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Players who acquired early bodily copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II have reported that the discs included comprise solely about 72MB of information, forcing gamers to connect with the web and obtain the opposite 100+ GB of information to really play the sport.
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Officially, Modern Warfare II isn’t out till tomorrow. But as normal, a couple of copies of the upcoming army first-person shooter slipped out of the warehouses a bit early and ended up within the palms of some fortunate gamers. In principle, this disc ought to comprise the sport’s marketing campaign, which was launched early digitally, and it must also embody its multiplayer, which absolutely launches for all tomorrow on the official launch date. But as reported by Eurogamer, that’s not the case. Instead, gamers who obtained early copies of Modern Warfare II found that the disc was mainly empty they usually must obtain and set up the whole recreation by way of the web earlier than they might play.
Kotaku has reached out to Activision about these dummy discs and if the corporate plans on providing precise retail copies of the sport sooner or later.
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Modern Warfare II–after the newest patch—is reportedly over 150+ GB giant if you embody marketing campaign and multiplayer. (And that doesn’t embody the yet-to-be-released Warzone 2.0 that’s out in November.) While some gamers will be capable to obtain the sport simply and rapidly, for others the big file dimension might take hours or days to obtain and it might push them over their current web information cap. Another drawback, as identified by Eurogamer, is that in some elements of the world, power prices are rising quickly, and leaving a big, next-gen console working for hours to obtain a recreation might be a pricey scenario.
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But even when everybody on this planet had nice web, low power payments, and tons of free time to attend round for MW2 to obtain, it wouldn’t change how inconvenient this dummy disc scenario is. It finally ends up making it tougher to protect console variations of the sport legally, one other blow to recreation preservation. And positive, this isn’t the primary time a writer has shipped almost empty discs, but it surely nonetheless sucks that it’s taking place once more because it makes preserving video games a lot, a lot tougher for what is among the largest franchises on this planet.
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Plus, what occurs when the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 servers die in the future? Well, you may in all probability guess. Unless Activision modifications one thing sooner or later, the disc and all 72MB of its information will simply turn out to be a paperweight as soon as the servers die. At least you may play the opposite 46 Call of Duty video games which can be additionally known as Modern Warfare as a substitute.
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