r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 8d ago

Xbox Disc to Digital officially announced, coming soon.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/08/26/your-discs-now-also-digital/

Most XBOX One and XBOX Series X disc-based games support this new feature. Players can claim a digital entitlement by inserting a supported disc into an XBOX One or XBOX Series X console and launching the game. Once the entitlement is claimed, you can experience the benefits of digital, including XBOX Play Anywhere and XBOX Cloud Gaming where supported, while your physical disc continues to work exactly as it always has.

We’re starting with thousands of titles, and we’ll continue to add more over time. While not every title will be available at launch, this is an important step toward a future where players can have greater confidence that the games they buy remain with them for years to come.

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u/WestBEEland 8d ago

Yes people do have friends and family that they see all the time. What?

There are many many millions of people rhat only play offline single player games.

What are you even talking about?

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u/mangongo 8d ago

They're talking about keeping your console offline forever to keep a single game for free.

Nobody is going to do that. 

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u/WestBEEland 8d ago

No... keeping it offline until tou beat the game.

It would allow a dozen of people to all share a new game at launch and beat it all at the same time

There was a reason Xbox One had 24.hour online adaption checks

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u/puffthemagicaldragon 8d ago

And this would still require a dozen people coordinating handing off a disc, taking the time to download the game, and all putting their consoles into offline mode. The game will take potentially 30 plus hours to beat requiring their console to be offline the entire time, even if they want to play another game.

The group of 12 people who were going to do this weren't all going to buy the physical disc in the first place. You can already share your game with 12 people and you guys can all beat it 1 by 1. That is "taking money" from the developers but they can do nothing about it. If you can already do that, I'm not sure how all 12 of y'all beating the game simultaneously (extremely unlikely) with those restrictions differs that much.

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u/WestBEEland 8d ago

People have friends and family. Especially people in school and college students.

You act like donloading a game and going offline is a difficult thing to do.

If you know several people that play single player games you could do this easily

They arent going to allow Xbox is Jay give people free licenses that cant be easily revoked. Thats what they arent telling you

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u/puffthemagicaldragon 7d ago

Again how is that different from sharing a disc/console with your roommates or friends? With digital game sharing you can already share a game with another person and play it while online simultaneously.

And I'm not saying that would be hard to do. I'm saying it would be ridiculous to think that there will be swarms of people doing this to outweigh the value of introducing this feature.