Dear 343,
You may not read this but if you do, please take note of it.
I know you guys have been working hard at making Halo 5, but PLEASE don’t make make this like all the other Xbox One games. All of the games need a patch and an installation. This is not what the community wants. We want to be able to put the game in our counsels and begin the game like we used to on the Xbox 360. If you have to push the release day back in order make the final touches on the game and fix the problems, do it. We want a game that is functional from the start and only needs an update every other month, not every week. What I’m trying to say is, don’t let this game come out and end up like Halo MCC. It would be in your best interest to take note of this and utilize it to the best of your ability. I’m sure the other community members will agree with me.
sry but every game will have a patch At launch.
All Xbox One game requires them to be installed. It doesn’t play off of disc.
Considering the size of next gen games…it’s gonna need a patch at launch.
That is not even remotely up to 343. The Xbox One requires games to be installed before they can be played. The games don’t actually play from the disc. For simplicity’s sake, the disc basically just acts like an access key that prompts the installation of a digital copy and then is required to play your pseudo-digital edition.
Having the games installed/digital is pretty much what lets them access all of the Xbox One’s hardware, including the cloud operating components, upon which today’s games rely heavily. Our games would seem far less “next-gen” if they ran off the discs like they did on 360; there basically wouldn’t have even been a reason for a new console.
Day one patches have been around since the 360 as well, and I wouldn’t anticipate them going away any time soon. Day one patches allow the developers to push the game out on time and tweak what needs tweaking after the disc production, shipment, and time spent sitting in the back rooms of game stores. You’re looking at about a month of time for those steps, so that’s pretty much just an extra month of last-minute development that the game is getting.
I miss being able to pop in and play games. Doubt they can do that on the Xbox One anymore though.
I think they should at least let us install individual portions of the game. Would make the gigantic sizes more bearable. Maybe someone wants to play the Campaign first but doesn’t care as much about the Multiplayer, or vice-versa. Or perhaps even install one portion, then play that while the other is installing.
> Our games would seem far less “next-gen” if they ran off the discs like they did on 360; there basically wouldn’t have even been a reason for a new console.
To me there’s nothing ‘next-gen’ about the removal of split-screen, forcing people to install games, forcing people to be online, and so on.
The only thing that has improved with the current generation of games is, as per usual, the graphics. Can we please stop the graphics arms race already and get back to what made games great?
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> I miss being able to pop in and play games. Doubt they can do that on the Xbox One anymore though.
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> I think they should at least let us install individual portions of the game. Would make the gigantic sizes more bearable. Maybe someone wants to play the Campaign first but doesn’t care as much about the Multiplayer, or vice-versa. Or perhaps even install one portion, then play that while the other is installing.
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> > Our games would seem far less “next-gen” if they ran off the discs like they did on 360; there basically wouldn’t have even been a reason for a new console.
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> To me there’s nothing ‘next-gen’ about the removal of split-screen, forcing people to install games, forcing people to be online, and so on.
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> The only thing that has improved with the current generation of games is the graphics. Can we please stop the graphics arms race already and get back to what made games great?
This is the only part of your post that I agree with, and I completely agree with it. Most of the games have only seemed next-gen due to their graphics, but it’s going to take time for developers to figure out how to really push the limits of the new hardware and create truly next-gen games. It was the same way on 360, and it will be the same way for every new generation of gaming consoles. I remember reading somewhere that it takes about three years for a new generation of consoles to start consistently pushing out games that take advantage of the systems’ hardware. Hopefully 2016 will blow our minds.
Go digital. Death to discs!