Xbox Suffers Major Outage [Update: It’s Working Again]

Xbox customers have spent the final a number of hours lower off from the platform’s on-line options following a serious outage. Microsoft confirmed the problems had been widespread throughout Xbox Collection X/S accounts however stated its investigation into the supply of the downtime was taking longer than anticipated.

“We’re conscious that some customers have been disconnected from Xbox Dwell,” the corporate’s Xbox Help account tweeted on Tuesday as gamers started posting in regards to the outage throughout social media and Reddit. “We’re investigating! Please observe right here and on our standing web page for updates.”

Hours later, it adopted as much as verify that the problems had been ongoing. “Our investigation is taking longer than anticipated, thanks in your persistence and stories!” the corporate shared at 4:08 p.m. ET. That was adopted by one other replace at 5:49 p.m. ET. “Investigation continues into points impacting customers capacity to sign up to Xbox Dwell and providers,” Microsoft tweeted. “Thanks in your persistence whereas our engineers work.”

In keeping with the firm’s standing web page, the issues are remoted to Xbox accounts and profiles. “You could not have the ability to sign-in to your Xbox profile, could also be disconnected whereas signed in, or produce other associated issues,” the outline reads. “Options that require sign-in like most video games, apps and social exercise received’t be out there.”

What which means Xbox homeowners are unable to play on-line video games like Fortnite, Halo Infinite, and Diablo 4, it additionally signifies that some customers are dealing with error messages even after they attempt to log into their Xbox profiles to play single-player video games. One Twitter consumer going by the deal with nitpicktim bumped into issues making an attempt to play Persona 5 Royal. “Wonderful instance why at all times on-line bullshit is harmful,” they wrote in a tweet that shortly went viral. “I CANNOT PLAY A DISK BASED SINGLE PLAYER GAME?!?”

As many shortly identified, nevertheless, the workaround for this explicit error merely requires gamers go into their settings and put the console in offline mode. In nitpicktim’s case, pulling out the ethernet cable additionally labored. I had the same downside and was in a position to signal again into my profile and entry offline video games once more just by manually restarting my console. Offline Sport Cross video games are additionally unaffected. They continue to be accessible for as much as 30 days in-between reconnecting to the web.

Whereas service interruptions aren’t remarkable, it’s uncommon for total community options to be down for therefore many gamers for such a protracted time frame. And in contrast to on-line providers for PC gaming, Microsoft expenses Xbox customers $10 a month with a view to entry multiplayer options on their consoles. Hopefully the outage will get resolved shortly.

Replace 7/2/2024 10:48 p.m. ET: Xbox Dwell is up and operating once more with out problem, Microsoft says. The corporate didn’t present a cause for the six hour outage.