Xbox Live is down — latest updates on major outage

The Xbox Live status page updated with a brief note saying, “It’s taking longer than anticipated.”

The Xbox Support X profile has provided a brief update. Things are still down and the investigation continues.

Supposedly, yesterday, the PlayStation Network went down for about 2 hours, but it was quickly brought back by Sony. Not clear if its related to today’s Xbox Live outage.

Xbox Live is still down.

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xbox servers are currently down and people are not very happy…

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This issue does highlight the modern gaming problem of so many services needing to be always online.

We’ve seen tons of posts from players who want to play games like Skyrim, Minecraft (assuming they’re not in servers) or even sports titles like EA’s FC2024 or 2K’s NBA2K24 which aren’t accessible because of the connectivity issue.

Though, as reported previously there is a network setting workaround where you sign as offline. Supposedly that is working for some games and apps.

As of 2:30 PM Pacific, Xbox Live is still down. It has been 3-and-a-half hours since the service first went down.

A Reddit user who has been tracking the outage and claims they can now reach the sign-in page, which was previously unavailable.

The outage is ongoing and no updates have been released by Microsoft or Xbox.

Over on X, between Xbox Series X, Xbox, and Xbox Live, the social media site has seen nearly 50,000 posts in the last hour or so.

Looking around the internet, it appears that the service is still down. 

Although, one Reddit user reminded us that about a decade ago, there was a group of hackers calling themselves the Lizard Squad who used DDoS attacks to take down Xbox Live among a number of other services throughout 2014. 

I doubt this is caused by that same group if it is a DDoS attack or otherwise. 

The moderators of the Xbox reddit quickly deleted the Lizard Squad post. Hmm?

That said, the mods appear to be deleting most of the posts related to the outage, probably to not clog the feeds but still.

It’s unclear if the outage is affecting everyone or not. 

Take this with a grain of troll, but we have seen users on X claiming that they are playing Xbox. One user claimed he was playing Destiny and using Discord on his Xbox. Probably a troll.

I’m on the West Coast of the United States, and for the most part this will only affect kids on summer break but on the east coast, people are starting to get off work and I  imagine they want a little gaming break. 

It is now 2 PM Pacific and it looks like Xbox Live is still down. According to the Xbox status page, the first outage was reported to them at 11:07 AM PST. 

The company has listed the issue as a major issue. “You may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems. Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won’t be available.”

A brief update at 1:53 PM claimed they found a related issue, but did not explain what the issue might be. 

The Xbox Support Twitter page and other platforms have not posted any updates since the one closer to 1:15 PM. 

While reporting into Down Detector peaked around 38,000 reports close to 12 PM Pacific, the service has seen a steady 10,000+ reports up to now.

The Xbox Support subredditis flooded with posts regarding the outage.

One redditor is claiming with some network settings workarounds you can get offline games working and apps like YouTube and Spotify. It requires you to sign in offline. A different user confirmed this in a different post. If only Reddit users looked at what’s already been posted. 

As of 1:40 PM PST, Xbox Live remains down with no new updates from Xbox. And it’s looking like it’s still global. 

We’ve seen complaints from the US, Brazil, Japan and even France. 

A French Xbox blog confirmed that the outage is affecting Xbox on PC, console and mobile devices.

Close to 1:15 PM Pacific, Xbox Support reported that the investigation into the outage was taking longer than expected.

The status page still lists Accounts & Profiles as having issues with a pending resolution.

Close to 1:15 PM Pacific, Xbox Support reported that the investigation into the outage was taking longer than expected.

The status page still lists Accounts & Profiles as having issues with a pending resolution.