Renewed wrote...
That actually surprised me, because I have the Limited Edition so I was expecting the map pack free to begin with. When I got it after some issues they had, I told a friend and he said he had gotten it for free without a map pass. I checked this with other friends as well.
First friend said she never bought the map pass and just picked it up because someone told her so they could play. She found it was free and was surprised. Next friend said he was not going to buy the map pass but when he saw the map pack, he caved in to grab it. He found it was free and was delighted.
Now it's nice of 343i and I'm not mad that I had to pay (it's more people to play with, sure could use it), but it feels weird for me. I wasn't swindled, because I like the game so I'll pay for it (I literally played at the midnight launch, then decided to grab the LE instead of standard edition). I dunno, it's new for me.
TL;DR Great that people can get it for free, since it means more people to play the game with.
someone in spartan ops I played with randomly told me I had to wait till noon EST to get it free. I waited, and got it free.