Oh, then this was broken recently because it's not normal. What is normal is for games to be playable in offline mode, regardless of how backwards the system is.
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Xbox One - my digital games won't start
- Thread starter ManUnkindH
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EvilAlPacino
Banned
MS just having a bad month with XBL, no need to have a meltdown.
Things happens, what can one do but wait and have a little patience that's all.
Things happens, what can one do but wait and have a little patience that's all.
captainraincoat
Banned
been down for 12 hours here....pretty sure thats being patient
H3rTz DoNuT
Member
How can you even say this? Love my xbox, but Live was terrible lately and there is no excuse for it, not for a company like Microsoft. When live goes down, like just did. the console is useless, nothing works.
The Albatross
Member
Not having a meltdown, just complaining about a poorly made product running into inevitable network issues. Network issues will happen, but the Xbox one handles them in an incoherent, perplexing way.
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
I would be really upset if this happened to me. I almost bought it digitally, too, so I could play it tonight. I'd be livid.
EdReedFan20
Member
That was such a brilliant loophole on Neflix's part. I still have my PS3 disk for whatever reason. And considering they were free, I also got one for Wii, despite never owning one. At the time, I was still considering getting one, though.
bananafactory
Banned
To me this is less about XBL being down and more about the fact it has exposed how the console becomes a brick without it.
Yep, and with good reason. I know I'm pissed.
If that were true then it would have been exposed long ago. This issue about games not launching doesn't seem universal.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
I can't open EA access
It should not be a problem at all. This is such a fucked up way to go about things that you would think it was designed by The Three Stooges.
And I'm not arguing that, just that the console doesn't universally become a brick without online. If that were the case, there would have already been outrage significantly higher than the pre-release one.
Just for many of us, which makes it a problem all the same. It should not even be an issue for people who bought the system and bought the content to play on it. It's a fucking joke... end of story. And whoever designed it this way needs to schedule a cat scan, pronto.
Wait, what? The people who are having the same issue as Albatros are the majority? That's news to me.
Captain Bluey
Member
Rocket League wont start! Noooooooooooooo!!!
I don't know how many it is and I did not specify. I just said many of us. My point is that it IS a problem that should not be there for anyone. But it is, designing the system this way is clusterfuck city and it sure does suck for those of us affected.
Sure, I don't disagree, and I add that this is a new issue, it wasn't "designed" like this. Up until now, I've never seen this issue because people could play their stuff by going offline.
This probably happened just now with the February update, because there was that brief time during Christmas with Live down but things still worked when going offline.
The "having to manually go offline for games to work" was designed, and I've already said it's idiotic.
Good, then we agree. It is beyond idiotic.
Steverulez
Member
Sucks for those having problems, been on Rocket League all night myself not had any issues
Pathfinder
Member
If they were smart they'd pool half their resources into fixing the problem and the other half into figuring out how to get offline mode working correctly so this doesn't happen again. Like, Xbox 360 kind of working correctly.
If they can work magic like getting their prior console to run in a virtual machine on their new console, they should be able to figure this out.
If they can work magic like getting their prior console to run in a virtual machine on their new console, they should be able to figure this out.
#sorrynotsorry
Member
Only game I could play tonight was Rocket League. Not all bad, but I wanted to play something different.
Cynn
Member
Same. I wish I could at least do single player stuff.
DJ_Lae
Member
Yeah, it would be nice, although I don't know how parts of XBL being down affect EA's own services.
Didn't say it was.
Backfoggen
Banned
Offline-offline works, this weird half-online seems to be fucking stuff up.
Colbert
Banned
For all with the issue "offline" mode doesn't work for them with games:
if the console is not set as home console, "offline" doesn't work
setting the console to home console while the outage is ongoing doesn't work either because the setting needs to be checked by the servers (security check - only one home console allowed)
games that are multiplayer or have some sort of always online implementation (Destiny, Powerstar Golf) don't work because the service is down that support those features.
Strictly offline single player games (that need no online resources at all) work fine in "offline mode": I personally tried and can confirm those games are working: BF4 SP campaign, Halo5 SP Campaign, GTA V SP, DA:I, Dishonored DE, ROTTR, Both Wolfenstein games
(I am all digital!)
Edit:
Just tried to start a bunch of other games: Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel work (you will be asked if you want to play offline when the game starts), Fallout 4 works too, Ori And The Blind Forest works, Witcher 3 works
Edit2:
Apps: Netflix doesn't work with offline, Amazon Instant Video doesn't work, BluRay does work!
if the console is not set as home console, "offline" doesn't work
setting the console to home console while the outage is ongoing doesn't work either because the setting needs to be checked by the servers (security check - only one home console allowed)
games that are multiplayer or have some sort of always online implementation (Destiny, Powerstar Golf) don't work because the service is down that support those features.
Strictly offline single player games (that need no online resources at all) work fine in "offline mode": I personally tried and can confirm those games are working: BF4 SP campaign, Halo5 SP Campaign, GTA V SP, DA:I, Dishonored DE, ROTTR, Both Wolfenstein games
(I am all digital!)
Edit:
Just tried to start a bunch of other games: Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel work (you will be asked if you want to play offline when the game starts), Fallout 4 works too, Ori And The Blind Forest works, Witcher 3 works
Edit2:
Apps: Netflix doesn't work with offline, Amazon Instant Video doesn't work, BluRay does work!
Crentist the Dentist
Member
Blu ray player doesn't work for me. Surely that's a step too far that I can't even watch a movie!?
Colbert
Banned
Is your console set to offline and as home console? if not goto network settings -> go offline and restart (not reset) the console. Should work then! At least it works for me!
boredofcanada
Member
This is fucking annoying. I paid for the deluxe version of PVZ2. I hope it works tomorrow cause I have work in the morning.
Why bring up reality?
Caayn
Member
Let him dream.