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Re: Windows Elite App?

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:20:41 GMT

ELITE has been desperately poor in many ways. The chaff of a chopper if you like: very technologically fancy but ultimately a superficial bluff.

I have a spreadsheet on my laptop of all my PS3 COD basic stats, time played, games, wins, ties, losses, kills, deaths, assists, headshots and then with formula, some of those stats per game. I type in from the Barracks of MW, WAW, MW2, MW3 and from the Player Card/Combat Record on BO. So, for BO2....?

No, nothing, the in-game combat record doesn't show all of those stats, such as deaths, assists, etc. ELITE app on the PS3 doesn't connect anymore, ever, and now the PC app is gone. What a bunch of crap. I can't even compare the most basic stats of an almost 6 year old game with the high tech of BO2, that's not ELITE, that's SPECIOUS at best.

Re: AND HES DONE IT.

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:47:56 GMT

Lser.

Re: wow the fal is ruined now... wtf treyarch! stop nerfing and start buffing!

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:47:23 GMT

We shell out for guns that shell out as Treyarch sell out.

Authenticity and quality can be marked by a singular vision without compromise. Compromise can be made when the vision is unfulfilled but that's compromise of method, not of vision.

I have no idea of the ethics or stand point of people behind the vision in this game. Even for pure dollars they're tripping over themselves with forever changing dillution and reaction.

I'm looking forward to a new dawn on strategic team FPS.

Re: can someone explain to me how to beat this kind of game play since in the video you only have a second or even less where he pops his head up kills you then pops his head back down behind his shield and my team could not get behind him

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:56:29 GMT

Kudos to your "illuminating the pathways" Izjar.

Re: Call of Duty could benefit from losing weight and getting in shape

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:58:23 GMT

A "hats off" post Ghammy, well done. Good input all round especially Izjar and Ayrton.

I know you could reel off a ton of this material, I'm pretty sure between us we all have. Certainly, Chestymorgue is on the same page regarding stripping away the superficial trash so that we can work with however good the underbelly game is.

Both BO's added good innovation for progression and customisation. That aside they have followed the MW series descent into quantity over quality, bling over substance, dillution over concentration, and so on.

WAW was the best COD in my eyes, and if you look at what made it great and the direction it went from the already excellent platform provided by MW1 you will see that COD has veered far from this model.

The maps were bigger - actually just as you described, they were models of places, as opposed to gaming maps which were then painted on (think paintball on a farm rather than laserquest in an arena).

The gameplay was very much strategy, skill and timing - gun vs gun, movement, support, technique and style with timing determined encounters, not which perk you chose or which piece of equipment you just used.

Matchmaking and connection were simple. They were host heavy not host/connection lag comp heavy. This meant that irrespective of whether or not you were host, you knew what experience you were about to have and how to adapt, counter it, or whatever. Whatsmore, you're inherently encouraged to stay in a lobby as your connection would increase as new hosts were selected when an old host leaves. I managed 20+ games at a time all on 4 smooth green bars (that actually play like that), even if my initial games were 2-3 bars.

As for talk of money and commerce, this is all about vision and sightedness. The best things are often made by those who love their craft. This is partly where COD came in at the start. The best business is always made by people that not only turn numbers around but understand what they are selling. Quality sells without promotional campaigns. Quality is its own advertisement. The quality of COD has seriously declined, yes it is bloated has-been. It sells off image, dillution and lack of a real competitor. I think this is perhaps as good as it gets right now, but a more visionary business ethic would see that quality is longer-lasting. A less "flash in the pan" commercial success.

Unfortunately we all (in our own way) live for today or the moment and business people can be excused for doing the same. However, there are now, and will be again people out there who want to develop a game that would appeal to the same FPS simulation purists you've mentioned, that will take us to a new challenge, satisfy our gaming needs and fantasies and blow the bloated current affairs away.

When, who, I can't say. I'm hoping soon.

Re: NEW MAP IDEA - GRAVEYARD! (Please read)

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:25:47 GMT

Great input. I'd throw in a graveyard keeper's hut, house or equivalent and allow some climbing of crypts or large gravestones/tombs. I'd also consider a shed or 2 and a gravestone engraver's or stonecutter's workshop.

