… As outages continue to disrupt premium services, users online are already pointing out the problem with the all-digital future that these major companies are promising to bring about. Microsoft Xbox Xbox services Xbox live Gaming Outage Report a problem with this article
Xbox's online services are currently down, and it's curious timing, as its rival PlayStation Network had similar issues only last week . …
… Xbox fans shouldn't have to wait long for Microsoft to sort out the issues with Xbox Live. Microsoft typically responds to similar issues with Xbox Live services within hours of the issues being identified, assuaging fan worries about long-term disruptions. …
… The outage led to the service being unavailable for several hours, leaving players unable to access the PlayStation Network on a PS5 console or via a game that required a PSN sign-in. …
… Earlier today, many players began experiencing issues with sign in, enumerating their game libraries and playing games. The team has worked hard throughout the day to fix the issue, and we've restored service as of 2:30 PM PDT. …
… 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. …
… Xbox services also went down last week during the early access launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved, and PlayStation Network took a multi-hour outage of its own on July 24. …
… According to Microsoft, these outages were originally reported at 11 p.m. EST on Sunday. The company has apparently identified the issue but is still working on a resolution. The outage couldn’t have come at a more volatile time for many users’ relationship with game ownership. …
… Outages like this, however, are showing the potential downside of a system that ties authentication requirements even to physical copies of games. The outage follows major layoffs at Xbox that were announced earlier this month. Updates, July 27th: Xbox says the issues have been mitigated.
… The Xbox outage began on July 27 and lasted for nearly 24 hours, during which players experienced widespread network and login issues. The Xbox support team resolved the issues on July 28 , and Xbox Live services appear to be working normally at the time of writing. …
