Players who received aboriginal carnal copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II person reported that the discs included incorporate lone astir 72MB of data, forcing players to link to the net and download the different 100+ GB of information to really play the game.

Officially, Modern Warfare II isn’t retired until tomorrow. But arsenic usual, a fewer copies of the upcoming subject first-person shooter slipped retired of the warehouses a spot aboriginal and ended up successful the hands of immoderate fortunate players. In theory, this disc should incorporate the game’s campaign, which was released aboriginal digitally, and it should besides see its multiplayer, which afloat launches for each time connected the authoritative merchandise date. But arsenic reported by Eurogamer, that’s not the case. Instead, players who got aboriginal copies of Modern Warfare II discovered that the disc was fundamentally bare and they would person to download and instal the full crippled via the net earlier they could play.

Kotaku has reached retired to Activision astir these dummy discs and if the institution plans connected offering existent retail copies of the crippled successful the future.

Modern Warfare II--after the latest patch—is reportedly implicit 150+ GB ample erstwhile you see run and multiplayer. (And that doesn’t see the yet-to-be-released Warzone 2.0 that’s retired successful November.) While immoderate players volition beryllium capable to download the crippled easy and quickly, for others the ample record size could instrumentality hours oregon days to download and it could propulsion them implicit their existing net information cap. Another problem, arsenic pointed retired by Eurogamer, is that successful immoderate parts of the world, vigor costs are rising rapidly, and leaving a large, next-gen console moving for hours to download a crippled could beryllium a costly situation.

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But adjacent if everyone successful the satellite had large internet, debased vigor bills, and tons of escaped clip to hold astir for MW2 to download, it wouldn’t alteration however inconvenient this dummy disc concern is. It ends up making it harder to sphere console versions of the crippled legally, different stroke to game preservation. And sure, this isn’t the archetypal clip a steadfast has shipped astir bare discs, but it inactive sucks that it’s happening again arsenic it makes preserving games much, overmuch harder for what is 1 of the biggest franchises successful the world.

Plus, what happens erstwhile the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 servers dice 1 day? Well, you tin astir apt guess. Unless Activision changes thing successful the future, the disc and each 72MB of its information volition conscionable go a paperweight erstwhile the servers die. At slightest you tin play the different 46 Call of Duty games that are besides called Modern Warfare instead.