According to recent figures from GameStop, the retailer sold 600,000 memberships for the stat-tracking, social networking, sidekick to Modern Warfare 3. Â These figures indicate that Call of Duty: Elite was wildly successful on the commercial side of things, putting it as one of the most successful launches of 2011.
Unfortunately from a functionality standpoint, those that enrolled early in the newly launched service have found service to intermittent at best. Â Stability on both the console applications and the pc versions of the platform have seen bugs and connection issues that have forced Activision to offer subscribers a free month for bearing with them through the downtime.
Activision hasn’t revealed concrete numbers on the adoption of Call of Duty: Elite, but alongside those GameStop numbers it’s looking to be a successful launch for the Call of Duty: Elite. Â Well… for Activision’s bottom line that is.