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 Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:00 pm Post subject: Call of Duty Elite Delayed on PC |
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Activision’s grand plan to create a <em>Call of Duty</em> social network, <em>Call of Duty Elite</em>, just ended its beta and will be up and running for consoles when <em>Modern Warfare 3</em> releases next week. It will not, however, be ready for the PC.</p>
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<em>Call of Duty Elite’s</em> main appeal for fans of the franchise is the premium membership, which offers competitions, training videos, and $60 worth of DLC (in addition to all the free stat-tracking and social features) for $49.99. Beachhead has said that, while Activision will be selling map packs for the PC, they won’t be offering the premium <em>Elite</em> membership on PC anytime soon. And they are still working on the free version.</p>
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“The issue here is that the PC is an insecure platform,” Beachhead Studio’s Chacko Sonny told Activision blogger Dan Amrich. “Without a central, trusted resource for stats, a lot of our competition features become unfair. We can’t give away prizes when people can easily cheat their stats. Leaderboards are less fun when a lot of the users are there unfairly.”</p>
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Activision and the three studios behind <em>Modern Warfare 3</em> (Beachhead included) haven’t shunned the PC audience entirely: dedicated servers will be supported at launch. But <em>Call of Duty</em> is a console franchise now, and <em>Elite</em> is a service designed to make money off that audience. <em>Elite</em> will come to the PC eventually, but they likely won’t rush it unless they’re sure they can monetize it.</p>
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Source: OneOfSwords via Joystiq</p>
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