Shin-Ra
Junior Member
You can transfer a Blu-ray from one console in your house to another whenever you like, however.
PStoo. And no, losing PSN doesn't break nearly as much offline functionality as people are describing here.
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Xbox One - my digital games won't start
- Thread starter ManUnkindH
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but even then you could just log yourself into as many of your friends consoles as you like
unless you're suggesting that you have to do 2FA every time you launch a game, which is worse IMO
That's the choice between digital or physical. Digital = you can only play it on your home console when offline, but you can share the game with another console (essentially gettting 2 for the price of 1) when online. Physical = play on any console at any time., but need two copies to play simultaneously on two consoles.
Losing XBL completely doesn't stop anyone from playing their digital games. As has been mentioned multiple times, taking the console offline (or pulling the Ethernet cable) will let any owned games boot up just fine. This includes apps like the Blu-ray player.
EvilAlPacino
Banned
The one month that's been a bad month for XBL and everyone thinks this is the end of the world. Everything will be fine. Let's have some patience. Yes, I know not everyone has that much free time to game, but still.
I would be pissed too if I came home and wasnt able to play any of my games. I get it.
I would be pissed too if I came home and wasnt able to play any of my games. I get it.
LyleLanley
Banned
Seems to be working for me now.
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And now it's not working anymore.
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And now it's not working anymore.
yeah it's cool, no big deal, it's not like we're paying for this or anything. just chill
yes.
EvilAlPacino
Banned
yeah, those cents per day is really going to break the bank.just chill.
However, looks like everything is coming online, so that's good.
MMaRsu
Banned
They cant just do that its very intricate
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
I wish MS would be more upfront about this, explain to us why this is happening so often now and why exactly it turns the console into a absolutely useless black brick at that moment....how the hell is Netflix not working? How the fuck is it going to say something went wrong and that you may need to insert a disc for both Netflix and a blu ray....really Microsoft?
MMaRsu
Banned
Haha is this a real thing??
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
That's a joke picture though, i hope?
Pathfinder
Member
Was. It shouldn't exist in Version 1511 (the November Update) that was released late last year.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, google image search lasts forever
Movalpolos
Banned
I truly feel like a 1st class citizen.
GankzyMcfly
Member
Had the same issue with gigantic, plus my dashboard is refreshing every 3 min. pins coming and going
Hostile_18
Banned
Online services go down from time to time thats just life. I'm not a XB 1 user but my worry would be if you arnt game sharing (so you have the master account) what is stopping offline content from launching? It's a bit worrying Microsoft could intentially or unintentionally (as appears here) block all your purchases one day...
Major Nelson should tweet this. You know, just to let everyone in on what is going on.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
Damn, I was going to update my system today too 
I'll wait until tomorrow
I'll wait until tomorrowYup, my dashboard refreshed and I was able to start the game again. I just did 2 things for achievements and they didn't pop either.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
It's not like i will get less of these issues if i just leave the Preview program, right? I was just talking to someone and he has very little issues he said, he's not in the Preview program. I doubt it has anything to do with it though. Maybe he's just in a location where they aren't often affected.
LyleLanley
Banned
This is a server thing, it likely has nothing to do with the preview program.
I fucking damn well will complain. I can't watch Netflix YouTube Hulu or blurays on my living room console.
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Yeah, makes sense.
Well let's just hope things pick up again soon. I have a lot of free time, but plenty of people don't and when they say they only have a few hours for gaming and at those times it actually is down...i feel their pain. That shit sucks. MS turned the Xbox One into something very great, now it's time to improve that XBL too. It's not like they don't have the money for it.
Colbert
Banned
Go offline and you can play at least your blurays!
Pathfinder
Member
Hulu, Netflix and YouTube are online services that require an active XBL connection. It's a silly requirement, but the same requirement is on PSN so that's moot as a point of comparison. If the console is offline, you're not going to use online services.
As for the Blu-ray issue, there is no reason why you can't play BD movies offline on your living room Xbox. So long as you have at least one account that has downloaded the BD software and is set as the home console, it'll work as a BD player until the end of time when offline.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Aceofspades
Banned
PSN is not the same man, stop spreading misinformation.
PSN will never prevent you from playing your digital games when offline on PRIMARY console ever. Netflix and other apps will never be off regardless of PSN status.
seems like some people have their console set as their home console and still in fact can't play their games
Lys Skygge
Member
I can usually watch Netflix/Hulu/YouTube when PSN is down.
And chose "Go Offline"? That's really weird if that's not working.
It is the same.
An Xbox One home console (aka primary) that is offline will always be able to play any purchased digital games. This is also true of any Xbox 360 console.
The only Xbox One consoles that cannot play purchased digital games offline are those that are not set as home.
There are games on the PS3 that require a PSN connection to launch, no matter what. And the Netflix app, at least on PS3, won't connect to anything if you're not logged in to PSN.
If Sony has changed that for PS4, kudos to them. On PS3 if PSN is down, I can't connect to any of those apps. They all demand a PSN login on launch.
Yeah but then Sony can't reveal users have watched a billion hours of entertainment PR like Microsoft can with Xbox Live. I think we know who did the right thing.
Mikey Jr.
Member
Someone should make a thread about Xbox live issues the past week.
No joke, almost every single day for the past week Live has had some sort of problem. People are losing their shit on XB1 reddit in their megathread. Its up to 1600 comments right now.
XB1 gamefaqs board has almost every single thread about the live issues.
Something is definitely going on. Some group is consistently ddosing them every day. Its crazy.
No joke, almost every single day for the past week Live has had some sort of problem. People are losing their shit on XB1 reddit in their megathread. Its up to 1600 comments right now.
XB1 gamefaqs board has almost every single thread about the live issues.
Something is definitely going on. Some group is consistently ddosing them every day. Its crazy.
In fairness my mind read that as PS+. However I do recall watching Netflix on my PS3 when PSN was down
The Jackdog
Member
a few people on reddit, like a good bunch, all were saying 9 days in a row with issues