I really don't give two craps as to what the reasoning behind not including a hard copy of the game is! The point is that for 250.00 burning me a copy of the game and adding to the collectors addition is peanuts. This is about the future, they want you to get ready for the same price points for games but they have less overhead to deal with. Just need a master copy on the server and you can take care of everyone, burning a hard copy is a one for one deal. Don't really care about the week early crap either, so what?! And no I'm not paying 250.00 for a statue, I'm paying 250.00 for a game that comes with a statue, the game is the purchase, the statue is the perk. So give me what I'm paying for you cheap skates, you've been making a killing off this franchise for a pretty long time now and giving me a 5.00 disk isn't too much to ask for over 10 years of loyalty to the franchise. Already voiced my concerns with MS over the deal and they said to contact 343 if I wanted a hard copy. I shouldn't even need to ask!