Xbox is currently reported to suffer from major outages related to it’s online services including players’ ability to sign-in to their accounts, accessing their libraries and even launching some of their installed games. As a result, it’s likely that you may have experienced some problems logging into your Xbox account but thankfully, the official Xbox Support X team has acknowledged the issues and has confirmed that they’re working for a possible fix:
“We are aware that some users are encountering errors when attempting to sign in, see your game library, or launch games. Our engineers are actively working to mitigate the issue.”
Microsoft would want to address the technical issues as fast as they can though, cause of the impending launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved that’s scheduled for tomorrow as being one of the most hotly anticipated titles on the Xbox, it would be a shame if players have trouble accessing the game cause of online outages.
The Xbox outages took place less than a week after Sony’s Playstation Network was hit with technical difficulties and was displaying almost similar types of issues, what made matters even worse for Sony is that they’re also currently under fire from lots of players worldwide for deciding to stop production of discs from 2028.
These network troubles from both Sony and Microsoft highlight one of the biggest shortcomings of gaming today–as the industry is gradually moving to an all-digital route, your ability to access and play your owned videogames could be easily disrupted whenever any such online-related issues occur. But for strictly-physical copies that didn’t require you to log in or be online, you would’ve remained completely unaffected during such times. These situations point out what the industry, as well as the gamers, have lost in terms of player agency and sense of ownership.
Xbox is also going through a massive restructuring process that has resulted in mass layoffs and has seen a total of 1600 staff losing their jobs two weeks back and 3200 employees scheduled to be let go by the end of the current fiscal year.
