Xbox Xbox’s online DRM under fire as some users left unable to play games for 4th day

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Monday (8:21pm ET Sunday) that European users should no longer be encountering errors when attempting to launch games and start clouding gaming sessions.

However, at the time of publishing this story, the replies are full of users claiming they still can’t boot their purchased games.

Unsurprisingly, Xbox’s online DRM policy has been heavily criticised by users frustrated that they’ve been left unable to play their purchased games for a fourth day.

According to Does It Play?, a Twitter account dedicated to testing commercial releases to ensure the work entirely internet free, the majority of Xbox games require an online check before they’ll boot.

“They absolutely do not have them on PlayStation or Switch,” the account wrote. “Trust us we’ve tested them”.

They added: “If the PlayStation servers go down tomorrow permanently, every single player game you own will work offline almost permanently (provided console is working and account was linked). There are a tiny subset of titles that will not.

“Xbox NEEDS to fix their DRM problems. Hand waving won’t help… Nobody wins, especially Xbox fans when ALL the catalog eventually becomes inaccessible”.

On Saturday, the Support Team claimed it had resolved the issue, only for it to state several hours later that the issue had returned. In total, the Support Team claimed to have fixed the problem twice this weekend, only for it to seemingly return later.

Microsoft has said it expects to fully resolve recent Xbox server outages with a new update “in the coming days”.
 
I had no idea this was a thing. It's not the worst problem in the world if its for a few hours but 4 days without it being fully resolved is a joke
 
I wonder what other Microsoft support messages hath failed me hmm... At least this is attempting to be resolved but yeah they might have to refund when they decide to give up.
 
I hope Microsoft refund customers' money for the down time, and prevent this problem from happening again.
 
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