… 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. …
… Right now, outages like these cast doubt on a digital-exclusive future for gaming, as DRM and frequent license checks failing would render consoles completely useless. …