Call of Duty Elite for PC Indefinitely Delayed?

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I also got BF3 instead of CoD and I was really enjoying it but ever since Skyrim came out that's pretty much been taking all of my available play time.. lol
 
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PC gaming is dead, and its the developers that did it. Porting halfassed games from Console to PC makes for a shitty experience, as BLACK OPS single player showed. They finally fixed the COD MP with black ips by putting back in dedicated servers, and they screwed it right up again by ditching them for MW3.

I play on PC almost exclusively, but this is almost too much to deal with. Consoles are cheaper, easier, and becoming more of a pure experience. No hacking assclowns either.

My hope is that the new Xbox will allow mouse and keyboards, anf if that happens my PC is loved no more.
 

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Unless I'm mistaken I was playing on MW3 dedicated servers this past weekend??? The game is fun for me. Played all 3 MWs on PC and enjoying the return of dedicated servers. I could give a sh*t about some pay for play service not coming to PC.
 

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Kiddie consoles and no-brainer commercialism are ruining real PC gaming... Console companies are strong-arming software developers into only releasing on their generic platforms now that they have massive selling power. Sells consoles... makes problem worse. They don't care about hard-core true gamers on PC's -- they want cookie-cutters, and easy money harvest from peer-pressure prone and not necessarily intelligent youngsters who then grow up only knowing the inscrutible BOX -- never knowing the joys of a hot-rod, personalized gaming rig with mind-blowing performance and latest graphics.. Neo did not use a console in the Matrix -- no real computer person does. But then 80% of the people polled think their IQ is above average....!? and many of the lower 70% of those only know consoles. In commerce, as well as in democracy, the lowest common denominator ends up making the decisions by default.

Some of your claims are just ridiculous.

Console companies are strong-arming software developers into only releasing on their generic platforms now that they have massive selling power.

Nobody is strong-arming anybody. Dev shops CHOOSE to release for console only because it's easier for THEM to develop for. When you only have one set of hardware specs to worry about, you can save a lot of time not implementing graphics scaling features and testing umpteen different set-ups to make sure your product works for nearly every possible configuration.

Call it laziness on the part of the developers if you will, but the console companies have nothing to do with it.

They don't care about hard-core true gamers on PC's

You have to realize that no matter how badly the devs want to focus on making things "cool" and "fun", at the end of the day they still rely on sales to stay in business.

The "hardcore gamer" will always be the minority. It just doesn't make sense from a business standpoint to alienate ~90% of your potential player-base by catering only to the "hardcore" players. Sure, you'll be happy, but the dev shop will be out of business. Who wins then?

Think about it from a different perspective. If you were writing a 400 page book on the wingspan variance of the rare trollolo beetle of new guinea, how many copies would you expect to sell? Sure those seven trollolo beetle fanatics would have a nerdgasm over your book, but who else would buy it? What publisher would take a risk on spending a lot of money publishing a book with a potential market of seven people?

It's the same in all avenues of media--books, music, film, etc. Money determines the focus. You can complain about it all you want, but it will never change.

If you really think that you know "how it should be done", then learn how to program and start your own game shop. Complaining solves nothing.
 

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Oh yay Keep on doing this hackivision because you are only building my urge to make a new game exclusively for PC gamers someday.
 
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Why would anyone who has a PC in this day and age ever waste their time with a game that was designed to play on 8-9 year old computer technology (i.e. consoles). That's almost as bad as people who buy $2000 to play solitaire.
 

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Anyway i refuse to pay 49.99$ per year added to the base price of the game (59.99$). I buyed the game cause i can play online without pay more !

A chance online play is free, i like this game, and for me, 59.99$ for this game is good !
 

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[citation][nom]erelyes[/nom]What, they still make COD titles for PC?[/citation]
Yeah and sadly they sell as many as Battlefield 3 did... (talking about PC platform numbers)
 

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[citation][nom]schmich[/nom]Yeah and sadly they sell as many as Battlefield 3 did... (talking about PC platform numbers)[/citation]


BF3 peaked at 200,000 the first couple weeks. Mw3 barely scraped 80,000.....
 

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but on all consoles bf3 put together battlefield was destroyed in numbers. i think i might switch to battlefield because of the graphics and jets .
 
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I think console fan boy should just crawl back into their caves and die!
 
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