Call of Duty Elite Premium will be free starting with Black Ops II Still Paid DLC

So Elite Premium will now be free instead of tied to the DLC packs like it was with MW3. Instead BLOPS II is getting the very common now Season Pass which will prove DLC the same way it did for Premium members in a piecemeal fashion. You will still also be able to buy the DLC in "packs" like before. Pretty smart of them to unite everyone with the all the features of ELITE but otherwise not much has changed.

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