No,but why would I want that when i am 100% Digital.
I just want the game to stay in my library so I can play on whatever Xbox console I will own next. No hassle with keeping disks everywhere. Just download and play.
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Confirmed: Spyro Trilogy is indeed shipping incomplete.
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No,but why would I want that when i am 100% Digital.
I just want the game to stay in my library so I can play on whatever Xbox console I will own next. No hassle with keeping disks everywhere. Just download and play.
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People defending these practices need to chill out.
Developers are lazy, consumers with their acceptance are making them even lazier and are sending them the wrong message.
Capcom were forced to change their DLC on disc fuckery when they were discovered.
People need to understand that videogames fans are from all over the world not just from cities with lighting speed internet speeds.
My 40GB data cap with 2MBit speed cannot handle all these lazy partches (fiberoptics are coming to my neihborhood but it will take time).
Developers are lazy, consumers with their acceptance are making them even lazier and are sending them the wrong message.
Capcom were forced to change their DLC on disc fuckery when they were discovered.
People need to understand that videogames fans are from all over the world not just from cities with lighting speed internet speeds.
My 40GB data cap with 2MBit speed cannot handle all these lazy partches (fiberoptics are coming to my neihborhood but it will take time).
I'm guessing they did this because they couldn't get the game to pass certification in time for manufacturing because it still had major bugs, so they opted to ship an empty shell to manufacturing so they'd have more time to finish the game for the day-one patch instead.
This can't be true can it? Especially since Crash supports both consoles and HDR.
It's probably true
Somebody try this please. Disconnect the console from the internet entirely and install and run the game, see what's actually there
define "cheap" and it's more than just discs. it adds weight and takes up more physical space.
So is this basically being done underhanded by publishers to pretty much fuck over game preservation?
Because its not a big deal to everyone else outside the community of people who think everything can fit on 1 disc/cart. day one updates are normal.
Fortunately there's a product for people who don't have internet connections.
Day one updates are normal. Having to download two entire games having bought the disc isn't.
Activision is arguably the king of anti-consumer decisions, so this is unsurprising, but it's still a damn shame.
Additional discs = Pay for an additional disc. Increased shipping costs. Increased authoring costs etc.
Or people can just download part of the game since physical is nothing more than a boot disc at this point anyway.
The way the Xbox handles updates is different from PS4. If the updates contain newer data to replace that on disc, the system will not copy it. It will just download the update data. The only way to know how much data is actually on the disc for Xbox is to install offline.
I don't understand this. Why bother shipping it in this state? How hard can it be to put three fucking Spyro games on a disc?
Do they not want people to buy physical? In that case why bother with a physical release in the first place?
I know they want an all digital future. Maybe the way they want to realize an all digital future is not by stopping with discs from one day to another, but by doing shit like this.
That way people will slowly but surely start to loathe them and switch to the digital alternative and not feel forced by the publisher, but feel like it's their own idea.
I just want a fucking disc with the game on it. I get it if there's security updates/patches for glitches/DLC that need downloading, but at least put the damn BASE game on the disc. Christ.
Do they not want people to buy physical? In that case why bother with a physical release in the first place?
I know they want an all digital future. Maybe the way they want to realize an all digital future is not by stopping with discs from one day to another, but by doing shit like this.
That way people will slowly but surely start to loathe them and switch to the digital alternative and not feel forced by the publisher, but feel like it's their own idea.
I just want a fucking disc with the game on it. I get it if there's security updates/patches for glitches/DLC that need downloading, but at least put the damn BASE game on the disc. Christ.
No. Despite what Era likes to believe, publishers don't think that maliciously. This is incompetence at best.
Fortunately there's a product for people who don't have internet connections.
Stop.
What is even the point? You have to use a whole Blu-Ray disc anyway, might as well fill the damn thing with the entire game.
Probably not a space issue, there were probably bugs and kinks they needed to work out in the last two games, and didn't want to put them on the disc like that.
What's this, now? Common sense? Get outta here with that nonsense! Day 1 patches for everybody!
Lol. A day one patch isn't even mutually exclusive with this idea though, better to have a buggy game on disc and then release a day one patch to fix it rather than just...not having the game files on the disc at all. Most games are still playable without a day one patch.
I vehemently agree:
But this makes me think that the game was so buggy that they needed the extra time to finish the game and upload it to the respective storefronts.
This is, assuming that you can upload a game to a digital storefront much later than you can print and ship a disc.
I just posted this in the OT but it'll be useful here:
There is less data being installed from the disc here than a full install of Quake II from 1997, which was 400mb.
I afraid next time they won't include even game.
though, EA already did this – https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-Exclusive-Collectors-Include-machine-specific/dp/B01GWB1UPO
:)
Fortunately there's a product for people who don't have internet connections.
They can backup their games on 2 or 3 HD's to be safe. Not ideal, but not total loss either
yeah, i'm wondering if the game case mentions the fact that the games themselves aren't actually playable without an internet connection & massive download :) ...
Oh I know, but I was speaking more to their point of hoping for continued availability on future platforms, or hoping for indefinite availability, or hoping for compensation when neither of those happens. We already have precedence from two of the big 3 on how any of that is likely to go down.
Even if it does, not everyone is going to pay attention. Parents shopping for Christmas who don't know or care about the vidya games for example
My PS4 box
So frustrating. But it is on their, and the front mentions it as well.
My PS4 box
So frustrating. But it is on their, and the front mentions it as well.
thanks! so, the complete first game is on the disc? well, i guess that's something :) ...
I mean, physical is still cheaper and you can sell the game later to recoup some of the cost. Nice try Activision, but digital is still inferior, no matter how hard you try to push it.