Well technically its every other year. Infinity award and treyarch switch off meaning each dev studio gets 2 years. Not that much extra time but considering these two development houses are only in charge of 1 IP it should be enough time.
whats bad is that there's next to no difference between what the two studios are making. if you took ea however, battlefield is completely different to MOH. blops is just a reverse engineered MW
Modern Warfare 2 was great, but I remain sceptical of any game made by Raven Software and a talent-stripped Infinity Ward.
I use to love cod, but after I bought the same game about 4 or 5 times my love for it has diminished.
eh. if the party goes to MW3 i'll participate as much as i hate to admit it. it's not so much about the game anymore as it is dicking around online with family and friends. I'm hoping it sucks majorly so it bombs they stop pumping these out so fast and actually take their time on a CoD for once. One can hope...
The game looks basically the same. Other than new weapons and skins. Although the gameplay and multiplayer IS fun and entertaining. I might buy or rent it... ...Probably both.
Found this. 'Call of Duty' Targets a Monthly Fee - WSJ.com The chances of me getting this game PLUMMETED.
Yeah about that... -wall of text to follow- Spoiler Project Beachhead has been a talking point for Activision behind-closed-doors for quite some time now. With it rearing its head during many investor conference calls for quite a while and even having its own studio behind it, Activision is hoping that this initiative will give its stock another kick in the right direction. We headed to London last week to check out the new piece of tech in action. Ladies and gents, let us run you through Project Beachhead, AKA Call of Duty: Elite. Call of Duty: Elite is Activision’s new statistic-based application for Call of Duty that intends to bring the 7 million daily players together and enhance their Call of Duty fans' multiplayer experience. Available online, through your game and coming to mobiles the world over, Elite will give players the chance to enrich and expand their online service by offering players many new features that Activision hopes will unite the Call of Duty service. At its core, Call of Duty: Elite allows players to access a ton of in-depth stats that span across every Call of Duty product from Black Ops onwards. Whether you want to know your kill/death ratio, your average XP per game, your form, how many times you finished in the top 3 players, your earnings per match, your accuracy with any of the game’s weapons, and so on, Call of Duty: Elite has you covered. Outside of that though, there are three core elements to the Call of Duty: Elite experience: connect, compete and improve. With Call of Duty: Elite, Activision hopes to bring players together to ‘connect’ to other Call of Duty players in many ways. This includes joining and creating groups, where you can play with players who share a common interest, like X360A, photography or your local sports team, for instance. Being able to compare stats against friends and other players also falls under the ‘connect’ heading, as does watching and sharing videos with the millions of other Call of Duty players. It’s all about bringing players together. The compete aspect of Call of Duty: Elite will allow players to participate in a whole variety of different ways and in some instances, will allow players to get involved to win some cool prizes – which will be region specific says Activision. Players then will be able to compete using Elite’s clan support, group vs. group matchups, leagues, clan vs. clan, but the lure for a lot of players will be the events that players can enlist in, with prizes like iPad 2s and more being offered. A few examples of the events on offer were for getting the best Semtex grenade stick kill, the best sniper headshot video – which carried with it an exclusive competition badge and $20 gift card for Starbucks – and for those that might not consider themselves talented enough to compete for such events, there will be events for those that might be more talented in other regions, like a photography event for the best themed screenshot. Last but not least, the improve aspect of the core aspects allows players to analyse their recent performance, take advice from Call of Duty pros with video tips, detailed information on guns/perks/maps, etc. – even offering suggestions for perks and loadouts – and even giving things like heat-maps to see where you perhaps fell into trouble. Its intention is to help players, both new and seasoned, to be able to improve as a player which will also enhance their Call of Duty enjoyment. Call of Duty: Elite will come in two flavours when it drops later in the year: free and premium, i.e. a monthly fee. There is no word on price yet, which Activision said will come later on in the year, or anything on whether there will be a minimum subscription period, but they briefly touched upon what players can expect if they pay for the subscription service. Such bonuses include leagues, clans and possibly more