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Call of Duty Elite Goes Free For Black Ops 2

Posted on Monday, October 15 @ 13:03:58 Eastern by

All the exclusive videos, data, and community features available at Call of Duty Elite will be available on Call of Duty Regular later this year when Black Ops II lands. Activision revealed today that the DLC map packs will remain behind a transaction, despite the wide frontier in their Elite platform.

Four Call of Duty Black Ops II map packs will be available at $15 a piece. Additionally, a Season Pass for all four packs will be available at retail and digitally for $50. You would think that Call of Duty Elite wasn't making a profit for the company, but in August the service tallied 2.3 million subscribers.

Of course, many of those subscriptions could have been from the Hardened Edition of the game, netting Activision $40 on top of Modern Warfare 3's $60 price tag. That said, I have seen many younger gamers walk their parents in to Gamestop for an Elite subscription.

Activision added that the Elite service will include (or enhance) the following features:
  • Player HQ – Track Call of Duty: Black Ops II performance with rich game statistics, including enhanced match information such as heat maps and recent match data; track challenges and extensively modify your classes like never before using Treyarch’s new Pick 10 Create-a-Class system.
  • Clan HQ – Join an existing clan or start your own, invite friends and then take part in Call of Duty: Black Ops II clan competitions with cool digital prizing. Zombies Support – For the millions of Zombies fans out there, now you can track your Zombies personal statistics and compare it to other players’ around the world.
  • Call of Duty Elite TV – Launching with tablet support with Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the new Call of Duty Elite TV will deliver a renewed community focus featuring developer tips and strategy programming, custom class overviews and more.
  • Social Sharing and Notifications – With Call of Duty Elite’s new notification system, you can stay updated with what is going on in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, as well as communicate directly with your clan.
Now that the videos, map layouts, tips, and clan functions are open to any and all comers, will you use the Elite service? Have you been using Elite with Modern Warfare 3?
Related Games:   Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (Wii U), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Tags:   Call of Duty, Activision, Treyarch, trailer, DLC


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  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
    It's really only good for checking/comparing stats and nothing else. Hopefully the Combat Record is back so it won't be unnecessary to use Elite.
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  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
    I honestly don't care about any of it, I just want to run around and shoot people. Some people that take the game far more serious than I think is healthy might find that stuff useful, but the average player probably won't even look at it.
    0 1
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
    Good to see someone told them one of the reasons I refused to invest into cod over bf3.
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  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
    lol, even though Battlefield 3 had the exact same thing? I'll never understand why this wasn't clear for people. Everything that was free on Battlelog was also available with the free version of Elite. Same comparison can be made for the paid versions.
    0 1
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
    BF3 wasn't exactly the same. Bf3 was a one time only fee. cod had a recurring subscription fee.
    0 2
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
    Anywhere you bought a "subscription" for Call of Duty Elite, it wound up being a one-time fee.

    The two services are exactly the same, but I agree that Battlefield 3 represents a much greater value, regardless of the system. I can only see Elite being a value on 360 because on any other platform you might as well just wait for the map bundles anyway.
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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
    I must have been misinformed then my apologies. I was informed it was $50 a year which would make it a annual subscription fee.
    0 1
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Oct 16th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
    Even then, $50 a year + a new CoD game every year, is pretty much the same thing as buying a season pass and the game every year. lol Dan, when was the last time you played BF3 on a console? No one wants bigger maps when the playercount drops every week. :p
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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Oct 15th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
    As it should be. Codblops' combat record provided a lot of the same thing, was built into the game, and was totally free. Then, MW3 had to jack it all up, including the theater. Treyarch is constantly making Infinityward look like a pile of dung.
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  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Oct 16th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
    They have been since World at War. But the "Vault/Theater" in MW3 really annoyed me. I've only used it 3 or 4 times. You can't even spectate from 1st person. Silly.
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