Xbox users furious over massive outage that leaves consoles unplayable

The Microsoft shenanigans continue, only this time it’s a lot less funny.

Not everyone was laughing when Microsoft went down a couple of weeks back, grounding flights and causing chaos across the nation.

However, there were some who welcomed being unable to work due to the mass outage.

This time, though, it’s difficult for gamers to find the funny in being unable to play their consoles.

At approximately 9:30am EST, which is 2:30pm BST, Xbox reported that it was experiencing issues, and that its system was down.

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Consequently, this impacted users across Europe and the US.

Once the problem was detected, Microsoft attempted to offer help and advice to those in need, saying, “We're currently investigating access issues and degraded performance with multiple Microsoft 365 services and features.

“More information can be found under MO842351 in the admin centre.”

However, it proved useless.

“Yeah thanks, but we can't get to the admin centre to read the update...” posted one Twitter user in response.

The greatest crime of all, however, was Minecraft being down.

Twitter user Brad said, “Yep... Xbox is down, so Minecraft is too,” before criticising the brand for solely relying on one system.

“That is really bad practice,” they added, “I literally can’t do my job because it’s down again.”

Ooft. Talk about having a rough time of it.

Not that Microsoft is faring much better under the weight of all this criticism.

“You guys need to rehire those 12,000 people that you laid off because your service has been terrible ever since!” posted user Tapsy Turvy.

If it wasn’t already apparent, people are ticked off.

And that’s putting it mildly.

Even though Xbox is doing its damnedest to keep us on side by offering gorgeous free downloads, such incentives fail to entice us when our consoles are unplayable.

Hopefully, the issues with Xbox will stop now... But we won't hold our breath.