importantly, access to DLC for Modern Warfare 3 at no extra cost. Such things as the stats-based services will be available for free, for everyone. Activision was keen to stress that Call of Duty: Elite won’t be changing the Call of Duty boxed package and this new initiative is merely a companion to the overall CoD experience. Activision’s aim with Elite isn’t to charge for Call of Duty’s online multiplayer. Nothing of the sort actually, as Activision reiterated that they would never charge for that aspect of the CoD, it’s merely to give something to those who are willing to pay to enrich their multiplayer experience. Even those who don’t pay still get access to a whole host of new options though. While it’s not as ground-breaking as Activision wants us to believe – after all, Bungie.net and Bungie Pro have been doing something similar for sometime now – it is a neat initiative for those who are long-term Call of Duty players or those that want to be. With prizes for competitions, clans, free MW3 DLC and more promised for premium subscribers, the potential is there for gamers to expand their Call of Duty multiplayer experience, but whether there’ll be any takers remains to be seen. At the end of the day though, whether players subscribe or not, the free aspects of Call of Duty: Elite is enough to entice and excite even the most anti-Call of Duty player, after all, you get a much more enriched experience for no extra cost. And who says that Activision was only out to take your money? This should suggest otherwise! Call of Duty: Elite is coming this fall and will be an integral part of Modern Warfare 3. Source 1 Source 2 They aren't charging for MP, or so that headline suggested, but adding additional features with premium content for those who do shell out for the monthly/annual fee. Accordingly, any and all future map packs will be free if you go with the premium option however this still leaves me a skeptic.
That's actually pretty cool... However, what exactly are their expenses on this? There must be some expenses if we have to pay for it, not counting DLC sales.
there are a plenty of stat tracking sites out there already, what's the point in this? i guess the market for this is for the people who make cod youtube videos. because the football fan who plays cod on the side doesnt care for this. the serious gamers like us wont want this. another poor move by activision. and seriously, does every game have to have dlc? what happened to having everything on the disc?
so its like paying for bnet stats? come onnn. we all know that they'll have plenty income to provide such a service... it's stats... the dlc being free isn't too bad, but i'm sure it'll total out to costing far more than what you'd spend on them anyway. and another thing with this, think of xbox 360 players. to simply play MW3 online you have to buy both the game and xbox live, and if other companies follow suit and decide to charge for something that should come with the game itself, people are going to end up ****ed once all the tiny fees theyre paying add up. and you know people will buy into it, fanboys are suckers. i'd kill my kid if he was requesting i pay for all this garbage. i'm in disbelief of the greed. best selling game franchise of all time trying to milk more and more out of its loyal fanbase. if they keep pulling this, players will eventually see theyre getting bent over and ****ed for their blind loyalty. let them keep doing it, their only hurting themselves.
I don't really care much to look at my overall stats and ****. I play for fun. I'll buy the map packs, but I'm not paying for a subscription.
It'll go free eventually. It's not a an essential service to the gaming experience. It'll be funny hearing the complaints about the in-game advertisements though. I would bet that will get pretty annoying, especially know Kotick's respect for games and his ethos on the bottom line.
It's not going to be free eventually. Free DLC for everyone, are you kidding me?. If Activision is satisfied with the number of players who subscribe to the premimum service, the next Call of Duty game is going to have an even bigger gap of features between subscription Vs. no subscription, or just do away with pretences and charge people to pay for multiplayer.
I think you people are mistaking what this game is capable of. Activision makes it a sub $5 subscription fee and 6-7 million sign up instantly. The hardcore will either keep it or get rid of it, and then 3-4 million will stay subscribed whether they use it or not because it is such a small fee. This is Activision testing the waters. They'll realize that people will actually pay for bullshit like this and then they will charge more next time around with either minimal improvements or necessary features.
I understand what it really is, now that I have some solid facts rather than just rumors, but this is basically the equivalent of Bungie charging people to use b.net. The greed of Activision stuns me, and the most crazy thing about this is that a lot of people will probably sign up for it. Whether or not they stay signed up is another question.