Xbox Dwell, Microsoft’s multiplayer gaming and digital media community, was struggling a significant outage Tuesday as 1000’s of customers reported issues accessing it.
Consumer-reported issues with Xbox Dwell started to spike at about 2:15 p.m. ET Tuesday, in accordance with monitoring website Downdetector. As of two:25 p.m., greater than 23,000 outage stories had been logged with the positioning, with greater than three-fourths indicating they had been having points logging in. Some Xbox Dwell customers reported seeing error message saying the service was present process “scheduled upkeep.”
Different Microsoft-operated providers, together with Minecraft and the Microsoft Retailer, additionally had a excessive degree of person error stories on Downdetector.
The official Xbox Assist account on X posted at 2:55 pm. ET, “We’re conscious that some customers have been disconnected from Xbox Dwell. We’re investigating!” The message directed customers to the Xbox standing web page — which finally was up to date to say {that a} main outage of the “Account & profile” service was reported at 2:07 p.m. ET. “You might not be capable of sign-in to your Xbox profile, could also be disconnected whereas signed in, or produce other associated issues,” the message on the Xbox standing web page stated. “Options that require sign-in like most video games, apps and social exercise received’t be accessible.”
Microsoft requires customers to have an Xbox Dwell account (which is free to arrange) to play video games on-line and entry different experiences on the Xbox console, Home windows PC and Xbox cell apps.
Xbox Dwell customers took to social media to vent concerning the technical issues:
@XboxSupport any motive why that is occurring? It’s been 20 minutes and I nonetheless can’t log in. I logged in high-quality this morning. Additionally I can’t register the outage on the Microsoft web site 🤬 pic.twitter.com/A0XuNaP6N6
— Chris Topher (@topbottom23) July 2, 2024
@XboxSupport is there an issue with Xbox dwell proper now? I’ve reset my XSX a pair instances and I hold getting this error. pic.twitter.com/GZGZeVxI5n
— Jeff J (@MYTHODDIKAL) July 2, 2024