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Xbox One Consoles Are Down (mashable.com)

Posted by msmash on from the outage-reports dept.

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.

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  1. Curious... by Narcocide · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. Wait, so did being offline keep you from playing by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    your offline, disc based games?

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  3. On-line game is non-starter for me ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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

    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.