Wired reports that it received a photo of an advertisement for Modern Warfare 3‘s “Hardened Edition” from an anonymous source. That ad promises a long list of bonuses for those who are comfortable spending more than the standard $US60 USD asking price.
The “Hardened Edition” will reportedly include the aforementioned Elite membership–which includes “future Call of Duty: MW3 downloadable game content,” like map packs–and “Special Founder Status” for Elite, granting “Hardened” owners exclusive emblems, camo and “more exclusive benefits.”
In terms of physical goods, expect a Steelbook case, special game disc art and a “collectible field journal” 100 pages long.
Attendees of this week’s Call of Duty XP convention will be getting a free copy of the “Hardened Edition.”
Typically, Activision prices its Call of Duty “Hardened” limited editions at about $US80, with a more expensive variation, the “Prestige Edition”, costing almost twice that. The publisher has done so for both Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2. I suspect we’ll know more about the many ways to buy Modern Warfare 3 by end of week.
Leaker Spills Details on Modern Warfare 3 ‘Hardened Edition’ [Wired]
Ruen
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 10:10 AMI suspect we’ll know more about the many ways to buy Modern Warfare 3 by end of week.
unless you have the audacity to want the game on PC. . .
Exaemo
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:05 PMYou mean you DON’T play shooters on a PC?
lawl, console peasant, etc etc.
Ruen
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 3:11 PMno, what i mean’t is the other versions of the game other than the standard edition will more than likely be console only, becuase Activision hates PC gamers
Tristan Birkinshaw
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 10:14 AM$US60, $US80 and ~$US160?
So &AU110, AU$130 and ~$AU260 for us chumps, respectively.
Neo-Kaiser
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 10:37 AMAU$110, $130 and $260? Wow, I didn’t know it would be so cheap this year! :D
Dean456
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 12:53 PMits not gonna be that expensive in Australia it’ll be
day one best price you’ll find the standard edition for will be maybe $79 but most stores will be around $89
then the Hardened edition the cheapest you’ll get it for will be $100 im guessing n $110 everywhere else maybe $120 at EB games
and whatever the prestige edition will cost will depend on what they put in it this year but probably no more than it was for MW2 which was $230-$250 depending on where you went i think not sure i didnt get it.
Nate
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 1:12 PMWho cares? we’ll all be busy playing BF3 when this is released
Pakka
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 3:53 PMOn your wicked Origin.
Zing!
Sam
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 1:27 PMyou get free access to a stats tracking page that other games give you for FREE! :O
Exaemo
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:13 PMWhat’s your point?
JoseR
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:38 PMI’m pretty sure the stats tracking is a free feature of elite anyway… Apparently the “premium” functionality isn’t revealed until the COD XP event
Reoh
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:42 PM$US60 my ass.
They’ll charge $100 minimum for base here.
tom
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:52 PMI’m just getting it second hand. It’s just Call of Duty, it’s like gaming fastfood.
nugdugs
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 3:37 PMso u like second hand fast food?
monkeyd_93
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 5:00 PMWait….if it says you get a years free access to CoD Elite, including map packs, either this will cost even more than usual, or we wont have access to the maps after the subscription is over, Activision never give anything for free, not to mention they can miss out on a lot of $$$ if they give their overpriced maps away for free.
Damian
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 7:03 PMLooks kinda dull to me. I’ll be getting the poor man’s copy.
Some decent dogtags or something might have been nice. Or a .50 round. All this avatar crap is not worth it IMO.
Ultimater2
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 11:53 AMPreorder any edition at GAME and you will get some dog tags with some exclusive content on it!!