The massive Xbox outage even resulted in games on disc being banned

The extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening not only caused problems for people trying to play digital games, but also prevented people from playing their disc-based games.

Xbox Status page The outage was initially reported on Sunday around 11pm ET, and also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or finding games in the Xbox Store. This morning, the page also noted that users “may experience issues” operating their digital devices and Disc gamesThis was confirmed by posts on social media. During that period my colleague was Richard Lawler He was able To play digital games he owns, but trying to play games associated with Game Pass popped up error code 0x87e107df, indicating the license could not be verified.

However, at 6:48 PM ET, Xbox finally confirmed that the issues had been mitigated. “You should once again be able to play games, log in, and complete purchases.” The company said on X. “Thank you for staying with us for so long.” The status page also says that “All services are running.”

Our own Tom Warren recently reported that Xbox is Test too A feature that will give users a digital copy of the games they own on disc. However, such outages show a potential downside to a system that ties authentication requirements even to physical copies of games.

Updates, July 27: Xbox says the issues have been mitigated.