Death of Subscription

Recently there has been multiple news sources talking about the end of a variety of subscription services in the games industry, none the least of them is Activision’s Call of Duty Elite service. The service allowed players to look at in depth statistics about themselves to improve their play. While physical copies of the game have had the most successful launches of any video game in the past four years, after about a month after their release sale slow to a crawl. Elite was meant to be a way to make the game still provide revenue after it’s been purchased and wasn’t a terrible idea in theory. Elite would give player access to much more in-depth statistics about their play styles. It simply never caught on