Community: Message List - COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:44:37 GMT

I bought Elite to save myself money on the DLC i couldnt care less about anything else it offers. That said once Elite is 100% functional i think it might actually be a useful thing to have. As for the 360 getting DLC first anyone who actually bothered to check on the details would have realised Microsoft still have a contract with Activision stating they get the DLC first. That contract doesnt magically disappear because we paid for an Elite subscription, Ok maybe it should have been stated that 360 still got DLC early but in all honesty the Microsoft-Activision contract is common knowledge to most people so i can see why they never bothered saying anything i mean why bother telling people what they already know?

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:11:18 GMT

I think all of you are missing the real point. Yes CoD is a juggernaut in this industry and they are very good at manipulating people for their money, but this has gone on far enough. I did not pay $50 to be put in the backseat of 360 users. I dont care that they have a standing contract, or that I will never play with these 360 users in the first place. It is the principal! They can not advertize something for both platforms and then tell us almost 3 months after launch (which was the absolute difinition of the word fail) that they are STILL giving DLC to 360 first?!?! Pretty sure someone is gonna sue over this crap. Idk how you slice it up, that ain't right!

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:05:52 GMT

They will lose my $$ for sure, and i am trying to get my $$ for this years as well.

They lied to the PS3 users, Hell if i could i would return the game too.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:17:15 GMT

Haha i'm the excact same, when i heard about elite i just though "so, i can just simply check my stats in game" and then they mentioned getting all DLC earlier, and people said it was cheaper, so that's the only reason i bought it to be honest.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:59:27 GMT

I didn't listen, but I didn't buy Elite either!

I get the logic of saving some money on the map packs, but seriously a glorified stat tracker? Stats that are competely meaningless outside in the real world. Talk about a marketing strategy that exploits the mindless. Well done Activision, fortunately this is one cookie who didn't get sucked in and will never get sucked in, unless the price differential between Elite and map packs gets considerably bigger. As it is I'm happy to wait and see if the maps are worth buying or not.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:50:18 GMT

hate to say I told you so, but I told the community so, should of listened to me

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:07:37 GMT

A good thread, and this is my opinion on Elite. I feel there is some over zealous marketer who is hating himself either at beachead or IW or activision whoever was in charge of communication really screwed up. But, its an interesting platform that does enhance your COD gaming, not by much but it does. I find the 9 month DLC release is a good idea, but yea some mistakes were made and well that's part of business.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:47:50 GMT

No. They'll add a gimicky feature, promote/adverstise the crap out of it. People will come.

1. Come up with a feature that won't work
2. Make a cool trailer
3. Get gamespot / IGN to do an interview on it
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

Repeat the same model for the game itself aswell.

During BO "CoD sucks, Im never buying a COD game again" **Watches MW3 trailer***

"I'm so buying that"

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:42:05 GMT

Same here, i want to see how they extend the story the most to be honest, but i have a feeling one of the missions will be from the "Find Makarov" film.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:09:22 GMT

I think they will. I personally am happy to be getting more than just maps this year. To me maps really werent every that awesome.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:07:52 GMT

The only way i'd buy it again, is if they do the same thing with DLC, and it works out as the same price, if they don't, then i wont simple as that.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:03:39 GMT

They promised DLC for 9 months, they never stated when the 9 months would start. It was wrong of you to suspect it in November. They didn't start on the DLC till the day the game launched. They never once stated premium PS3 users would get it at the same time as XBOX. So once again it was wrong of you to assume.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:58:22 GMT

We kinda do already get a discount because xbox live people have to pay to play online and we don't.

I'm not happy about xbox getting it first either, but can't see why it really matters much, since I can't play against xbox people on my ps3 AND I get to play online for free. Personally, I wouldn't really mind if PS3 people who didn't have elite premium got the maps the same time I did because a lot of people I play with do not have elite premium and I will not be able to play on the new maps if I play with them.

I also think premium elite was worth it because I do get the DLC included in my membership.

*waiting for backlash*

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:35:24 GMT

proof on the fact that COD has peaked? Not calling you out but I had thought (IMHO) that MW3 would pale in sales vs BLOPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_3

Within 24 hours of going on sale, the game sold 6.5 million copies in the US and UK alone and grossed $400 million, making it the biggest entertainment launch of all time

I guess I was wrong.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:30:49 GMT

Cod has peaked. Id bet anything the next game wont sell anything like they have done in the past. elite is a con unless you have a 360. if they couldnt give the people that payed the subscription equal treatment (ps3 and 360 owners) because of a deal they made with m$ then the ps3 owners should have had to pay as much. or they should have left it untill the deal was over. the way theyre doing it now is disgracfull and un fair.

I might by the next game for zombies if its included but other than that theyve taken the piss to much. not only do they half arse the games, build some new art assets and add a few lines of new or modified old code is called a mod anyone can do it, hence no real mod tools after w@w. but they have the nerve to complain about piracy even though they have the biggest selling game ever and send out a mod as a more than normal price game (not inc dlc)

**** em. up untill this game I was fine with what they were doing but now its gone too far. all they're doing is maximising profits in everyway they can.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:19:20 GMT

What I will decide to do a year from now, depends on how the system is running a year from now.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:05:31 GMT

I seriously doubt they will lose... why?

because people keep buying the game. Even if every single person on this forum never touches COD/ELITE again, there are still millions of others out there (some who have not even touched the series yet) who will buy it.

Think about the number of people who swore that Blops was going to be their last COD purchase:

- Some haven't... ok...

- Some have purchased MW3, and Elite!

Couple that with people who are skipping MW3 to purchase the next 3arc game, people who have been a away for a bit and decide to come back, and the next generation of gamers.

A lot of people do not like McDonalds food, but enough people like it that they are still in business... no matter how many stopped eating it after they watched "Super Size Me".

it's business... it really does not matter what you and I do. What matters is what the masses do... and believe it or not: The number of forum users DO NOT represent the masses (although we would like to think so sometimes)

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:57:42 GMT

Theyl lose customers next COD anyways judging by what people have been writing so far Its been the same iissues for too long and people are getting bored. As soon as someone comes up with something new, COD will die. Unless they are the ones to make the change. This arcade style of cod is just too samey for many now. out of 97 friends, all from the UK and US only about 12 even play it at all compared to when it 1st come out when i had about 35-40 playing it. It needs to change now.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:44:44 GMT

actually... yeah they did.

Re: COD ELITE to lose a lot of customers next year!?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:41:53 GMT

I'm undecided at this point. Pretty frustrated with Elite so far. Only plus is saving on DLC, but not even sure about that since they are only releasing 2 maps at a time.