Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc games
The outage meant Xbox users had trouble signing into their accounts, seeing their game library and launching games
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""Disc-based entitlement checks should not prevent players from accessing their games and this is by design.""
— Scott Van Vliet , Executive
""The trust from customers for many large publishers just isn't there.""
— Scott Ross , Activist
""Sony's decision to stop selling physical games had 'put digital rights under a microscope'.""
— Jez Corden , Influencer
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The outage meant Xbox users had trouble signing into their accounts, seeing their game library and launching games
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