The physical version of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 barely contains anything at all, with the whole game still needing to be downloaded.
Downloading games instead of getting them on a disc long ago became the most popular way to buy video games, especially if it’s a primarily multiplayer game like Call Of Duty.
Publishers prefer this because you can’t sell digital copies second-hand and they don’t have to share any money with retailers, so it’s easy to see the fact that Modern Warfare 2’s game disc is almost empty as a way to encourage that further.
Fans that have got hold of an early copy of the game have discovered that there’s only 70MB of data on the disc. It’s unclear exactly how big the final game will be, but Modern Warfare 1 was famously the biggest game of all time with a file size of 175GB.
By the time it got further updates Modern Warfare was pushing 200GB, so at 70MB it’s likely there’s no actual game data on the disc at all, just the game licence to prove you own it.
As long as you pre-ordered, the campaign for Modern Warfare 2 has been free to play all week, leading up to the release of the multiplayer component this Friday, October 28.
There’s already been a 40GB update this week and there’ll be further downloads necessary once the multiplayer is available, making the disc almost completely useless.
You can still resell it, since it proves you own the game, but it’s little more than a physical licence and means it’s completely impossible to play any element of the game without an internet connection.
This has only been confirmed for the PlayStation 5, but since digital downloads are even more popular on Xbox it’s highly unlikely the situation is any different there.
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