Halo Infinite disc itself doesn't contain a playable game at all. Net connection absolute requirement to get one

@girlusocrazy: Seeing you spin is pretty entertaining 😄

@girlusocrazy: You do what is best for you but don't be vegan about it 🙃

@girlusocrazy: It was never required.

I remember buying Shadow of Mordor a few years ago when it came out at best buy. Came on 4 DVDS. I had to install all 4, then download the 40GB game from steam.

This is the future. Physical games are going away. Microsoft must have realized that some people still want to buy the disc, but also realized not stamping the game on it would be cheaper. Haha. That's actually hilarious.

What if even Returnal outsells this discless game?

The apologetics of this particular form of anti-consumerism.

People who prefer physical should be demanding the change. You can't expect digital only gamers to care about this.

Yup. It's tied to your account. It's a decent form of DRM.

An when it goes live tomorrow will XBL crash?

If it is a physical copy, you should able to play a game before official release. You have numerous examples where bunch of people get the game before release date, and guess what, people played the game without day 1 patch offline. So, John wanted to play singleplayer campaign, yet he couldn't because 343 shipped disc with incomplete data and download is needed.

@mowgly1: Physical games are a joke on Sony and MS systems. Time for you to wake up.

PS5 -you own games, Xbox - you own shit

@sealionact: Halo is doing that to itself, no co op or forge, can't replay single player missions, lack of game modes in multiplayer ESPECIALLY compared to the previous Halo games, no custom playlists (You can't just play Team death match?!)

I mean WTF HALO? And the worst part is gaming media is giving Infinite a free pass because it's Free to play. The game CLEARLY needed another year of development time, but since it's free everyone is going to give it the benefit of the doubt. Well unless you go to the Halo sub Reddit. Seems like the community is split 50/50. The core gameplay is SOLID. Plays great, but the entire game launched bare bones as Hell and there's no denying that.

And the reason it sucks there isn't some kind of version on the disc is that the game could potentially be lost in the future. Remember those James Bond and Lord of the Rings Games on GameCube and PS2? Well the only way to play those are the original physical release, and because of licensing deals that's how it will be forever.

Stop being an idiot. Oops! I forgot you have crossed that threshold a while back.

Unacceptable, i took mine back and got a refund ,i didn't even install or play the game

it was bad enough som CoD games you have to download a patch to play offline single player ( i don't touch them either)

but at least they contain the full bloody game

and worse, there is no clear warning you need extra content download to play like on the other games that do this and even Now MS will not bloody clarify anything and didn't even warn people

@mowgly1: I have stuck with the Xbox of years,subjectively i just prefer the games on the one like state of decay, Gears, Forza Horizon and.......Halo

this is absolutely the most anti Consumerist act i have seen since Half Life 2's 'steam boulder'

utterly reprehensible and D***move by MS,in one fell swoop they have fallen to the lows of Activision and EA

I cannot put into words how Angry i am about this

no Prior warning from MS,no clear warning on the Box

so i took mine back and got a refund the next day and i may be missing out on a good Halo but i can't support this kind of behaviour

@Pedro: not a joke for people who don't have an internet connection mate

Gaming is supposed to be something accessible to more people, not less,how about showing some solidarity with other gamers who are not as privileged to have what we have.

this cannot be excused mate simply because regardless of how you feel about digital games this is a physical disc for the game......that doesn't have a game on it

how anyone could find that remotely acceptable is beyond me, we where sold a product that wasn't even a product mate