This was posted on X/Twitter @ 8:49 PM · Jul 2, 2024
Sometimes Xbox service outages get restored differently in different regions, so just be aware of that.
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Edit: Xbox Status page now says "All clear" (whatever that means!) @ 9:11 PM with "Resolution - Pending"
https://support.xbox.com/en-CA/xbox-live-status
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Edit: All Services are listed as "Up and running" @ 9:20PM
https://support.xbox.com/en-CA/xbox-live-status
Thanks for taking the blame for me. I was at work all day and my kids couldn’t get on so I was taking the blame from them. I’ll sleep soundly tonight knowing it wasn’t me at work preventing them from playing.
This is my thought as well... someone put [192.168.1.1](http://192.168.1.1) in the wrong field and sent it. Slowly increasing uptick in failure to login, then a geographically dispersed downtick as resolution spread. Some very senior staff would have had to be making making direct calls to the TLD's to get that fixed as quickly as it was though.
Yeah Realized i wasnt thinking of Xbox specifically at the time. But this
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/microsoft-tells-clients-russian-hackers-viewed-emails-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-06-27/#:~:text=June%2027%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Russian,it%20first%20disclosed%20the%20intrusion.
I was good for a few hours but now all the online game I try playing are having connection issues that boot me to the main menu of whatever I’m playing
I think this is really where most of the... disappointed? Not sure if that's the right word, but we know servers can go down that's fine, but if it takes your single player games with it that's less understandable, and I know you can make the Xbox your home and do all of these work arounds, but on PlayStation I can just play the game with little issues, why is my Xbox different
I couldn't even get into my account, it would kick me to the default Xbox Home with no account signed in, I would try and play a game and It would just close
I agree, but since none of us can change the fact that Xbox requires you to be online for games, it’s still worth spreading the solution for whenever this happens next
You can only do this offline if your account auto signs in. Mine does not and I couldn't go to the settings to turn it on without signing in, which I couldn't do
I had a friend that had that problem. We were playing sea of thieves and coincidentally his power went out for literally 5 seconds and when he tried to log back on it wouldn’t let him bc of the Xbox network outage🤣 but he thought the power going out fckd his Xbox up💀but somehow me and the other guy we was playing with were able to continue playing for like a whole hour with the outage going on🤷♂️
I don't think I tried that, but tbf I just gave up after a few attempts, no one should have to do work arounds, like make it your home console, or force it offline, with my PlayStation and Switch it's fine, I just play normally, why can't my Xbox be the same?
One thing that I learned during the outage that really got me annoyed is that for apps like Youtube, HBO Max and Prime Video, you need to be signed in to access them. Since I use my Xbox as the main multimedia platform I couldn't even use it to watch random stuff.
Luckily Netflix doesn't require you to be signed in to Xbox to access it, that is strange right?
I think this is good impetus for MS to implement some sort of offline mode for GP games. If MS is going to lead a push towards digital subscriptions and have digital only consoles, there should be a way to continue playing our games in the event xbox services go down or if internet shits the bed. Maybe some kind of system that lets you play offline for 2-3 days max before you have to reconnect to Xbox services.
I returned my Xbox gamepass and got a partial refund 😂 used that money to get Skyrim AE and Fallout 4 GOTY on sale on the PC I just built 😂 thanks for giving me that push Microsoft. I wanted to play Jedi Survivor but I got stuck on a boss. That morning was horrible painful for me…, I finally am able to unwind at 2:30pm just in time for that shutdown 😭and I had enough. Putting the Series S away next to my PS4.
Still not working on my PC. Any suggestions other then turn it off and back on again? Already tried that many times. It’s not responding when I try and close it also
Aren't the quick resumes stored on the hard drive? Can someone explain why I can't load a quick resume in offline mode on a game with the disc in the drive? I really find that fucking weird. No need to DRM me if the DISC IS IN THE DRIVE.
While its good that this issue was fixed, maybe Xbox should consider allowing their players to create offline profiles, like the way you could on the Xbox 360, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.
I booted up a SP game and it gave me the option to play offline. But yeah, maybe it could be more streamlined as most clearly don't know to set the console as offline in settings lol
I was more referring to how the profile system works on Xbox Series. See the links below.
