Xbox one will not launch games digitally or from disk

Hi Chris

Sorry to hear about that, however, its possible that there might be corrupted saves or downloads and with this, you may try doing a power cycle:

-Press and hold the Xbox button in the center of your Xbox controller to open the Power Center.

-Select Restart console.

-Select Restart.

If it doesn't work, try a full power cycle:

-Press the Xbox button in front of the console until it shuts down.

-Unplug the power cables from the back of the console and on the wall socket.

-Wait for 10 seconds

-Plug in again and turn on the console

Did you install from disk, or was this a digital download? Did you install an update at the same time as the initial game install? Did you install the episodes after the game?

I had troubles with this one originally. I installed from a disk, launched it, closed it out, then downloaded the updates, then downloaded the episodes. Installing from the disk and downloading the updates at the same time broke the install for me.

Once again, this problem is related to the horrible issues caused by digital games running on Windows that boot from external disk. The game didn't launch because of an OFFLINE disk the game uses to launch.

More info about it in this other thread:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...throws-a/9f0dbc13-8c23-47da-8cfb-09cfbff22456

It does answer your question though

You don't seem to understand how the system works

Physical disks require you to have the disk in the drive

This does not hand you the license for a digital copy

If you want the digital copy you should be gotten the games with gold one when it was available or buy it now

This was an upcoming feature but due to the massive protest 300k people against the install and put away the disk this would've required you to be online to verify that you ain't copying the game to 50 consoles. we don't have the option to install and put
away the disk anymore it is for future reconsideration

You can thank them for that and Phils Spencer losing his job over it

And no achievements nor playing disks would prevent you from queueing free or paid games

As it wouldn't be in your download history

Deus ex wouldn't have prevented you from buying the game

Unless you were doing something unrelated like trying to launch it from the home screen

In order to buy a game you need to go to xbox storefront not the game hub on xbox one or home screen launch game

Ideally you wouldn't have the game in the drive anyways when you are trying to buy a digital copy

Well digitally it may be possible, but when you say downloading a game from disk, then it's not possible. Downloading a disk game doesn't give you a license to the digital game. If that ever be the case then only one person will buy a disk and share it
across with everyone else, and everyone will get the digital game for free.