Call of Duty XP Event: Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition priced at $99.99

by Jessica Conditt on Sep 3rd 2011 1:20PM

Activision has confirmed the suggested retail price for the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition: $99.99, which is $20 more than previous Hardened Editions. The Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition comes with a one-year membership to Call of Duty Elite, bonus in-game content, a Juggernaut XBL avatar skin, a 100-page field journal and new disc art, all in a fancy steel case.

So far, Gamestop and Amazon have the Hardened Edition listed at $99.99, while EB Games Australia is charging $158 for the same package. Modern Warfare 3's jump in price may be attributed to the one-year Elite access alone, which is valued at $50 and bumps users up to "Founder status," which includes an in-game emblem, player card, camouflage and an XP boost. Or, it may all go to pay the air-conditioning bill at the Call of Duty XP Event -- we hear it's awfully temperate in that hangar.

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Reader Comments (107)

Buying MW3 day one, but standard edition. For anyone who buys Microsoft points when they go on sale, the $100 price tag of hardended is not worth it just for the map packs. It is worth though if you like the other stuff in it.

For $100, you're basically paying for that Elite membership almost in full so it's not that much of a deal.

Pass.

@Mcmax3000

Except for all the other kinda cool stuff you get. That all costs money as well, even if you don't want it, in which case you could pay the $63 (after tax) and then the $50 or whatever it is for Elite, and STILL be paying more than the Hardened.

But nice math you pulled out there, I guess?

@Mcmax3000 It is a good deal if you play alot of COD. Do to the fact you get all the DLC for free. IW said they are playing on pushing DLC out more frequently with MW3. 20 DLC packs in all.And you get the DLC before everyone else.

@Demon G Sides - Only the book really costs money. The rest of the stuff is digital good that cost next to nothing to produce.

I'm not saying it's not a better deal ($60 plus $50 is clearly more than $100, not even counting the other stuff) than buying the game & elite membership separately, just that I don't really consider it to be that great of a deal at $100.

@Mcmax3000
Except that the elite membership isn't the only bonus content in this package and if I were a Call of Duty fan that was planning on getting Elite anyways this is a REALLY good deal. Activision knows how to make money off this franchise, and I would say this is a good way to do it.

(Disclaimer: I am not a CoD fan and will not be getting this package)

@chic n stu - If you're the type that would buy every single piece of DLC, yes, you're getting a good value but as someone that picks & chooses content based on what you like, you're potentially not.

When I'm saying that I don't consider it a good deal at $100, I'm solely speaking about whether it would be a good deal for me if I was going to be picking it up. There are certainly other people who will find $100 or more in value in this bundle.

@Lerkero - The elite membership isn't the only bonus but it's the main bonus.

In my experience with collector's editions (including a couple of CoD ones), the books never really amount to anything overly interesting, the bonus in game content can't really be anything too extensive (imagine having a map pack that you can only play if you find other people that also bought the hardened edition... pretty useless) & an avatar costume, even one that's really cool, isn't anything terribly exciting.

@Mcmax3000

That's fine.

If there are 3 map packs at $15 each, Hardened addition just paid for them. If there are more then 3 map packs at $15 each then it's a huge savings. Looking at Black Ops and MW2, I have a feeling there will be more then 3.

@SirUrza - Look at Black Ops, sure but looking at MW2 doesn't help your argument... There were only two map packs for MW2 :P

@Mcmax3000 I'm looking at the sales numbers of the map packs compared to CoD4. All the people that didn't want to make DLC aren't working at Infinity Ward anymore, so you can bet there will be a done this time around.

@Mcmax3000
If they plan to release a ton of DLC but its all just more maps, yeeeesh. Its like the ones you originally get with the game aren't good enough?

@HighFiveJesus - It's not that the maps on the disc aren't good enough, it's that with the number of hours that some people play (I got matched up against somebody who's playtime was measured in days instead of hours last time I played Black Ops), they get tired of looking at the same dozen or so maps so they want more variety, which I completely understand.

@Mcmax3000
Well if your planning on playing MW3 and buying the map packs! Then Hardened is the way to go! The DLC will cost 60 bones alone! If you drop the 40 in advance you get the DLC sooner, monthly and you get to keep the DLC even if the elite membership is not renewed!

People will still buy them.

lol

I must admit I like the metal case. If this was another game, and one that I was interested in, and one not created to fuel Kotick's perpetual money machine, I'd get it just for the damn case.

No.

That Cows Teat must be killing her...

This is an expansion for MW2 in a shiny box with shiny graphics -- nothing more. The console market is still chock-full of mindless idiots who will buy these up like nothing.

