Free extra month of Elite

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And for our premium members who are Founders, know that granting your status and delivering your in-game benefits in MW3 is a priority. Also, to ensure that every premium member receives their full money’s worth, we are immediately and automatically extending your membership to Call of Duty Elite by 30 days at no additional cost. If you’re still considering becoming a premium member, we’re going to extend Founder eligibility until the end of the month, and you will also receive the additional 30 days of access.

http://news.yahoo.com/call-duty-elite-offers-explanation-problems-free-month-004256815.html

What are the benefits of Founder?

Special camo... callsign skull is green.... bargging rights really. After this cluster F of a release of Elite, EVERYONE will be a founder FWIW.

So special camo? Wow thats lame.

The founder BS is all fluff anyways...its 30 extra days for the clan, and everyone else to enjoy the service.

I remember opening this big box for just a video game...and thinking...this is it?

If it weren't for the year of map packs included with the hardened edition, I would be seriously upset. I figure I saved a few dollars by paying for the maps up front and got a broken/work in progress of elite throw in for free.

Kagan wrote:

I remember opening this big box for just a video game...and thinking...this is it?

You too, eh?

What is the special camo? Does it look like a sucker wrapper.

IDREF wrote:

What is the special camo? Does it look like a sucker wrapper.

+1. Yes all my favorite guns will be wrapped in Dum-Dum cam w/ knock knock jokes.

By the time the have it half-ass fixed they will probably have to throw in another month.

I'm surprised most of the game works as well as it does considering it's so fragmented... you have Raven, Sledgehammer, Infinity Ward working on the game and Beachhead on Elite. That's a lot of stuff to integrate into one product seamlessly.

Of course, a large Beta could have foreseen a lot of the potential issues...

So what exactly is the deal with Elite anyhow? I tried to sign-up for the beta...no dice. Now within the game I was able to download the Elite "free" sign up with the intention of paying for it, but every time I go to login it says the server is down.

CerebusArdvark wrote:

So what exactly is the deal with Elite anyhow? I tried to sign-up for the beta...no dice. Now within the game I was able to download the Elite "free" sign up with the intention of paying for it, but every time I go to login it says the server is down.

I've actually gotten on and surfed it a lot so far. Just dumb luck perhaps? Not all of it works yet, which leads me to believe they are piecing it together and allowing access when they can. I've seen everything work on there at least once, with the exception being the "connect" section which has always been down for me. Finally got the in game avatar thing to work though, so YEA I got my $40 avatar!

where do you get the in game avatar?