Halo: Master Chief Collection release date edition: Big day one update, developer explains

(PHOTO: Halo Way Point)Halo: The Master Chief Collection arrives on November 11, 2014.

The forthcoming compilation of the re-mastered Halo first-person shooter games, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, has just announced a massive 20 GB day one update, triggering rage among anticipating fans.

"I'm not one of those people that are like 'I'm cancelling my preorder now! RAWR!,' I just wanted to express my concerns with this kind of business practice," a user posted in one of the Halo forums.

Frank O'Connor, 343 Industries boss offered an explanation amid the concerns of Halo enthusiasts and why a second disk would destroy the functionality and experience of the unified interface.

"The game is designed to run as a single, unified product; digital is seamless obviously, but we also wanted disc users to have the same experience, without swapping discs," he said in one of his posts on NeoGAF.

"Since the bulk of it is MP or MP-related, the logic is sound. There will ALSO be a [title update] in there, but that in itself is a tiny fraction of the content," O'Connor added.

343 Industries Studio Head, Dan Ayoub, announced that Halo: The Master Chief Collection went gold on Oct. 17 via Xbox News.

"To recap, Halo: The Master Chief Collection contains four complete Halo games, every multiplayer map ever released (including DLC from console and PC) across each game, a complete remaster of Halo 2 with all-new audio and Blur's mind-blowing cinematics, and all of this is tied together with (and enhanced by) a revolutionary user interface," he said.

This is also the same post that alerted fans to the 20 GB content update.

"From the start, our philosophy has been to give Halo fans the best possible experience and not compromise the quality or features of the collection. The result is that Halo: The Master Chief Collection will take up almost all of the usable space of a single Blu-ray (45 GB), and we will also issue a content update at launch that is estimated to be 20 GB," Ayoub announced.

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