343’s Frank O’Connor has taken to NeoGAF to comment on Halo: The Master Chief Collection‘s 20GB day one update.
“The game is designed to run as a single, unified product, digital is seamless obviously, but we also wanted disc users to have the same experience, without swapping discs.
“Since the bulk of it is MP or MP related, the logic is sound. There will ALSO be a TU in there, but that in itself is a tiny fraction of the content.”
O’Connor explained that the update is largely multiplayer content, and acknowledged the download might tax some gamers.
“For some folks it will be straight up annoying and I both apologize unreservedly for the irritance, and hope that the package and the way it works more than makes up for it.”
O’Connor confirmed that gamers will be able to play single-player while the update downloads.
“The Xbox One platform continues to improve and mature, arguably faster and more meaningfully than others and maybe next year two discs or some other method would have been the right approach, but this year it’s the option we have available that on balance, makes the most sense for this giant, ambitious project.
“Do I understand the inconvenience and annoyance for some users? Of course. I’m not going to blow smoke or ignore it.”
In the end, O’Connor thinks the download is worth it.
“I’ve been playing the whole enchilada for a week now and the ability to sample, jump from aspect to aspect, customize with skulls and playlists has been absolutely addictive and mesmerizing.
“I think I would have enjoyed a box set with the same fidelity, but the way it all connects has for me at least, made it more than the sum of its parts.”
Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be available from 11 November on Xbox One.
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