Physical copy required?

[Lazem]

What exactly did you purchase? A physical or digital copy? For what system?

not to sound rude but he literally said "with an Xbox gift card"

Here's what that tells me:

• He bought it from Microsoft
  

Here's what that does not tell me:

• If it's physical or digital
  
• If it's for Xbox 360 or Xbox One
  

What exactly did you purchase? A physical or digital copy? For what system?

A digital copy of Dante's Inferno for the Xbox One S.

Anyways, back to the point. Is a physical copy of a game required in order to extract models from it?

There's pretty much nothing you can do with an Xbox One copy.

Now if you had it for PSP/PS3/Xbox 360, you would have some options.