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Xbox One Consoles Are Down (mashable.com)
If you are having trouble getting your Xbox One online, you are not alone. Xbox One consoles around the world have stopped working. From a report: Xbox One owners are reporting major problems with their consoles online with displays being stuck on black screens at startup, games not loading, and errors when trying to login to Xbox Live. Microsoft is aware of the situation and has promised to give more information when they have it. Within a couple of hours, the official Xbox Support Twitter account updated everyone, saying that they have identified the problem and are working on fixing it. There is no estimate on how long it will take to fix. Bad week for Microsoft services continues. Update: The issue with Xbox Live appears to have been resolved.
Just yesterday there was a post asking about what global technical disasters had not yet come to pass, suspiciously like they were plumbing the Slashdot crowd for ideas on how to finish ruining civilization. And now, here we are.
This is exactly what happens when you buy in to a system that depends on online connectivity.
Fuck that. When I buy a game I want to own the game. You millennials have no idea of the pain you are in for.
Could just be a coincidence, but for a while connections to Steam were down as well. May have a DDoS, a hardware hiccup, a routing hiccup, or again just coincidence. Made me think about the discussion about piracy the other day and the risks of always-online Steam. Thankfully the outage was short.
THATS why a console does needs an online-link, so they can brick them all at the same time! Or is it just that their servers are running Windows10?
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I'm on the Distant Worlds 2 expedition. ... Guess I'll have to turn off my wireless and unhook my Xbone from the LAN if I fire it up tonight.
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DRM ruins everything. Just let the people hack who want to hack. I'd have bought a Xbox if I could actually own it.
I installed a fresh Windows 10 and it could not connect to Windows Update service. Said to try later, and others reporting similar issues. Also SmartScan could not scan my download files either. So I guess Microsoft is having some really big issues apparently.
"displays being stuck on black screens at startup". That's pretty concerning, I hope it's easy to trigger a factory reset on xbox. What on their end could stop a machine from booting?
your offline, disc based games?
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all still work!
"Light switch rave" anyone? ;)
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Boots just fine.
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I offer my 2 cents to all the fucktards on Twitter demanding compensation. A 3-hour outage on a service that at full retail price costs $59.99 USD per year works out to 2 cents. Fucking entitled retards.
Atari 2600 never had this problem. I don't remember waiting for updates to finish or long boot times either.
Same for Magnavox Odyssey, Intellevision, Colecovision, NES, TurboGrafix or Sega Genesis.
This is sadly why I refuse to own a game console which requires an internet connection.
When my XBox 360 started displaying ads, it got disconnected from the network never to be connected again. When the XBone was coming out and MS was saying "it must be on-line", I knew that was the end of console gaming for me.
First, because I don't trust companies like MS to suddenly decide that content I've paid for is no longer available to me.
Second, because I don't trust the competence of MS to maintain such a connected device, which they've been proving in spades with Windows 10.
Third, because as an old fart who doesn't play on-line games, there is no benefit to me to have my video game on the internet, other than to put a microphone in my living room and hope that MS plays nice. I'm too cynical to hope that.
Fourth, because fuck you with your ads, analytics, and other pointless on-line shit that is hostile to me as the one who bought the fucking console in the first place.
I'm afraid I have no sympathy for a massive outage no doubt caused by Microsoft's new-found use of everyone as beta testers, and when my older XBox 360 dies and I can no longer play Skyrim in a completely off-line console, that will be the end of my gaming.
I just don't see how I would trust a platform like this.
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"global technical disaster" + "Suspicious" now too, eh? Xbox having a network glitch happens monthly, they even report them on this shitty libertarian safe space website for morons. Feckless idiot.
A communications disruption with Xbox Live can only mean one thing... invasion. :-)
The Fortnite kids are likely thinking the Apocalypse has come. Yesterday it was down for several hours worldwide, today Xbox issues. If something happens tomorrow, I expect riots. Short riots. By which I mean not tall, cause they're kids. So cover your junk out there people!
Remember 15 years ago when you would turn off the console, put in the game, turn the console back on, and start playing?
How did people come to accept the disaster of modern consoles with convoluted menus, tons of bloat, app stores, online dependencies, etc? All garbage that exists only to make more after-sale profit off the suckers. Modern consumer electronics are so consumer hostile and yet nobody seems to care. It only gets worse every year.
Online only games are a STAIN on the industry. FUCK ANYONE WHO MAKES THEM.
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OMFG have you seen the new Halo 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and Master Chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and Chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disc
XBox Live is a BS fee that you pay in order to play online with others. So as long as your game doesn't require you to be online to play it, then yeah, you could have played it. The problem is that most games today require online activity in some way, and that made it impossible for many.
My thoughts were that MS was experiencing some sort of DoS attack, because if you kept trying to get in, eventually it'd let you. And once you were in, game-play was fine, from what I saw.
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Office 365 stopped working so I couldn't use my work email.
Anything that used "login.microsoftonline.com" as an authentication provider stopped working.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the XBox issue too.
Apple shuts down small experiments and buys giant "muh Privacy" billboards in Vegas, but also forces iOS users to use Google's search, the largest surveillance apparatus there is.
For eight billion reasons per year (do as they say, not as they do).
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I believe this may be what has keept me from playing DVD and Blu-Ray discs the last day or so. I am very much a fringe user because I bought my Xbox One for media usage, not gaming.
... mine didn't work.
Any word on when they'll be back up?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Ha, some games on my ipad require constant internet connection despite not actually needing this if you're not engaged in a silly pvp side-game. I have noticed some mobile games now state if they don't need a network connection.
