Call Of Duty Elite Adds Socialization To Your Killing
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Call Of Duty Elite To Add Social Networking And Cross Platform Interaction
The Call of Duty franchise is trying to mix our love of the franchise with our addiction to social media. On top of that it’s also trying to finally give us some cross platform interaction in the frm of ranking and videos if not actually being able to play together quite yet.
On the one hand I’m wondering what took so long and on the other I am wondering why they are doing it. Well, why they are making a free AND premium service. I understand that subscriptions are a cash cow these days and there is a lure of it ‘being worth it’ but so far we don’t have details on WHY it’s worth it. Unless subscribing gets you all of the expansion packs early AND for a cheaper price what is going to be the true added benefit?
I suppose we will find out on November 8th when it launches alongside Modern Warfare 3. At the very least I’m sure we’ll all be signing up for the free version (those of us who are Call of Duty players) as I would LOVE to be able to compare stats and share videos with my PC gaming friends and 1.5 PS3 friends. With my iffyness of the pay portion hasn’t thrown you yet, good! It actually looks like it has a lot of useful and fun features to it. Also a LOT of time wasting features. Perfect for those long hours at a desk job? I’d say so!
It’s kind of neat that at least part of the social aspect is if friends on Facebook use Elite it’ll let you find who on Facebook that also play which you may not have known. The service should be available on the web, console, and mobile apps and will actually work with Black Ops and on.
The 4 major sections are: Career, Connect, Compete, and Improve. A VERY quick runtdown is that Career: Your full stats, Connect: connect with friends/etc, Compete: compare scores and videos with others and Improve: lets you see what guns/maps you are best on, where you die the most, where others die, etc.
BONUS! The following video has 6 seconds of Modern Warfare 3 at the end (and it’s entertaining! Even Leah laughed at a few parts!)
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