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In response to a minor backlash regarding the requirement of a hard disk drive to play Burnout Paradise online on Xbox 360, the Burnout Team has issued a statement, informing gamers why the decision was made.
It’s all because of DLC, something Criterion has been very keen to offer from an early stage in development.
“It’s important for us that all online players could show off new content when they go online and unfortunately it wasn’t going to be possible to do this by supporting the lowest common storage denominator, the 64Mb Memory Unit, either in size or data read speeds,” read the statement.
“Crucially we also didn’t want to split the playing community between those that have updated data and those that don’t. We saw this as vital in maintaining simplicity to all online users; different players having different content packages wouldn’t be able to play online with each other.”
The statement continued explaining that Criterion “opened a dialogue with Microsoft to attempt to discover a possible solution and all possible technical options were investigated to retain the seamless freedom of Burnout without requiring the HDD.”
Unfortunately no solution was found and the decision was made to make a hard disk drive a requirement for online play.
What’s a little strange is that future DLC will presumably be available for a price and therefore not all Burnout Paradise players will opt to make a purchase, thus creating a split of users hard drive-equipped or not.
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Burnout Paradise
- Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Arcade, Racing
