Xbox discs are subject to ‘entitlement checks,’ but they should still be playable offline.
Xbox discs are subject to ‘entitlement checks,’ but they should still be playable offline.
by Jess WeatherbedJul 29, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC
Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.
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
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