… The client bug has been fixed in an upcoming release, which starts rolling out today, August 10, and becomes mandatory August 17." Hopefully this means another outage of this magnitude is unlikely to happen again. …
… The key info here appears to be that the bug that made everything go extra haywire on this occasion has been fixed, and the fix is now rolling out to your console. And there are plans to continue trying to address this situation with more updates to come over the next few months. …
… Van Vliet also promised Xbox players that the platform holder is working to improve reliability across the board, as well as roll out some "great new features" and "quality-of-life systems updates." Outages of this kind are uncommon but certainly not unheard of, although this one occurred at the wo… …
… Xbox engineers are working to fix the issues, but the outage does raise wider concerns around digital ownership. …
… Microsoft says that it’s identified the source of this outage, but there’s not yet a fix available. …
… Now, Van Vliet tells The Verge that Xbox has identified an issue that prevented some consoles “from correctly using saved entitlements during the outage,” noting that “Offline mode is also designed to rely on those saved entitlements.” A fix to prevent this from happening again will be rolled out i… …
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… Microsoft is working on a fix for the outage, with the Xbox Status website stating that Microsoft has identified the cause but has not provided a timeline for the fix. …
… No new status updates have been made from the XBOX support account on X since its last update , which states that Microsoft's engineers are still working on fixing the outages. …
… Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won't be available." These kinds of server outages only usually last for an hour or two, and we'll let you know when it's fixed.
