My Xbox one associating game disc’s I own with Game Pass

anonii · Feb 14, 2021

I purchased Game Pass a few months ago to try it out. Now it’s expiring soon and it keeps telling me I won’t be able to play my games even though i own and have the physical game discs’. Somehow xbox/game pass has linked itself to a bunch of my physical disc games.

i’ve done the following to “unlink” them :

1. Hard reset on xbox - Didn’t work

2. Deleted 1 affected game + hard reset. Then re-installed game. - Didn’t work

3. Deleted game, deleted profile, hard rest. Then re-installed profile, then game. - Didn’t work

in each scenario, after the game re-installed xbox/game pass remains linked to the game. I get message telling me game pass set to expire. Renew in order to be able to play game.

not sure what other steps to try. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

:)

Obsessive Power

Hi,

When you launch a game on Xbox One the first thing checked is the licence. If the console finds you own a digital licence be that full one or a temporary one the game starts immediately.

If no digital licence is found it checks the disc. Once your Game Pass ends the console checks the disc is present, then it will launch.

Smwutches

Just make sure you have the disc in the drive when you try to play.

anonii

Thanks for the fast reply.

I hope what you’re saying actually works. It won’t let me cancel the subscription, so I can’t test it out. I’ll wait the few days and hope for the best. I’ll post back results.🤔

Smwutches

Since you own them on disc, you'll still be able to play them after Game Pass ends. There's nothing you have to do to unlink them.

BarrelBurrito01

I had game pass awhile back and I played games that I owned on disc through gamepass instead of inserting the disc. After game pass expired my disc games and digital games still work. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the games? Are you getting
a message saying do you own this game? Insert disc to play. Or is your xbox just not reading the disc at all?

My Xbox one associating game disc’s I own with Game Pass