(Thankfully, games you’ve already bought, that aren’t dependent upon Facebook servers, should still fire up for now.)

This extreme outage also has knock-on effects on games where players log in using their Facebook account, which is an awful lot of them. FIFA Mobile tweeted that it knows something’s up, but rather nicely shaded Facebook in the process with a, “we hope they resolve it shortly.” (Our emphasis.)

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Niantic has also acknowledged the troubles for those who log in to Pokémon Go via their Facebook credentials. Niantic rather more gently explained it’s “looking into reports of errors,” and apologized even though it’s not even Niantic’s fault one bit.

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Facebook is being characteristically shy about the issues, not giving any explanation so far as to the cause of the outage. Instead, making the whole world laugh at the ironic awfulness of existence, it’s had to turn to Twitter to explain that “some people” are having trouble. Some people! What an odd, stupid, 2021 lie.

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The best guess is some sort of DNS issue, which is the internet equivalent of forgetting where you live. Some were speculating earlier that it might have been a somewhat malicious act on someone’s part, deleting DNS records for all the megacorp’s products.

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Still, whatever’s causing the incredibly thorough outage, it serves us all right. When you get into bed with the devil, you have to expect a trident poked up your backside every now and then.