Mass MW3 Registrations Choking Call of Duty Elite
Activision is reportedly having a hard time taking in a flood of registrations for Call of Duty Elite, the multiplayer component for Modern Warfare 3.
Activision is reporting an overload of registration requests for the premium "Elite" multiplayer component of the just-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The surge of registrations for Call of Duty Elite has reportedly created a bottleneck, preventing many players from signing up.
That said, gamers shouldn't fear that the internet has crashed again or that Activision suspects piracy, but rather the company didn't anticipate (for some odd reason) that the game would be quite so popular so quickly. It's quite possible Activision is quietly staggering registrations much like EA will ramp up subscribers for Star Wars: The Old Republic to reduce network latency, but Activision is currently sticking to its "exceeding expectations" guns nevertheless.
"We are proud to say that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has launched and millions of people are already playing online," said Chacko Sonny, Studio Head, Beachhead Studio. "Registration requests for our new live service Call of Duty Elite are exceeding even our most optimistic expectations, which is creating a bottleneck and some players have not been able to register."
"We have already registered hundreds of thousands of players and we are working around the clock to increase our capacity as quickly as possible," Sonny added. "Please be assured your gameplay data is safe and that whenever you successfully register for Call of Duty Elite, all of your data will be waiting for you."
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is now (finally) available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and Windows PC.
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Lol. That is a bunch of bullcrap! Activision knew how many people would be on Elite due to beta. Plus they have they the funds to make what ever size servers they want. I'm not buying MW2.5, and this is coming from a long time COD fan. I bought every COD on release day. Not this one. Greedy Activision is not putting any inovation in their games, they are just selling the name.
Swolern, CoD lacked innovation after CoD4 from then in they have just be rinsing and repeating the same format and style over and over.
Activision are using this as a tool. By trickle feeding the Elite package they are keeping it "exclusive" while at the same time offering the service to everyone.
BF3 ftw
Everyone is complaining, that there is nothing new in the game, blah blah. Seriously, if they had changed a lot on it, it wouldn't be Call of Duty anymore. They have a working recipe. Why ruin it? The changes they made to the perk system and the killstreaks are just about enough. Balancing is all that the game needed since CoD4. They got the balance pretty well in MW2, but we all know what was the big mistake they made.
True, the missions and maps are not worth the 50 euros. That's why I pick it up later for 25.
Everyone is complaining, that there is nothing new in the game, blah blah. Seriously, if they had changed a lot on it, it wouldn't be Call of Duty anymore. They have a working recipe. Why ruin it?
Why buy a new game if it's the same every time? Why not just stick to 4? It still has a lot of people playing it, it's still quite balanced (servers banning perks like Last Stand, Martyr, 3x Frags etc) so it's all good. I will not buy a game that looks like it hasn't been improved, or at least tried to be improved by the makers. If they're not going to put much effort in, I'm not going to buy it.