This is the "penalty" you have to pay for not having to use the disk to play the game. I can live with it. It would be nice if you could have the disk inserted to have the "check in" option suspended.
This is the first gears I didn't get. I just played the MP demo and was impressed, but I don't think I'll get the game until it goes down to $25 or so.
Please excuse my wording if it was confusing. I was at work multitasking :)
It shouldn't eat up much more energy than your DVR does when its left on overnight. A computer left on at idle doesn't eat up much power. I'm also expecting betting they will run just a couple of cores to keep power down. There is no need to keep all cores running when simply downloading every couple of weeks.
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