Xbox Outage Resolved After Licensing Service Failure
Xbox has resolved a major service outage that prevented access to both digital and physical games. The company explained the disruption was caused by an external licensing service failure. Xbox leadership has apologized and pledged to improve services and prevent future incidents.
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Evening Consolidation
Xbox experienced a day-long outage that prevented both online and physical games from functioning, which the company has since resolved. The issue was reportedly caused by a licensing problem, highlighting the complexities of digital rights management even for physical media.
Morning Consolidation
Xbox has explained an outage that prevented players from accessing their games, with the company's CTO promising to "do better." The article also briefly mentions Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in relation to budget and staff reductions.
Xbox explains what caused this week's 'unacceptable' major outage
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Xbox CTO apologizes for outages and explains what happened
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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.
Xbox CTO explains what caused the Xbox outage, apologises to players, and outlines what's being done going forward
Xbox experienced a major server outage on Monday, impacting game purchases, downloads, and offline play due to a failure in an external licensing service. Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet apologized and explained that the issue has been resolved, with the company initiating a full review to prevent future occurrences and improve transparency with the community.
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.
Xbox service is down, with outages meaning players can't play any digital or physical games, after similar PlayStation Network issues last week
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