Xbox’s enormous outage even blocked video games on disc

An prolonged Xbox outage that started Sunday night didn’t simply trigger points for folks attempting to play digital video games — it blocked folks from taking part in their disc-based video games, too.

Xbox’s status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it additionally prevented folks from logging in, launching apps, or discovering video games on the Xbox retailer. This morning, the web page additionally famous that customers “may have problems” taking part in their digital and disc games, which posts on social media confirmed. During that point, my colleague Richard Lawler was in a position to launch digital video games he owned, however attempting in addition up video games tied to Game Pass popped up error code 0x87e107df, indicating the license couldn’t be verified.

However, at 6:48PM ET, Xbox lastly confirmed that the problems had been mitigated. “You should once again be able to launch games, sign in, and complete purchases,” the company said on X. “Thanks for sticking with us through a long one.” The standing web page additionally says that “All services up and running.”

Our personal Tom Warren lately reported that Xbox can also be testing a characteristic that may grant customers a digital copy of video games that they personal on disc. Outages like this, nonetheless, are displaying the potential draw back of a system that ties authentication necessities even to bodily copies of video games.

Updates, July twenty seventh: Xbox says the problems have been mitigated.