Also being a graveyard the period could be anytime, or a classic "timeless" graveyard which was filled by 1950.

Re: A Comprehensive Review and Evaluation of Black Ops 2 Multiplayer and the Major Issues

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:33:14 GMT

We could go on in epic proportions about the game or even a major aspect of the failure of this game, tiny, similarly designed maps.

One question for now though...

does anyone else think that GRIND looks like it was made from just 2-3 3D-graphical pieces and a randomiser?

PS. The new maps were perfect for BOII, too small, uninspired, samey and brought absolutely nothing to lift the game from its depths of despair. When all those who have struggled with bloated high traffic match commands, comedic spawns, poor peripheral recognition and horrendously samey repetitive gameplay called out for the DLC to save us with better and larger maps, we got this. REVOLUTION? No, RECYCLE.

Re: Shock Charges

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:24:52 GMT

Or use Greed Perk 3.

..but yes intentionally or not, you've scraped the iceberg that is..."every thing has a counter and each counter makes the thing redundant or powerless, without the counter the thing is all powerful". The balance here is lost.

Re: I think SimCity borrowed Trey Arch servers

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:22:06 GMT

So, does these mean, this is the direction of game development and enterprise? - that people aspire to create something and sell it, but they've over extended themselves and it basically doesn't function...

Re: LAG

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:06:11 GMT

Let

All

Grieve

Re: DLC Sales Figures

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:47:06 GMT

Simple math by its very definition doesn't involve guessing or estimates. We're at least at an intermediate level, even if it is not advanced mathematics.

What I understand from this forum and the forums of the all the CODs in the last 5 years is that:

1. the community has grown in number

2. the community has grown in younger players in particular

3. people have different experiences with COD (even beyond differing expectations)

4. DLC has been promoted and considered more integrally than in the past

5. right or wrong, there has been more dissatisfaction with the fundemental game quality with the last 2-3 games than the first 2-3 PS3 games.

6. matchmaking issues are still at the forefront of (important to) the majority of people playing

7. maps have steadily decreased in average size from WAW through to BOII.

...but I cannot quantify this "understanding" with numbers or statistics.

Re: No Total Deaths Stat?

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:51:18 GMT

I suppose I'm really just following on from Izjar, it is all pretty logical - you don't have to have studied Astrophysics at university ;-D

Use the formula Izjar listed:

Kills

______ = Ratio

Deaths

So swap Ratio and Deaths over (using rules of equations/logic):

Kills

Deaths = _____

Ratio

It's also worth noting 2 things I have:

1) Adding kills and deaths (or utilising any statistics) for different game modes does not produce the same statistics as the totals on either ELITE or the Combat Records. There are and have been these stat anomalies for a long time in COD and I find it a bit silly, but I suppose it's not the most important of issues.

[It is like there are some fictitious missing games played at a ridiculously negative rate added to the indiviudal game types for the sole purpose or corrupting the total stats]

2) The (K/D) Ratio stat is always round up to the nearest 2nd decimal place. So a Ratio calculated as 1.995 will be shown as 2.00. This has also always been the case with COD. I remember playing on COD4:MW and knowing if my K/D was 1.99 and my kills 19 900 and deaths 10 000, that I would need to hit a 2.00 ratio overall + find 50 additional kills (this number increases slowly with deaths). It was an easy way to see that a 18-6 game would give me +6 for example and a 18-0 game give me the whole +18.

[The relevance here to this thread is that if you use the formula posted by Izjar and myself, you may want to consider that you Ratio will contain a margin of error because it is to the nearest 2nd decimal/hundredth and depending on the magnitude of your kills this error could make your deaths calculation out by a few]

Re: Fake Amount Of Players Online Wow Really Treyarc

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:53:52 GMT

Yes, I noticed an error with the numbers. Since release the numbers have fluctuated between 650 000 and 250 000 depending on time of day but I've not seen higher than 450 000 even at peak times since November...