@Aguiluz

http://imgur.com/0pcZJ

@Aguiluz

It has nothing to do with Elitism -- the console market and the console gamers throw their money at games like this with no discretion at all. MW3 is a rehash of MW2, with the same graphics and some minor changes to justify the sequel. It's like how EA releases a new Madden NFL every year -- there's literally almost NOTHING new about the game.

So call it Elitism or whatever you want to call it -- but eventually people need to realize that this is crap. I'm not just saying all of this because I hate COD or something; I've played a lot of COD -- COD 1/2/3, MW1, COD5, BO. It's just getting old already, they need to stop trying to cash in on the same thing and reinvent it a little bit.

-_-
They're really milking it for all its worth because they think COD is going to die

@arucious

We can only hope!

@arucious

Nope, they are milking it as they know it will sell. When a franchise that yearly breaks world records and makes billions of dollars it would be stupid not to milk it.

@Red Runner

Stop trolling. That's two comments from you in this thread. If you don't like CoD, then don't click on the article, and don't comment.

@ItsameMatt03

I can post what I want in which article I choose. Don't tell me when and when not to post.

@Red Runner
Stupid troll. Seriously don't you get tired of hating all the time? Who I'm i kidding you probably get some a sick pathetic kick out of it. Any who I'll be getting two copies of that bundle one for me and one for my brother's birthday which is the same day as this comes out!

@(Unverified)
@ItsameMatt03

Its Not trolling when the comment is DIRECTLY related to the article. He didn't say "BF3 is better because its not so money hungry" or anything of the sort...

Oh ps: Battlefield 3 is gonna rip CoD a new shizhole...

Wow I feel like activision is kicking it's fans in the nuts

@Wizardsofwaverly by offering them stuff for less price than separate?

I guess so.

@Wizardsofwaverly

Activision has FANS?

This is news.

I'm going to pre-order this version as I always do.

@ItsameMatt03

Good idea, it would be tragic if they ran out....

I don't understand.

@HighFiveJesus

I pre-order from Amazon so that I can go ahead and have it ready to ship for me to have it in the mail on release day.

Don't be so dense. People don't normally pre-order because they think it will be in short supply, unless it actually is already pre-determined to be.

@ItsameMatt03
I guess if you get some store credit, that's kinda cool. Otherwise, I don't see the value. There's always something that came out before that I haven't played yet, so I think MW3 can wait.

If you don't care about the extra junk included, you are better off just finding a deal on a standard version, no doubt someone will be doing a $20 gift card deal, and then just buying a subscription to elite or doing ala carte on the map packs.

@SiN13

Except that if there more then 3 map packs, you end up paying more for CoD + Maps then you will with just getting the hardened.

@SiN13

You haven't heard? If you don't buy it within the first week at full price, you cease to exist and you are marked with instant shame and humiliation. Also you'll never be good at the game. Rinse and repeat next fall.

@HighFiveJesus

Wow, troll much?

What's wrong with being excited enough to want to get a game to play it right when it releases? You don't do the same with movies or music as well?

@ItsameMatt03
Eh.. when I was 15. Once i realized the experience is exactly the same regardless if I spend 60 or 10 dollars, the excitement in knowing I can get a better deal was even more exciting. Also I'm patient.

@HighFiveJesus Patience is a good thing. I have learned to have patience over the years and it has served me well.

But you know, sometimes I'm really excited about something and it is worth my money, and time, to have it on launch. I am pumped for ME3, so I'll be preordering that sucker. Arkham City I can totally wait on, so I'll get that cheap later. What's it to you if some people find some games are worth more to them to have day 1? It seems a bit odd to keep harping on it.

@SiN13 it wont happen maybe the ps3 version since activision, IW cant do the proper port of this game... but mostly still cost 40 or 30 at most look at BO and MW2 its still overpriced

I'll buy this just because I've honestly never bought a special edition game before.
I mean I might buy fallout 3 for PS3 .. the one that comes with the nifty case but that's because that goes for 50$ now at Futureshop but still..

Can someone link me to all the things you get when you pay for the Elite Premium. I forgot. I gotta see if 50$ a year is really worth it

@AplusM - The story is actually on the right side, under the breaking news headline right now...

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/02/call-of-duty-elite-premium-membership-explained-mobile-apps-inc/

@AplusM

Basically all the stat tracking we used to get with Bungie.Net for halo, xp boosts, all the DLC for a year, exclusive emblems, and that's it.

@AplusM

It isn't. It really isn't worth it.

The big "bargain" is that you're getting $10 off $60 of DLC basically.

Activision tries to mince words, but that is indeed the main idea of this thing.

@AplusM

Mainly you just get the DLC. Which they claim will be 4 map packs @ $15. So if you pay an extra $40 for the elite version you will end up saving $20 on DLC if you are gonna get all of it.

I got the game already. . .it's called MW1 or MW2 LoL

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