Xbox gamers complained of server outage on Tuesday. (Unsplash)
The cause for the outage is not known at this point. Xbox issued a statement saying “Hey Xbox Members, we’re tracking an issue that will impact your ability to connect to the Xbox Network. Our teams are hard at work getting things fixed up.”
Several people took to the comment section of Downdetector and X to complain about the outage.
Xbox servers down: Gamers express frustration
One exasperated gamer tagged Xbox and wrote “@XBOX please fix the server issue , logging on gets me a connect to network on dashboard and no games with launch. Says not connected. Fix please 8000 reports on downdetector. And you have not changed the http://Xbox.com website to reflect server for everything is down.”
Another added “@Microsoft with the amount of money you guys charge people for Xbox games pass , Xbox live servers shouldn’t be going down … smh.”
Yet another said “xbox servers are down. night ruined.” On Downdetector people from different parts of the US complained about servers being down.
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“Got off work can’t connect to network?? Is it a big outage?? Reporting from central illinios,” one wrote. Another added “Down in Indiana. Turned my Xbox on and it said I needed to connect to the internet so I was that what??? Thought it might have been my fiber messing up because of the storms we had lately and we just got a new aerial drop done but everything on that side of things are working as normal. Then it finally connect to the internet and I ran speed tests and every single one my download was normal at 1000Mps but my upload was 5-10mps and my packet loss what at 100%. What’s going on lmao.”
However, the problem seemed to be returning to normal for some, as one noted that servers appeared to be back up in Arizona and Kentucky.
Xbox down: How to fix sign-in issues
If the sign-in issue on Xbox is not due to a server outage, then one should try to remove and re-add their account. If that does not work, one should try and restart the console entirely.
A hard reset should do the trick, but in this case, several people have complained of issues, to the sign-in issue is likely on Xbox’s end and a user-level fix won’t solve the problem.