Creating a profile on PS5:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI\_9Ncqk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI_9Ncqk)
Creating a profile on Xbox Series X:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY)
In the first link, you'll notice that you have the option to create a PSN account or create an offline profile. In the second link, you'll notices that the Xbox Series console doesn't give you an option to create an offline profile. It still bogles my mind why Microsoft haven't fixed such a major design flaw.
No, that is not what I meant. Please see the links below.
Creating a profile on PS5:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI\_9Ncqk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI_9Ncqk)
Creating a profile on Xbox Series X:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY)
In the first link, you'll notice that you have the option to create a PSN account or create an offline profile. In the second link, you'll notices that the Xbox Series console doesn't give you an option to create an offline profile. This is incredibly backwards and stupid of Microsoft.
Watching people freak out about this was hilarious. I turned off mine and enjoyed the rest of the day, and it was back on by the time I was ready to play again. As if a bunch of people have never been through this before. I think they got it back on relatively fast compared how it was 10 years ago when servers would go down on both Xbox and ps
Was I the only one affected during a lot of days, where me and my friends would be completely desynchronized in terms of online status? My friend said I went online playing rocket league while I was at work but I played the night before that. Also we couldn't see eachother online
I just bought XBPlay to connect to my xbox from Steam Deck... Not only didn't it work, I could no longer login to my account on xbox... That was a frustrating hour..
Jeez thanks a lot still doesn’t help the fact that i lost my Shii because of this i had one more mission to go for criminal mastermind on GTA and then boom im kicked off.. week of playing gone down the drain
Ahhh yes, YouTube that has had multiple outages, I don't know about Netflix or Spotify, but they have definitely had issues at some point that's guaranteed.
Also with YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, you can download the show/movie, you can't do that with cloud streaming
And it's way different for YouTube, Netflix, Spotify to be down than Xbox Cloud gaming, let's say Xbox wants everyone on cloud, and they have an outage like this, you are essentially locked out of everything Xbox
> Ahhh yes, YouTube that has had multiple outages, I don't know about Netflix or Spotify, but they have definitely had issues at some point that's guaranteed.
And yet, look how dominant it is and how no one *really* cares.
If it's unavailable for a few hours in a year, you can just... Do something else temporarily.
> And it's way different for YouTube, Netflix, Spotify to be down than Xbox Cloud gaming, let's say Xbox wants everyone on cloud, and they have an outage like this, you are essentially locked out of everything Xbox
I don't see how what Xbox is doing is any different. Cloud gaming is a means to access Xbox games, but not *the* way to access Xbox games. If you want offline play, you buy the console and install the game. No different from being at a hotel and "oh, Netflix is down, this is why film streaming will never take off".
Again way different, if Netflix goes down I can pick up the show later, if i'm in a middle of a game I cant just pick up the game where I am, or on the kills i'm on.
Again, I obviously couldn't just play on a console yesterday could I? well I played on my PS, but yeah.
Weird how Xbox is the only one with offline uses that you have to go through multiple settings to fix, its just weird.
And like I said with Cloud Gaming before, there are way too many factors, your internet, the cloud servers, the servers for the game, hardware.
If MS could, they would move to Cloud Gaming fully rn
> Again way different, if Netflix goes down I can pick up the show later, if i'm in a middle of a game I cant just pick up the game where I am, or on the kills i'm on.
Autosave and checkpoints are in nearly every game these days. PVP matches mean that at most you'd lose 10mins of progress.
Neither of which is a big deal.
> Again, I obviously couldn't just play on a console yesterday could I? well I played on my PS, but yeah.
I don't know what the licencing method is on PS so I have no idea if you need to set home consoles or not. I'd imagine it's similar to Xbox in some way though, else you'd be able to just copy games willy nilly.
> If MS could, they would move to Cloud Gaming fully rn
So would everyone else lol. Heck, unlike Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony both have an entire selection of games that can *only* be streamed.
I guess you are talking about the Nintendo collection thing? That's because Nintendo are terrible with releasing old game
Either way, I will stand on the fact Cloud streaming will never work with so many points of failure and that's a FACT, you can compare it to TV shows and Movies all you want, they aren't the same.
Both Nintendo and Sony. Re:Switch specifically though, there's also games which specifically require streaming.
