Following the news that elements of Call of Duty's Elite service would be made free for all gamers, we reached out to Activision's PR to see if this applied to PC gamers. Currently, it does not.
Call of Duty Elite will be free with the release of Black Ops 2, Activision have announced. Included will be the until-now paid-for parts of Elite’s service - Clans, daily competitions, Elite TV, pro analysis - while additional DLC will be sold separately, either as part of a $49.99 Season Pass or as $15 map packs. Four Black Ops 2 map packs have been announced so far.
Now that the E3 excitement has tapered off to a thin adrenal wisp, I've had a chance to gather together all of the most interesting Call of Duty announcements and shouty trailers online. If it happened in the last week, and it had something to do with Call of Duty, it's right here.
Console gamers have had access to Call of Duty’s feature-packed Elite service for the past few months, and Activision are continually promising its arrival on the PC. But how will a premium, paid-for service ever work with the notoriously fickle PC gaming community?
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Call of Duty, the massively popular FPS, turns out to be massively popular, with Activision announcing that it has over 40 million active players, logging in every month to play a round or two at least, and over 10 million people registered with CoD Elite, the game’s premium service. A further 2 million of them are annual premium members, which I’m sure makes Bobby Kotick feel justified ordering those giant M&M machines for his office.
