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Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc

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An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn’t just cause issues for people trying to play digital games – it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too.

Xbox’s status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or finding games on the Xbox store. This morning, the page also noted that users “may have problems” playing their digital and disc games, which posts on social media confirmed. During that time, my colleague Richard Lawler was able to launch digital games he owned, but trying to boot up games tied to Game Pass popped up error cod …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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