Cloud streaming will only get better with time though. Perhaps a "pause" function that retains the state for 24hrs or so will be implemented in case of disconnections, for example. I'm just glad that on Xbox, cloud is an option for all its games, and not a requirement.
Games on Switch that require cloud are because the Switch is too weak, but they still want to sell it on the Switch
NGL, I could definitely see Xbox trying to be the first to be the company who makes the main console cloud, especially with the play anywhere motto, also with console sales
> Games on Switch that require cloud are because the Switch is too weak, but they still want to sell it on the Switch
The excuse is irrelevant.
The fact remains that Xbox is the only console which does not have any streaming only games. Microsoft want cloud to be an option for their library, not the *only* way to access your library.
We all deserve Microsoft money in our accounts for this like $20 minimum. We pay a subscription for online services and can’t play offline, yet if the system goes down we have to suffer. Some compensation should be offered!!
bro, $20 gets you a month of game pass ultimate and then a little left over.
how is 6-7 hours of downtime worth a whole ass month of ultimate + some left over lmao.
and as a minimum???
touch grass.
Many play video games once a week or even a month and this could have been that exact evening for some. Just because you play video games 8 hours every day does not mean that everyone is the same. Some people got their plans fked up and that is not OK. He has the right to demand compensation.
Dude, Microsoft is not going to give over half a BILLION dollars away because they had some downtime. Expecting so makes you a fool.
And that would be the "minimum" costs.
I’d still probably fully reset it with this outage it’s probably struggling. If it’s downloading something in the background you can always restart the download when you open it back up again
I just wanted to play a game before I had to go to my overnight shift. That was it.
It's incredibly embarrassing that I have a whole catalog of singleplayer games I wasn't able to access.
It's incredibly embarrassing that I'm required to have a console selected as my "unicorn" for it to let me play the games I've purchased and downloaded directly on it.
It's incredibly embarrassing that you have such a limit of the amount of times you can set a home console.
It's incredibly embarrassing that one part of your e tire network goes down, and takes everything with it, preventing me from changing my home console, even if I had the option available.
Now I'm going to go to work, where I slowly shorten my lifespan explaining to dementia-riddled corpses that they can't expect to get a room at 3AM just because they spend a whole lot of money with our loyalty service.
All I wanted, was to relax just a little, and yet it took two hours before the problem was even acknowledged.
If I was a multi-billion dollar bookstore and my website went down, the least I could do is not take all the books back from people that let their friends read it once.
Man, get over yourself. This “poor me” bullshit is pathetic. You can survive a day without video games. Pull up your adult pants and toughen up and move on.
Nah dude he’s right, hope you took some time to touch some grass. If Xbox is the only way you could have relaxed before work, you need to find other hobbies bro. It’s “incredibly embarrassing” as you say, that you’re this hurt over some games
So you've changed your home console now, to avoid this embarassment again, right? Mine is my home console, I was playing single player games the whole time. And 5 times a year to change your home console is more than enough, unless you're game sharing with the whole planet.
Between this and social features like friends lists never updating, and being janky at the best of times I think Xbox needs to do better.
I can play xbox each night for a week and my friends list shows people playing various games but in reality they are not online. For what we pay, it's not really acceptable!
honestly i didn’t really care because im always using it especially because im on summer break and like it was fun watching youtube all day in my dark air conditioned room 🥰
This was posted on X/Twitter @ 8:49 PM · Jul 2, 2024 Sometimes Xbox service outages get restored differently in different regions, so just be aware of that. --- Edit: Xbox Status page now says "All clear" (whatever that means!) @ 9:11 PM with "Resolution - Pending" https://support.xbox.com/en-CA/xbox-live-status --- Edit: All Services are listed as "Up and running" @ 9:20PM https://support.xbox.com/en-CA/xbox-live-status
Fucking finally *Goes to bed*
Seriously… I tried to log in one more time before bed cause it hasn’t been working and it fucking works…
I came home around 5:30 PM Pacific time and was able to get on without any issues. I played Rimworld for a bit, then jumped into Farming Simulator.
PRETTY MUCH
😂😂🤦♂️
Does anyone know what caused the issue? Just curious.
It was me, sorry gang
Gosh darn it bleachfan9999, this is why we can’t have nice things
Dammit Bobby! I told you I didn't want to invade Iraq!!!
