You can also access online multiplayer gaming for more than 50 free-to-play games, party chat, and Looking for Groupall without needing an Xbox subscription. With an Xbox profile, you can experience the hottest games, apps, HD movies, and TV shows on your console. Access the guide using the Xbox button on your controller, and move the stick all the way to the right section to find Settings. The Xbox network is the online service for all things Xbox.You can also use this setting to check whether a game actually works offline or not. If you're connected using an Ethernet cable, it's as simple as pulling the plug, but if you want to disable your Wi-Fi without wiping your settings, here's how. Some were able to bypass this DRM check and fall back to an offline license by forcing their Xbox console into an offline state. Since some parts of Xbox Live were still active, games may have been trying to check the DRM servers and returning a negative result.
This may have been, in part, due to some nuances in the way licenses attach to digital games. One issue some people ran into during the May 2022 outage was that games were failing to launch, even if they were 'offline' titles. Follow the two sections below to make sure your console is properly set up for offline play. Your best bet is to find some games you'd prefer to play in an outage, and test to see whether they'll work in offline situations.