This was true even back before I traded in my first gen iPad for something like $50 in store credit.
It got so bad, I would download an app, put the iPad into airplane mode and launch the app, and if the app complained it couldn't talk to the internet, it got immediately uninstalled. Sorry, one of the reasons I might want a game is on an airplane or on vacation when I have no connectivity. I'm not registering, signing up, liking you on Facebook, or any of that shit.
Pretty much I knew at that point that it was all shit from here, and that apps no longer were there to do what they said they did, but be a conduit to ads and other bullshit.
That was pretty much the point where I decided that most apps were shit, added little or no value, and weren't things you could trust.
Once you realize this, it's amazingly easy to tune out apps and stop looking for them -- they're just vehicles for ads and other shit, as such, they become something you can just stop giving a damn about.
Look at it this way, your average app is made by people with the integrity of the most slimy used car sales person you have ever met. You wouldn't buy a car from them, but you're giving them access to all of your phone and contacts.
A clear example of how software non-freedom (proprietary, user-subjugating software) hurts users. This is a relatively minor, therefore fortunate, example in that (as far as the Xbox goes) it's chiefly for recreational use and nobody's lives depends on this. But as more important systems take on the same network-bound DRM schemes, people will be needlessly impoverished, needlessly suffer reputation damage, needlessly lose jobs, and even needlessly die from things like this. It's a good thing that medical equipment, for instance, is not networked and under the control of those at the console (we also know this from what ought to be common sense and the stories about CPAP machines ratting out their users to insurance companies and medical organizations).
Technologically speaking, you should be able to host your own server for these games and thus keep playing against opponents without involving a single central authority you can't replace. Software freedom would give you the freedom you need to improve the game to implement this. A single point of failure central authority, however, also puts you at the mercy of that authority when they want to stop you from playing the game (and by "you" I mean cherry-picked individuals, sets of users, or all users—their choice of users)
I'm sure some of this has already happened and it's only a matter of time until there are enough stories we can point to to create an organized map of them like what the GNU Project has done to back up their claim that proprietary software is often malware.
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I played games on my PC today. Worked fine.
That's seems unlikely. In my experience, you can play any normal offline game, disc or downloaded, without an internet connection. I've seen partial outages before (being unable to sign in was the last one, I believe), and I could still play all my games just fine. I've also played games when my entire network has gone down on rare occasions.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Generally no, at least similar issues don't on the PS3/PS4, except for games that require online connectivity: MMO's, mulitplayer shooters and the like.
I _enjoy_ writing high quality software, where the requirements were thought through, with some smart people spending time to specify what the software is supposed to do, rigorous testing to ensure it actually does, everything from the security teams' repertoire thrown against it, big bug bounties for the stuff we still missed and a clear better-offline-than-insecure stance.
I _get_to_ "plan" at most a week ahead, with colleagues that have decided "not caring" (that moving from "minimum viable" to "actually working" is _never_ going to happen, just add more features that are also MVP) is the best they can do for the business' bottom-line (and their own careers/wallets, they hope) while insisting on using the very latest 0.0.x version of any random given technology giving them all the joy they could ever want and explicit instructions from management (ex-coders no less) to avoid "overengineering" edge cases that will "only affect a small percentage of users" and to make sure to sidestep-and-mothball the security teams' requests whenever feasible. The sad thing is that financially this may actually be the best approach, it just disgusts me to my very core...
I guess I should try moving from financial services to aerospace software...
where everything is hooked to some sort of cloud, and as a result everything can suddenly stop working because a network connection is down or because a server is down, or because some programmer made an error and his new code just propagated through the cloud to a server or to a bit of hardware in your home or office....
When things ran stand-alone, this sort of garbage just didn't happen.
XBox One was supposed to be online-only even though it uses a disc drive, but due to backlash (and jeering from Sony), Microsoft changed their mind at the last minute before launch.
Next generation, however...
Only if you couldn't disable your connection. If you have WiFi you're out of luck because you first have to access the GUI to switch it off. If you have Ethernet you can take out the cable and boot up normally offline and play offline.
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This is why I don't own any "modern" game consoles. Everything up to about the PlayStation 2 was awesome. After that, the DRM aspect became waaaaaaaaaay too onerous.
I had a PS3 because someone didn't want theirs anymore. I bought a couple games for it, but I am unsure of whatever became of that console. The first game I bought required a "patch" that was greater than a gigabyte. I literally was not permitted to play this game I just bought until I connected the PS3 to a network and downloaded the update.
Fuck.
That.
Shit.
It was the DRM mechanisms preventing me from playing a new game until I connected the PS3 to the network for some sort of grace granting me access to the game. Of course, once that grace was given, it was no longer the DRM mechanisms keeping me from playing. Now, it was just that the distributor deciding that I can't play an unpatched game.
I still blame DRM for preventing me from playing a game that I legitimately bought and paid for. I was in a remote location so it wasn't just a matter of minutes of waiting. It was weeks.
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Their a criminal organization, only complete fools will touch anything they make. I'm sure a lot of microsoft apologists will get their underoos in a twist, but screw it, they suck harder than a hoover.
You deal with MS, you get every goddamn thing you deserve for being an idiot.
Five years ago, I was one of those guys who was like "If I can't buy a physical discs for it, then I'm not buying that console" . Then I realized how fucking annoying it was to have to find the appropriate piece of plastic to stick in the machine every time I wanted to play the game (especially when 99% of the game's files are installed directly to the Xbox hard drive anyway). Now I only buy the downloadable version of games, way more convenient. If the Blu-Ray drive disappeared from the next Xbox console, I wouldn't miss it.