Wow this must be a hellacious Capcom game, I've never played one that had enough real content in it to justify a second disk. Not that I dislike capcom games as a rule but hey. Second disk would have been just fine the production costs diffrences are negligible. Your seriously talking about less that a penny on the supply of the extra DVD(speaking from the prices publishing companies pay) even if they sent bob to the electronic store for the extra DVD it comes to a whopping dollar. Its not like disk switching is a new method, the code methods are well known to professional devs. People are crying foul because the content being cut is not being cut not because the scope of the game has become too grand for the production budget and percieved sales. It's being cut for an easily surmountable tech issue.
I love my 360 but yes it has its limitations. The disk space problem is supposed to result in a convinience problem for me, not cut content thats ready for release. It came out before the format war ended. It's not a big deal to me but it will suffer that limitation for it. Poorer textures cause my disc is smaller ok, compressed sound, fine. Missing level, I see that as a snub.
Second reason people are getting huffy is because of an assumtion theyre making. Some devs have gotten in the habit of finishing a game, then selling me 80% of it for 60 bucks and nickle and diming me for access to the rest of the content, which is actually already on the disk through pay DLC. If the game felt like 60 bucks anyway this isnt an issue, but not all games qualify. I will retract my complaint if the missing content shows up as free DLC. Otherwise this is just lazy, and shows a lack of interest in the xbox market. It's thier buisness and they have the right to do that. As I have a right to skip it.
Third, the biggerman "Why do you bother saying that" is equally as inane as anyone commenting they're not buying it. People post things on forums to see the public response to it. Your not mr. coolguy for pointing out that most of our answers don't really mean anything to most of the world. Given that in this case it's very much relevant to note that, unless capcom handles this properly, they'll end up considering what would have hurt revenue more; The extra cost of bringing the content to the user, free DLC or a second disc whatever, or the lost sales due to souring the relationship with would be customers.
The article linked is bizarre, the comment of them being on the verge of tears when it came cut time. Capcom should prolly go chill with square, I think they know a thing or two about that mystical second disk method, and thier offices are closer than bioware.
A side note about an external blue-ray drive suggestions. Drives hooked up through USB ports don't hold a candle speedwise to ones hooked up to SATA, or hell in alot of cases, even IDE cables, used for internal hardware. If you think the PS3 has long load times, wait til you see a USB blue ray drive seek that disk. It's bad I have an external blu-ray on my PC, as well as a backup harddrive. Theyre great for storage, or movies, but embarassing on transfer speeds, bad news for games unless your just gonna install it on the hardrive. If your gonna install it on the harddrive, again, extra disks work just fine.
...Hope there's some sort of escapist achievement for consistant walls of text...
