Xbox Live Goes Down

Xbox Reside, Microsoft’s multiplayer gaming and digital media community, was struggling technical issues Tuesday as hundreds of customers reported issues accessing it. 

Person-reported issues with Xbox Reside started to spike at about 2:15 p.m. ET Tuesday, based on monitoring website Downdetector. As of two:25 p.m., greater than 23,000 outage studies had been logged with the positioning, with greater than three-fourths indicating they had been having points logging in. Some Xbox Reside customers reported seeing error message saying the service was present process “scheduled upkeep.”

Different Microsoft-operated companies, together with Minecraft and the Microsoft Retailer, additionally had a excessive degree of consumer error studies on Downdetector.

The official Xbox Help account on X posted at 2:55 pm. ET, “We’re conscious that some customers have been disconnected from Xbox Reside. We’re investigating!” The message directed customers to the Xbox standing web page — which finally was up to date to say {that a} main outage of the “Account & profile” service was reported at 2:07 p.m. ET. “Chances are you’ll not be capable to sign-in to your Xbox profile, could also be disconnected whereas signed in, or produce other associated issues,” the message on the Xbox standing web page mentioned. “Options that require sign-in like most video games, apps and social exercise received’t be out there.”

Microsoft requires customers to have an Xbox Reside account (which is free to arrange) to play video games on-line and entry different experiences on the Xbox console, Home windows PC and Xbox cell apps.

Xbox Reside customers took to social media to vent in regards to the technical issues: