We're extremely quick to champion Xbox Game Pass here at Pure Xbox, as are most of the Xbox community! However, that doesn't mean there aren't issues from time to time, and one cropped up recently regarding offline games.
Basically, players were reporting that Game Pass games weren't launching properly when offline. Sometimes it only affected certain games, and was worsened when consoles were restarted. Here are a few community examples:
These recent posts didn't gain huge amounts of attention, so this could be an issue only affecting certain users. Either way, those users will be happy to see the glitch being looked into.
Eden Marie, engineering lead at Xbox, says that the issue has been addressed and rolled out to multiple rounds of Insiders. The issue only affects subscription-based titles, and isn't applicable to purchased or disc-based games.
If the fix does its job, a patch should roll out to all Xbox users in the near future. At that point, anyone having issues with offline Game Pass games should be sorted!
Do you regularly play Xbox Game Pass games offline? Let us know below.
[source twitter.com]
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Glad to see it’s getting fixed. I complained about it on here early or mid-last year when I experienced a prolonged internet outage.
Good to see. I didn't get this issue as my internet is fairly stable, but if it did go on the blink most of the games I play are on GP, and many others that aren't are online only so I'd have been snookered.
@PhileasFragg, same here, can't remember the last internet-outage (apart from some scheduled maintenance and that's always when I sleep), but great to hear that it's being adresssed!.
Truth is, there is a ton of quirky situations where my Xbox won't allow me to play offline. Sometimes internet is spotty or there is some sort of server downtime blocking me from one Xbox function or another. and a lot of the times, the ultimate result is I can't access a game. Getting sick of it.
I'm new to the current gen of Xbox and figured GP games had to be verified on the servers before starting. There were situations where I couldn't play due to internet falter. It's good to know it was just an issue and that they are looking into it.
Thanks a lot team Xbox Microsoft...for getting fixed this problem very important for many user Xbox like me
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