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.
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July 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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
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