Any fears that ‘Call of Duty: Elite’ is a rip-off can be laid to rest

Because as it turns out, Call of Duty: Elite most definitely is, in fact, a rip-off.

So get a load of this: if you share the same console between yourself and another person, plus you both enjoy the same game, which in this case is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, albeit via separate user accounts… anything you download, which in this case was acquired by being a member of Elite, should be accessible to said pal, even if that person isn’t signed up. Right?

I mean, they’re on the same machine, that’s how it is with every other piece of DLC in every other game. Well, apparently not. Then again, this is Activision after-all. It’s a problem that has been flooding the COD forums, and which Joystiq recently observed.

One of their readers confirms this issue with the following: “My girlfriend, whom I live with, cannot play the maps. My friend’s teenage sons cannot play the maps.”

What a cash grab, huh? But here’s the best part: Activision themselves state in their terms of service that one person’s content will and shall be shared among others on the same machine. So is this just some technical screw-up that may eventually be fixed? Hopefully.

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