Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling tweeted that news Friday. MW3′s Hardened edition, at $US99, runs $US20 more than previous Hardeneds and includes a one year subscription to Call of Duty Elite’s premium membership. So rather than offer two different packages, Activision’s just putting out one, focusing on driving customers to premium Elite memberships rather than offering outlandish swag.
The “Hardened Edition” will reportedly include the 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.
No Prestige Edition for Modern Warfare 3 [Joystiq]
K-Man
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:05 AMWHAT?! No Prestige Edition?!?! ….. meh.
Activision is doing to COD what it did to the Guitar Hero franchise… Killing it with every yearly release of the same thing. Sad.
Alex
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:24 AMAlso the Tony hawk series
Richard
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:45 AMThe last two Tony Hawk games weren’t good, but you can hardly say that they were putting out the same thing. In fact, the fundamental problem that everyone had with Ride and Shred was that they weren’t the Tony Hawk that people wanted.
Sammy Davis Humor
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 4:40 PMThere hasn’t been a real call of duty in 2 years.. Black Ops was a different (crappier) studio. Also even if it wasn’t the same thing every few years, why would you want a prestige edition. The only person who would shell out extra money for special editions of a video game is an overweight massive nerd.
Edward
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:15 PMGeneralising much?
I got the augmented edition for Deus Ex because I wanted the art book and soundtrack.
I got the Guild Wars collectors editions for similar reasons.
I am not overweight and wouldn’t describe myself as a nerd.
Joah
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:33 PMSomeone is a poor Hipster faggot.
andy
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 9:41 AMquit the hate please
Matthew K
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:26 AMI’m relieved actually – I was only planning on getting hardened edition this time around and now I know I’m not missing anything.
Chazz
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:32 AMMeh, I’ll be getting it when the cd key price drops to about $40 or so anyways. I need statues and fancy boxes and trinkets if I’m gonna be forking out extra for a game :P
Ben
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:40 AMSeeing as they, for some reason, completely skipped the PC for a prestige edition last time this doesn’t bother me too much.
attila
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 10:42 AMThat sucks – the prestige edition with the NVG was the greatest special edition ever IMO. I was looking forward to seeing what they would come up with for this one :-(
DENAz
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 11:04 AMNo great loss. Don’t even think i’ll bother with the hardened edition either, bit too pricey for me
DeeJay
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 11:04 AMI still think of Special Editions as just another ploy on behalf of retailers to convince people to buy physical copies before resorting to digital distribution.
Pre-order crap is just pointless clutter in my opinion. Throwing in a 1-year membership to their elite service is actually a mild improvement by comparison.
vinny
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 12:50 PMCall of Duty: I Dont Give a F*** Edition.
carter
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 2:14 PMsomewhat ironic, considering nobody gives a f*** about you.
Neo-Kaiser
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 2:22 PMI give a forn >:
Sam
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 3:20 PMthough he does have a point…
vinny
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 3:31 PMwell you replied to my comment… so i guess u care about me
Josh
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 12:58 PMNO U!
Neo-Kaiser
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 1:20 PMSo was it a little farfetched for me to be hopeful for a Prestige Edition that came with a firearm?
V0L4T1LE
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 2:28 PMThat’s not farfetched really
a small nerf style pistol would be an easy addition that would be legal in almost very country
Lucas
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:43 PMCall of Duty: Too Fast, Too Modern
monkeyd_93
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:56 PMI was suprised when they said they weren’t doing a prestige version, but i cant help but think why. The only reasonable conclusion i could make, that the price would get so ridiculous, it will be hard to sell numbers.
But given that the Hardened edition really doesn’t give us anything special (“free” year subscription and the other junk for around $20 less than normal copy and a year subscription really isnt anything special), it doesn’t seem like a worthwhile purchase unless you are really going to play the berjeebers out of it.
Plus if i remember correctly, CoD4 only had a hardened edition?
mchaza
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:57 PMBut where will i get my over priced toy from Activison, i need something as terrible side my side the game to make the game look better than what it really is.
Alex
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 7:16 PMDefinitely no loss. The Black Ops Prestige edition was as crappy as the game itself. Seriously – a $25 RC car with a few stickers? Night Vision Goggles for MW2 were alright but if you really want a pair you can buy them separately. Limited Edition game sets are pointless – they have bugger all value long-term.
hummingbird
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 7:48 PMI’m fine with a Hardened Edition, but would’ve been interesting to see what the Prestige would’ve been. I’d heard rumours of an RC Helicopter modelled of one of the Russian types in the game, and my idea was some kind of flak jacket, insignia or no, just not your standard ‘throw on the shelf’ deal.
andy
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 9:45 AMso over COD why would i pay for stat tracking for gods sake.