Activision: COD Elite will kill cheaters

Amid the ongoing Sony hack furore, Activision has pledged to ensure that Call of Duty: Elite, the new multiplayer-focused service set to launch alongside Modern Warfare 3 this November, will help rid the game of cheaters.

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At the price of your soul.

[GarandShooter]

Meh, what's a soul going for on the open market these days anyway?

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good point.

[tehpees3]

so to stop cheats I have to pay? why not make me pay to beat the campaign as well then. why don't Activision and their devs start paying extra money and time into development and sorting cheats themselves instead?

[Yi-Long]

... you either pay up, or you end up with cheaters, is that it!?

Getting rid of cheaters should be one of their first and major priorities, and it should be a given, not something you should have to pay extra for.

Typical Activision...(!)

[DavidMacDougall]

Heres a better idea i just don't buy the game if they think non elite players deserve cheaters.

[BattleAxe]

This has me a bit worried about buying this game now. We pay so much for these games year after year, it just doesn't seem right to treat paying customers like this.

[jjohan35]

That's a load of BULL. Microsoft Live users pay for their subscription service. There's still a boatload of hackers there playing Call of Duty (not saying it doesn't exist on PSN too, but that's off topic). A lame attempt at falsely justifying for more $$.

[DaTruth]

It will just rid your pocket of money!

[DankJemo]

If they can deliver. Haven't they promised to stomp out cheaters in the past? I'd like to see a proof of concept first, this anti-cheating tech in action before I am willing to pay for it. To my knowledge MW2 and black Ops is still full of cheaters, but i could be wrong I haven't played the game in months... Besides, should be be guaranteed freedom from cheating (within reason,) without paying for a service... Steam seems to offer a pretty good free anti-cheat system known as VAC. Sure, there still are cheaters but there always will be.

[Fil101]

your right I had my suspicians about cheaters on black ops and the other day i was proved right when i was playing s&d on firing range and on the second round someone pulled out a sentry gun not a problem well yeah when the top player on the other side only has 2 kills. i was also playing s&d on mw2 and someone was trying to hack the room we were in it's really sad that cod has become a cheaters playground for 11 year olds and when mw3 arrives they'll be trying to hack that on day one, bottom line this is activisions fault same game engine same exploits.

[JohnnyMann420]

What is this? Blackmail?

BS. You already pay $60+ for the fricken game.

Screw Activision.

BF3 is THE FPS to own.

[Vherostar]

So this is there selling point??? Pay £7.99 a month to stop cheating in a game where by rights there shouldnt be any. There's only cheating thanks to terrible coding! They are asking people to pay because there game is made terrible now?? They have gone too far now..

[mrv321]

Didn't they say that Blacks Ops would be cheater free? How did that work out again?

[sloth3395]

so you have to pay for them to get rid of cheaters

[Pixel_Enemy]

Yeah, after they release their games they really don't support them. They release Map Packs for $$ and that's about it. They do patch the games to remove glitches when people start to bitch about them but before you know it, the glitch is back. How many times did they try to patch the infinite care package glitch in MW2.. like 4 times lol

Cheaters aren't really banned on COD ever. Glitchers and boosters have no consequences for their actions. Other games ban users for things like that.

[DankJemo]

I am in favor of a Zero tolerance policy on cheaters. Anyone caught cheating shouldn't be allowed to play online. That's it. Steam does it and it works pretty well. The only people complaining about that are the people who get their accounts banned,but Activision won't do that, at least i doubt they will. Like you said, they barely supported their games in the past, why should they now?

[femshep]

since black ops got hacked and cheated within 6 hours last year i give them 3 hours this year

not to mention the servers the devs will never keep up to date and the huge amount of lag that the game already has.....and allll the glitches and things they never cared for fix

[Pixel_Enemy]

I hope this game gets hacked to shit

[femshep]

hahah its call of duty isn't that promised with every purchase? (joking by the way)

[BubbleSniper]

part of the reason you get lag on call of dookie is because cheaters are doing stuff with the bandwith, in the game.

[trippyaaron]

no, its because activision makes sure not to spend more than it has to on shitty servers

[CrimsonEngage]

Still wont fix all the bugs and shitty re-spawns.

[AllroundGamer]

some of them will be fixed, but you will have to pay for the Elite Ultra Pro package so all the bugs will be fixed ;)

[NotSoSilentBob]

Even then new bugs will pop up due to crappy coding.

