Terwijl Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 wereldwijd een groot succes is, heeft het parade paardje COD: Elite het aflaten weten. Want deze gratis en premium service is nu al bijna twee weken behoorlijk FUBAR te noemen. Nu heeft Daniel Suarez, de vice president of production van Actvision tegen over de website Kotaku laten weten dat Call of Duty Elite nog voorlopig helemaal naar de klote zal blijven. Sterker had zal volgen hem nog een aantal weken duren voor het eindelijk eens goed zal werken. Dit is wat we nu ondergang van je eigen succes kan noemen.

"We had all sorts of issues: A broken registration system; poor scalability of the service; poor experience trying to login to the web or console and confusion in terms of getting 2XP or your Founders Entitlements," he said. "A lot of this was just core infrastructure issues - mainly tied to specific databases serving up data for the console, web and ultimately mobile (when that's released).

"For lack of a better term - our databases got hammered with the millions of people trying to use Elite and it couldn't put up with the demand."

It's all specific to the data structure within the Elite database and how those queries are called and delivered to the web service, console or mobile," Suarez said. "A call goes into the service to pull something-the database needs to take that data (either game or service or whatever it might be) and twist it, pull it, and deliver it in multiple ways to the end users. Now multiply a complex query by millions-non-stop-for a week. That's the world we live in right now."