Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
The outage has been going on since Sunday evening.
The outage has been going on since Sunday evening.
by Jul 27, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too.
Xbox’s status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it has also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or finding games on the Xbox store. This morning, the page also noted that users “may have problems” playing their digital and disc games, which posts on social media confirmed. During that time, my colleague Richard Lawler was able to launch digital games he owned, but trying to boot up games tied to Game Pass popped up error code 0x87e107df, indicating the license couldn’t be verified.
The status page still says that users might run into issues with digital and backward-compatible games, but it also indicates that disc-based games should now work.
Xbox, in a 4:38PM ET post, says that it is “still working to identify a fix.” The company hasn’t replied to a request for comment.
Our own Tom Warren recently reported that Xbox is also testing a feature that will grant users a digital copy of games that they own on disc. Outages like this, however, are showing the potential downside of a system that ties authentication requirements even to physical copies of games.
The outage follows major layoffs at Xbox that were announced earlier this month.
Update, July 27th: Added new post from Xbox.
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