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"Microsoft is not being dickheads," he said. "It was a simple kind of miscommunication. Microsoft does not charge a royalty per disc, but there is a cost of goods that goes along with manufacturing. "
However, Willits noted that the cost of manufacturing a third disc was not behind the decision to spread the game across two discs. Instead, the game’s story structure was the decisive factor. The narrative Willits produced split well into two acts, and the company wasn’t planning for enough content to justify a third.
"I had the story all written out, and we decided to make it into two acts, with a logical place in the middle where players will remove one disc and stick the other disc in, and they never have to load that other disc up," elaborated Willits. "The story is constructed in such a way that I would be very sad if we had to make it fit into three discs, because where would you switch the disc if it’s three and you had a two-act story?"
And what of the comments by Carmack that the game will look worse on the Xbox 360 due to compression and space limitations?
"Yes, I mean, technically that is correct, but realistically and practically they look the same," explained Willits. "The confusion over three discs was just a simple mixup here at id, not a disagreement.. John is so black and white. John is so technically correct. You know how John is."
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