nicolaierdk: Piracy would also become a major problem, imagine if every torrent of games become 2 GB less in size? Distributing illegal games would become easy for both the people uploading and the people downloading.
Wishbone: I'm sorry, but I think this is one of the lamest piracy arguments I have ever heard. People are downloading blue-ray images these days, for crying out loud.
Note that pc piracy is properly the easiest form of piracy, im just saying it will become a bigger problem if games become smaller. Illegal sharing will go up if you can carry multiple games on a usb.
Wishbone: I'm sorry, but I think this is one of the lamest piracy arguments I have ever heard.
Aliasalpha: Oh come on, what about blizzard dropping LAN play from starcraft 2 for fear of piracy? Thats got to be up there with the lamest (appropriately lame really considering the game but still...)
I will bet a million thats its Activisions idea, they have always been that way.