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The Jackdog · Feb 23, 2016

Yesterday, from around noon EST until late EST (past 9 or 10pm), XBL core services were down.

Currently, purchases and content usage is once again "limited"
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

According to people on reddit, and from my own experiences, some part of XBL, whether is social and gaming (matchmaking/friends), core services (pretty much everything), or purchases and content usage (accessing your digital games, buying new ones) has gone down 10 days in a row.

It doesnt mean live just goes straight down but at least one of those has failed every day for 9-10 days.

Microsoft has been completely silent on the issues besides "we're working on it". And to be fair, yesterday was the first time the whole operation came to a hault, usually its just one of the parts of live that has gone down (like friends suddenly being gone). Core services has NOT gone down every day.

There Is a hacking group claiming responsibility. Im not gonna link them to give them attention. But who knows if its actually true.

If im an XBL user, which I am, im fucking mad. Especially because there are people who claim they have set their console as their home xbox and going offline has not restored access to digital purchases. For most,it is.

If im a developer, im fuming right now. 2 big games released today that people either cant buy or cant play.

WTF is going on?

Alpha Phoenix · Feb 23, 2016

It's so bad they didn't even show this week's deals until an hour ago, when they usually go online the night before.

webkatt · Feb 23, 2016

I've heard the are getting DDOS.

At least that's what the kids on the playground are saying.

jelly · Feb 23, 2016

Microsoft can't handle the massive PC gamer influx. The Windows Store is getting popular.....lol.

I dunno. Microsoft will probably spill the beans once they get it sorted.

terrible · Feb 23, 2016

So I'm guessing xbox.com is affected too? I can't get any store pages to load.

TimPV3 · Feb 23, 2016

TsunamiOfSwagger · Feb 23, 2016

Not working for me either, UK. It looks like I'm online, I can see some of my friends on, but I can't view anything in the store.

Shenmue · Feb 23, 2016

The silver lining is that the longer they have issues the better the freebies will be. Gotta find positives where you can.

Chris1 · Feb 23, 2016

It's really annoying, xbox live this gen has been disappointing compared to the 360 but it's never been as bad as this week.

Hopefully it gets sorted out soon.

iMax · Feb 23, 2016

content usage (accessing your digital games, buying new ones)

Surely you can access digital content regardless of whether you're signed in?

AndrewDean84xX · Feb 23, 2016

I was online all evening yesterday, playing Rise of the Tomb Raider, no online issues. Weird.

Alucrid · Feb 23, 2016

Shenmue said:
The silver lining is that the longer they have issues the better the freebies will be. Gotta find positives where you can.

Undertow HD baby

Y0j1mb0 · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

lol.

Fleshfeast · Feb 23, 2016

iMax said:
Surely you can access digital content regardless of whether you're signed in?

It works fine when you're connected, it works fine when you're not connected. When the connection is spotty, most games give an error just when trying to launch. If you go into offline mode they launch.

Y0j1mb0 · Feb 23, 2016

iMax said:
Surely you can access digital content regardless of whether you're signed in?

I couldn't play any digital games I bought.

bombshell · Feb 23, 2016

iMax said:
Surely you can access digital content regardless of whether you're signed in?

Only on the Xbox One that is set as your home console.

Branniganz Love · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

Ahhhh Hahahaha! Love self depricating humor. Truly though, Xbox Live has been really bad lately.

OdysseusVA · Feb 23, 2016

But what about PSN?

sam777 · Feb 23, 2016

Yeah something is wrong with the store.

Symphonia · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

The Jackdog · Feb 23, 2016

bombshell said:
Only on the Xbox One that is set as your home console.

but a lot of people, including me, did this.

its worked before.

it didnt work last night.

Quazar · Feb 23, 2016

Can't even buy walking dead game. Really lame.

Asd202 · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

This guy this fucking guy

.

pizzacat · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

God damn this dude is always on point lol

iMax · Feb 23, 2016

bombshell said:
Only on the Xbox One that is set as your home console.

I would've thought most people only have one Xbox One though.

Complicated · Feb 23, 2016

I've been online and playing with friends throughout all the reported outages for the past week until yesterday. It was down for most of the afternoon, but then we got on last night and were playing while stuff was still down.

