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Re:Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Ques... by taneq on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:55PM (#24725951)
Does the Xbox stop working if your Microsoft account gets banned?
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Re:Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Ques... by dawnerd on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:01PM (#24725990)
Nope but your console might get banned from xbox live in certain cases (all consoles have similar).
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Re:Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Ques... by ianmobbs on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:00PM (#24725979)
To an extent, yes https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxinsiders/comments/cj5b0a/what_h...
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Re:Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Ques... by tenryuu on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:29PM (#24726133)
I skimmed this, but this goes over getting banned from Xbox Live, the network service, not a system that prevents you from using the console
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Re:Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Ques... by taneq on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:15PM (#24726402)
It also covers your ability to use the console itself. It seems reasonably fair.

tl;dr The banned account can still play games in offline mode but can't re-download them since this is done through the XBox Live service. Other users of that XBox can do everything as normal including play and re-download games that were installed by the banned account.

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