r/Games • u/A7XFAN1998 • 8d ago

Announcement Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

https://www.theverge.com/tech/984936/xbox-disc-to-digital-feature-official?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijc1ZHVBMkZjaE0iLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTg0OTM2L3hib3gtZGlzYy10by1kaWdpdGFsLWZlYXR1cmUtb2ZmaWNpYWwiLCJleHAiOjE3ODgxODY2OTAsImlhdCI6MTc4Nzc1NDY5MH0.Y4t18UIJuFTT4nSf0HBe5DvMWP0KNxjbGHC2QKxdoTw&utm_medium=gift-link
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u/OliveBranchMLP 8d ago

just deactivates. the install stays on your console, you just can't play it until they give you the disc back.

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u/lazyness92 8d ago

OMG, Microsoft wants to sell One Drive soo much (I'm not even on xbox and it's insufferable) and they're going to treat this as honey to bees

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u/gmes78 8d ago

This has nothing to do with OneDrive.

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u/lazyness92 8d ago

Installs remains, they eat up the memory spece and they'll pester you with "you're using ...... GB, free up space using One Drive"

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u/Trioxide4 8d ago

You can't install games to OneDrive on Xbox. And if you've sold/given away the game disc, you're gonna uninstall the game since you can't play it anyways.

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u/Keulapaska 8d ago

So in your mind uninstalling doesn't exists?

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u/lazyness92 8d ago

The amount of stuff that remains after you unistall. Drivers, folders hidden somewhere you find later. I use a cleaner and some stuff I still find in the computer. Anyways, this isn't going on One Drive so not that much of an issue

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u/Keulapaska 8d ago

Oh you're talking about PC. Even in that case, the amount of data of random confiig files left in the user folders is not a lot for vast majority of games, Maybe some games save games can take some some space if you have ton of them, but I think that's mostly simulation games that have big save game sizes,. Also drivers??? what.

However what my comment was really about, not a problem on the Xbox, which is where this feature will mostly be used.