Xbox Series X Physical Games Offline

[Good_Old_Collingwood]

@Boosted_Gear

Eden Marie clarfieid later that it was the 2208 update. However, the source notes for the update do not mention this feature.

Xbox One discs finally playable offline after changes to unpopular Xbox Series...

[DARK-PARADISE]

Phil liked this

Do hope they address what’s left especially what can happen if Xbox network is down and the offline verification system doesn’t take over for whatever reason.

[peter42O]

UPDATE

1. Downloaded and installed A Plague Tale Requiem the other day via Game Pass and I was able to play it off-line with no issues. Currently on Chapter 3.

2. Bought Gotham Knights on disc and installed the game. Went to start it and woohoo, it worked. Went to the title screen, no issues. Had to go online to download the day one patch obviously but it fully seems like the DRM shit and my biggest negative/issue/complaint with Xbox is gone.

As long as it stays this way, I will be a very happy Xbox gamer!!!

[TeamAndromeda]

@Astrakan

Wait, seriously?

So if I were to buy a brand new Series X and a game on disc, and just power on the Xbox without entering any wifi credentials or anything, I can’t just play that game as-is?

I have to get online at least once? If so, that’s absolute crazy town. I had no idea.

Why are so you against having a system using your WiFi?

[Astrakan]

@TeamAndromeda

Why are so you against having a system using your WiFi?

Because…

@Astrakan

...there’s no conceivable technological reason for it. And there’s plenty of situations where people may want to play games without being able to be online. So why not have the game playable on day 1 directly off the disc?

[Zip]

@Astrakan

Aren’t a lot of games bigger than the storage limits of the disc now? That would be a technical reason.

They also plan to have it look for updates in order to make sure that bugs and things that might give the customer problems are dealt with so that the games reputation isn’t tarnished by people playing things that they’ve already fixed.

I do get where you are coming from but it’s not that surprising that it’s set to try to look for updates before playing.

[Astrakan]

@Zip

Aren’t a lot of games bigger than the storage limits of the disc now? That would be a technical reason.

Send along multiple discs then.

And yes, I understand why devs want to check in when someone starts up a game. And I even agree with doing it. I just don’t think it should be mandatory. There simply is no good reason for it, and plenty of scenarios where people are unable to comply.

But this has been beaten to death in this thread, so I’m not going to be responding again.

[TeamAndromeda]

@Astrakan

You can still play games offline you just need to log in once a day. I get the issue over content, but that alos happens with PS games too. We now live in an online world, even cash is going digital.

I would be more worried what happens when XBox shuts down the servers for their old systems and if you can still play your old games. Given Piracy for a dead system isn’t an issue I hope one can. That would be more of an issue for me, rather than the need to log on, Hell my slow cooker is hooked up to Wi-Fi