They accompanied on the weekend Xbox network Issues affecting launching and playing games on Xbox consoles Xbox Cloud. Support reported issues on Friday 6 May evening, then Saturday morning, and finally Saturday evening.
The problems affected not only multiplayer, but also single-player games that players bought in the digital version.. Due to unavailable servers, the console was unable to verify that the game was indeed associated with the account. Some were even worried about all sorts of bugs that only appeared on the latest generation of consoles, that is, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. Some of them will persist on Monday morning.
The problems seem to have affected more players outside of Europe, mainly from North America.
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Players are criticizing not only the wider outages of the Xbox network, but also the anti-piracy protection of the American company and are demanding changes from Microsoft.. This should bring changes to how DRM works so that players can play their digital games on the console even when the servers are down or unable to connect to the internet.
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“The Xbox outages have shown that something needs to be changed in the digital rights management policy. Games downloaded to my console need to run for a limited time without server authentication. Let’s hope we get some clarification and a solution to avoid this problem next time.” he complained streamer Parris Lilly.
Weir Corden of WindowsCentral noticed other things as well. According to him It’s entirely possible that different publishers require Xbox to implement different levels of DRM controls for certain games..
In the meantime, others advise that in the event of a failure of the Internet or servers, restoring access to purchased digital games can help. complete restart of the console.
The Washington Post Gene Park took it well from the floor and wrote: “Imagine that you cannot read a book because somewhere in England a publishing house is on fire. It’s crazy that they can’t play the games I bought because they can’t access the infrastructure and fix it.”
What caused the problem? The readings point to the launch of Fortnite via Xbox Cloud, allowing epic users to play Epic’s battle royale for free.
Source :Indian TV
