Xbox discs should play offline, Microsoft confirms after outage
TL;DR
Microsoft says Xbox game discs should remain playable offline during an outage since disc-based entitlement checks are designed not to block access; the company later identified a saved-entitlements issue that prevented offline use and announced a fix will be rolled out.
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