Hello,
I was wondering why I need to have a gold membership to play Spartan Ops locally? My live ran out so I thought I would try to finish off the achievements for it but alas, no gold.
Is there any way that could be voided in the future? Apart from buying membership?
I just feel restricted to the campaign and normally when I play by myself, noone can join either way.
Microsoft and 343i are currently treating Spartan Ops like Halo 4’s multiplayer matchmaking, requiring gold at all times.
Spartan Ops is not currently available for offline play.
Its just the way it is for now, just like how theres no theater mode for campaign and spartan ops, along with no scoring system for either modes.
Maybe in the future practices like this can be avoided to some degree, but Spartan Ops isn’t the only game mode currently doing this. Mass Effect 3 multiplayer does the same thing. No offline play.
i can add to Simmons’s post that spartan ops is not an on-disc feature. You play it from the xbox live server and that explain why you need to have gold membership to get to play it.
If no internet cable pluged you can only play the first episode of the first chapter.
They stream the vids from online so… yea Gold is required.
> i can add to Simmons’s post that spartan ops is not an on-disc feature. You play it from the xbox live server and that explain why you need to have gold membership to get to play it.
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> If no internet cable pluged you can only play the first episode of the first chapter.
To understanding don’t we download the missions though? I know we have streaming for the videos which makes perfect sense but I feel like it’s useless without Gold. I don’t mind if I had to go and buy some anyway (I neeeed it) but thanks!
Simmons thanks for that as well. I guess it’s understandable but I hope they do something in the next one where you can play offline. Campaign can get repetitive after awhile.
A 12 month was $34.99 at Best Buy this last weekend, you should have picked one up…
> A 12 month was $34.99 at Best Buy this last weekend, you should have picked one up…
for a lot of people thats a big chunk of change to be spending on something like gold
Welcome to the future of gaming. From the sounds of it, these types of things are what the gaming companies are gunning for. You pay the same amount for a game that is gradually restricting more and more features that are forcing gamers to pay to play, essentially. There is absolutely zero replay value for Halo 4, if you don’t have the internet. I’ve been saying for years that Halo needs to add bots. Wanna know why I play COD more these days? Cause I don’t have to deal with people online, and can still get a challenging Team Death Match, when I don’t have access to the internet. I actually find it more fun, because I’m not playing COD 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to do well against someone who has been. I’m not saying that it shouldn’t be that way, it makes sense, you play more, you get better. But it’s for entertainment for a lot of people and having more options and less restrictions on a game is what catches my eye.
Yeah, they fixed a lot about Halo, in 4, and I really do enjoy it, however, it’s the same old story. Wanna play multi? Gotta be online. “No, we’re not putting in bots. How then would we force you to get a Live Membership, to make us more money?”
The Sparton Ops having to be online is the biggest kick in the pants. I download it physically to my hard-drive, but the videos have to be streamed? I didn’t even watch most of the stupid videos because I play with my G/F and she’d have to sign out, just to watch a vid, then sign back in again. And now I’m hearing it solely needs the internet connection for streaming the videos? You can’t find a way to just not have the videos work when you’re not online? Kinda like how it won’t work if you have two people signed it… Sorry to say, but it sounds like a scam. I felt and still feel scammed about the Sparton Ops thing. I’ll never understand how gaming companies think restricting the gamers’ options is going to keep their industry booming. I’m done with the Halo Franchise. Even if you were to fix all of these issues for the next game, I’d still not buy it. Too little, too late for me.
Get ready to be even more careful for next gen-gaming. Paying activation codes on used games, for every game, is the speculation, maybe even worse (locked to console games), erasing used games forever. Do you think that if that’s the case, people will go out and buy games right away? It’s only speculation at this point, but only those who have too much money and not enough to do with it. Everyone else will be tightening their wallets to make sure that when they purchase a game, they’ll actually get something out of it. And frankly, we should know better by now. That’s my rant. lol
> i can add to Simmons’s post that spartan ops is not an on-disc feature. You play it from the xbox live server and that explain why you need to have gold membership to get to play it.
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> <mark>If no internet cable pluged you can only play the first episode of the first chapter.</mark>
where does it say that !?
I cant find it !!
> Welcome to the future of gaming. From the sounds of it, these types of things are what the gaming companies are gunning for. You pay the same amount for a game that is gradually restricting more and more features that are forcing gamers to pay to play, essentially. <mark>There is absolutely zero replay value for Halo 4, if you don’t have the internet. I’ve been saying for years that Halo needs to add bots. Wanna know why I play COD more these days? Cause I don’t have to deal with people online, and can still get a challenging Team Death Match, when I don’t have access to the internet</mark>. I actually find it more fun, because I’m not playing COD 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to do well against someone who has been. I’m not saying that it shouldn’t be that way, it makes sense, you play more, you get better. But it’s for entertainment for a lot of people and having more options and less restrictions on a game is what catches my eye.
>
> Yeah, they fixed a lot about Halo, in 4, and I really do enjoy it, however, it’s the same old story. Wanna play multi? Gotta be online. “No, we’re not putting in bots. How then would we force you to get a Live Membership, to make us more money?”
>
> The Sparton Ops having to be online is the biggest kick in the pants. I download it physically to my hard-drive, but the videos have to be streamed? I didn’t even watch most of the stupid videos because I play with my G/F and she’d have to sign out, just to watch a vid, then sign back in again. And now I’m hearing it solely needs the internet connection for streaming the videos? You can’t find a way to just not have the videos work when you’re not online? Kinda like how it won’t work if you have two people signed it… Sorry to say, but it sounds like a scam. I felt and still feel scammed about the Sparton Ops thing. I’ll never understand how gaming companies think restricting the gamers’ options is going to keep their industry booming. I’m done with the Halo Franchise. Even if you were to fix all of these issues for the next game, I’d still not buy it. Too little, too late for me.
>
> Get ready to be even more careful for next gen-gaming. Paying activation codes on used games, for every game, is the speculation, maybe even worse (locked to console games), erasing used games forever. Do you think that if that’s the case, people will go out and buy games right away? It’s only speculation at this point, but only those who have too much money and not enough to do with it. Everyone else will be tightening their wallets to make sure that when they purchase a game, they’ll actually get something out of it. And frankly, we should know better by now. That’s my rant. lol
I could not agree with you more
you did it !!