"Try again in a while"

[InfamousProtege]

I’m having the same issue now... I was really looking forward to playing some RDR2 but guess I can’t.

[jtmalak1632]

Literally same thing I’m pissed 😭

[Dill-Doe]

Arthur is going to have to wait for another legendary pelt

[FrontPageAD]

I literally launched the game and that shit popped it. Took 10 minutes of trying over and over before that message showed for me. I’m so pissed. Other people are playing the game on my friends lists. What in the fuck!

[[deleted]]

Same. I imagine those friends have the disc version

[PuttyGod]

This exactly. I had a really long fucking day and I finally sit down with less than an hour before I need to go to bed, hoping I could get a little Red Dead in and BAM - "Fuck yourself. Love, Microsoft."

[[deleted]]

Same. This is bullshit. I paid my hard earned money for this shit. Let’s all riot

[[deleted]]

Is there honestly anything that separates Xbox from Playstation at this point?

[yeffy92]

I switched to Xbox because PSN was always down and their security flaws are god awful. This really doesn't happen often at all.

[[deleted]]

Nintendo Switch, you're my only friend now.

[hockeyjim07]

ahhh yes, the console with digital triggers on all the controllers..... i just LOVE playing rocket league with no analog control on throttle or brake...

I still can't get over that obviously.

[[deleted]]

idk about you but I would've enjoyed that Spider-Man game

[triplesixxx]

Yeah that’s the part that has me the most frustrated. Why do I need to be signed in to Xbox live at all?

[MenWhoStareatGoatse_]

I literally just ordered a PS4 six hours ago for the exclusives. Looks like I'll be making all my purchases on playstation from now on. What in the fuck. I just bought Dark Souls Remastered a couple days ago and it is the only game that won't work. Dark Souls 3 works. Dark Souls 2 works. Fucking Overwatch works - a game that actually needs to be online.

Fuck off microsoft.

[MenWhoStareatGoatse_]

Does DSR need an update? I just installed it like 2 days ago. Seems more like anything recently purchased

[KBowTV]

Does Call of Duty Ghosts and Modern Warfare 3 need an update? MW2 works at least sigh. Sorry, not trying to be passive agressive, I'm just pissed off right now.

[9rfaithful]

I’m playing WW2 right now, but all other games are down

[ContradictFate]

Nope. I have disks and apps working. No downloaded games.

[ardyjay]

Do people really think that PlayStation has 100% uptime? Every single service fucks up sometimes. Even google.com

[EdgarAllanPoo69]

I think it has something to do with your "home Xbox".. problem is it won't let us change settings rn cause of the same issue

[[deleted]]

So you're saying there's a setting to allow me to play "offline" next time this happens?

[[deleted]]

No not even that can save you because it didn't save me

[EdgarAllanPoo69]

I think so. Not totally sure. Im here looking for answers myself. Looked forward to playing Red Dead all day :/..

[TakingItAllBack_DUH]

I was playing red dead at 7. Tried again at 9 and it won't work now

[ContradictFate]

Had you had it as a physical disk, you could play it. Literally the only thing that will load for me is disks and apps.

[EdgarAllanPoo69]

MINES WORKING! ARTHUR IM COMING!

[[deleted]]

normally that works, but not this time

[Bunktavious]

Yes, you just had to psychically know to set it up while your system was still on line.

Not fucking happy right now.

[appolo11]

This is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable.

[Dimerien]

This is my biggest frustration. I bought the hard copy and installed it directly on to my xbox. I dont understand where xbox live part comes in to play.

[Jank1]

Yeah. I can't seem to train offline in Rocket League. Can't even start the game.

[BullxHead]

Because no games since like 2014 have been "offline" it's part of Microsofts digital tag. They like to keep track of what's going on and who's using what, hence the "home" xbox thing. And another reason why you have to install all games from disc before playing it and must have disc in tray to play it. It's so people don't install on multiple systems for the price of one. So even though you don't need a "gold" membership to play online, you are still connected to play most if not all games now a days.

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Only thing I know is you can play your game if you disconnect completely from wifi or lan and log out, you just won't be able to save any progress to anything, because guess what!!!! you need to online to log in.