..that is, until this week. 650 000 at non-peak times, this does look very strange.

I'm guessing (based on what Chesty said as well) that this is an error in counting or glitch.

Another for the error essay I am compiling. Beta Ops II.

Re: A vital DLC download question for those who don't want to break the rules; please answer this honestly and spare violations or confusion...

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:17:26 GMT

Thanks for all your responses.

I actually knew it was seperate console download limit but wanted to hear everyone's answer.

Whilst FoxHound responded to another thread, it was his response that inspired this thread. He failed to explain the actual limitations and so on, by simply suggesting that "any wrong-doing" is wrong and could hold consequences.

From what I knew and what I now know thanks to the responses is that you can only use the "paid for" account to download and this then makes the DLC accessible to all accounts on that particular PS3. You can download a second time to another PS3 using the same "paid for" account but that's the limit (used to be 5, now 2) and likewise have the DLC available for any account on that second PS3.

I think that it should be stated somewhere that this is acceptable/allowed and what is being paid for, and under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should people be able to "do the wrong thing" and be punished.

For example, people shouldn't be able to download at another place they regularly play and then when another person plays there and has access to this DLC, some law has been broken. If this is the intention the DLC should be lockable by account (or by console if that is better).

I also don't like the idea that the reason this is not publicised is a potential reduction of DLC purchases, because this then implies an advantage is being taken on fearful or ignorant consumers, when in fact they are able to perform this simple and logical procedure anyway.

The limit of 2 seems fair to me and even if it is not stated anywhere (to maximise sales) I think it should be listed as a component of purchasing DLC OR otherwise it should be limited to 1. It's wrong to "let" people break rules or make them feel guilty for utilising the system in front of them to the maximum.

I hope this thread is a benefit to people.

Re: A vital DLC download question for those who don't want to break the rules; please answer this honestly and spare violations or confusion...

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:04:50 GMT

This was the "non-answer" that made me start this thread.

Re: A vital DLC download question for those who don't want to break the rules; please answer this honestly and spare violations or confusion...

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:50:57 GMT

Is it possible that no-one knows the answer to this question?

A vital DLC download question for those who don't want to break the rules; please answer this honestly and spare violations or confusion...

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:15:27 GMT

______________________________

DLC is downloaded onto one account on a PS3, then that person uses the same account on another PS3 and attempts a second download (for example, you play at 2 locations with your account), what happens?

a) nothing, it won't allow a second download, and the DLC only works on that one account (locked to one account on one PS3)

b) nothing, it won't allow a second download, but you can use the DLC on any account on that PS3 (locked to one PS3)

c) it downloads a second time but using any other account on either PS3 disables the DLC (locked to one account, roaming)

d) it downloads a second time but the DLC is locked to that account on the 2nd PS3, although all accounts on 1st PS3 can access it (2nd download locked to one account)

e) it downloads a second time (or more, say up to 5 times) and can be used on any account on any of the PS3's (numerical PS3-download limit)

f) any of "b" to "e" but although you have received no warning you have somehow broken some law or rule and could face a consequence (possibly an implied scenario by FoxHound on an earlier locked thread)

g) another scenario not listed here.

Re: Please help with Bles01717

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:56:50 GMT

Yes, it appears that the correct one for BLES 01717 is bles-01717 = npeb-01204 (listed as UK/FRE).

That seems to be the case.

Re: Please help with Bles01717

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:53:33 GMT

It's all about compatibility not language or servers.

The game's sounds are the same on all versions of BLES, this is the same for DLC. The game matchmaking system and your internet connection/PS3 location/IP affects the lobbies and servers in/on which you'll be placed.

As for which BLES DLC is available, some people have suggested that there is a mistake on the PS Store. Someone also suggested going to the DLC purchase/download via the game and not direct to PS Store.

Typically in the past the correct DLC download has the BLES number that your PS3 game has. If the BLES number is different then the DLC is probably incompatible.

Re: stat reset cutpurse not found to do PM

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:48:17 GMT

Maybe they cut his purse and so he's no longer working here.