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[Bullet Club]

DRM on Xbox has been in the news recently and if you collect physical Xbox media, can you play games offline? What about Smart Delivery? In this episode we take a closer look and make sense of how everything works. Hopefully this clears up any misconceptions about Xbox DRM.

 

[ParaSeoul]

mod edit: any more stupid responses like this and the threads will just be closed.


Waiting to see the ambassadors downplay this.

 

[ManaByte]

May must have been a low month on MVG's YouTube revenue tab.

 

[Swift_Star]

Waiting to see the ambassadors downplay this.

That was fast.

May must have been a low month on MVG's YouTube revenue tab.

 

[ParaSeoul]

 

[ParaSeoul]

That was fast.

Normally one of them would be the first reply but looks like they've taken a big hit in the past few weeks.

 

[Craig of War]

Physical Media what that?

 

[Flutta]

 

[nush]

Physical Media what that?

A license key code with extra steps these days.

 

[ReBurn]

It was an interesting video. For third party titles I wonder who makes the decision about which version goes on disc for smart delivery titles? It's good to see that Series-only discs can be played offline. Seems like they could enable whatever Xbox One build is on disc to play as-is.

 

[Kilau]

Download games work like any other system as far as I know.

The issue really seems to be with disc games being incomplete and or needing an online activation?

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Smart delivery games not working is kind of odd, I understand that it comes with the lowest version of the game, but why doesn't it work through BC? Do xbox one titles also need to download a BC profile in order to work?
I guess this could've been fixed by just including the profile on the disc? It seems that's what the Balan Wonderworld disc is doing, because it doesn't show the X|S badge on the game tile either.

Though basically once games stop releasing on the xbox one, it immediately stops being an issue.

 

[Chittagong]

Congrats, you purchased an alias of a launcher icon on a disc in a box

 

[AJUMP23]

I hate their current state of DRM. If you lose connection, the game quits. I would like for digital games to know that they have checked your digital license a week ago or something to where I can play a gamepass game even if I have disconnected.

 

[Topher]

It was an interesting video. For third party titles I wonder who makes the decision about which version goes on disc for smart delivery titles? It's good to see that Series-only discs can be played offline. Seems like they could enable whatever Xbox One build is on disc to play as-is.

Really was pretty good video. Doesn't really effect me personally as I'm on XSX primarily for Game Pass and my consoles are always connected. Doesn't seem to be an issue long term either way.

 

[Leyasu]

Waiting to see the ambassadors downplay this.

Waiting for the Sony fanboys to arrive.

That was fast.

Yep, that was fast. Posts 2 and 4.

The lack of self awareness…

On topic. Microsoft need to sort it out. No excuses. A check in period should be defined.

 

[Topher]

On topic. Microsoft need to sort it out. No excuses. A check in period should be defined.

Doesn't designating your "home console" solve this problem?

 

[SomeGit]

Smart delivery games not working is kind of odd, I understand that it comes with the lowest version of the game, but why doesn't it work through BC? Do xbox one titles also need to download a BC profile in order to work?
I guess this could've been fixed by just including the profile on the disc? It seems that's what the Balan Wonderworld disc is doing, because it doesn't show the X|S badge on the game tile either.

Though basically once games stop releasing on the xbox one, it immediately stops being an issue.T

They need the BC profile to work, yes. That’s the reason it won’t boot, it’s such a small file that it a wonder why they don’t include it the firmware to begin with, or at the very least have a generic profile.

I can’t emphasize how small the needed file is, when you do connect online, it’s a blink it and you’ll miss it download. And of course, they’ll work fine in an Xbox One.

Balan, likely has both builds on the disk, I can verify that some small sized games like Hades do include both builds on the disk. So they are playable offline on both Xbox One and Xbox Series X. That’s my guess for Balan.

 

[ReBurn]

I can verify that some small sized games like Hades do include both builds on the disk

How did you verify this?

 

[Banjo64]

I hate their current state of DRM. If you lose connection, the game quits.

Doesn’t do that for me.

 

[Leyasu]

Doesn't designating your "home console" solve this problem?

It does, but I have been blocked before when my internet went down. But, I later learned that if you have your account on another console, you can have problems. I don’t know if it is true or not. Although I couldn’t play any games.

Again, that was a couple of years ago and I wasn’t affected by the recent outages. So I don’t know lol

 

[SomeGit]

How did you verify this?

Put both consoles offline, install on both using just the disk. Both started.

For good measure, checked the file information to make sure they were their respective builds, Scarlett and Durango.

 

[Chukhopops]

Out of curiosity I did the exact same test for Quake and it works offline (the GamePass version).

Don’t know what this guy is doing honestly.

 

[AJUMP23]

Doesn’t do that for me.

I have 2 xbox's and my main xbox isn't my home xbox so my son can play upstairs without issues. I know home xbox factors in.

 

[Topher]

It does, but I have been blocked before when my internet went down. But, I later learned that if you have your account on another console, you can have problems. I don’t if it is true or not. Although I couldn’t play any games.

Again, that was a couple of years ago and I wasn’t affected by the recent outages.

They should have a way for other consoles to check in with the home console in the case of server outage.