Xbox explains outage preventing players from accessing games, CTO says it will "do better"
Xbox's CTO Scott Van Vliet explained that a failure in a shared internal licensing service caused a widespread outage, preventing players from signing in and accessing their games. The issue also impacted publishing and store partners. Xbox is conducting a review to prevent similar failures and improve recovery times, with service restoration occurring unevenly across regions.
- Entities
- Company: Microsoft
- Company: Sony
- Platform: Xbox
- Platform: PlayStation
- Person: Scott Van Vliet
- Topic: Game Access
- Topic: Service Outage
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