Wow...so that fact that content is already on the disc but cannot be accessed without xbox live gold is supposed to be a good thing? Making spartan ops available offline is only a good thing for all players so I don't see why players are trying to defend the devs and make it online only when it can be online + offline lol. So, people who just say "buy xbox live is sooo cheap" are merely saying, "we support that you must pay more money to access DLC already on disc. We want to pay more money" or alternatively "we are selfish and want MOAR benefits for buying xbox live".
So in a couple of years time when xbox live goes down and you wanna play spartan ops, uh oh, no xbox live = no spartan ops. And believe it or not, not everyone is perpetually connected to the internet.
I cannot see a reason why people are arguing against adding spartan ops offline. Totally senseless why would you argue against the addition of the new features? WTF?
please read my post above, so I have to pay an extra $60 PER YEAR ontop of the cost of the game already just to access spartan ops? And even then spartan ops will only last as long as xbox live lasts on the 360....
Again I can't see why any player would not want to see this offline playable. Whether I'm a gold or non gold person is beside the point, I still want to see it playable offline regardless.