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war never determines who is right, only who is left
Posted by: NME Overlord
Disadvantages:
Firstly, the amount of money needed to produce two disks for a game would be higher than normal. This would transpose into the price you have to pay for the game. I would imagine that new games at the moment are around $60/£50. With two disks I can forsee it being around $90/£75. Would you really be willing to pay that much for a game, even as good as Halo?
Secondly, unless it was specifically designed for one disk to be purely campaign, and the other to be purely multiplayer, there would be switching of disks, and as we all know from past two-disk games, this is a pain. People would look at it in shops, and be put off by the two disk idea. After all, how many games are on sale for the XBOX360 at the moment with two disks? I believe the number isnt high because developers realise they are not sought after.
Thirdly, Bungie realise that people play Multiplayer much more than Campaign, so by having the two seperate disks, it would emphasize that people play the Campaign until it is 100% complete, then only play it when no-one is online. Therefore one of the disks would be wasted. By packing it full of content Bungie would spend less time developing the Multiplayer, which most of us will play most.
Finally, I would love to see a massive campaign, but like you said, it can't be done unless they take out either Forge, Films, Firefight or Matchmaking, and believe me they won't take out things they have added and are popular.
actually two disks isnt always expensive, a recent RPG named Lost Oddissey was at a standard retail price for us brits,and that had four disks i think (correct me if im wrong) although that price is going up if Modern Warfare 2 sells enough, so Halo Reach will probably be bumbed up along with every other game next year. however, you raise a good point with the multiplayer, most people do play multiplayer, but with two disks, one for multiplayer and another for campaign includind co-op and possibly firefight v2 would mean that more people would go straight to the multiplayer disk.