This locked many players out of their digital games, but some even reported being unable to play physical games, too. Now, he’s explained to The Verge that Xbox is aware of the issue with discs and that it shouldn’t have happened. Van Vliet confirmed that physical games are subject to licensing checks. But these checks shouldn’t have stopped people from playing physical games during the outage or while an Xbox console is offline. Xbox will roll out an update in the future that should fix this issue, so during the next outage, players should be able to play disc-based games offline without any issues.