{"id":109131,"date":"2024-07-03T01:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/xbox-live-is-back-after-an-outage-lasting-several-hours\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:24","slug":"xbox-live-is-back-after-an-outage-lasting-several-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/xbox-live-is-back-after-an-outage-lasting-several-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live is back after an outage lasting several hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Xbox has resolved a widespread outage that prevented players from connecting to Xbox Live, playing online games, downloading games, or using other services for several hours. \u201cUsers should no longer be encountering issues signing in to Xbox Live and services,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XboxSupport\/status\/1808301959599755722\" target=\"_blank\"> Xbox says in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cThank you for your patience, game on!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Issues with Xbox Live seemed to have started around 2PM ET, with <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/xbox-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downdetector reports<\/a> beginning to rise around that time. At around 3PM ET, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XboxSupport\/status\/1808213035799937065\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox said<\/a> it was \u201caware that some users have been disconnected from Xbox Live\u201d and that the company started \u201cinvestigating.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Meanwhile, its <a href=\"https:\/\/support.xbox.com\/en-US\/xbox-live-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">status page<\/a> said Xbox\u2019s account and profile services suffered a major outage. \u201cYou may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems,\u201d the notice read. \u201cFeatures that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won\u2019t be available.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">At around 4:10PM ET, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XboxSupport\/status\/1808231362702254404\" target=\"_blank\">Xbox said<\/a> its investigation was \u201ctaking longer than expected\u201d and didn\u2019t resolve the issue until around 9PM ET. It\u2019s still not clear what caused the hours-long outage. <em>The Verge <\/em>reached out to Microsoft with a request for more information but didn\u2019t immediately hear back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\"><em><strong>Update, July 2nd: <\/strong>Added an update from Xbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/2\/24191012\/xbox-live-down-outage-xbox-series-x-s-online-sign-failed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox has resolved a widespread outage that prevented players from connecting to Xbox Live, playing online games, downloading games, or using other services for several hours. \u201cUsers should no longer be encountering issues signing in to Xbox Live and services,\u201d Xbox says in a post on X. \u201cThank you for your patience, game on!\u201d Issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}