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Sign-in functions for Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Live service failed Tuesday into the afternoon, preventing users from signing in to and playing Xbox games on the console and PC.<\/p>\n
Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Live service page acknowledged an error at about 11:07:00 AM PT, and a \u201crelated issue\u201d at 2:38 PM PT as well. The error was confined to the \u201caccount and profile\u201d section of the status page.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems,\u201d the page read at press time, noting that a resolution was \u201cpending.\u201d \u201cFeatures that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won\u2019t be available.\u201d<\/p>\n
An error message also appeared on the Xbox app for the PC, which acknowledged the service issue. (My PC had an update to the app pending, but downloading didn\u2019t resolve the issue, either.)<\/p>\n
The inability to sign in to Xbox Live was handled in different ways by different games. The venerable Solitaire<\/em> was playable, though I was unable to sign in and save my progress to the cloud. I could flip cards in Klondike with nary a problem. <\/p>\n A more conventional and up-to-date game, Brotato<\/em>, was totally unplayable, however, and wouldn\u2019t load without an Xbox sign-in. That will probably be the case for Xbox console users as well as PC players who use the Xbox service to download and play \u201cfree\u201d games from Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Live service \u2014 that is, until Microsoft fixes the issue. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sign-in functions for Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Live service failed Tuesday into the afternoon, preventing users from signing in to and playing Xbox games on the console<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[1221,412,36,779,1222,1220],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","tag-due","tag-games","tag-live","tag-problems","tag-signin","tag-xbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}