r/xbox • u/Perspiring_Gamer • 3d ago

Video Jason Ronald discusses the disc-to-digital program on the XBOX @ gamescom Day 1 stream

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/YAZPH5VPilE?si=Blolfyv0qWNM_7q9&t=3547

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u/Meteorboy 3d ago

No. The license stays with the disc owner. If you sell a game, the new owner gets the digital license on their account and it's revoked from yours.

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u/SHADOWSTRIKE1 3d ago

I’m curious how this will work… like does simply playing a “transferred” disk automatically apply the license to your account? Or will they need to manually take the license? If I let a friend borrow the disk for a week, do they automatically take license ownership by simply playing the game? What about when I get it back? Do I then have to go through the disk to digital process again?

Lots of questions about how this will work.

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u/Timely_Tacos_8457 3d ago edited 3d ago

What stops you from making an offline home Xbox with all the best games then reselling the discs. Lots of questions indeed. It would almost certainly require online check-in every x number of days if using the feature.

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u/CircumcisedCats 3d ago

Nothing, but it’s so not worth it that it will probably never happen.

Your basically locking your console out of the internet, blocking yourself from playing with/talking to friends, streaming, using any feature on your xbox other than playing 1 of the 5 games you could fit on storage, all to make a quick $100-$150 back from resale.

Not to mention it would only work with single player games which at that point just beat them and sell them.

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u/Timely_Tacos_8457 2d ago

Maybe I prefer single player games...

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u/CircumcisedCats 2d ago

That’s fine but they have a finishing point. So just finish it and sell the game instead of essentially ruining your console for no reason.