Sorry, No Call of Duty Elite PC Beta After All
Despite reports of a PC beta this Fall, desktop and laptop gamers won't get an Elite taste until the service goes live in November.
Activision's official blogger, Dan "One of Swords" Amrich, reports that the beta of Call of Duty Elite will take place this summer. Previous reports indicated that the beta for the PC version wouldn't launch until the fall, but he clarified any confusion by stating that console owners can get an early glimpse this summer via the beta, but PC gamers will have to wait until the service goes live on November 8.
"There’s still time to sign up for the Call of Duty Elite beta yourself. PC players will have to wait until Elite’s November launch to try it out, but if you’re a 360 or PS3 owner, you can still get involved this summer," he said. "Check out the official FAQ for more questions. I have some info on how the beta logistics will work, too."
Call of Duty Elite will launch alongside Modern Warfare 3 in November, but the beta scheduled to run this summer will reportedly work with Call of Duty: Black Ops. "This [will be] a new digital platform where Call of Duty goes social," Marcus wrote in his hands-on back in May. "We're not talking about social like Facebook or Twitter, though there are some interesting elements in how Elite will be able to get Call of Duty players to gather and group together."
Elite will arrive in two flavors: free and premium. The free version will include numerous features including access through Android and iOS apps, stat tracking and sharing, custom leaderboard creation, weapons performance analysis, video uploading and sharing, clan creation, match-by-match performance analysis and more. Additionally, Call of Duty Elite – the service and interface – is written entirely in HTML5, meaning that it should run in most desktop and mobile web browsers.
"Many [console] gamers will be able to join the Call of Duty Elite beta and test the service out for themselves over the coming weeks, and I know a lot of people are impatiently refreshing their mailboxes right now waiting for an invite," Amrich said.
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they are putting lipstick on a pig.
BF3 will have all of my attention just as BC2 did. Not interested in rehash.
Not like its much of a loss anyway; CoD was over at 4.
This is good news! There's also a mistake in the title...
it should be: "YAY!!!, No Call of Duty Elite PC Beta After All!
We don't want it.
Activision has abandoned the PC market........
not completely since they are still raking in a bunch of idiots cash with their COD BullOps......and selling map packs at like 20USD ? even on steam ,
but u get the point
You people realize that Call of Duty Elite is not a game right? Thought I would throw this out there for the people that thought it was
Battlefield 3 FTW on PC. COD on PC is dead, the console kiddies can have it. 2560 x 1600 res, I7 Sandy Bridge at 4.5 ghz. GTX 580 3GB, 12Gb DDR3 I think Im ready!
lol who cares!? I'll go play black ops and it'll be the same thing just different levels. why? They havent updated their game engine since 2005! Yeah that's right 2005! Their excuse? "it takes a long time to develop a new game engine and perfect it"... so they'd rather suck you dry 60 bucks at a time with games that are almost identical to the one the year before and call it something cool sounding so you still buy it.
Dont forget that CoD is becoming increasingly easier by every iteration. Soon you wont need to aim. All you need to do is press a button and the game will play it self.
Ps. PC gets the shaft again. Activision will fall behind in the loop wich is a thumbs up in my book!
Call of Duty goes social??
Useless rubbish for people with no social life at all.
If AMD and Nvidia want to stay in the high-end graphics market they really need to be greasing game developer's wheels. They need to be pushing them to never give up on the PC market. If pirating is the concern, then solve it. If all game devs stopped making games for PCs today there wouldn't really be a need to build robust graphics cards. AMD/Nvidia stand to lose a lot. I would even throw in CPU and mobo mankers too. They all stand to lose a lot if game consoles are the only gaming outlet.
Sure AMD/Intel can put their cards in consoles but consoles are updated only every couple years or so. Plus, a console is a flat price where individual graphics cards are priced based on models and some are more expensive than a console itself.
They have already given up battling BF3 on the PC
And the problem is where? Just give me diablo 3, planetside 2, BF 3, and some fillers and I will be happy as a hog rolling in mud.
MEH anyways..
the game doesnt take much skill anyways...
Not like its much of a loss anyway; CoD was over at 4.
It was over after 2 IMO
I view this as a relief, a bit of redemption for our beloved platform.
I thought they used the Unreal 3 engine. Anywho, a new version of Unreal put out screen shots a few months back. Perhaps the latest game will take advantage of the latest engine.
Dont forget that CoD is becoming increasingly easier by every iteration. Soon you wont need to aim. All you need to do is press a button and the game will play it self.Ps. PC gets the shaft again. Activision will fall behind in the loop wich is a thumbs up in my book!
This must of been what that email was about that I ignored. Was invited to the elite beta way back, even though I think it s a poor idea.
darn, i was so excited to pay for this. now activision doesn't want my money!
seriously, this franchise is taking really long to die.
I was reading this article getting mad that the PC was getting the shaft again and then suddenly remembered that I dont give a f about this game lol. I got BC2 for $5 n steam and CODBO is still $50 lol
What a sad state of affairs. I still enjoy playing CoD2 (PS2) and I have
IV and World at War unopened that I'm looking forward to, but it's a shame
the franchise seems to be slipping. I was a big MoH fan but was really
annoyed at the on-rails nature of Rising Sun; a friend told me to try CoD,
never looked back. I have the first three for PS2, 4th and 5th for PC.
So has MoH resurrected itself these days?
The only other games I've liked quite as much as CoD2 are Mercenaries,
Black and Stalker.
Ian.
Call of the Past: Modern Rehash 3
Call of the Past: Modern Rehash 3
lol
Dan "One of Swords" Amrich... has to be the stupidest nickname ive ever heard. And meh, not interested in it, but it still sucks that pc gamers get the boot again. I really hope this 1st person modern shooter boner dies down and publishers decide to publish good games the way their supposed to... Xcom comes to mind
I really wanna make a snarky comment in response to this, but like many PC gamers I'm so tired of FPS games trying to be ultra-serious I don't know whether to thank or criticize Activision for this one.
Dan "One of Swords" Amrich... has to be the stupidest nickname ive ever heard. And meh, not interested in it, but it still sucks that pc gamers get the boot again. I really hope this 1st person modern shooter boner dies down and publishers decide to publish good games the way their supposed to... Xcom comes to mind
Sound like the nick name of someone who took there Dungeons and Dragons way to seriously LMAO
oh boo whoo , pc gmaers dont get early acess to yet another mill pressed mass produced peice of crap Call of duty game.
and people thought DNF was horribly "been there done that" kind of game pfft i long ago got tired of the "madden" of FPSers
I bet it wil make big reviews yet offer nothign new compared to the rest of the series , any serious pc gamer would ahve dropped this series a few years ago. sorry activision , i'l pass on CoD-2011
I thought this COD Elite thing is a stats tracker/FB for COD?
BF3 will have all of my attention just as BC2 did. Not interested in rehash.
Like BC2 did? It unfortunately didn't. The media for some reason wasn't all over BC2 like it deserves. Everyone knows what CoD:MW is whereas BC2 not so much.