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

Tom's Hardware
Jul 29, 2026, 2:05 pm107 ptsTrending
Xbox consoles recently experienced a worldwide outage, during which people were unable to access even disc-based games that should have been playable offline. Service was restored within a day but the impact of this discovery could be significant as tensions run high surrounding the crumbling state of physical…

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