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Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms
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Xbox discs are subject to ‘entitlement checks,’ but they should still be playable offline.
Xbox discs are subject to ‘entitlement checks,’ but they should still be playable offline.
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After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don’t truly own anything under Xbox’s license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical game discs are subject to licensing inspections, that shouldn’t have prevented them from working during this week’s outage, or while consoles are offline.
“We’re looking into reports that some players were unable to access games using discs as expected during the service interruption. Disc-based entitlement checks should not prevent players from accessing their games and this is by design,” said Van Vliet.
The massive outage started on Sunday night, and lasted for almost a day. It prevented some console owners from playing games — both physical and digital, as confirmed by the Xbox status page — alongside logging in, launching apps, or finding games on the Xbox store. Xbox confirmed the issues had been resolved on Monday evening. In an update on X yesterday, Van Vliet blamed the outage on an external licensing service, but didn’t explain why disc-based games were impacted at the time.