14 DAY TRIAL // After revealing its unique Call of Duty Elite online service to the world yesterday, Activision has now talked about the pricing strategy and how it will be cheaper than any other online entertainment service currently on the market.
Call of Duty Elite was showcased to the world yesterday by Activision through an extensive presentation as well as a video demonstration of how the service actually works.
Basically, Call of Duty Elite will not only be a monitoring tool for the activity and performance of any Call of Duty player, but also allow him or her to meet up with like minded players, enter competitions and socialize on various networks like Facebook or Twitter.
The service will have two tiers, a free and a paid one, which will offer a wide array of features to all Call of Duty players.
Activision has now gone into detail about the pricing strategy, saying that the premium membership will cost less than "any comparable online entertainment service currently in the market."
The company was also quoted as saying that the subscription will be less than the current cost of a Netflix one, now at $7.99 per month.
Activision revealed that it has poured a lot of money into the Call of Duty Elite project and its administrative studio, Beachhead, so you can bet that the company wants to make that up by having plenty of people choose to pay for premium memberships.
Activision said yesterday that "many key features" of Call of Duty Elite will be available free of charge, but those who opt to pay a monthly subscription are getting "a wide range of state-of-the-art services, exclusive entertainment programming and all-inclusive game content for less than the cost of any comparable online entertainment service currently in the market."
Call of Duty Elite enters a beta stage this summer, during which it will work with Call of Duty: Black Ops, and will be released fully on November 8, at the same time as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.