Here you have it. No open beta for Black Ops..

There have been rumors circling the air for quite sometime on a beta. This video is a private interview with a guy from Activision clearly stating "There will be no open beta." Start the video at about 5:33 if you don't feel like watching it all to listen.

[evilbart]

Cod haters incoming,brace yourself

[deadreckoning666]

Yeah lol. I know were your coming from, there are a ton of em on N4G. Honestly, I don't care if someone hates COD(to each his own). Where the problem lies is that many COD haters on this site not only constantly bash COD games...but also the people who play them. Its okay if you dislike a game someone else likes..but to bash someone for simply enjoying a game? Thats pretty low right there...and the COMPLETE opposite of what gaming is about.

Same thing happens with Halo. I've seen comments(in Halo articles mind you) that claim that Halo is "inferior" to other shooters, namely Killzone 3. If you NEED to go into a HALO article to call it inferior to a game that you personally think is better..ur simply a child.

Either way, dumbass fanboys are a small, small, small minority in this industry and the only illusion of power they have is on anonymous gaming news sites like this. In the grand scheme of things, the only thing they accomplish is making the rest of us gamers look bad.

[Redempteur]

the same thing happens with GTA4 haters and FF13 haters .

by reading the comments here you'd believe that everyone hated these games when it's false

[captain-obvious]

"No open beta for Black Ops"

closed beta ??

[bjornbear]

who wants to bet the MP will be broken =/?

[TROLL EATER]

stage is set once again for glitches

[Serjikal_Strike]

game patch ....after game patch..... after game patch....after game patch:(

[MAR-TYR-DOM]

Or, it could just be like other cod games where they are abandoned 6 months after release.

[theEnemy]

lol, November (Launch Month) IS the beta period.

:D

[the-show-stopper]

maybe the internal beta will be enough
hopefully
they probably saw that everyone in the MoH beta took it for a demo and they realized that most gamers arent that smart
good move on their part

[The_Claw]

agreed, too many people see betas as "early access to the game!" rather than trying to help devs make the game better for the final build.

[PhantomT1412]

Then Activision testers were not better than these people when they got the MW2 internal beta...

[redDevil87]

after MW2 they're not doing an open beta? SMH. Be ready for patches and downloads.

[MGRogue2017]

... Oh well, They are only killing a good thing for themselves here anyway..

I would have thought they'd know this already:

Beta = Criticism & good feedback = Better game for you & me.

[getonmylev3l]

99% of the people that take part of "AAA" betas, play it like a demo and don't give feedback to the dev. (Including me)

[FuturePerfect]

This is not(and never will be)MW3? So what is all the fuss about this game?

And why don't they just call it - 'Call of Duty: 2010' then next year 'Call of Duty: 2011' then next year...etc etc POOR SHEEP

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Thank you.

I want a Modern Warfare 3. :( I love the characters...and I want to finish out the story!

Respawn...please get the rights to the characters!

[gamingdroid]

I love MW1&2 as well. I really don't know what the hate is all about here on n4g, but people clearly show love for it on the Xbox Live most played charts.

[FragMnTagM]

for several reasons, but that doesn't mean that I don't play it. I still play it from time to time, but I get so pissed off by the cheap ass weapons in the games, and the perks. Some people use one man army exclusively and have nube tubes setup on all their classes and keep switching back and forth.

Marathon, lightweight, commando pro, and tactical knife pisses me the hell off. How the hell does someone lunge 20-30 feet for a knife kill? That is supposed to be MODERN WARFARE? So you are telling me, soldiers in Afghanistan run really fast towards the Taliban and with a pistol/knife combo and lunge 20-30 feet stabbing them?

I still like the game, and I will be picking up Black Ops as it seems they are addressing my biggest gripes about the game.

I don't see how anyone wouldn't get pissed off about what I mentioned, unless that is how they play the game. Also, it rewards people that play the game a certain way (i.e. camping), instead of the way I play. I hold an area for a few seconds, clear it, then move on to another, but that usually entails me losing my killstreak. Camping is really boring to me.

Oh and if you play with certain people, they know exactly how the spawn system works and they take a huge advantage of that which really makes the game unfair if you are being spawn camped. Especially when you are on the receiving end of a chopper gunner and it keeps spawning you right out in the open.

[finbars75]

Just remember that the original guys who made DeadSpace are working on ModernWarfare 3.In saying that it most likely will be one of the greatest COD games to date.You will have a great story and Plot and im sure the MP will be more in depth.So for now where just getting a game that is half ass looking right now.I will not be picking up Black Ops I prefer to play the new James Bond game over this anyday.I will wait a year for a descent COD game and I will be very pleased with it not being empty handed.

[marioPSUC]

who knows maybe there will be a closed-beta and you have to get invited to it or something

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Call of Duty - Ingeniously well-rounded shooter with a fantastic story and production values unseen at the time.

Call of Duty 2 - Still the pinnacle of WW2 shooters for many people...and introduced multi-player to the series...that was PHENOMENAL!

Call of Duty 3 - Nice try, Treyarch. Maybe you could make a video game next time?

