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

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. Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms Xbox discs are subject to ‘entitlement checks,’ but they should still be playable offline. “We’re looking into reports that some players were unable to access games using discs as expected during the service interruption.