Xbox Live is down, for the eighth time in as many days

Feb 23, 2016, 08:43
Xbox Live is down, for the eighth time in as many days

According to an update from the Xbox Live status page, now the services that remain affected include downloading things you've purchased, making purchases, and doing things like viewing your balance or adding currency to your wallet.

Indeed, Xbox Live Arcade played some role in helping kick off the indie revolution, though the world wasn't quite ready for a digital future at that point thanks to bandwidth not quite being up to snuff and game consoles featuring pretty tiny hard drives.

Here are a few tweets from affected users.

Updates seem to work on the US-facing page - you'll need to click on a specific service, like Xbox Live Core Services, and then hit the Notify me button to sign up.

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As evident from the tweets posted by the official Xbox Live twitter handle, at the time of publishing this article, Xbox Live services have been down for over 8 hours and it still hasn't been fixed.

Microsoft is still working on a solution to fix the issue after they received countless of complaints on social media.

Around three hours later, however, the company was back, still apologizing, and neatly itemizing the services it admitted were experiencing problems.

Xbox Live is a hot mess right now.

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"We want you to know our top engineers are on the case and are working toward a fix".

Microsoft's problems for today haven't ended yet, as a widespread outage affecting online services for Xbox One has brought multiplayer gaming to its knees.

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