He's not attacking the person, he's attacking his reasoning for not picking up the game. There is a difference.
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Halo 4 - mandatory 8GB install for MP
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He's not attacking the person, he's attacking his reasoning for not picking up the game. There is a difference.
Syphon Filter
Member
interesting.
bigtroyjon
Member
Yes, instead of purchasing a drive that you know would work, you should just randomly buy one and hope to get lucky.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
locks me out of multiplayer fuck them i wont buy it then
You don't need to buy one of microsoft's expensive hard drives, just get a 8 or 16gb flash drive for a fraction of the price and call it a day.
Hell, by the time halo 4 is out, hard drive prices will be back to levels where it'll be cheaper to buy a generic WD drive and flash it with 360 firmware.
Hell, by the time halo 4 is out, hard drive prices will be back to levels where it'll be cheaper to buy a generic WD drive and flash it with 360 firmware.
I'm suprised any 20GB 360s are still alive and kicking to be honest.
I can't imagine that this will of been a decision that will of been taken lightly, I bet they can prove from the LIVE data that this will negatively effect such a tiny proportion of people that it would actually be UNFAIR to the people who have hard drives to have to degrade the experience in some way.
To be honest, I prefer this option over having seperate discs.
It was quite annoying with ODST, switching between the campaign disc and the Halo 3 Multiplayer disc with the extra maps, especially if you had an invited from one to the other.
Besides if you were enough of a Halo player to actually care for Multiplayer, then you'd want to have a Hard Drive so you could download and play spartan ops and the multiplayer maps that are due to arrive at some point.
Although I guess they could of put all that content on the disc and locked you out of it....
Hello Capcom!
Where were the people complaining your needed a hard drive to install the 2nd disc of Forza 3 or the "proper" textures for Battlefield 3?
Next you'll be having people complain that they need Hard Drive space to like, download game demos and XBLA titles.
I can't imagine that this will of been a decision that will of been taken lightly, I bet they can prove from the LIVE data that this will negatively effect such a tiny proportion of people that it would actually be UNFAIR to the people who have hard drives to have to degrade the experience in some way.
To be honest, I prefer this option over having seperate discs.
It was quite annoying with ODST, switching between the campaign disc and the Halo 3 Multiplayer disc with the extra maps, especially if you had an invited from one to the other.
Besides if you were enough of a Halo player to actually care for Multiplayer, then you'd want to have a Hard Drive so you could download and play spartan ops and the multiplayer maps that are due to arrive at some point.
Although I guess they could of put all that content on the disc and locked you out of it....
Hello Capcom!
Where were the people complaining your needed a hard drive to install the 2nd disc of Forza 3 or the "proper" textures for Battlefield 3?
Next you'll be having people complain that they need Hard Drive space to like, download game demos and XBLA titles.
Neuromancer
Member
I think some people are overreacting a bit. This is a problem with an inexpensive solution, and it's only a problem for a small group of people I'm sure.
j0hnny_385
Member
Why is this even "news"? Seriously? A mandatory 8 gig install? Now that everyone can get some sort of USB stick and use it to install the game?
Sounds like you weren't really excited for it to begin with if deleting some content on your HDD bothers you this much.
Kasumi1970
my name is Ted
we are almost at the end of this gen....it a good thing there next system use Blu-ray Disc.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
enough that i was going to buy it i own all the others except for odst but if they are going to pull this bullshit they can go eat a big one the most ill do is way far down the line ill pick it up for $20 for the single player
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
OR DOES IT?!!??
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Get a bigger hard drive. If you bought a 4GB Xbox fully knowing that it is marketed as an XBLA/Kinect box that's on you. Anyone relatively serious about playing hardcore games would never own a 4GB Xbox.
If you have an old 20GB that's a bit different. It's an odd scenario for MS to begin to enforce now, but I see it as a precursor to the "hard drive required for all games" announcement with the next Xbox. In this case a 16GB USB stick is only $10.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Its unfortunate, but its also why i think the 4gig or less Xbox shouldn't even exist. Its a piece of shit. I mean come on, they couldn't even put a 20gig in there at minimum?? It costs practically nothing for 20 gigs at the very least. Thats MS pulling a bonehead MS move.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
i have the launch 20 gig
Neuromancer
Member
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
"just spend 100 dollars, guys, its easy, and makes things better for you"
So why does this bother you so much? How is it bullshit when it's A) easily and cheaply remedied and B) effects such a small percentage of the user base.
Honest questions since I have a hard time understanding how something can be bullshit if it benefits the game itself.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
$10 16GB flash drive.
