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4Activision insists Elite benefits COD community
Speaking to Gamasutra at last weekend's Call Of Duty XP event, Activision's digital vice-president Jamie Berger said the social features in subscription service Elite will serve to unite the Call Of Duty playerbase, creating a holistic community from a previously hostile one. "One of the most interesting things to me is how positive people are in the service," he said. "People are being supportive; they're actually talking to each other, and amongst each other. [Elite] creates a social contract," he added, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau spun in his grave. "You try to treat your neighbours with respect. It starts breaking a lot of the bad assumptions about what a shooter is. It breaks down these anonymous walls and turns it into something where you start knowing each other."
Source: Gamasutra
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4More self-justification from the pompous Actitards. They could have just as easily tied this in with Facebook or any number of other, existing, free, online services. Just like XBL Gold, the "features" aren't worth the added cost. (FWIW, I had XBL Gold for over 7 years, starting with the beta on Xbox 1. I let it expire when the profane kiddies took over everything & Microsoft kept adding more free services behind the "paywall".)
It's just an excuse to monetise something that every other Publisher and Developer has been doing for free. It's also the wrong sort of game to be trying to generate a decent community to, since the game mechanics themselves are the cause of most people's frustration.
So, we get a Publisher well-known for milking its customers trying to milk them further with yet more nickle & dime tactics. Good luck to everyone who buys into it, as you're directly condoning this level of bad practise.
No chance this will turn a bunch of delinquents into model citizens. Call of Duty will be as horiffic a place to play online as ever before.
I just don't get, with a game like COD selling millions of units, and the price higher then any other game I buy, they still feel the need to make money AND are losing it faster then they sell games! It baffles me.
Unfortunately I'll be buying the hardened edition to escape paying yearly, even though whatever it has I'll still be playing Battlefield 3. I feel sorry for those whose Xbox/PlayStation will only be feeling the COD disks for their operatable career.