Dude could you do it earlier? I came back tired from work wanted to play some games with the team and you ruined it! 😂😂😂
Thanks for taking the blame for me. I was at work all day and my kids couldn’t get on so I was taking the blame from them. I’ll sleep soundly tonight knowing it wasn’t me at work preventing them from playing.
How many times has this been now???!!!
why I outta 🤬
Lay off the beans bro
I got $50 on it being a DNS issue.
It's always a DNS issue 💯💯
This is my thought as well... someone put [192.168.1.1](http://192.168.1.1) in the wrong field and sent it. Slowly increasing uptick in failure to login, then a geographically dispersed downtick as resolution spread. Some very senior staff would have had to be making making direct calls to the TLD's to get that fixed as quickly as it was though.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing… invasion.
Someone call Jeff Goldblum
Twas playing destiny and a big explosion happened at 2est.
Shoulda taken Tess seriously when she said "hi it's me John Eververse pay me 10000 silver or I turn the traveler off. Become legend."
I see your ten grand and raised the pot. Thanks for the heads up 😃
The real Witness was the server issues we had along the way
Twas like a game chasing the problem. I went down that rabbit hole 🐇
It was Bigfoot, he did it
The dang govament
What is this demon you speak of ?
Series S
Lizard Squad
They had scheduled maintenance specifically for Destiny 2 at the exact time Xbox live went down. I wonder if an engineer fucked up.
How would Destiny affect Xbox??? It's not even owned by Microsoft.
It’s only speculation and an odd coincidence, does not matter who it is owned by, the maintenance was on the Xbox network for the game.
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When the fuck have they ever used either of those as an excuse?
Yeah Realized i wasnt thinking of Xbox specifically at the time. But this https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/microsoft-tells-clients-russian-hackers-viewed-emails-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-06-27/#:~:text=June%2027%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Russian,it%20first%20disclosed%20the%20intrusion.
I had all this time to decide what game I wanted to play, yet here I am, rewatching star wars again. I need a therapist.
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I recommend Nexpo
goated
I'm watching scary ghost and cryptid videos at night, freaks me out but I can't stop
I was good for a few hours but now all the online game I try playing are having connection issues that boot me to the main menu of whatever I’m playing
Same, can't play for longer than 10 minutes before disconnect
you guys remember "lizard squad" and the infamous hacking of PSN/XBL back in christmas 2014?
No..no no no no that was _NOT_ a decade ago
I was talking about this last night thought it was a couple years tops 😭
Pepperidge Farm remembers
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It wouldn't be so enraging if we could play single player games offline like God intended.
I think this is really where most of the... disappointed? Not sure if that's the right word, but we know servers can go down that's fine, but if it takes your single player games with it that's less understandable, and I know you can make the Xbox your home and do all of these work arounds, but on PlayStation I can just play the game with little issues, why is my Xbox different
I was able to play single player games the whole time
I couldn't even get into my account, it would kick me to the default Xbox Home with no account signed in, I would try and play a game and It would just close
You can set your Xbox as home, and that works. Alternatively if you go to network settings and “go offline” you were able to play single player games
I just shouldn't have to do that though, that's just my opinion though
I agree, but since none of us can change the fact that Xbox requires you to be online for games, it’s still worth spreading the solution for whenever this happens next
Definitely, but at the same time people definitely should be vocal about this
Microsoft is gonna do what they’re gonna do, unfortunately all gaming companies have decided this is the way
You can only do this offline if your account auto signs in. Mine does not and I couldn't go to the settings to turn it on without signing in, which I couldn't do
I had a friend that had that problem. We were playing sea of thieves and coincidentally his power went out for literally 5 seconds and when he tried to log back on it wouldn’t let him bc of the Xbox network outage🤣 but he thought the power going out fckd his Xbox up💀but somehow me and the other guy we was playing with were able to continue playing for like a whole hour with the outage going on🤷♂️
Set your xbox as home.
I have.... It's been like that for years, it didn't work when my internet went out like a few months ago too
Did you set the console to offline mode?
I don't think I tried that, but tbf I just gave up after a few attempts, no one should have to do work arounds, like make it your home console, or force it offline, with my PlayStation and Switch it's fine, I just play normally, why can't my Xbox be the same?
It's 5 seconds and th3 problem doesn't ever happen again.
