Afaik, once you download the day one patch you can play the singleplayer offline whenever you want.

Good on Activision, get so sick of story details being leaked before a game even releases, gets so hard to try and avoid the spoilers. Been trying to dodge Sonic Forces spoilers all week because it leaked early. 

Good on Activision, get so sick of story details being leaked before a game even releases, gets so hard to try and avoid the spoilers. Been trying to dodge Sonic Forces spoilers all week because it leaked early. 

Not true...... not even close.

And yet we're still seeing half baked AAA games still continuing to come out these days, all with loaded season passes, MT's, loot crates, day 1 patches, bugs here and there etc.

I think it's very true, years ago it wasn't as much, but these days, very much so.

Nope... this thread is about a game not being playable without a day on patch period.

There isn't any other AAA game that has been released like that.

Everything you mentioned about season passes, MT's, Loots crates...etc are all optional. You do not need to do any of that to play the game. Even the day one patches.

The fact of the matter is that publishers have to do something on their end to block leaks and spoilers in this day and age. Retailers have made it clear that they aren't capable of following the very basic concept of the street date. Games arrive at retailers in cardboard boxes with the street date printed in giant font on them and stickers that say "do not break the street day", I have seen them behind he counter at Gamestop before, and yet many retailers don't follow it, especially in the middle east, they just hand out the copies as soon as they get them at the store. If the publishers/devs don't do something to block the leaks and spoilers on there end, such as requiring a small day one download to enable the campaign, leaks and spoilers are inevitable in this day and age. The devs don't want the story they worked hard on being spoiled before the game has even released, while the publishers don't want to lose money because people saw spoilers and decided they're no longer interested, so I can hardly say I blame them.

The only thing that is anti-consumer imo is the size of the update, over 8GB. The download that enables campaign should be no bigger than 100 MB imo, I see no reason why it should be larger than that, it is possible for them to make it separate from the other huge day-one update that includes bug fixes. If Actvision had made it separate like they should have I would have no issue with this at all. If you can't download a 100 MB or smaller day one update you probably should be concentrating your efforts on moving somewhere that doesn't suck instead of whiling away your day playing CoD. 41% of people worldwide had access to internet in 2014 and the average speed was 3 mbit/s, and almost all of the people that had access to no internet at all were in 3rd world countries, so very, very few of them are gamers anyway. On that average 3 mbit/s connection you could download a 100 MB update that enables campaign in just 260 seconds, and even on an ancient 56k modem you could download it in less than 4 hours, which would be highly inconvinient, but think how few gamers worldwide only have access to 56k anyway, probably less than 0.001%.

Okay, Mr. Keyboard Warrior, before you assume I was moaning and looking like a fool, perhaps you should reread what I said. EVERYONE who buys the game is fully aware of what they are getting. If they are not pleased with what they are getting, then they shouldn't buy it. Anywhere I go on the internet, people are complaining about something in regards to the game, be it the number of maps, camos, lack of trailers, etc. And then we are in 2017 and people complain about the fact that they need an internet connection to play the game. In 2017. And acting like CODWW2 is the first one to do this.

It's simple, don't buy it and stop spreading hate.I'm not saying that in regards to this particular internet connection subject but in regards to all the reasons people are bitching about the game on internet right now, which they have been doing FOR YEARS, for every COD game released since 2010. Maybe relax before insulting people.