I've pretty much decided in the last couple weeks that from here on out I'm going full PC gaming. I'll keep, continue to use, and buy games that run on my Xbox One X, but I'm not upgrading it. My next hardware will be a HTPC build for my TV, but it won't be soon (expensive). I've got a halfway decent mini-PC there now that really was the last bit in winning me over. The PC games on a TV experience has gotten so much better.
Although I thought I'd read if your Xbox was marked as your home console you could still play single player games. I haven't tried...maybe I'll go see if Forza will launch.
LOL. It's what people get for trusting corporations with control over games. Just like I laugh at steam gamers when that's down. You agreed to it when you bought into Online Verifications and worse, now face the consequences. However rare, it still means that if they wanted to, or something happened, it could become permanent.
That and a ton of their "online only" games are cross-platform so it's easy to weed out the bad ones. Hell, last summer we had a neighborhood-wide power outage for almost a day (believe it or not it had to do with how much rain was pouring down and not one of those "grid" things). Thanks to two 10kW gennies I was able to play and beat RE4 while the rest of the area was on candle-light.
...yeah? that's how software works. You can't use something unless its installed. (EDIT: You literally need the game files on your pc for the game to exist on your computer and run. What kind of brainlet thinks the mere act of downloading and installing a game is some form of drm?) I've yet to find a game that I can't launch without an internet connection to steam. Always online drm is also a per-game thing, not steam-wide.
If steam were down for over a month I guess there'd be problems, but that's not happening any time soon. EDIT: at the time of writing, I thought steam phoned home periodically. Apparently it doesn't. If steam gets nuked, the games you downloaded still work fine so long as they aren't written to depend on steam infrastructure.
No, software doesn't have to phone home and verify to work. That's entirely due to DRM. If you think DRM is an integral part of software, I've got a bridge to sell you. I also see that long-term thinking and consequence reflection is lacking. I'm sure steam will never fail, it will never change CEO or board members, it will never suffer outages. I'm sure. Consume product and move on and downwards.
Steam doesn't gate your library behind an online checkin though. The only thing you are missing when steam is down is the ability to download games and use the store and social features.
I emulate most things now. Isos and offline executables are the only ways to protect yourself from companies going to shit and taking your games with them.
That's for Xbox One. Series X is different, nothing works, it wipes your games off your home screen and if you try to open them from the games menu, it just throws up a ton of errors.
Meanwhile my 28 year old Super Nintendo still works flawlessly 23 years after they stopped making them.
Microsoft being Microsoft. Better than Soyny, but still shit. The glory days of gaming is gone.
Gotta stop buying consoles. It's an obsolete model.
I've pretty much decided in the last couple weeks that from here on out I'm going full PC gaming. I'll keep, continue to use, and buy games that run on my Xbox One X, but I'm not upgrading it. My next hardware will be a HTPC build for my TV, but it won't be soon (expensive). I've got a halfway decent mini-PC there now that really was the last bit in winning me over. The PC games on a TV experience has gotten so much better.
Although I thought I'd read if your Xbox was marked as your home console you could still play single player games. I haven't tried...maybe I'll go see if Forza will launch.
Good man.
LOL. It's what people get for trusting corporations with control over games. Just like I laugh at steam gamers when that's down. You agreed to it when you bought into Online Verifications and worse, now face the consequences. However rare, it still means that if they wanted to, or something happened, it could become permanent.
TBF, I can still play all my games when steam is down. The library and launcher are local.
That and a ton of their "online only" games are cross-platform so it's easy to weed out the bad ones. Hell, last summer we had a neighborhood-wide power outage for almost a day (believe it or not it had to do with how much rain was pouring down and not one of those "grid" things). Thanks to two 10kW gennies I was able to play and beat RE4 while the rest of the area was on candle-light.
Only the game you're currently playing, or have downloaded, installed, and played before (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Store:Steam#Offline_Mode). Also, that it doesn't use the more severe version of the different steamDRM's (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/User:Cyanic/Steam_DRM) or any of the 3rd party, non-steam, DRM (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_third-party_DRM_on_Steam), and of course the Always Online DRM which they may or may not have told you about.
...yeah? that's how software works. You can't use something unless its installed. (EDIT: You literally need the game files on your pc for the game to exist on your computer and run. What kind of brainlet thinks the mere act of downloading and installing a game is some form of drm?) I've yet to find a game that I can't launch without an internet connection to steam. Always online drm is also a per-game thing, not steam-wide.
If steam were down for over a month I guess there'd be problems, but that's not happening any time soon. EDIT: at the time of writing, I thought steam phoned home periodically. Apparently it doesn't. If steam gets nuked, the games you downloaded still work fine so long as they aren't written to depend on steam infrastructure.
No, software doesn't have to phone home and verify to work. That's entirely due to DRM. If you think DRM is an integral part of software, I've got a bridge to sell you. I also see that long-term thinking and consequence reflection is lacking. I'm sure steam will never fail, it will never change CEO or board members, it will never suffer outages. I'm sure. Consume product and move on and downwards.
Steam doesn't gate your library behind an online checkin though. The only thing you are missing when steam is down is the ability to download games and use the store and social features.
You can still play & save games when Steam is down. It just won’t count your hours or count towards achievements.
Downloaded offline games you own, not get with GamePass, still worked, by the way...
I emulate most things now. Isos and offline executables are the only ways to protect yourself from companies going to shit and taking your games with them.
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/connect-network/using-xbox-one-offline
That's for Xbox One. Series X is different, nothing works, it wipes your games off your home screen and if you try to open them from the games menu, it just throws up a ton of errors.
Another reason I am sitting out this next generation of gaming.
PC gaming is where it's at anyway.
it's been a couple of months since i've turned on the ol xbox.
edit Sorry for double-posting. I had to let eMatrix allow evil Cloudflare just to post, as it threw an error. Seems it still got through.
Maybe go touch grass, you console peasant.
I'm so bored, I want to pick fights on the internet.
That’s like your entire MO.
Am I allowed to say I wish or is that a Rule 2?
You could just post an ellipsis... we all know how to fill in that particular blank for you by now.