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Xbox outage wrongly blocked disc-based games, Microsoft confirms

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Xbox has acknowledged that its recent outage incorrectly prevented players from accessing games on physical discs. The company's technology chief, Scott Van Vliet, stated that disc-based entitlement checks should not have been affected by the service interruption, as these licenses are designed to be saved locally. An upcoming update will address this issue, which stemmed from an external licensing service failure that caused consoles to act as a fail-close system instead of the intended fail-open for discs. AI

RANK_REASON Clarification of a product issue and planned fix, not a new release or major industry event.

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Xbox outage wrongly blocked disc-based games, Microsoft confirms

COVERAGE [3]

  1. Engadget TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Anna Washenko) ·

    Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage

    The company's tech chief said a fix for the error will be arriving soon.

  2. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Hassam Nasir ·

    Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the way

    Microsoft has confirmed that you should've been able to play your discs offline during the Xbox outage yesterday. The company has identified an issue with entitlement checks that prevented the correct ones from loading during the outage, breaking intended functionality.

  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue wi… Microsoft has confirmed that you should've been able

    Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue wi… Microsoft has confirmed that you should've been able to play your discs offline during the Xbox outage yesterday. The company has identified an issue with entitlement checks…

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