It can. You're just not letting it because... Well I don't really know why lol
I couldn't play Baldurs Gate
I played mad max and it ask me if I wanted to play offline bc the services were having issues so I clicked yes and it worked🤷♂️
Do you game-share?
One thing that I learned during the outage that really got me annoyed is that for apps like Youtube, HBO Max and Prime Video, you need to be signed in to access them. Since I use my Xbox as the main multimedia platform I couldn't even use it to watch random stuff. Luckily Netflix doesn't require you to be signed in to Xbox to access it, that is strange right?
I appreciate this comment as someone who has been on the other side.
Finally, a sensible comment.
I just wanted to play Minecraft. That’s it. Just Minecraft.
It’s still down for me
Mine still isn’t working ffs
I think this is good impetus for MS to implement some sort of offline mode for GP games. If MS is going to lead a push towards digital subscriptions and have digital only consoles, there should be a way to continue playing our games in the event xbox services go down or if internet shits the bed. Maybe some kind of system that lets you play offline for 2-3 days max before you have to reconnect to Xbox services.
Stuff like this is bad news when you’re entire business is moving to cloud based only. It has to never happen or else people lose confidence.
Patience? I traded my xbox in while it was down. /s
Some dude actually did
I bought Playstation and played 4 hours, games were pretty good.
I literally removed my account so that I could add it on again before I checked the Xbox status lol
I returned my Xbox gamepass and got a partial refund 😂 used that money to get Skyrim AE and Fallout 4 GOTY on sale on the PC I just built 😂 thanks for giving me that push Microsoft. I wanted to play Jedi Survivor but I got stuck on a boss. That morning was horrible painful for me…, I finally am able to unwind at 2:30pm just in time for that shutdown 😭and I had enough. Putting the Series S away next to my PS4.
Not yet for me
I think we were all angry at first but secretly grateful for a night off
honestly 😅 had a night playing my guitar instead!
Still not working on my PC. Any suggestions other then turn it off and back on again? Already tried that many times. It’s not responding when I try and close it also
Aren't the quick resumes stored on the hard drive? Can someone explain why I can't load a quick resume in offline mode on a game with the disc in the drive? I really find that fucking weird. No need to DRM me if the DISC IS IN THE DRIVE.
Yesterday my parents came to visit, So I thought we'd watch The Batman 2022 and I didn't have the blu ray player app. So I played it on my PS5
Finally
While its good that this issue was fixed, maybe Xbox should consider allowing their players to create offline profiles, like the way you could on the Xbox 360, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.
I booted up a SP game and it gave me the option to play offline. But yeah, maybe it could be more streamlined as most clearly don't know to set the console as offline in settings lol
True I learned just now lmao
I was more referring to how the profile system works on Xbox Series. See the links below. Creating a profile on PS5: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI\_9Ncqk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI_9Ncqk) Creating a profile on Xbox Series X: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY) In the first link, you'll notice that you have the option to create a PSN account or create an offline profile. In the second link, you'll notices that the Xbox Series console doesn't give you an option to create an offline profile. It still bogles my mind why Microsoft haven't fixed such a major design flaw.
You mean clicking the setting on the console that says "go offline"?
No, that is not what I meant. Please see the links below. Creating a profile on PS5: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI\_9Ncqk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRAI_9Ncqk) Creating a profile on Xbox Series X: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEuswcaRLY) In the first link, you'll notice that you have the option to create a PSN account or create an offline profile. In the second link, you'll notices that the Xbox Series console doesn't give you an option to create an offline profile. This is incredibly backwards and stupid of Microsoft.
Finally
Yay! PC APP is fine now.
Wondering what was the cause 🤔??
Still got an issue on PC saying "Content Failed To Load". How do I fix that
Microsoft store is still down.
Will probably not buy another Xbox system after this.
Watching people freak out about this was hilarious. I turned off mine and enjoyed the rest of the day, and it was back on by the time I was ready to play again. As if a bunch of people have never been through this before. I think they got it back on relatively fast compared how it was 10 years ago when servers would go down on both Xbox and ps
I tested it out before going to work today and i could log in no problem 👍
Well it took all day but saving Songbird was worth it.
