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rwcgillam Expert 753 posts since
Dec 4, 2011
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Mar 13, 2012 5:04 AM

What's up with founder status?

I've read on the xbox forum that a lot of premium members are being bumped up to founder status, even though they bought it after deadline.

 

1.  Is it only xbox people who are getting this? I haven't heard of any PS3 people saying they've been bumped up to founder status.

 

2.  Who is entitled to it?

 

3.  Why is it being done?

 

It doesn't affect me, I bought premium elite in November, so I already had founder status, but it could affect some friends who are not active in this forum and may not know about it.

  • Newbie 33 posts since
    Aug 31, 2011
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    Mar 13, 2012 5:42 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    My theory is I'm entitled to founder status because I originally bought it on the PS3, but Activision told me to jog on and buy it again for Xbox 360; mainly because the PS3 version sucks like hell due to lack of support from the developer.

  • ELITE_Help GlobalModerator 2,123 posts since
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    Mar 13, 2012 5:09 PM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    Thanks for the heads up. We're currently looking into the issue. Any information we say regarding the issue should be treated as official. If another member of the forum sheds light on or has his own theory, please do not treat it as an official statement.

  • codbig_boss Apprentice 722 posts since
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    Mar 15, 2012 4:57 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    ya they tweeted this

    @codbigboss Not everyone's getting Founder status. We're aware of a possible issue & investigating. We'll tweet as soon as we have an update

  • Nitroxide Apprentice 25 posts since
    Feb 29, 2012
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    Mar 15, 2012 5:31 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    People found some way to trigger the glitch, this clan for example went from lvl 8 to 13 in 2 days... All of them appear to be founder all of the sudden.

     

    https://elite.callofduty.com/connect/clan/view/98704 (PS3)

    • RicardoK Newbie 35 posts since
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      Mar 15, 2012 5:39 AM (in response to Nitroxide)
      Re: What's up with founder status?

      I dont think they will take action, if u are premium and suddenly become founder and join a clan they will get 500 clan xp. Same if u are already in a clan , leave and rejoin u get the founder xp.

       

      Its too much work to sort this out, not everyone has bad intentions.

       

      Thats how it works, nothing to trigger.

    • gallp13 Master 6,481 posts since
      May 28, 2011
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      Mar 16, 2012 3:20 PM (in response to Nitroxide)
      Re: What's up with founder status?

      Great ! We are told nothing but the Community seem to have pieced together that;

       

      1. BH appears to have made some sort of change.

      2. This introduces an error where some but not all premium members get Founder Status.

      3. Some Folks work out a glitch to get Founder and 500xp giving some clans a huge unfair advantage.

       

      And all we get for 3 days is....we are looking into this.......!

       

      This is getting out of hand.....someone at BH needs to explain;

       

      1. What happened.

      2. When it will be fixed

      3. What will the fix will be

       

      Do they;

       

      1.Down grade new founders and take back xp and bring back a level playing field between the clans?

      2. Or Up grade all premium to new Founder and hand out xp? How is fair to current clans who have not recruited Premiums?

      3. What compensation is given to original and loyal or what some are calling True Founders? These Folk don't what xp or trinkets they feel duded because they will have lost a sense of exclusivity if Premium become new Founders. These guys will new GOLD FOUNDER status. Exclusive emblem and 500xp like new Founders.

      4. What bans do IW and or XLB hand to glitches as ToC for both are potentially violated by glitchers by this type of glitching.

       

      Xbl support will probably have an answer the gliitching part as they are normally sharper oncommunication, service and fixes for the CoD Community.

       

      Not looking pretty....we will need a statement today!

  • codbig_boss Apprentice 722 posts since
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    Mar 15, 2012 5:42 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    Ya we did the same They have no idea what is goin on

  • codbig_boss Apprentice 722 posts since
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    Mar 15, 2012 6:03 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    How is it our fault though. We did nothing to make this happen just sign on to Elite and BAM founder status.

  • codbig_boss Apprentice 722 posts since
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    Mar 16, 2012 8:58 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    Ya they not giving it to free members just premium.

  • f3tus Novice 14 posts since
    Mar 9, 2012
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    Mar 16, 2012 9:06 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    Quite a few people in my clan did this. However, we did not know it was a glitch we thought it they were giving everyone a "bonus" because clan ops is such a failure. I would hate to see my clan punished for some sort of misunderstanding.

    • gallp13 Master 6,481 posts since
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      Mar 16, 2012 3:27 PM (in response to f3tus)
      Re: What's up with founder status?

      Everybody knows that this issue was in play and so if they get fake Founder status they should not cash in 500xp and give their clans an unfair advantage. This is not right or fair!

       

      I reckon clans who have done this by accident should own up like you have so they don't get punished for glitching.

       

      Thanks for your honesty, I hope your clan does not suffer or get get punished.

  • codbig_boss Apprentice 722 posts since
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    Mar 16, 2012 9:10 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    You have to sign in to COD elit. I had 20 people do it already.

  • admiral_basil78 Apprentice 363 posts since
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    Mar 17, 2012 11:08 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    I received founder status about a week ago and now it has vanished. Been elite since May2011 but didn't get premium till week after deadline.

     

    Ho hum.

     

    Easy come, easy go!!

    • DazedHigh Novice 65 posts since
      Feb 19, 2012
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      Mar 17, 2012 12:15 PM (in response to admiral_basil78)
      Re: What's up with founder status?

      someone explain this to me then because SOMETHING WEIRD happened to me. i bought MW3 i Nov when it came out (i didn't pre order) and i downloaded the free version of CoD elite on Nov 11, and i didn't actually buy the premium membership until jan 23rd. and the i signed on to MW3 an couple days ago (either Mar. 13-14) and i now have 2 hours of double XP( i didn't use a token) and 1 new title and 1 new emblem, the title was the word ELITE in green bordering and the emblem was a grey skull missing the top right portion of his skull. Intrigued by this i signed onto CoD Elite form my Xbox to find above the skull in the red circle i see THE GREEN SKULL with the word FOUNDER beside it. now i swear im not a hacker and i have NO IDEA how this happened,  i wouldn't be mad if they took it away from me becuase i didn't rightfully deserve it,  i got in by random when i signed on a few days ago,  would this have to do with this GLITCH you guys are talking about?

  • Calculating status... 13 posts since
    Mar 17, 2012
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    Mar 18, 2012 5:02 AM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    I only bought ELITE for my PS3 a week ago and for some reason I have founder status. Does anyone think it could be the reason my DLC content wont work even though I have tried absolutely everything?

  • sonjingohan Calculating status... 9 posts since
    Mar 18, 2012
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    Mar 18, 2012 10:41 PM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    I have not got my stuff from being a founder of elite member foe buying the harder mw3 gaame. whats up with that?? I want what i payed for.

  • LuisDelgado Novice 60 posts since
    Dec 3, 2011
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    Mar 19, 2012 9:17 PM (in response to rwcgillam)
    Re: What's up with founder status?

    My theory is that they wanted to give the title,emblen and winter camo to whoever got the premium membership before the maps came out, and the only way was making them founders

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