limited edition spartan ops season one.

So, i bought the limited edition halo 4 pack. Among other things it had said that it came with the first season of Spartan ops.
What does that mean? Should i be able to play the first 10 episodes, the 50 missions it is supposed to come with ahead of time, or does spartan ops cost money, and this is all just simply prepaid, but i have to wait the same amount of time as anyone else?

> So, i bought the limited edition halo 4 pack. <mark>Among other things it had said that it came with the first season of Spartan ops.</mark>
> What does that mean? Should i be able to play the first 10 episodes, the 50 missions it is supposed to come with ahead of time, or does spartan ops cost money, and this is all just simply prepaid, but i have to wait the same amount of time as anyone else?

Just checked my LE and it’s not listed as extra content. H4 comes with the first five missions of SO. More will be released in future, not sure how regularly, but will not cost, so far as I know

The first season(50 mission) is free to XBox Live Gold members. Although you don’t get access to all of them right away. The first 5 missions (chapter 1) are available right now. And they will release Chapter 2(5 more missions) on Monday, I believe. And Chapter 3 the following week, and so on for 10 weeks until all 50 mission are out.

that makes more sense, thank you. It was just somewhat confusing how it said the the first season came with limited edition, maybe for offline players i guess?