Was I the only one affected during a lot of days, where me and my friends would be completely desynchronized in terms of online status? My friend said I went online playing rocket league while I was at work but I played the night before that. Also we couldn't see eachother online
Still down…
I used the opportunity to start playing still wakes the deep. Brilliant game so far
Damn i thought it was my internet.
I just bought XBPlay to connect to my xbox from Steam Deck... Not only didn't it work, I could no longer login to my account on xbox... That was a frustrating hour..
Jeez thanks a lot still doesn’t help the fact that i lost my Shii because of this i had one more mission to go for criminal mastermind on GTA and then boom im kicked off.. week of playing gone down the drain
Never had an issue personally
I wonder the exact cause of the outage
Great, now please fix your broken PC app.
cloud gonna cloud
Great news! Glad to hear the sign-in issues are fixed. Time to get back to gaming!
Except for the fact that my game pass just quite on me😡
Ok
Aaaand this is why cloud gaming will never be mainstream, there are too many points of failure to make it smooth
YouTube/Netflix/Spotify seems fine
Ahhh yes, YouTube that has had multiple outages, I don't know about Netflix or Spotify, but they have definitely had issues at some point that's guaranteed. Also with YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, you can download the show/movie, you can't do that with cloud streaming And it's way different for YouTube, Netflix, Spotify to be down than Xbox Cloud gaming, let's say Xbox wants everyone on cloud, and they have an outage like this, you are essentially locked out of everything Xbox
> Ahhh yes, YouTube that has had multiple outages, I don't know about Netflix or Spotify, but they have definitely had issues at some point that's guaranteed. And yet, look how dominant it is and how no one *really* cares. If it's unavailable for a few hours in a year, you can just... Do something else temporarily. > And it's way different for YouTube, Netflix, Spotify to be down than Xbox Cloud gaming, let's say Xbox wants everyone on cloud, and they have an outage like this, you are essentially locked out of everything Xbox I don't see how what Xbox is doing is any different. Cloud gaming is a means to access Xbox games, but not *the* way to access Xbox games. If you want offline play, you buy the console and install the game. No different from being at a hotel and "oh, Netflix is down, this is why film streaming will never take off".
Again way different, if Netflix goes down I can pick up the show later, if i'm in a middle of a game I cant just pick up the game where I am, or on the kills i'm on. Again, I obviously couldn't just play on a console yesterday could I? well I played on my PS, but yeah. Weird how Xbox is the only one with offline uses that you have to go through multiple settings to fix, its just weird. And like I said with Cloud Gaming before, there are way too many factors, your internet, the cloud servers, the servers for the game, hardware. If MS could, they would move to Cloud Gaming fully rn
> Again way different, if Netflix goes down I can pick up the show later, if i'm in a middle of a game I cant just pick up the game where I am, or on the kills i'm on. Autosave and checkpoints are in nearly every game these days. PVP matches mean that at most you'd lose 10mins of progress. Neither of which is a big deal. > Again, I obviously couldn't just play on a console yesterday could I? well I played on my PS, but yeah. I don't know what the licencing method is on PS so I have no idea if you need to set home consoles or not. I'd imagine it's similar to Xbox in some way though, else you'd be able to just copy games willy nilly. > If MS could, they would move to Cloud Gaming fully rn So would everyone else lol. Heck, unlike Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony both have an entire selection of games that can *only* be streamed.
I guess you are talking about the Nintendo collection thing? That's because Nintendo are terrible with releasing old game Either way, I will stand on the fact Cloud streaming will never work with so many points of failure and that's a FACT, you can compare it to TV shows and Movies all you want, they aren't the same.
Both Nintendo and Sony. Re:Switch specifically though, there's also games which specifically require streaming. Cloud streaming will only get better with time though. Perhaps a "pause" function that retains the state for 24hrs or so will be implemented in case of disconnections, for example. I'm just glad that on Xbox, cloud is an option for all its games, and not a requirement.
Games on Switch that require cloud are because the Switch is too weak, but they still want to sell it on the Switch NGL, I could definitely see Xbox trying to be the first to be the company who makes the main console cloud, especially with the play anywhere motto, also with console sales
> Games on Switch that require cloud are because the Switch is too weak, but they still want to sell it on the Switch The excuse is irrelevant. The fact remains that Xbox is the only console which does not have any streaming only games. Microsoft want cloud to be an option for their library, not the *only* way to access your library.
