Did you try signing in to Xbox Live this weekend? If you did, it’s quite likely that your attempts were futile – and you spent much of your time staring at spinning circles and error messages. Xbox Live was down for a a large portion of this weekend – and many, including me, thought it may have be a hack attack by anonymous, protesting the next-gen Xbox’s rumoured perpetual connectivity requirement.
According to the official Twitter account of the loose, decentralised hacktivists, the whole thing has nothing to do with them.
XBOX Live was NOT hacked by Anonymous.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) April 14, 2013
The issues have since largely been fixed, with Microsoft saying that
“If you were one of the members who was having issues signing in to Xbox LIVE, good news! This issue has been fixed! Thank you so much for your patience during this time, feel free to go enjoy your favourite games and content!”
However, not all is well. According to the Xbox Live Status page, Minecraft’s cloud-based saves are inaccessible.
Users may experience difficulties with the following services:
- Creating new or accessing existing Minecraft game saves
Were you affected? did you have trouble signing in the vastly-superior-to-the-competition, paid-for Xbox Live this weekend?
Last Updated: April 15, 2013
DieJason
April 15, 2013 at 12:17
Worst thing that happened to me was that i could not send a mesage via Live, online play was 100%.
Rincethis: Spellalicious
April 15, 2013 at 12:20
OVG couldn’t access his account for a few minutes, just adding to the black label induced rage from the night before, but I had no issues.
Matthew Holliday
April 15, 2013 at 12:26
they dont care about xbox, theyr too busy protesting about things that matter.
quite relevant to us, seeing as our president uses our money to build himself a town.
Matthew Holliday
April 15, 2013 at 12:26
they dont care about xbox, theyr too busy protesting about things that matter.
quite relevant to us, seeing as our president uses our money to build himself a town.
DrKiller
April 15, 2013 at 12:29
lol I didn’t even think it was hacked.. Thought it was my international DNS that I am using… I guess this sucks for people (like me) who wants to use the Xbox for SkyGo, NetFlix, Hulu etc.. Without XLive we can’t use it..
First thing that came to my mind was: Sooo.. you guys still going to do that “always-on” DRM thingy? 😛
Jonah Cash
April 15, 2013 at 12:32
I played Fifa13….. Win match, get disconnected = no result… Worse still: Win match other guy gets disconnected, he gets win I get shafted… Xbox remote gets wings…. Wall wins… No more xbox remotes left… 🙁
E Cash
April 15, 2013 at 15:51
You sound like an idiot.
Jonah Cash
April 15, 2013 at 16:13
Do you play Fifa on an Xbox???? Do you even play games at all??? You are just being rude and I don’t really see why that would be? School is out, hey? No after school sport for you today is there?
E Cash
April 16, 2013 at 17:28
You’re the one with troll rage throwing perfectly good controllers away… Just saying. It’s not that cereal.
Mathias
April 15, 2013 at 12:41
Anonymous is a joke…
6H057_AN0N
April 15, 2013 at 16:22
Lol rite rite u mad bro
Mathias
April 15, 2013 at 19:29
Sorry for messing with your favorite DDoS attackers… The moment they really hack something important, then they’ll get my credibility
Olie
April 16, 2013 at 16:38
What like the FBI or the pentagon? yep, not important.
Mathias
April 16, 2013 at 23:44
DDoS is not hacking…
Matthew Holliday
April 15, 2013 at 12:41
they dont care about xbox, theyr too busy protesting about things that matter.
quite relevant to us, seeing as our president uses our money to build himself a town.
matthurstrsa
April 15, 2013 at 13:06
I was too busy finally getting somewhere in Far Cry 3 on my PC.
Xelus
April 15, 2013 at 14:52
Yet another reason why online cloud base is a bad idea for gaming. One hack and it all comes crashing back down.
D33pfR33z3_an0n
April 15, 2013 at 16:20
Lol official twitter account. You guys are fucking stooges. Ask any of us, there’s no official account.
Bub
April 15, 2013 at 20:25
And this is why I do NOT save anything in cloud…ever.
Skyblue
April 15, 2013 at 20:57
Cloud saves, sigh, 250 hrs logged on Skyrim to find that my saves were missing this week, the horror, THE HORROR!!!!