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Wow. Just...wow. Reinvented online console shooters. Amazing story. Amazing online. Brilliant.

Call of Duty: World at War - Better. Treyarch...you're getting much better at throwing money into a project. You even hired Jack Bauer to star in your poorly written drama with...multi-player you ripped right from COD4?!?! Seriously?

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Thank you, Infinity Ward. You gave us the second part (and better part) of a story that, despite being unrealistic to millions of people who are completely unaware of what goes on behind ABC News coverage, was memorable and satisfying. You also upped the multi-player like crazy! Sure...there were some glitches...but I don't care. It's still really fun to play online!

Call of Duty: Black Ops - WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE EXCITED FOR THIS GAME?!?!?!?!?! Treyarch made 3 and World at War! What about that says, "These guys know how to make a good game!"?

[DNAbro]

Why do so many people hate on Treyarch? It's obvious they care about the series and they get so much hate. This is actually the first CoD i might buy because they really changed the multiplayer. The new wager matches sound amazing and get me excited for this game.

[theEnemy]

Modern Warfare 2 is an abomination of multiplayer gaming.

Week 1 - tons of exploits and glitches and overpowered guns
Week 2 - Host Migration BS
Week 3 - Another batch of glitches
Week 4 - Patch to fix some glitches, but after a few days, it's back again.

Not to mention it's a campers haven. 25 Kill Streak? NP. Just camp and you'll get it. No wait here's a better idea, Boosting!

50-80% of those can be avoided if they had a beta. But hey it'll cost them some $$$ so they said f*ck that.

Same goes for Black Ops.

But hey, it'll still day 1 for me since we enjoyed playing online with my friends every night. gaming is fun.

[vickers500]

World at War was a good game. Much better than Modern Warfail 2.

[joypads]

Treyarch game probably have many flaws & they're scared it will affect sales. to me this shows how much they lack the confident on their game & are shit scared it wont top MW2 sales if they do give cod fans a beta access. NO OTHER EXPLANATION

[danmachine]

i'm not buying it for it to be plagued with glitchers and cheaters for months.

[SpaceFox]

Exactly why I'm not picking this up on day one. It looks pretty damn good, but I'd rather pick it up a week or so after release, used. I figure by then they'll have worked out most of the bugs.

[brianunfried]

The retail game is the beta, now days it seems like games are released in beta form and we are forced to download a dozen updates.

[Dojan123]

I will get this game (PC) but will hold a few days/weeks until the show stoppers are worked out.

[SSKILLZ]

Moh: Afghanistan. Is day 1 for me

[SuperbVillain]

these people are actually not having a BETA after what happend last time.I really hope this game doesn't turn into a glitch fest.

[Chnswdchldrn]

if you think about it they don't really need a beta test

i mean they are working on such a fucking ancient and outdated engine and pretty much adding and reskinning stuff...dont see how you could fuck up such an easy task

but they will

Betas make Beta games

get it...?

[ambientFLIER]

Even if there is no open beta, I have faith In Treyarch to patch the glitches quickly and support the game for quite a while, just like they did with World at War. I think the last thing they want to do is end up like Infinity Ward, being the laughing stock of the gamers.

IW was far too cocky due to their stellar reputation after the first Modern Warfare; Treyarch needs this game to be great to allow everyone to forget about their screw-ups in the past. They need to go all out and 110% on this one.

[infamousdrake]

the way you have faith in treyarch people had faith in iw and they released a glitchy fest of a game and failed to patch them up in time another problem was that game was too unbalanced in terms of perks weapons equipment etc along with the lag so people are skeptical about black ops and more after this interview

i hope the game is better then mw2 and waw

[HydraxFFx]

MW2 was the beta for this game. Treyarch took out a lot of the problems that where in MW2.
Commando - Gone
Marathon - Nerfed
NoobToobs - FlakJaket

[finbars75]

I have to say that the reason for no beta is that the game is not shaping up to being good at all.Everything I have seen so far is just crap.The graphics look horrible most of the perks from modern warfare 2 are back they just renamed them and the single player well who knows all they care about is the multiplayer and thats telling you that they have no direction of what they are doing or what there main focus is on.I mean my god even the weapons are same there just the 70s and 80s version of the weapons and to make things worst the new gameplay vidoe of the Rc shows him driving the thing and it drives through a big pice of rock like it wasnt even there.So already theres a glitch forming from this.I use to like tryearch but I feel that there going in the same direction Infinity ward went.In time you will see.Im sure when next years Modern Warfare 3 comes out it will be done the right way with the guys that originally did Dead Space taking on the task.We will get a good story and Im sure a great MP.Oh by the way HYDRAXFFX the flakjacket is in this game and so is Marathon.Just renamed ook into it and theres no dedicated servers but thats for some other time.

[MikeTyson]

its running on the same engine as mw2, the game is basically the same crap we got last year but with different guns and maps

[MikeTyson]

beta: no buy
no beta: still no buy

[BlueEye]

Wonder if there will be a demo. Hopefully a free one

[MrBubble]

I bet Bobby thinks beta test should cost money.