Call of Duty Elite: $7.99 a month?

[Diivox]

By trust, I mean a consistant FPS you can play with your buddies on.

What I think you mean by "know and trust" is "buy the same fucking game over and over."

they release a couple new maps, put in a few new guns, and then bam, it's call of duty. people buy it when it comes out because people buy it when it comes out.

dedicated COD players have been paying a subscription fee for a long time now, they just pay it less often than once a month.

[padman59]

I just hope this fails miserably if it's implemented. The last thing I want is more companies turning to this model to nickel-and-dime people. I refuse to buy any full-price game and pay an additional monthly fee to rent supposed "extra content".

[CCBrink]

This video explaining the service leaked.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7svsm-YYIU&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

[Twigg4075]

I just hope this fails miserably if it's implemented. The last thing I want is more companies turning to this model to nickel-and-dime people. I refuse to buy any full-price game and pay an additional monthly fee to rent supposed "extra content".

I'll bet $100 fun bucks (;)) that it succeeds. Most of us,the sane ones at least, were all hoping the $15 map packs would fail miserably and that wasn't the case at all.
This "program" targets people like Pete and my cousin who won't blink twice when CoD is concerned. My cousin was just talking about CoD and Madden at a bbq yesterday. He was saying how those two games are basically all he plays and that he'd pay $100+ to play them with all the bells and whistles. Fucking idiot.

[IamMedellin]

its only worth what ur willing to pay for it, if the fanbase enjoys the game so much that it will pay a premuim for a few bells and whistles then I cant find too much fault with this b/c it is mutually beneficial for activision and COD sheep....

now where this could lead to for the industry.....now THAT is a podcast topic

[Tengo Juego]

Hope that nobody is shocked by this. CoD has been following the Madden product lifecycle for some time and this is the FPS version of EA's "Online Pass"

Online Pass= Free with "first sale" purchase.
Call of Duty Elite= ~$8 monthly fee after purchase of the game.

[PP]

Yeah online pass was a way to try to stick it to gamestop and such for the used games.... but they still sell the used games for the same price and don't mention the online pass is $10 and you end up paying full price for a used game lol

[spiker]

There's too many FPS out there as it is and they're all pretty much the same - choose a gun, kill someone. I never paid for any map packs and there's no need for gang raping my wallet. I will not buy MW3 if they're only going to sell me half the game for $60.

[padman59]

This video explaining the service leaked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7svs...layer_embedded

So they're planning on charging people for this? wow

[jms493]

I'll bet $100 fun bucks (;)) that it succeeds. Most of us,the sane ones at least, were all hoping the $15 map packs would fail miserably and that wasn't the case at all.
This "program" targets people like Pete and my cousin who won't blink twice when CoD is concerned. My cousin was just talking about CoD and Madden at a bbq yesterday. He was saying how those two games are basically all he plays and that he'd pay $100+ to play them with all the bells and whistles. Fucking idiot.

You can Hate on COD:MW all you want but you guys are an angry small group....there are millions upon millions playing MW1 and MW2 at any given moment. Activision is concerned with them not the 5% that hate on them.

I am sure EA and Battlefield follows right in their footsteps.

[MvP]

Bungie offers this for free...

[jms493]

Bungie offers this for free...

This is EXACTLY what I was going to say....same free stuff that HALO provides. IT is a money maker for Activision though. I think it is overpriced though. 4.99 would sound better but I am thinking they get 10% of the people that play to sign up and it is just easy money.

[spiker]

I bet MW3 still uses P2P connections, too.

[CCBrink]

After reading more about this and watching the video(because that article was pretty terrible), I don't have a problem with this at all. They aren't forcing you to buy anything. I think a lot of the content included sounds pretty nice, even though I am not a COD fan.

Elite is aimed at people, like MVPete, that are die hard COD fans. Its all extra content that isn't needed to enjoy the game. This "premium service" won't affect sales at all.

[Tengo Juego]

Looks nice. But I'm going to stay sitting on my wallet.