Call of Duty: Elite ‘up and running’ by December 1

Beleaguered social platform Call of Duty: Elite, which has been unable to cope with demand since the launch of Modern Warfare 3, will be “up and running” by December 1, according to developer Beachhead Studios.

Beachhead Studios’ vice president of production Daniel Suarez, speaking in an interview with G4TV, said issues with Elite were the developers’ fault and asked its users to “bear with us” as the team work to resolve issues.

“It was our fault that the service wasn’t up and running the day [Founder members] put in their token or the day they bought it,” admitted Suarez.

“They kind of have to bear with us while we bring this all back up, but for us it’s literally ‘give us those couple weeks, we’re giving those to you for free, and come December 1st the goal is that we’ll have everything up and running.'”

Suarez also went into detail about what is causing these problems.

“When we ran our beta, [Elite] was strictly on the PC and a lot of our assumptions were based around that a larger majority of users were going to use the PC since it’s a more robust version of the service than the console app. Some of that may have been incorrectly analysed, because we’re seeing 80 to 90 per cent of our users coming straight from the console app.

“So the way we’ve had to balance out the way that’s feeding the community is different. Right now we’re retrofitting that so that that works better across the board rather than the way it was set up.”

Activision previously announced that all premium subscribers to Call of Duty: Elite – which costs £34.99 a year – will have 30 days added to their subscription free of charge.