The code expiring has nothing to do with the expiration of online content. If they put expiration dates on the servers, that is another issue.
When (or even if) the code expires, EA gets you another one, for free.
A minor inconvenience. Must be a slow news day.
The article says that some codes will have an expiration date but getting a new one is free. I don't see how that's rape.
Joystiq did a story on this and actually talked to EA.
http://i.joystiq.com/2011/1...
Everyone calm down.
CoD is also the highest selling franchise on 360.
The quality of the CoD games has remained stagnant (some would argue since MW1). Same engine, same cliches. And not even same cliches for a first person shooter; Call of Duty has become a parody of itself.
A lot of people bought MW3 but what I see are a group of people simply going through the motions. "It's November, so I'll buy Call of Duty because that's what my friends are going to be playing for the next 10 months".
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1. Unless you have 5 PS3's, I don't see the problem with allowing you to only share content between 2, if you even have THAT many.
2. "People expect more for their updates" Well, people's expectations are their own problem, aren't they?
3. "PSN breach" Sony got breached but if you remember back to last summer, EVERYONE was attacked in some form of another. EA, Nintendo, BioWare and Valve are just off the top of my head. Eve...
Call of Duty has nowhere to go but down.
OK.
What if I said that I thought The Godfather was the worst movie ever made? That would be an opinion sure, but one that would be (rightfully) widely disregarded as ridiculous.
Just bought Vanquish and Force Unleashed 2 Collectors Edition and only spent $13. Good times.
I agree with you but their technical skills need to catch up to their ideas and ambition. Fallout has influenced so many games this generation it is ridiculous and I am hearing amazing things about Skyrim. Yet every time Bethesda releases a game there are technical problems that critics would normally destroy a AAA title for, if not for the fact that the game is so good they can almost overlook them.
If Bethesda spent the same amount of time and money on QA testing that EA &a...
The only thing keeping Bethesda from being a major player is their uncanny ability to always release a bug-riddled game that is almost unplayable at launch. I know people that stay away from any Bethesda game until there is a significant patch. And that is saying something when they are worse than EA and Activision in that regard.
The guys at Infinity Ward were looking for a way out after how poorly they were treated by Activision. Not that I blame them; IW has made a multimillion dollar franchise for Activision and were spat on. Activision wanted to keep the CoD brand yearly, force IW to make CoD forever, all the while having other studios use the IW engine to make inferior games. When Activision realized the studio heads were trying to leave, they panicked and fired them.
It's like your boss firi...
Activision lets Blizzard to do what they want. They handle the marketing and the money but Blizzard runs WoW.
If Activision had their way, WoW would be on consoles with more frequent expansions.
If he said this about a game that he wasn't directly involved in, that would be a story.
Instead, this is the equivalent of "Parent Says Their Child Is Awesome."
Kotick killed CoD in 2010 when he fired the creative minds of Infinity Ward and wound up gutting the studio.
It just hasn't stopped twitching yet.
Activision made CALL OF DUTY mainstream. You'll notice they do not put nearly as much effort, hype, or marketing toward any other game they make.
As for gaming no longer being "nerdy" and "uncool"? It still is, only now it's acceptable for "cool" people to call themselves gamers when all they play are first person shooters.
NPD= North America. There is still the rest of the world to consider and digital sales.
These are October NPD numbers.
BF3 came out in the last week of the month.
Meaning BF3 sold approximately 2 million in North America alone in one full week, helping EA to their most successful launch ever.
If that equals failure then most games would be happy to fail that hard.
If Move is dead than why are games like Goldeneye, Counterstrike, and Bioshock Infinite releasing with Move support?
I think it's fair but I've been saying for a while that companies shutting down game servers is going to be the next big complaint in gaming.
The issue will be how long are companies expected to support a particular game's servers. I'm sure Activision is going to get a ton of complaints if they ever decide to shut the CoD4 servers even though the game came out in 2007.