Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms

After the caller Xbox outage adjacent blocked radical from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't genuinely ain thing nether Xbox's licence system. In a connection to The Verge, Xbox exertion main Scott Van Vliet says that portion carnal crippled discs are taxable to licensing inspections, that shouldn't person prevented them from moving during this week's outage, oregon portion consoles are offline.

"We're looking into reports that immoderate players were incapable to entree games utilizing discs arsenic expected during the work interruption. Disc-based entitlement checks should not forestall players from accessing …

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