▲ 69 ▼ Xbox service is down, with outages meaning players can't play any digital or physical games, after similar PlayStation Network issues last week (www.eurogamer.net) submitted 3 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (4 children) No difference, game plays fine... switching to Series X permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (3 children) Series X firmware update worked. Xbox Live login failed. Still let me into the dashboard. Still let me install Mass Effect from disc. Still patched the game. Still plays just fine. This outage does not affect physical media any more than unplugging your internet would. If the game runs without internet, the game runs during this outage. uggg... we get enough heinous garbage from game companies without this false flag crap from news media. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) and I hit submit 59 seconds too fast. Guess what happens when I hit A to continue: A login screen! EDIT: BONUS ROUND I cannot capture a screenshot of the game asking for a login, as the capture application requires I log in to Xbox Live. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) Interesting note: I took the Series X offline and suddenly Mass Effect let me continue! So there must be a check that online services are available, but a failure to authenticate was returned. I'm going to test another game to see if the same thing happens. Dead or Alive 6 is not installed, is very DLC heavy, and even includes a F2P core version. Let's see what happens... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Confirmed: Dead or Alive 6 was able to install, fully patch, install all single player unlock keys, launches to start screen... but does not allow me to start a session. Same stuck login screen previously shown by Mass Effect Andromeda. I yanked the CAT5e, and suddenly I'm playing DOA6. My apologies news media. This is certainly looking like an outage that prevents any physical media from working... without workarounds. If anyone has any (reasonable) additional tests you think I should try. Let me know. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (3 children) Series X firmware update worked. Xbox Live login failed. Still let me into the dashboard. Still let me install Mass Effect from disc. Still patched the game. Still plays just fine. This outage does not affect physical media any more than unplugging your internet would. If the game runs without internet, the game runs during this outage. uggg... we get enough heinous garbage from game companies without this false flag crap from news media. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) and I hit submit 59 seconds too fast. Guess what happens when I hit A to continue: A login screen! EDIT: BONUS ROUND I cannot capture a screenshot of the game asking for a login, as the capture application requires I log in to Xbox Live. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) Interesting note: I took the Series X offline and suddenly Mass Effect let me continue! So there must be a check that online services are available, but a failure to authenticate was returned. I'm going to test another game to see if the same thing happens. Dead or Alive 6 is not installed, is very DLC heavy, and even includes a F2P core version. Let's see what happens... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Confirmed: Dead or Alive 6 was able to install, fully patch, install all single player unlock keys, launches to start screen... but does not allow me to start a session. Same stuck login screen previously shown by Mass Effect Andromeda. I yanked the CAT5e, and suddenly I'm playing DOA6. My apologies news media. This is certainly looking like an outage that prevents any physical media from working... without workarounds. If anyone has any (reasonable) additional tests you think I should try. Let me know. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) and I hit submit 59 seconds too fast. Guess what happens when I hit A to continue: A login screen! EDIT: BONUS ROUND I cannot capture a screenshot of the game asking for a login, as the capture application requires I log in to Xbox Live. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) Interesting note: I took the Series X offline and suddenly Mass Effect let me continue! So there must be a check that online services are available, but a failure to authenticate was returned. I'm going to test another game to see if the same thing happens. Dead or Alive 6 is not installed, is very DLC heavy, and even includes a F2P core version. Let's see what happens... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Confirmed: Dead or Alive 6 was able to install, fully patch, install all single player unlock keys, launches to start screen... but does not allow me to start a session. Same stuck login screen previously shown by Mass Effect Andromeda. I yanked the CAT5e, and suddenly I'm playing DOA6. My apologies news media. This is certainly looking like an outage that prevents any physical media from working... without workarounds. If anyone has any (reasonable) additional tests you think I should try. Let me know. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) Interesting note: I took the Series X offline and suddenly Mass Effect let me continue! So there must be a check that online services are available, but a failure to authenticate was returned. I'm going to test another game to see if the same thing happens. Dead or Alive 6 is not installed, is very DLC heavy, and even includes a F2P core version. Let's see what happens... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Confirmed: Dead or Alive 6 was able to install, fully patch, install all single player unlock keys, launches to start screen... but does not allow me to start a session. Same stuck login screen previously shown by Mass Effect Andromeda. I yanked the CAT5e, and suddenly I'm playing DOA6. My apologies news media. This is certainly looking like an outage that prevents any physical media from working... without workarounds. If anyone has any (reasonable) additional tests you think I should try. Let me know. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Confirmed: Dead or Alive 6 was able to install, fully patch, install all single player unlock keys, launches to start screen... but does not allow me to start a session. Same stuck login screen previously shown by Mass Effect Andromeda. I yanked the CAT5e, and suddenly I'm playing DOA6. My apologies news media. This is certainly looking like an outage that prevents any physical media from working... without workarounds. If anyone has any (reasonable) additional tests you think I should try. Let me know. permalink fedilink source parent