Microsoft announces offline mode for Win10 games

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/31/2016 09:23 AM | source: | 23 comment(s)

Microsoft sends word that that an offline mode is available right now for its Windows 10 games. According to the publisher, most games available in the Store support offline play, however players are asked to check the details of their games to make sure theirs are supported

If you’re planning to be in an area with no online coverage, such as on a long-distance flight or a sailing excursion, you can prepare your Windows 10 device to allow you to play offline. Most games available in the Store on your Windows 10 device support offline play, but check the details of the game to make sure yours is supported by searching for your game at http://www.xbox.com.

Most games with a campaign mode will be playable offline, but games with network co-op or multiplayer features will not work while you’re offline.

While playing offline, some features, such as the ability to purchase additional items from the Windows Store, will not be available. Additionally, any leaderboards will be unavailable while you're offline.
Achievements
If you earn any achievements while playing offline, they will sync to your account the next time you sign in to Xbox Live on your device. You won’t see a toast notification letting you know that you unlocked the achievement until you sign in to Xbox Live on that device.

Cloud saves and offline game play

Before you go offline, connect to Xbox Live to sync your most recent game save to the cloud. While you play offline, your game save progress will continue to be saved locally, and it’ll sync the next time you sign in to Xbox Live. If you want to continue playing on a different device (or platform, if the game supports Xbox Play Anywhere), you’ll need to go online and connect to Xbox Live to allow your local saved game to sync with the cloud again.

If you’re on a Windows 10 device, your cloud saves will automatically start uploading once you’re signed in and connected to Xbox Live. Game save sync is usually fast, but allow a couple of minutes before you try playing on another device.

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kinggavin
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#5352979 Posted on: 10/31/2016 10:04 AM

if you actually look at the steps you need to take to "prepare a game to play offline its very tedious microsoft google and the rest make money by harvest your data and selling it so they dont want you offline thus make it tedious so you cant be bothered windows 10 seems to me turn a pc into a console so all devices are equal but in the end win 10 could be the death of pc gaming because if u got no freedom to do what you want on a pc whats the point especially when you put lot more money into a pc than a console costs so you get that freedom

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#5353010 Posted on: 10/31/2016 12:12 PM

Jesus man, punctuation.

I think that it's nice that they're adding this functionality back so that we can play games like our ancestors did since the 50's.

Ugh. When did always online become a thing anyway?

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#5353033 Posted on: 10/31/2016 01:27 PM

nick0323
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#5353163 Posted on: 10/31/2016 06:21 PM

I don't understand why people whinge for offline gaming especially when you have to "download" the game any ways. Gosh it reminds me of the days when I'd have tens of folders in My Documents with different save games! But, nonetheless - good on MS for supporting this and pleasing the people who whine the most to make a company look bad.

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#5353179 Posted on: 10/31/2016 06:56 PM

Jesus man, punctuation.

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#5353186 Posted on: 10/31/2016 07:05 PM

Did you forget that a lot of people have Data Caps oh no your SOL

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#5353219 Posted on: 10/31/2016 08:19 PM

Who cares? Nobody uses the Windows Store anyways. The Windows Store is where apps go to die. In fact many developers ignore the Windows Store completely because they know that there's no point wasting their time with it. Why should they when there's Steam, GOG and other ways of selling software? (Not to mention the Android Play Store and the iOS app store.)
It's not like Windows 10 forces it's users to use the Windows Store, which means that I do not need it. Hell, I ripped it out of my installation completely. That's right, I deleted the dam thing. Not disabled, not hid; Deleted.

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#5353242 Posted on: 10/31/2016 09:19 PM

Not everybody lives in a perfect internet world.

I'm lucky enough to not suffer from long down times but i have many friends who are not so lucky.

Even yesterday evening Origin was down for me for hours. So i could of if i wanted still play off line games but i don't really own many single player type games.

I mean people should have the right to play their games offline right, shouldn't even be an issue in the first place but of course it is because MS makes it so.

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#5353256 Posted on: 10/31/2016 09:48 PM

Hehe.

2016; offline-mode is a new feature...for some games. XD

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#5353279 Posted on: 10/31/2016 10:51 PM

If he does that then the round-earthers win.

Joking aside, this seems like standard behavior that should have been there since day 1. Next step, resumable downloads and installation discovery like Origin and Steam. I hope it doesn't take them as long as this one.

Origin...one of the main reasons I don't do clean installs as often as I would like. Restoring the games is still a nightmare...especially on 1.5 DSL.

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#5353285 Posted on: 10/31/2016 11:16 PM

Did you forget that a lot of people have Data Caps oh no your SOL

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#5353288 Posted on: 10/31/2016 11:23 PM

Hehe.

2016; offline-mode is a new feature...for some games. XD
I know right? Steam has had offline mode since... what, forever?
The Windows Store is mainly aimed at Windows Phone users (such as they are). It only exists in Windows 10 because Microsoft's boneheaded decision to make "one platform to rule them all" means that desktop Windows is forced to have a store that was designed for smartphones.... smartphones that do not sell well. Stupid strategy.

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#5353297 Posted on: 10/31/2016 11:40 PM

You clearly don't understand the difference between GB (gigabytes) and MB (megabytes) there fella. If a game is 40GB to download, then what is a couple of MB for a save game file? Exactly...

I don't know what SOL is but we don't have data caps on most UK broadband service providers. Must be a US thing.

If it's a total bandwidth cost of around 10MB every time you launch it, it can become more trouble than it's worth. There are also bandwidth and time constraints. A lot of people are in areas with less than 4Mbit connections. Anyway, I cannot see how this can be considered negative.

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#5353302 Posted on: 10/31/2016 11:54 PM

You clearly don't understand the difference between GB (gigabytes) and MB (megabytes) there fella. If a game is 40GB to download, then what is a couple of MB for a save game file? Exactly...

I don't know what SOL is but we don't have data caps on most UK broadband service providers. Must be a US thing.

Really you never heard the phase SOL (**** Out of Luck)
With only 300GB per mouth like my ISP has that doesn't last long with other people house hold and can't steaming to min movie or show just video

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#5353313 Posted on: 11/01/2016 12:20 AM

Games like FH3 would not work well in offline mode at all. You wouldn't even be able to customize your car or download other designs. who knows? The Festivals might not even work. The game says nothing about an offline mode in the store.

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