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Since the time that it was announced that Call of Duty: Elite would be made free, the overall product value has gone exponentially down. Not only is there absolutely no reason to do the main thing elite was advertised and pushed for, there is no incentive to even have elite.

The main thing to have elite and the main reason elite was pushed, was because of clans. When introduced in late black ops, and early MW3 call of duty elite was the place to go for starting and building a clan. You could start by having you in your buddies in the clan and in time, have up to 100 members. With joining the clan, they could compete in clan operation to level up the clan and get xp and as they would rank up, they would get rewards for doing so. Not just the clan page, but the actual members in the clan. When leveling up your clan you would receive: 1. a calling card for your title with your clan level on it, 2. A gold clan tag, 3 a background for the clan page 4. and most importantly - double xp.

Double xp was the main incentive for players to join clans and compete to rank up, as every player wants double xp. However, now in Black ops 2 elite, the only reward you get for ranking up the clan is a gold clan tag (which has issues, and disappears constantly)  and a background for the clan page. Since there is no double xp to get, players now have no incentive to play clan operations. The average call of duty player would not compete in a clan operation just to get a clan background and a gold clan tag, as the average call of duty player is selfish and would rather just get the double xp.

Another area that elite has dropped the ball in is in advertising for the clan. As their are no more comment section on clan operation/challenge pages. Yes, the constant advertisement of "join my clan" did get annoying at times, it was also the only way to advertise your clan and let people find out about your clan. Since that is now gone, how are people going to find your clan? Are you just going to hope to god that they magically search your clan name and hit apply? Or are you supposed to go all these random people and mass invite them? This system is really flawed and adds unneeded hardship for a person to trying to start and build his clan.