You may have read here on Wednesday that DavidVonderhaar, Treyarch’s Multiplayer lead designer, tweeted that he was going to reveal the number of prestige levels on Friday. and here is what he said "Ironically this wasn’t supposed to be any sort of big secret.
However once a lot of people started trying to piece it together from the various videos it started to become fun. The more people that spammed me on Twitter and here, the longer I was going to wait.
However, I decided to spill the beans on Wednesday after reading a post by COD HQ user thePGTipsy where he suggested it was 15, but proceeded to give compelling (and largely accurate) evidence as to why he believed it.
Only 50 levels in the game, folks. If you work the math out (and some of you have) people who like to go to max Prestige will get more rewards along the way because of the extra 5 levels … but this doesn’t necessarily mean it will take you any longer or become any more of a grind than it has been.
David ‘Vahn’ Vonderhaar" So, it is now confirmed, there will be 15 Prestige Levels in Call of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer. This is more levels than we’ve ever had before, increasing by 50% on the last three Call of Duty games, previously at 10. To counter this though, there are fewer levels per Prestige cycle than ever, 50 levels, down from Modern Warfare 2′s 70 levels, so it should take around the same amount of time as previous games to reach the maximum Prestige Level.

http://www.codblackopsnews.com/2010/10/22/number-of-prestige-levels-confirmed/

Posted: Oct 22, 2010 10:25 pm