Yeah. I say MS was like just make it the same for everyone. Disc downloads the whole game. Like Digital. No need to make a custom installation, per game. To just get the data that needs to be overwritten to the HDD.

I can't believe this thread was made. People will try to downgrade literally anything MS does.

This issue doesn't exists at all.

You can only play the retail game if you it on your disc tray... the needs of a new download is just for techinical reasons... the game is different from what you have on disc.

The details about the consoles limitations on backwards compatibility. The more skeptical i become :(

Sorry, what's shady here? Oh the idea that maybe someday potentially some publisher might maybe decide to remove their games from BC support in order to sell them. Sounds plausible and very lucrative. I know if I owned Mass Effect 1-3 and they were working in Xbone and then EA killed it and released ME Triology Super HD Edition then my response would be to buy that.

This reminds me of the EA Access fear threads where it seems good but is actually bad because maybe potentially one day every publisher will maybe have their own. Fast forward to present day and EA Access is great and no one else unfortunately has followed suit.

BTW what is that talk about DRM.

They need to check if you have the original disc (aka if you bought the game).

I believe that the download is just a few MBs for config and, maybe, executables. You will need the disc in your tray all the time. So it's basically the same thing as X1/PS4 games.

yes its like with PS4 and Xbox games but  with both consoles you install the disc games on your Harddrive. This whole process can be done being offline like consoles should work, with Xbox 360 games on Xbox One it doesnt works that way obviously.

Its like with a physical PC game which can be played offline but requiring Steam registration of the key with the game which is DRM. I dont get why an internet service is required for backwards compatibility. 

id assume, because its different code. the game isnt compatible with xbo at a hardware level, but a software level. (which microsoft and/or the dev, had to tinker with the code of the game, to get them to emulate on the xbo).

i can almost guarantee that the game code of the new digital download, and the original game, are different. unlike the backward compatablilty of the old ps3, and xbox360, which you could just put it the disk, and the console would be able to read it and play it.

The game needs new binaries/executables like the 360 BC for original Xbox... that is why you need to download... the binaries/executables found in the disc won't run on Xbone.

It is a fair technical reason.