The Call of Duty: Elite service has been a mess since it launched, with extended downtimes and intermittent service. All of the issues surrounding the launch have produced some very unhappy customers and a recent tweet from the official twitter account could produce even more anger. The service's official twitter implied that there may not be a PC version of the Elite service after all.
Originally the Call of Duty: Elite service was supposed to launch for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC simultaneously, with apps available for iOS and Android to provide users a way to track stats and access features on the go. Currently only the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the Elite service are available and even those versions are still encountering problems two weeks after a troubled launch. The status page for Elite still indicates service is intermittent with no update on when the issues will be resolved.
Activision reports that the stability issues plaguing the service are the reason the mobile apps for iOS and Android are being held back. The company released a FAQ about those apps stating,
"Since we do not want to add even more stress to the back-end servers, we are holding back on launching the Elite mobile applications until the service is stable and our players can easily access it," Activision wrote. "All Elite services share the same login and data infrastructure, and are equally impacted by the capacity issues."
Those stability issues drove Activision to give all paying customers a 30 day extension on their subscriptions as an apology. Activision may have even more to apologize for if the implication of a recent tweet from the Call of Duty: Elite Twitter account ends up being true. That account tweeted,
"We are working towards a universal Elite experience but we cannot guarantee if or when a version will be available for the PC."
The PC version had already been delayed earlier this month, with the company voicing concerns that vulnerabilities could result in some players cheating the system. Now with this recent tweet it seems there is a very real possibility that the PC version of Elite could be canned altogether, which would most definitely result in some very frustrated PC gamers.
Activision followed up with another tweet from the main account late Tuesday afternoon quickly trying to fix the implication that the PC version of Elite would never come.
"We misspoke," said the company on Twitter. "Our goal has always been to provide a free PC offering for ELITE. Stay tuned for an update as timing is still being determined."
Hopefully Activision will make good on this and actually bring Elite to PC eventually. Considering the mixed messages coming from the company, nothing is a given anymore.
I personally haven't bothered with Elite and I don't plan to until the system is consistently up and working as expected. Are any of you folks playing Modern Warfare 3 on PC? Were you going to make use of Elite at all and will you be disappointed if it never comes to PC? Tell us how you're feeling about this in the comments.
