Newsbrief: It's possible that you forgot the
Call of Duty Elite subscription service ever existed.
Launched back in 2011 alongside
Modern Warfare 3, the $49.99 a year service aimed to give players additional social features, skill tracking and clan management.
While
the service showed a promising start, interest quickly began to wane, and Activision eventually
dropped Elite for Black Ops II in 2012. Today the company said that it is shutting down
Elite altogether, noting that future
Call of Duty games will have these sorts of features integrated directly into the game.
As seen in last year's
Call of Duty: Ghosts, Activision took what it learnt from the
Elite program and streamlined it, offering to
Ghosts players what it says were the most popular features of
Elite.
Call of Duty Elite will be shut down on February 28, 2014, and no longer be accessible via console or mobile. "There are no plans to bring
Call of Duty Elite back,"
says the official announcement.
