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[jcmproch]

Whenever me or my wife go to play the game offline, we are both forced to connect to xbox live to play.. or have to start all over. We'd prefer not to connect to live when playing as we live in a rural area and the connection is poor. Any help?

[negadave]

I have not been able to replicate this issue through my testing.
Live is not required for play. You only need a Gamertag.
I disconnected from Live, loaded my profile, and played as normal.
Is there anything else you can tell me about this issue to help me replicate it?

[AuntieParticle]

I have not been able to replicate this issue through my testing.
Live is not required for play. You only need a Gamertag.
I disconnected from Live, loaded my profile, and played as normal.
Is there anything else you can tell me about this issue to help me replicate it?

I don't know if this will help with jcmproch's issue or not. I normally play YSFE 2012 while connected. But about a week ago my BXox was not able to connect to Xbox Live but I still wanted to do my workout. I was prompted to connect to Live each time I tried to open the YSFE 2012 game. It it kept promptiing me to either play as guest or connect to Live. I kept trying to signin as my gametag. Finally on the 4th try it let me enter that game with my gametag and no Live connection. I thought it might have had something to do with the latest update.

[negadave]

I'll keep my eyes peeled to see if any more instances of this issue appear.
Thank you both.

[jcmproch]

Ok so once we connect we can play, and boot it up again and play without connecting. Yet once we shut the Xbox off and try to boot the game up without connecting it; first asks if we want to test the connection, after saying no it asks; if we want to play without logging in. Even tho we've logged in (offline) we say yes and it shows no progress saved even tho again we've logged in offline. Our saves our on the hhd not cloud, so there should be no reason for connection.

[MinKus04]

I've also had this problem. I just recently got the game and I think it was fine the first couple times I played without being connected to live. But since I setup a uplay account and then being connected to live it's been buggy when not connected. It asks to sign in then if i want to try and connect to live. And it just keeps repeating and all progress was lost. But once i booted the game up after connecting to live the progress somehow came back. I even tried deleting my saved game to see if it would just act like in the beginning but alas it still asks me now everytime i boot it up offline to sign in (even though i am already) and to test my connection. I don't want to play the game if I can't keep my progress, or bring my internet setup into the room everytime just to satisfy the game.

[usakgi]

This problem occurs if you are not connected to Xbox Live before playing the Kinect game. Then, you can only play as guest without progress being saved. The only solution I found from Xbox forum is to setup a Kinect ID at Kinect Setting. Once you have a Kinect ID attached to your gamertag, the game will automatically identify you and you can then proceed without the irritating Live sign in loop. Hopefully, Microsoft will quickly rectify this problem in the next dashboard update.

[negadave]

@usakgi
Thank you for the info.
If you still have the link, I'd love to see it.
Thanks!

[AdvisoryShrimp8]

same here ^(

[AuntieParticle]

This problem occurs if you are not connected to Xbox Live before playing the Kinect game. Then, you can only play as guest without progress being saved. The only solution I found from Xbox forum is to setup a Kinect ID at Kinect Setting. Once you have a Kinect ID attached to your gamertag, the game will automatically identify you and you can then proceed without the irritating Live sign in loop. Hopefully, Microsoft will quickly rectify this problem in the next dashboard update.

This is really great to know. But I do have a Kinect ID and I always use it to log into my profile (wave to Kinect) before doing anything else on Xbox. But even after doing so, I have had difficulty getting into YSFE 2012 using my gametag if my Xbox is not connected to Xbox Live. As mentioned in my post above, I was eventually able to do it but it took 4 tries and a lot of patience before it worked.