Alright, elephant in the room… Why is spartan ops not accessible offline? Or more to the point why can’t it be?
So far spartan ops is still an Xbox live gold only feature, allowing those who have premium membership with Xbox access the SO episodes. Considering the first season is embedded within the disc 2 of halo 4 I am disappointed that when I play offline with friends and family I can’t play SO. Is it seriously too much to ask to be able to play it offline?
I’m not complaining that Xbox live is the most expensive thing in the world, but I paid for the game, you would think that the content that is actually in the hard copy of the game would be accessible to those who bought it and not just those who have the premium membership to Xbox live.
I hope that there is others who feel the same way, if spartan ops was accessible offline it would benefit the halo 4 experience, eventually you will run out of membership, whether you can’t pay anymore, the next Xbox console comes out and Xbox live is taken down, or you just can’t be bothered, either way when you decide to play halo 4 and you don’t have Xbox live the SO feature won’t be available to you unless this issue is resolved.