XBox 360's flow is kind of like this: Put game in, start game, sign into profile, offline? okay. You're signed in but can't play on live., so here’s an option f

XBox 360's flow is kind of like this: Put game in, start game, sign into profile, offline? okay. You're signed in but can't play on live., so here’s an option for single player. XBox One's flow is kind of like this: Put game in, wait 15 minutes for the game to install enough to begin to be playable, start game, "you must be signed into a profile" (this is at the XBox level), "We can't connect to XBox Live Core Servers -- Check status at www... and try again later," exits to dashboard. That's it, I'm not exaggerating. > So while i don't know what took so much "figuring out" mainly because it's a feature of the console you should blame the publishers that put all the "online" features in the game in the first place. First, I had a few things to figure out. We've had this thing a month. It's a very sophisticated piece of gaming equipment, or supposed to be. No way it just completely bricks itself into a blu-ray player just because it’s online Core Services are down? So I start troubleshooting: Have I gotten a new credit card due to Target/Home Depot/?? Hack and not updated my billing information? Status page says they are experiencing some problems with some people not being able to login. Now that I know my billing info is good, and it really is solely a problem with Xbox Live Services, is there a way to bypass it? I am not the only one that has had this problem because there is a lot of forum posts online, which is the first place I found out that you have to go to settings to toggle an option to go into an “Offline Mode.” But, in my mind I'm wondering why would I go offline in the first place? My internet is working... I put the XBox in offline mode, the game starts, let's us login to our profile, then the game tried to contact it's servers. Once it sees that it can't contact it's servers it, without issue, gives us the option to play single player. Having to first discover “Offline mode,” then decide when you need to be in “Offline” mode on the console to play a game that has the ability to play both offline and online is not a feature of the console. It’s confusing, and it ruined my experience as a user. I am attempting to constructively point out a flaw that I have personally experienced.