They were sold on two because they were two games in one package, where inherently two executables makes sense. If the games weren't both available physically, the overall package would have been hurt.
For some people thy always have been. And among those people, consoles used to provide a way for them to game without having their download speed or their cap be an issue. It makes sense for now those problems to come to a head.
If you said that 4 years ago, yeah.
No, but its expanding a problem that some people are already struggling with. There is nothing wrong with people being unhappy with the situation, and expressing themselves.
It "holds water" as long as it's a problem people still have to deal with, and in fact is expanding.
MS isn't going to do anything about this, and neither are the other publishers. Any solutions on their end would cost money that they don't feel is an acceptable use of resources. And that's a perfectly reasonable opinion. But no consumer is obligated to be happy about that, or even satisfied.
Exactly
I didn't say anything about blame in that post.
That's not strictly speaking true. Depends on lots of factors. And again, it's an academic question largely, at least until it's shown "HD assets " are a common thing.
In no way is MS improving Forza's visuals a "good deed." It's not done out of the goodness of their hearts.
I am thinking about it, and no one owes any purchase to any manufacturer of goods. If someone doesn't want to buy a game because of it's size, they have every right to make that choice, and every right to express (or not express) why.
You are assuming you will have an option to not acquire the "4k assets."
You seem to be misunderstanding things here. I am not advocating anyone avoid Forza. I am simply saying if someone is unhappy with the amount of data our games need to download now, not buying games that have such an immense requirement is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Xbox One S or the OG
You might not. And that's a reasonable decision too.
Then they also lose out on the other benefits the X brings.
I get what you're saying and as I said earlier those who have genuine problems with this can't use modern consoles anyway since patches, updates, streaming, online gaming etc etc isn't something new. They've been living out in the cold for two generations now. Unfortunately it's not going to get better for these people, internet requirement won't go away and the data downloads won't become smaller. I believe Nintendo tried to put some restrictions on patch sizes and the devs just got pissed instead. This is the future no matter what we think about it,
I think for most people with these issues it's not a binary situation. Better file size management on the publishers' parts would go a long way to help them with their issues.
It's makes no difference, I've been in that situation before we moved to the current house, you can barely do anything at all with crappy internet, even a "small" patch is simply too much. It's awful and I truly feel sorry for those in that position. But complaining at MS at this point will make zero difference, it's just more negative noise about something that in every other way is absolutely awesome. Patches and big file sizes are unfortunately here to stay. Lets just celebrate that X owners actually get 4K assets and S owners don't have to download them instead.
