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Xbox Says Game Discs Should Have Worked During Its Outage
Engadget • • technology
Key Points:
- Xbox experienced a major outage earlier this week, causing online services to be unavailable for nearly a full day and preventing some players from accessing games on physical discs.
- The outage was attributed to issues with an external licensing service, according to Xbox's technology chief, Scott Van Vliet.
- Disc-based games should normally remain playable offline due to locally saved entitlements, but a malfunction in the system responsible for this caused the disruption.
- Xbox is investigating the problem and plans to release a fix in an upcoming system update to restore proper disc game access during service interruptions.
