See Xbox Series X at AmazonAfter a grueling day where services were offline, Xbox claimed it fixed the problem. Xbox Series S and Series X consoles use those same entitlements for offline mode. The Xbox CTO said they were working out ways to ensure that another outage doesn’t keep players from running their game discs. You already know by now I don’t have many good things to say about game discs. Beyond the ability to sell and buy used games, discs promised you could play games in perpetuity—no matter what happens to Xbox’s servers.