best selling games of all time on 360 and ps3?

Rob9464616d ago

I'm not the biggest Call Of Duty fan but I don't see why you think there bad games? to be honest Call Of Duty games are actaully very fun. Sure they look dated but the core gameplay is a lot of fun espically online with friends. I'm gonna be picking up the hardened anyway as i'm interested in Elite.

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ApexHell4617d ago

lol ill just stick with free elite kthxbai!

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.

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GoodGuy099d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.

Tacoboto8d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga8d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo8d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?

Inverno8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb19818d ago

I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.

PRIMORDUS8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.

StoneTitan7d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut858d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra30307d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.

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Call of Duty Players Disappointed by $80 B.E.A.S.T. Glove Bundle Deal

Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.

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Kaii16d ago

Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash

melons15d ago

Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.

Gridknac15d ago

They call that a crack head! Thats what this is really about, its an addiction. People who dont smoke cigarettes look and laugh at the addicts that spend $8-$10 a pack, but they cant help themselves, they are addicted. That same analogy applies perfectly to the whole MT industry. Only an addict that was not thinking clearly would spend this kind of money on something so frivolous. A round of multiplayer provides the same high a person gets from scratching a lotto ticket, or putting money on a sports bet. MT in general need to really be regulated because you have a generation of kids becoming adults who grew up only knowing the MT era of gaming. Its normal to them and they will in turn teach their kids the same by just being a gaming parent and getting their kids involved with them in gaming. Thats why no matter how ridiculous the headlines keep getting out of the MT industry, it never seems to fade or go away.

X-2314d ago

I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.