It may often be true that the early bird gets the worm, but when it’s video games, you can sometimes be a bit too early. This will have been the case for anyone who’s managed to get Call of Duty: WWII well in advance of its release at the end of this week, as Sledgehammer Games and Activision had locked out the single player campaign until yesterday.
The game’s new 1.02 patch enables its campaign, meaning that if you’re lucky enough to get it in the post early you can play ahead of its November 3rd release date. While it’s common for multiplayer games to receive day one patches this hefty 9GB download affects players who may just want to load up and blast through the single player campaign. As far as we are aware you can’t play any part of the game until the patch has been downloaded.
Call of Duty: WWII will be released on November 3rd on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
Source: PlayStation Lifestyle
Tony Cawley
I really hate certain aspects of modern gaming. What a load of shit this is.
Your article states day one patches aren’t common. I’d like to disagree! I’d certainly like to see some figures on percentages of releases that have a day one p patch.
The fact that the single player campaign can’t even be played without it in this case is an absolute scandal.
ron_mcphatty
Well put Tony. Also, even if day one patches are common, it doesn’t mean we have to accept them.
MrYd
Er, he says “it’s common for multiplayer games to receive day one patches”. It’s also pretty common for single player patches too.
Just in this case you can’t play the single player part without an update. Which isn’t ideal, but 9GB isn’t enormous. An hour or less to download for most people.
I wouldn’t call it an “absolute scandal”, more like “a bit annoying, about to be blown out of all proportion by the internet”
Stefan L
Aye, we’ve polished up the wording. Sorry for that.
The UK average speed might do the trick, but it is not hour or less for and awful lot of people, and that figure is dragged up by the fact that fibre broadband is at least 4 times faster than standard broadband. If you’re getting 8Mbps (which is purely theoretical anyway), then 9GB is over two and a half hours.
And if you’ve got even slower internet, live with data limits or rely on mobile internet without a fixed line, then that’s a huge deal for you. Why should they be cut off from playing the latest video games? It’s about as stupid as GT Sport cutting its lackluster single player content from offline play and not letting you save.
kjkg
So if you don’t have an internet connection, you won’t ever be able to play this? Or am I missing something here?
Tony Cawley
Nope, you’re not missing anything. That’s the sum of it.
kjkg
That’s pretty awful to be honest. There are going to be a lot of kids (they shouldn’t be playing it, I know) that won’t have their consoles connected to the internet for safety issues. They will want to play this game and can’t. Going on experience, my nephew would be screwed, his parents have no clue how to set up his Xbox online and don’t really want to either.
Stefan L
I mean… it’s an 18 rated game…
kjkg
Oh I know. But let’s be honest, there are still under 18s in that situation that will get it.
Maybe my example wasn’t the best to be fair, I just find it quite a strange prospect that people can buy this game and it will not work.
Zoddi
We have several consoles over 3 floors and not every piece is connected to the web.
We are nearly 40…to leave this 18 or not discussion.