Seems likely that it would either be a concentrated attack or something to do with maintenance which could explain why it's going down for some and not others.

FonkyByNature · Feb 23, 2016

Yup, it's been shit for more than 12 hours for me, if not more.

The store is down, online play is down...

I haven't seen Xbox Live doing bad in a long time. I can't believe how MS dropped the ball Xbox Live wise this gen. The service is just not as stable.

Edit: That fake Kaz account, Gold comedy right there, too good !!! LOL !

Illusive_Juan · Feb 23, 2016

iMax said:
I would've thought most people only have one Xbox One though.

If you have a friend's console as your home xbox, they get access to all of your digital games. When you sign in to your actual xbox with your gamertag, you can play those games as well at the same time.

When outages like this happen, you're screwed.

Chill Penguin · Feb 23, 2016

Not sure what's happening. Xbl was rock solid for years on end on 360.

Mr. Giggles · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

lol, this guy

Fleet_of_Foot · Feb 23, 2016

I was just about to buy and put in a code for XBox Live, even knowing the problems they're currently having. I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I can't even get to the screen to input a code to buy their service because that doesn't work either.

theWB27 · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

This is gold. Hilarious...

shandy706 · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

iMax · Feb 23, 2016

Illusive_Juan said:
If you have a friend's console as your home xbox, they get access to all of your digital games. When you sign in to your actual xbox with your gamertag, you can play those games as well at the same time.

When outages like this happen, you're screwed.

That makes sense. Guess people shouldn't do this then!

labaronx · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

Dude lol

crpav · Feb 23, 2016

Chill Penguin said:
Not sure what's happening. Xbl was rock solid for years on end on 360.

I would say it's an increase in people who want to hack/DDOS as well as the increased ability they found out how and what to DDOS.

zerokoolpsx · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

Hahaha.

U2NUMB · Feb 23, 2016

It really is past the point where someone at MS needs to officially talk about it.. even if its an outside source causing it at least be honest. Letting the internet run their mind is NEVER a good idea in the age of Twitter.

iMax · Feb 23, 2016

I still don't really understand DDOS. Can't they implement some sort of protocol for their servers so they only respond to packets from designated Xbox One consoles? Although I guess that'd only really work with IPv6 and not a shared IP using NAT.

cakely · Feb 23, 2016

I need to bookmark this thread for when someone tries to tell me how much more reliable XBL is than their competition.

GIANKRATOS · Feb 23, 2016

TimPV3 said:

Omg lol

Mikey Jr. · Feb 23, 2016

I frequent xb1 reddit frequently. No joke, some part of live has gone down every day for the past week.

Pjsprojects · Feb 23, 2016

No way this could be some massive change that's going to be announced at the upcoming Win10 event?

MrBlonde · Feb 23, 2016

This is still happening?? I couldn't play anything last night and with PVZ2 out today I better be able to play my digital purchase of the game this evening after work!

iMax · Feb 23, 2016

I can't believe Microsoft haven't put out a proper statement yet. This isn't good.

bman94 · Feb 23, 2016

It's really god damn frustrating. I was trying to Mortal Kombat X last night and it constantly refused to load. Once I disconnected my Xbox One from the internet it worked. Why the hell does a retail copy of a game require the internet to work? I was only trying to play single player. That's really bullshit.

Mikey Jr. · Feb 23, 2016

Pjsprojects said:
No way this could be some massive change that's going to be announced at the upcoming Win10 event?

No.

They are getting ddosed and have been for a week. There is no way in shit Ms is doing this on purpose.

Steverulez · Feb 23, 2016

Pjsprojects said:
No way this could be some massive change that's going to be announced at the upcoming Win10 event?

Its a preview event for their Spring line-up, theres nothing to indicate there will be anything big to announce there

ViciousDS · Feb 23, 2016

interesting PSN goes down we have fucking pages of people complaining that its ALWAYS down and XBL is the gods of services.

I have both, but to be honest they both have times where its just as shittty and out as long as the other. It's like a cell phone provider (damn it mom T-mobile has issues once in awhile just like every service providers!)

hoping its back up when I get home.....I want to watch some breaking bad on netflix. Could never get it to work when service is wonky.

edit: who's the idiots DDoS'ing this time?

Shenmue · Feb 23, 2016

I thought those idiots usually attack both services together?

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