[DigitalRaptor]

No Activision - it will make you lots of money, whilst people will still find the exploits.

And people will still hate you!

[BeastlyRig]

BF3 will kill cod...

[thespaz]

Not on consoles.

Dice have already said that the current generation of hardware sucks and BF3 is going to be basically crap on this gen's consoles.

I doubt DICE are even going to try to make their game look and run anywhere near the PC version.

MW3 is going to be great on any platform you choose.

[thedarkvault]

won't it only weed out the cheaters that pay monthly for this subscription?

[5119ent]

This has be buying battlefield...and battlefield only...I actually was going to get it because its the it game but now screw it

[DaBadGuy]

COD Elite will kill franchise.

I made up my mind about switching to BF3 the minute they announced this and today I've been convincing my friends to switch. So far Activision has lost 4 preorders to BF3.

I admit yeah I was going to get MW3 because a lot of my friends, real life and Xbox Live, play COD, but a lot of them are agreeing to switch to BF3.

I hope that more people will finally see the light as I have.

[SSKILLZ]

....and it will also kill your wallet !

[RIPSKATEDESTROY]

WOW... i just had a dejavu....

[Neko_Mega]

I'm in MW3?? Sorry you can't be here lol.

Nice video, cool.

[Veni Vidi Vici]

So now they want to charge you for something you should get in the first place with the game? Man I hate greed.

[Commodore]

All we have to do is boycott this service and then get it for free....Although I don't G.A.F about Elite.

Who is the genius at Activision who had the balls to say "Hey, let's make people pay so the game can be cheater free" GTFO.... How bout you tell the stupid devs to make it cheater free?

Activision is setting themselves up for a major shit storm when it comes to being greedy.

[THWIP71]

...just like Black Ops would have no quick-scoping...

http://www.codblackopsblog....

Game releases....quick-scoping GALORE! It took a post-release patch to "fix" it.

[Chocoboh]

Bring on HL:E3 and BF3 but CoDMW3? I hope no one buys it seriously. Activision is just grasping for straws now. Gotta pay $70~$80 for games here(due to tax) and then there is the $15 map packs on top of this shit "elite" service. Really?

[BeaArthur]

Developers, gamers and publishers have been trying to get rid of cheaters for years and Activision's fancy new website is going to do it....ppppffffff.

[JellyJelly]

So, they want us to pay for something that should be expected by the game anyways? DICE does it for free.

[GoldPS3]

Nice try Activision. There's nothing you can say to get me to buy your garbage game. If people what to cheat they will find a way to like in every game so saying COD Elite will kill cheaters is a lie.

[kza]

Activision must know this is a rip off, if this was free then im all for it but there pretty much saying buy this or put up with cheaters. I say F*** U Activision!!

[NLGSean]

Too bad it will not kill the cheaters on the first Modern Warfare and World at War... Those 2 games are unplayable online now because of the cheaters and spammers...

[sprayNpray]

Sane Person: Elite will kill COD.

[thespaz]

So you pay for XBL so that you're hack-proof?

Now you have to pay for COD to be hack-proof too?

Maybe we should start paying for PSN so it too can be hack-proof... cause you know, giving a company your money means your information is safe from hackers.

*Disclaimer* All of the above was purely sarcastic.

[spenn2010]

LOL the first thing came to mind for me is that they just challenged all of the low life hackers with no lives to try and hack their game. It will surely be full of aimbots, wallhacks, no clip, speed hacks, no gravity, no recoil, unlimited ammo, server freezing hacks with a week or two.

MARK MY WORD.

[MasterD919]

COD Elite will do all of the work. Activision will take all of the credit. Right?

[unknownhero1123]

so, if i want to play a CoD mutiplayer match with no cheaters I have to pay more money? bravo activision, you know how to screw people over! here's my standing ovation for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Raoh]

Isn't that one of the things people were paying xbox live gold for??

[ScubaSteve1]

so who wouldnt say cheaters wont pay, regardless there will we cheaters/ hackers

[TXIDarkAvenger]

I rather play with cheaters then pay. Geez, I already pay for xbox live too.

[searchbuzz]

Really? I find it quite annoying playing with cheaters.

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Well I don't into them as much as others do. So for me I don't mind but I'm just one person, I'm sure others want to be protected against hackers.

Though, me like many do not want to pay a fee regardless of system.