"Disc-based entitlement checks should not prevent players from accessing their games and this is by design," said Microsoft tech chief Scott Van Vliet. He went on to confirm that discs go through license checks in the form of verifying entitlements. Van Vliet clarified that the team caught an issue that stopped the consoles "from correctly using saved entitlements during the outage." Microsoft says it's already working on releasing an update to address this issue, but has not provided a timeline. Now that PlayStation discs will cease to exist by 2028, concerns over ownership tied to physical media are growing every day.