Earlier today we detailed the contents of the Hardened Edition and Care Package for Black Ops 2. If you read through the special editions’ contents, you may have noticed crucial to Call of Duty gamers was missing: a subscription to Elite 2.0.
A quick trip to Twitter to express disappointment yielded results from Activision and Treyarch employees. Responding to the flood of “NO ELITE = NO BUY” comments, David Vonderhaar said the following:
@Mindrockedout I understand the feedback. It won’t make sense to you until we start talking about Elite. I’ve asked when that will be.
Further confirming Elite 2.0’s absence from the collector’s editions, Dan Amrich had this to say:
Last year Elite was included in Hardened to launch it big, but it’s not part of the CEs this year. I expect more Elite info next month.
With the Care Package edition costing $179.99, many are having difficulty justifying spending that kind of money without the inclusion of the subscription service. Has this new information made you rethink which edition of Black Ops 2 you’ll be picking up? Let us know in the comment section below.
Half_Pint
August 28, 2012 at 5:01 PMNo Elite = NO BUY
Murph1331
August 28, 2012 at 11:30 PMPretty surprised that there is no Elite. I really wanted to buy the Care Package edition, but since I will presumably have to spend an additional $60 on another year of Elite, I will probably just stick with the Hardened or maybe even the regular release.
Kyler
August 29, 2012 at 4:16 AMNO ELITE=NO BUY
John
September 6, 2012 at 6:12 PMAgreed.. no Elite no Buy
Ilyas
September 16, 2012 at 7:48 AMNo elite no buy
I was actually thinking of getting the hardened edition but nt anymore
Ilyas
September 16, 2012 at 7:50 AMI forgot to add that these are greedy,selfish Animals F you trearch
Matt B
September 17, 2012 at 2:12 AMUh why yall so mad like 50% of the stuff in elite was already in black ops :/ and two if u want ur maps early just buy the service. you still save like 10 bucks on dlc.
EdiX
September 17, 2012 at 10:29 AMI pre orderd the care package edition. But now i know there isnt elite in it i think i gonna cancel it. 180 euros and then another 50 euros??? No way, and then they happly say we wanted to overwelm our fans with this package. ye great job whats the point in buying it then? Agree i like the fly thingy and all but thats everything
Dan
September 24, 2012 at 12:40 PMI think its a load of crap, i was going to buy the carepack edition as i work at game and when i found out no elite in there why should i pay £159.99 for the same thing as you get in harden apart from the quadrown.
Best thing to do every one buy the standard edition save your self loads of money