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EA Rumored to Reveal a 'Call of Duty Elite' Style Service for 'Battlefield 3'
Tue May 15, 2012 at 12:30 PM ETTags: Battlefield, Battlefield 3, DICE, Battlefield Premium, Call of Duty Elite (all tags)
If true, you'll be able to get content unique to the program and additional options for personalization.
Battlefieldo, a site dedicated to everything 'Battlefield 3,' reported late last week that a new content service could be heading to game.
The service, according to the allegedly leaked press release, will be called Battlefield Premium, and will offer players access to more customizability, unique content like the Premium Knife, camos, Assignments and more.
There's no official word on the service yet, but as far as rumors go, this one sounds very likely.
Source: Battlefieldo
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EA Rumored to Reveal a 'Call of Duty Elite' Style Service for 'Battlefield 3'
Tue May 15, 2012 at 12:30 PM ETTags: Battlefield, Battlefield 3, DICE, Battlefield Premium, Call of Duty Elite (all tags)
If true, you'll be able to get content unique to the program and additional options for personalization.
Battlefieldo, a site dedicated to everything 'Battlefield 3,' reported late last week that a new content service could be heading to game.
The service, according to the allegedly leaked press release, will be called Battlefield Premium, and will offer players access to more customizability, unique content like the Premium Knife, camos, Assignments and more.
There's no official word on the service yet, but as far as rumors go, this one sounds very likely.
Source: Battlefieldo
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One Million Paying for Call of Duty Elite - Four Million Signed up for Free Version
Wed Nov 23, 2011 at 11:30 AM ETTags: Call of Duty Elite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Activision (all tags)
That's a full million customers paying an extra $49 on top of the purchase of the game. Activision has to be psyched.
When the folks at Activision said that they weren't ready for the popularity of Call of Duty Elite, it seemed a little ridiculous. After all, the 'Modern Warfare' series is one of the biggest around, so high signup numbers should have been expected. Activision definitely couldn't have anticipated this much desire.
The free Call of Duty Elite service had four million signups in the first month. That's a good chunk of the people that own the game - half or more - but it's not shocking that people would sign up for something free. The Elite Premium service had a million gamers sign up for it. That's a million gamers at $49 a pop, paying for everything offered in the Premium program. That's on top of the $59 the game cost.
Game makers have long been looking for the thing that will help combat used game sales and it's clear that Activision is on to something here. Even if a player buys 'Modern Warfare 3' used from GameStop, they'll be paying their $49 straight to Activision if they want the Elite experience.
Based on the success of Call of Duty Elite Premium, you can expect to see this sort of thing showing up in other games as well.
Source: Kotaku
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One Million Paying for Call of Duty Elite - Four Million Signed up for Free Version
Wed Nov 23, 2011 at 11:30 AM ETTags: Call of Duty Elite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Activision (all tags)
That's a full million customers paying an extra $49 on top of the purchase of the game. Activision has to be psyched.
When the folks at Activision said that they weren't ready for the popularity of Call of Duty Elite, it seemed a little ridiculous. After all, the 'Modern Warfare' series is one of the biggest around, so high signup numbers should have been expected. Activision definitely couldn't have anticipated this much desire.
The free Call of Duty Elite service had four million signups in the first month. That's a good chunk of the people that own the game - half or more - but it's not shocking that people would sign up for something free. The Elite Premium service had a million gamers sign up for it. That's a million gamers at $49 a pop, paying for everything offered in the Premium program. That's on top of the $59 the game cost.
Game makers have long been looking for the thing that will help combat used game sales and it's clear that Activision is on to something here. Even if a player buys 'Modern Warfare 3' used from GameStop, they'll be paying their $49 straight to Activision if they want the Elite experience.
Based on the success of Call of Duty Elite Premium, you can expect to see this sort of thing showing up in other games as well.
Source: Kotaku
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Call of Duty Elite Won't be Functional for a Few More Weeks
Fri Nov 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM ETTags: Call of Duty Elite, Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (all tags)
The company was unprepared, but Activision VP Daniel Suarez says they'll be ready to go soon.
To say that 'Modern Warfare 3' is popular would be an incredible understatement. It's reached past the typical gaming crowd and has become a landmark release for the more casual crowd as well. That's great for a company, unless they're woefully unprepared to handle the demand for their new online stat tracking service.
VP Daniel Suarez told Kotaku that it wasn't just one thing that caused the problem, but a group of things. Obviously, incredible demand for the Elite program didn't help. "For lack of a better term," says Suarez, "our databases got hammered with the millions of people trying to use Elite and it couldn't put up with the demand."
Call of Duty Elite will be brought on bit by bit until the whole thing is up and running, which will be in the next few weeks. Hopefully, Activision will be ready for the glut of new players that will be coming in just over a month when all the good little girls and boys open up the first-person-shooter that Santa brought them for Christmas.
Source: Kotaku
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Call of Duty Elite Subscribers Get a Free Month Due to Outage
Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM ETTags: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty Elite, Call of Duty, Activision (all tags)
They've also extended Founder status to anyone who registers before the end of November.
The Call of Duty Elite service is a really interesting experiment in premium content in videogames. It gives you access to free DLC, regular competition for real life prizes, benefits for clans and plenty more for $49.
This would all be very cool except for the fact that it's been down since the game launched. Activision says that the outage is due to a much bigger response than they expected which completely crushed their system.
"We're immediately deploying multiple additional servers to beef up the system," says Activision. "We are also going to temporarily limit access to Elite services on both the console applications and website while we build additional capacity and scale."
Source: Kotaku
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