Playing solo games offline

GrfxGawd · Jul 24, 2019

I tried playing Spyro Reignited Trilogy because we were having an internet outage. It refused to play but helpfully offered that once I was back online, I should make this my home console so others could enjoy playing games.
This fails - This console is in my room, it is an Xbox One X, it is my main console I game on. We have an older Xbox One S in our living room. We sometimes use it to watch Bluray discs, stream some content, and rather infrequently I might fire
up a game on it. My family is NOT going to cram themselves into a small bedroom barely large enough to allow the use of a single office chair, but this is where I play, where I purchase games. I want to be able to share games with that Xbox One S that I have
purchased with this Xbox One X. I want my Xbox One X to be MY CONSOLE, where I buy and play my games. The Xbox One S is peripheral, I would like to share things with it. This does not seem currently possible. I can not be the only human that needs this. Why
do I not see the ability to configure my system this way? Did I miss something? And if I did not miss something when will this be addressed, because it has been this way for, a year or more at least? And every time I have an outage I get to stare at a screen
and Do Nothing For Hours - this is not why I've paid thousands of dollars to Microsoft for hardware and games. (Not an exaggeration - in hardware alone, a Day One Xbox One, a replacement power supply for that console, a replacement controller for that console,
the replacements Xbox One S for that Day One when it died, the replacement controller for that Xbox One S's controller when it died, and upgrade to the Xbox One S to an X, and a replacement controller for this X is a minimum $1500 not counting any of the 100+
purchased digital games from the Microsoft store, none of which can be played when offline.)

Really hoping I'm missing or overlooking something. Little frazzled with this issue as it's not new, and I was pretty sure I reported it previously.

:)

XBF Eladio M

Hey Gawd

Thank you for taking the time to post this on the Xbox Forums. We appreciate all of these updates you have provided to us in regards to how you have been attempting to troubleshoot this.

You are correct when you stated that this is a feature and is working as intended. I know that it can be truly irritating when attempting to use something that you have invested so much into, to not be able to provide some of its most fundamental features
[in this instance, playing games]

You may not be able to use the Blu-ray app to watch films, as all apps on the console require a stable connection to Xbox Live to be able to be used, however, using a physical copy of a game will still allow you to launch that game offline.

Your console also saves your
save data locally as well as the cloud, so the next time you connect online you will be able to update your save data and take it with you anywhere via the cloud.

I would like to encourage you to
suggest this idea to Microsoft, if it hasn't already, as this feature I'm sure would be most beloved by many Xbox gamers.

I'm sorry about any confusion or turmoil this might have caused.

GrfxGawd

Spent a couple of hours with a tech. Apparently, this is something that can't be "fixed"
as it's a feature. The prohibition of using your content and services you have lawfully paid for if you do not have an always-on constant 100% uptime internet connection.

Really. Because playing a DVD I physically have in my possession on a console physically in my possession might somehow be pirating or something, so after an hour of no internet, you can't anymore.

This is known, real, repeatable - try it yourself and enjoy

I thank everyone for their help with this issue. If you'll excuse me, I need to go buy a Bluray player for my living room as my Xbox S can't be trusted to handle the task, if god forbid, we should ever be offline.

yobrizo

Hello. you need to put the one s console as the main one s. it will not require you to do so and all the dlc and additions will be installed in this one, regardless of where you make the purchase. the one x you put it as a secondary. you're going to need
to log in to access the games on your profile. I think the dlc are just installed in the main

StuartATrueRed

If you want to share your games & dlc on the Xbox One S, then you need to log in with the account that purchases those games & dlc on the Xbox One S and make it the home Xbox. When you do this, your Xbox one X console will need to be logged in on Xbox
Live all the time to be able to play games.

GrfxGawd

PS. If there is no solution, is there some way to escalate this so that someone from Xbox/Microsoft actually sees this?

I tried using the supplied 1-800 number and all it did was direct me to these forums. It's nice as an Xbox Ambassador myself, to know how to get help when I myself, a member of the Xbox Ambassador program can neither find a solution to an issue or find a method
to resolve an issue.

I was also an Xbox Live beta tester - over 16 years experience playing, fixing, and diagnosing Xbox and Xbox Live issues for myself and other members of the Live community.

Playing solo games offline