kingkaiser
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So, a few hours ago my physical copy of the game arrived and after a nice Saturday brunch I decided to install it to my Xbox Series X. First surprise was when I opened the game case and saw that it comes with two discs. A game and an installation disc. Having dealt with such before I decided to insert the “Data” disc first but just got the message to insert the “Game” disc instead. Whatever, I thought and acted as instructed. Turns out it’s a rather small installation with 10GB from disc and a “glorious” day one patch via internet around 9GB heavy. My internet speed is not the greatest so it took like half an hour or so to finish.
There we go! Game launched and took me right to the main menu, here you can decide which game of the trilogy to play. ME1 was ready to go but ME2 and ME3 require installation. No problem there, or so I thought when seeing the “Install” button, but to my irritation the game started to download the data despite a disc being inserted. I stopped the process and put in the data disc instead, as probably any sane person would do. Guess what? Yep, the game tells you to insert the “Game” disc instead. Being pretty pissed at this moment I decided to check online what the problem was and the solution seemed to be just going offline with the Xbox and let the game being installed via disc. BUT this did not work either, the game just stopped to react when pushing the installation button while being offline. The game actually managed to crash multiple times while trying so.
Now I got somewhat mad and decided to just shut down the whole system and do something better with my time. After a cool down period I decided to just wipe the game from my system and do a clean install while being offline. Finally all seemed to work BUT to my surprise again, the game refused to start after installation. All I got was the message that the “process” was not finished yet. So I waited and waited, nothing happened. So I turned my system off and on again and while trying to launch the game a new message popped up, saying I would need to go online again to be able to start the game. Online check, great.
At that point I kinda felt being pranked here and feared that going online would automatically start the “day one patch” bringing me to square one again. Having no other choice though, I went online again. Will wonders never cease! The game managed to launch and I was back in the main menu. Having learned from previous mistakes, I switched back to the dashboard and into settings to go offline once again, and after that FINALLY the game started to install from disc.
Final thoughts…What the fuck is wrong with the people who programmed this and why is not patched by now? The game comes with a friggin 9GB day one patch, but this shit has not been solved yet? Am I like one of the very few fools out there actually buying a physical copy so EA just do no care for us few “morons”? Is it maybe even intentional to make us jump through multiple hoops? Making us realize what assholes we were not buying digitally? Why even bother and including a data disc when you try to force your customers downloading 90GB in the first place. I am so close giving up this whole video game thingy but unfortunately Mass Effect 1 and 2 are and always will be in my all-time top five and thus I will have to delay ending gaming after at least finishing this “Legendary” edition.
There we go! Game launched and took me right to the main menu, here you can decide which game of the trilogy to play. ME1 was ready to go but ME2 and ME3 require installation. No problem there, or so I thought when seeing the “Install” button, but to my irritation the game started to download the data despite a disc being inserted. I stopped the process and put in the data disc instead, as probably any sane person would do. Guess what? Yep, the game tells you to insert the “Game” disc instead. Being pretty pissed at this moment I decided to check online what the problem was and the solution seemed to be just going offline with the Xbox and let the game being installed via disc. BUT this did not work either, the game just stopped to react when pushing the installation button while being offline. The game actually managed to crash multiple times while trying so.
Now I got somewhat mad and decided to just shut down the whole system and do something better with my time. After a cool down period I decided to just wipe the game from my system and do a clean install while being offline. Finally all seemed to work BUT to my surprise again, the game refused to start after installation. All I got was the message that the “process” was not finished yet. So I waited and waited, nothing happened. So I turned my system off and on again and while trying to launch the game a new message popped up, saying I would need to go online again to be able to start the game. Online check, great.
At that point I kinda felt being pranked here and feared that going online would automatically start the “day one patch” bringing me to square one again. Having no other choice though, I went online again. Will wonders never cease! The game managed to launch and I was back in the main menu. Having learned from previous mistakes, I switched back to the dashboard and into settings to go offline once again, and after that FINALLY the game started to install from disc.
Final thoughts…What the fuck is wrong with the people who programmed this and why is not patched by now? The game comes with a friggin 9GB day one patch, but this shit has not been solved yet? Am I like one of the very few fools out there actually buying a physical copy so EA just do no care for us few “morons”? Is it maybe even intentional to make us jump through multiple hoops? Making us realize what assholes we were not buying digitally? Why even bother and including a data disc when you try to force your customers downloading 90GB in the first place. I am so close giving up this whole video game thingy but unfortunately Mass Effect 1 and 2 are and always will be in my all-time top five and thus I will have to delay ending gaming after at least finishing this “Legendary” edition.
You can't play disc games on series x unless go online after installing something you don't need to on a one.
