Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc games
Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc gamesImage source, Getty ImagesByLaura CressTechnology reporterPublished3 minutes agoXbox's technology chief said an "unacceptable" outage on Monday should not have stopped people from playing their games on…
- ▪Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc gamesImage source, Getty ImagesByLaura CressTechnology reporterPublished3 minutes agoXbox's technology chief said an "unacceptable" outage on Monday should not have sto
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- ▪ Microsoft still doesn't know why the Xbox outage stopped some physical games from working — TechSpot
- ▪ Xbox Says Recent Outage Shouldn’t Have Screwed With Your Physical Games And Promises A Fix — Kotaku
- ▪ Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage — Engadget
- ▪ Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms — The Verge
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Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc gamesImage source, Getty ImagesByLaura CressTechnology reporterPublished3 minutes agoXbox's technology chief said an "unacceptable" outage on Monday should not have stopped people from playing their games on physical discs."We're looking into reports that some players were unable to access games using discs as expected during the service interruption," Scott Van Vliet said in a statement.He said the outage, which lasted around 20 hours, was caused by a licensing issue failing to correctly check if a user was allowed to play a game.It has poured further fuel onto the fire of fears about gaming's potentially digital future - after Xbox rival PlayStation faced an outage of its own on Friday."Disc-based entitlement checks…
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