… The Xbox support team resolved the issues on July 28 , and Xbox Live services appear to be working normally at the time of writing. However, many fans were concerned that the outage also left physical copies of offline games unplayable. …
… While Van Vliet doesn't mention it in his statement, it took around 12 hours for this service outage to be resolved for all Xbox users around the globe . The Xbox CTO's official statement concludes with what the company is doing now in the aftermath of the service outage. …
… It's worth noting that such outages are rare and oftentimes incredibly short. Facebook went down recently and, for a pretty severe outage, was resolved within a handful of hours. …
… Results — — — More Games While the Microsoft outage is widespread, fans in the replies to Xbox's official post have identified some games still working during the outage. …
… The PlayStation Network outage may have been related to the Amazon Web Services outage in the early hours of July 24. However, Amazon has confirmed that all AWS connectivity issues have been resolved, yet the PSN has still been down for over four hours. …
… The developers explained in another post that most of these problems are caused by Steam server outages and that they are working to contact Valve to address the situation. They also plan to introduce a compensation period once the issues are resolved, aiming to restore everything players have lost. …
… The first weekend also saw a server outage for a brief period of time, which rendered Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced unplayable even with an offline option . …
… The ending turned out to be a complete disappointment, where the conflict was resolved with tears and confessions. …