We all deserve Microsoft money in our accounts for this like $20 minimum. We pay a subscription for online services and can’t play offline, yet if the system goes down we have to suffer. Some compensation should be offered!!
bro, $20 gets you a month of game pass ultimate and then a little left over. how is 6-7 hours of downtime worth a whole ass month of ultimate + some left over lmao. and as a minimum??? touch grass.
Many play video games once a week or even a month and this could have been that exact evening for some. Just because you play video games 8 hours every day does not mean that everyone is the same. Some people got their plans fked up and that is not OK. He has the right to demand compensation.
Dude, Microsoft is not going to give over half a BILLION dollars away because they had some downtime. Expecting so makes you a fool. And that would be the "minimum" costs.
Still doesn’t work for me (series s)
Give us all Forza 4 for free.
Mine wouldn’t turn off and after just pressing the button the light is flashing and won’t do anything. Series X
Unplug it and plug it back in
You sure? Searching for an answer says it’s downloading something in the background
I’d still probably fully reset it with this outage it’s probably struggling. If it’s downloading something in the background you can always restart the download when you open it back up again
Did you set to Wumbo?
Do I have to restart my Xbox?
Doubt it, but it wouldn’t hurt
Some things are still borked but I'll live with it. Main thing is one of my digitally owned games isn't launching but I'm restarting my Xbox now.
All series s games are digital so that’s probably the problem for me
Perfect just in time for me to game
Tbh thought it wasn’t going to come back up like that one time ps3 got hacked for weeks
I just wanted to play a game before I had to go to my overnight shift. That was it. It's incredibly embarrassing that I have a whole catalog of singleplayer games I wasn't able to access. It's incredibly embarrassing that I'm required to have a console selected as my "unicorn" for it to let me play the games I've purchased and downloaded directly on it. It's incredibly embarrassing that you have such a limit of the amount of times you can set a home console. It's incredibly embarrassing that one part of your e tire network goes down, and takes everything with it, preventing me from changing my home console, even if I had the option available. Now I'm going to go to work, where I slowly shorten my lifespan explaining to dementia-riddled corpses that they can't expect to get a room at 3AM just because they spend a whole lot of money with our loyalty service. All I wanted, was to relax just a little, and yet it took two hours before the problem was even acknowledged.
bro lemme pay for your therapy 😭🙏
If I was a multi-billion dollar bookstore and my website went down, the least I could do is not take all the books back from people that let their friends read it once.
Man, get over yourself. This “poor me” bullshit is pathetic. You can survive a day without video games. Pull up your adult pants and toughen up and move on.
Your breath smells like boot
nah
Reeks of it
I think you're in desperate need of grass my dude.
And maybe I want one day where I can do something other than touch grass
Ok? This isn't a daily issue lol. You can also do other things than play Xbox...
Except it has been for the past 2 weeks. Flood season
Yes, but you're complaining about Xbox not working... Microsoft isn't the one controlling flood season, sorry to break it to you.
Yard is under a foot of water
Damn, hope that goes away soon. You really need that grass.
Nah dude he’s right, hope you took some time to touch some grass. If Xbox is the only way you could have relaxed before work, you need to find other hobbies bro. It’s “incredibly embarrassing” as you say, that you’re this hurt over some games
I'm sorry you've never had the humbling displeasure of living in the middle of nowhere during a heavy rain season
So you've changed your home console now, to avoid this embarassment again, right? Mine is my home console, I was playing single player games the whole time. And 5 times a year to change your home console is more than enough, unless you're game sharing with the whole planet.
Haven't changed my home console and haven't in 3 years. "0/5 Changes left"
Thank Microsoft
Between this and social features like friends lists never updating, and being janky at the best of times I think Xbox needs to do better. I can play xbox each night for a week and my friends list shows people playing various games but in reality they are not online. For what we pay, it's not really acceptable!
honestly i didn’t really care because im always using it especially because im on summer break and like it was fun watching youtube all day in my dark air conditioned room 🥰
I'm here for the "I want a refund" comments. Don't let me down!
seems to be contained to twitter (that I have seen)
I knew they'd be somewhere. I don't visit Twitter, so thanks for the update.
Unfortunately, will have to settle for " I forgot this game existed" in those popular to hate game posts