After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical g ame discs are subject to licensing inspections, that shouldn't have prevented them from working during this week's outage, or while consoles are offline. "We're looking into reports that some players were unable to access games using discs as expected during the service interruption. Disc-based entitlement checks should not prevent players from accessing … Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less