Heck, Amazon has one on sale for $4 right now.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_5_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=16gb+flash+drive&sprefix=16%2Caps%2C152
If they've made it this far and with the next system in all likelyhood launching in 2013 what's the point? They'd basically be buying it for one game.
Or you get a USB drive.
To bad i don't have enough money to get a drive at this time. Sorry I cant make it rain like some of you.
SkyMasterson
Member
Except if Halo 4 requires an 8GB install, an 8GB memory card/usb stick won't cut it. So they would have to include a 16GB card.
MS wouldn't even give away a 2GB let alone anything higher lol. Out of the big three, MS is the one that nickels and dimes it's consumers the most.
It does make me consider dropping Xbox altogether, but that will not happen anytime soon. XBL rules
Silly.Mikey
Banned
I dont think that works. I think 16 might be the maximum it can read or something.
MMaRsu
Banned
Yeah..NO
If I was even going to buy this game because the MP looks barely passable and the campaign doesn't look THAT interesting to me yet I am certainly not planning on spending more on extra stuff just to play it.
I'll already have to cough up 20 euro's for a 4 month goldcard and then buy another usb drive just so I can play it?
Nah screw this.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
If you can't afford a $10 flash drive, maybe you shouldn't be spending money on games. =p
Boss Man
Member
It's just like memory cards on PS2, lol? Come on... You buy a PS2, and you get some PS2 memory cards because that's how saves work on the system. Everyone had memory cards. The game boxes even had a little slot to hold them, now that I think about it. Buying an external hard drive for one game because it's been built beyond the capabilities of the Xbox you bought to play Xbox games is a bit different.
I'm not sure that it's a huge deal though. If you want to play Halo 4 online you also need to have a Gold account, and if you have a Gold account you probably have a hard drive and/or will be willing to go and get a USB stick.
I'm not sure that it's a huge deal though. If you want to play Halo 4 online you also need to have a Gold account, and if you have a Gold account you probably have a hard drive and/or will be willing to go and get a USB stick.
Having to buy something alongside the game won't exactly get you more sales, let's just keep it at that.
Fox Mulder
Member
The 360 is picky with what it will use though. I bought one that failed the test but works fine on everything else I use it for. I wish MS would allow for more than 16GB stocks though.
I also got my 250 gb hdd off ebay for $60 like a year ago, and it even came with the slim enclosure. I don't see this as a problem.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
If you're willing to play Halo4 online, you probably play shooters online to begin with, downloaded maps and already have that shit. What does suck tho, is that they dont make the "free" spartan Ops dlc available to Silver members who wanna play alone. How is it free if you have to get Gold to play alone. Thats just being an asshole.
They never expanded upon it, but MS has said the 16GB limit is due to a limitation of the 360.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Oh, agreed. But how many people are going to be in that situation? If you have a 4GB Xbox you don't have much of an excuse. Those 20GB systems are less and less, but these are the folks that have the most legitimate concerns. If you are into gaming, and into Halo I don't see an issue grabbing a $5-$10 stick when you go grab your game though.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Max you can add though USB is 32 gigs. 2 different 16's.
Neuromancer
Member
343/MS have done their homework, I'm sure they've calculated that this will not adversely affect them in any significant way.
AlanzTalon
Member
so......thread in review:
$14 16GB flash drive: So expensive i cannot possibly afford it or save for it in the next 4 months in order to play my Halo.
$60 Halo Game: Cannot pay for it due to previous $16 restriction.
You people are bad at money.
$14 16GB flash drive: So expensive i cannot possibly afford it or save for it in the next 4 months in order to play my Halo.
$60 Halo Game: Cannot pay for it due to previous $16 restriction.
You people are bad at money.
MMaRsu
Banned
I'm not from the US and I never order online..
Cheapest one near me is 16 euro's.
Deleting Prince of Persia leaves me with 4.5gb extra room. With RB disc install which I can't delete cause I don't have it anymore and other DLC which I don't wanna go through the trouble of redownloading everything.. 13gb just sucks period. Cause it's not even 20gb.
I think it also has to do with the principle of the thing. You buy a console, you expect to be able to play games without jumping through a million goddamn hoops.
SkyMasterson
Member
I doubt it will say on the front cover "Requires mandatory 8GB install!".
Most people will find out when they open the game and pop in the disc and most will say "aww shucks, time to get more memory" while a few will complain.
"Aw this sucks, I'm trading this in for Black Ops 2"
snoopeasystreet
Member
Yeah. I doubt this will honestly affect more than a couple of thousand of people but I still feel that there should be something in place for those people. If they said something like "we'll sell you an 8Gb thumb stick and include a code for the first map pack for a tenner".
It say it somewhere on the game case, no way are they going to let people find out about that on their own.
