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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 54228

Xbox online services suffered a major outage on July 27, 2026, leaving thousands of players unable to sign in, view their game libraries, or launch titles. Microsoft officially confirmed the problem, with Xbox Support stating that engineers are actively working to fix issues affecting sign-ins, game librarie

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Csimbi · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2026 9:39 pm Post subject:

Once of the fantastic benefits of online-only gaming, I hope you all are loving it.

heretic · Site Admin Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 2866

Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet blames the outage on the failure of a licensing service that triggered sign-in scenarios to fail and took down multiple services across the platform.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said his team has traced today's outage to the failure of a licensing service that "Xbox depends on." That triggered sign-in scenarios to fail, followed by "many scenarios that require an entitlement check...such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own," he tweeted. "It also affected several of our publishing and store partners who depend on those same systems, which is why some of you saw issues in specific games and not others."

Service was restored as of 2:30 p.m. PT, but it "came back unevenly across regions, which is why some of you recovered hours before others," Van Vliet added. "This is an unacceptable situation, and we must do better to support you