Have to agree with FAILURE here, just been asked to enlist our clan into the weekend comp. i remember seeing one listed earlier in the week and now it's gone.

Still no XP has appeared - not too worried as I understand there were a lot of boosters, they were easy to see at the top of the leaderboards.

Bit disappointed to see they have not yet been removed, 6 days later. I can see that some of them have killed their own clans second controllers for 3 hours with only 3 minutes of me clicking through to their player cards, recent matches, so it must be easy for the clan ops police to figure it out.

Some info on what is happening would be nice, at least I can give some feedback then.  Hardcore Ops would be especially nice to know about as we don't really play core, and it's not nice being forced into something you all hate to rank up the clan.

Thanks

Dirchy

I thank you sir for elegantly describing this SNAFU. I agree to everything you hit uppon. You might also add to this argument,

#1 The website was down due to an overload of people participateing in the clan operations. Thats absurd to ask people to pay for a premium service and try and get away without upgradeing the servers that run the website.

#2 Our dom caps in the first operation stoped counting an hour before the event ended. I know this because a teammate comented on our scores during and after. And they had not changed. This is either due to incompitance in posting the correct times, or again the sub par servers. Either way unacceptable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          #3 Not anticipateing cheating or a much lesser volume is naive. I guarantee they cancelled fridays operation because they cant figure out how to weed out the cheats. Should they not have figured out some system to auto ban people, possibly a comunity self review system, or anything. Beacause some people looking through thousands of videos to pick out cheats sounds rediculious, maybe this is not how there going about it BUT as you stated activision has never heard of customer service. God forbid they should let their customers know whats going on with the broken product they sold us.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 -FEAR

Rather than complain, i thought I'd offer some possible solutions.

I think all we're asking for is simple:

A single, regularly updated source for ELITE system status.

Something that is not on the ELITE system that would go offline when ELITE goes down.  Perhaps add ELITE System Status messages to the In-Game MW3 Menu Tickers, and then UPDATE ELITE SYSTEM STATUS REGULARLY. Would also add more awareness to non-ELITE players, if that's worth anything at this point.

What would also help:

Beachhead: Feels like we are paying to be your beta testers, guys.  Sort it out, open some job recs or just recruit some friendly clans to help out. Hell, you could even make the beta test an event, prior to public prizing and play. Sorta like the XP event, but not necessarily all under one roof in order to test infrastructure / network / server load balancing etc. Just an idea. I'm sure the community is also interested in a solid gaming platform - we all want the same things, right? Let us help you make it better, no?

Thanks for listening? Bueller?

I completely agree. This total break down of communication from Beachhead is quickly leading to their demise. I help run a gaming community that currently has 7 full or nearly full ELITE clans so this clan operation was/is something that we have been looking forward to since they announced it. BUT they have failed to deliver on their promise to the gaming community. And instead of being honest and trying to keep us all in the loop on what is going on, they have decided that we should just come up with the answers ourselves. Great move Beachhead. And Im tried of the same cookie cutter responces from some dunderhead who drew the short straw @Beachhead who is forced to come into these forums once a month and "try" to put out the fires. Well obvioulsy that isnt working. As much money as you idiots have made off of the cod community...remember we got along just fine with MW2 and Black Ops BEFORE you made your promises of this "game changing clan experience", you would think you could throw one of you lackeys a few extra hundreds to stay abreast on what the cod community thinks of your product. But I guess you feel its better to just bury your head in the sand and keep cashing those HUGE paychecks for your sub-par product.