Xbox is back online, tech lead pledges "we'll do better" so similar failures "can't ruin your night again" after outage stopped fans playing digital and physical games
Xbox's Chief Technology Officer Scott Van Vliet has apologized for a recent service outage that prevented players from accessing their game libraries and digital titles. He pledged to improve services and transparency following the incident, which was caused by a failure in an external licensing service. The outage lasted several hours and has reignited concerns about the shift towards digital-only games.
- Entities
- Company: Microsoft
- Platform: Xbox
- Topic: Digital Games
- Platform: PlayStation
- Person: Scott Van Vliet
- Topic: Service Outage
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