… The post is then broken down into sections explaining what happened, how it was fixed, and how Xbox plans to avoid running into the same problems in the future. “A licensing service that sits outside of Xbox, but which Xbox depends upon, began failing,” the CTO explained. “This caused some sign-in … …
… Many are furious that it took Xbox so long to acknowledge the outages, and hope that a fix is rolled out soon. Right now, there’s no word on how long the outages will last, meaning that many will have to cancel any plans they had to play their Xbox games today. …
… During the recent outages, that didn’t happen for some users, as there was an issue preventing consoles “from correctly using saved entitlements.” As per Microsoft’s own documentation, discs are intended to be “available for offline use,” and so Vliet promised that Xbox is working on a fix to preve… …