Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms
Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.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. 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.
- ▪Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.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 anythin
- ▪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.
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