We’ve been getting emails and tweets all week about this, in increasing volume, but this evening Xbox Live seems to have finally dropped out for pretty much everyone trying to access the paid service.
This went out four hours ago (from time of posting):
Are you unable to purchase/download items from the marketplace? The right teams are on the case! Check: https://t.co/99xfLMWcZW for info!
— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) February 22, 2016
And this went out two hours ago (at time of posting):
We thank you for hanging in there as we investigate sign in/accessing content on Xbox One. Stay tuned to: https://t.co/99xfLMWcZW for info!
— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) February 22, 2016
Xbox’s status page is currently showing the following:
What’s been interesting/frustrating about this is, as I mention up top, the way so many people’s service seems to have slowly died out over the last few days, instead of thing being some universal, instantaneous thing.
Those already signed in might be OK, since Microsoft is saying stuff like match-making is working, but that won’t be of much use to you if you can’t sign in in the first place…
