ELITE for Black Ops 2 will be FREE

This just announced via twitter: ELITE for Black Ops 2 will be FREE.

Here is a link to the video releasing information about ELITE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AItQyq0_4Ag

ELITE will carry over into BO2 so that all MW3 clans remain intact.

ELITE will also show start showing stats for BO2 Zombies.

Well this is good news. One less thing I dont have to pay for. I have heard they are going to have a season pass for the DLC on black ops 2 though. Remains to be announced though.

Just watched the video... it seems like it's going to be the same general set-up as it was for MW3. Elite has always been free, the premium members just got all the DLC first and paid less.

The nice thing about it being free is that all clan members on a roster should be able to actively participate in clan operations. Currently Free members count towards Challenges, but only Premium members count towards the Operations.

I don't mind paying a "season pass" for DLC if there is a discount for it. That was the only reason I paid for the Premium version of ELITE was for the DLC.

Elite was not free, at least not the group activities which was kind of BS. It was essentially a season pass, but I like the idea of the website being free and the season pass being the season pass. I will pick up the season pass where i would not pick up elite. Glad to see that their experiment in having fps games attempting to go pay to play not work.

Yeah I got premium with MW3, but i think I'll pass on Black Ops 2. At least for now. No real reason to get it since the DLC for MW3 was so bad.

yeah they're just playing on words / services

they're disengaging "elite" with "dlc" and just calling elite free social stat interface. trust me they will come out with a different service - whether they call it "season pass" or something else and that will be the pre pay up front for the years DLC which is fine by me

zombie stats is a cool addition

i have no idea how this clan carry over thing is going to work - i mean roster 1 xbox is 50 now so where are your incentives? what else is there to do or get? especially rewards like dbl xp, etc?

I have never played the zombie portion of the games. I always just play multiplayer. I am not even sure I am going to get BO2 yet. I just bought the Elite for MW3 lol. Not sure I want to go spent another 110 dollars just quite yet.

nice!

Grab your wallets, the boogie man gamer corporation is near!!!!!! Treyarch is notorious for this type of move!!!