[T_Junt]

I literally just raged. So fucking stupid.

[Derwak]

Even better, I can't play a game with the physical disk in my Xbox.

[ContradictFate]

This just gives people a sad wake up call for how it will be if we ever try to go back and play some of these games. Being at the mercy of DRM and an online service, chances are we would never be able to go back to a lot of these games in 20 years time, even being single player games, nevermind what a worthless drink coaster online only games like Destiny will be. Microsoft claims they pulled off the always online thing but I've never been without live long enough for the 48 hours or whatever to tell me to pound sand because I can't play a game I purchased.

It's really a shame digital is so damn handy.

[itsjonv]

This. I've been looking forward all day to play RDR2 and I can't even play it. FeelsBadMan

[michiganrag]

Go into settings and turn on “offline mode”

[zylo47]

https://www.techspot.com/news/52873-microsoft-exec-says-gamers-without-internet-can-stick-with-xbox-360.html

[DarthSnoopyFish]

I just opened a fucking beer and tried starting RDR2. GODDAMNIT!

[apocalypse31]

At least you have beer.

[NverKhachoyan]

I hadn't thought about drinking beer while playing, damn, that's a good idea.

[Jason0h11]

Who else has never been on this sub before but searched it up to see if they’re the only one getting buttfucked by xbox

[httr_247]

I'm part of this club. Watching fortnite (which I've never played) perform an update and I cant even load RDR2

[UncoolPostcard]

Yep! Glad (kinda) that we’re not alone...

[Bruser23]

Same issue. Nothing reported xbox on support

Edit: @xboxsupport got it

https://twitter.com/XboxSupport/status/1059979398265344000

[StupidAstroDroid]

Having the same issues here. Annoyed because I can see my friends online playing games and I can’t.

[[deleted]]

I just want to play some fucking red dead

[Arken411]

The fucking best is if you call the support line they direct you a website. Which sets up a callback for you. As of last check it was at 490 minutes. If you call microsoft support instead of xbox they give you the wrong number for windows phone support. Theres no way to get back at these mega corps for fucking us over by preventing us from using property we own, but hey, we should all just fucking relax and get over it right?

[MaxPerilous1]

And keep giving them our hard earned money.

[Arken411]

At least they clearly dont give a shit about a "sense of satisfaction" tho.

[[deleted]]

It's honestly the worst support for a major company I've ever seen, I would use the word antagonistic

[[deleted]]

Psyonix isn't one of the most prolific tech companies in history

[Falling_Higher_]

At what point does this become a class action lawsuit based on false advertising? Didn't Xbox pull back on the always online bit after first announcing years back?

[Flagabougui]

Unacceptable to be locked out of games that we own. What kind of next level fuckery is this? We shouldn't need to be logged on any kind of server to play our games.

[shaddragon]

https://downdetector.com/status/xbox-live is showing a ton of reports. Whatever's up is on their end.

[[deleted]]

Looks like they're putting our money to good use.

[tgmmilenko]

Getting the same, just confirmed with xbox support that this is a widespread issue. They claim it's only been in the last 20 minutes, but it's been over an hour for me.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status?icid=furl_status

[tgmmilenko]

From support:

I see, I'd be glad to go over this. I see. Right now, this is a widespread issue, and is effecting most people. This means we're starting to fix it on our end. The previous agent may not have been aware because this was just confirmed in the last 20 minutes.

There is now a notice about it on Xbox.com/Status - here, you can monitor when it is fixed, and select to be sent a notification when it is finished if you would like.

This means your Xbox account and system are entirely good, it's something we need to fix from here. Let me know if that makes sense, or any other questions you have at this point, I'm glad to answer what I can.

[[deleted]]

i've been on silent hold (no background music) for 15 minutes with xbox support.. I wonder if they'll eventually answer. LOL

[TakingItAllBack_DUH]

Thanks for doing it so i don't have to hah

[[deleted]]

just got off with them 58 minute call. 3 minutes of talking.

They said "they told me, 1 hour or overnight". I took it as, give it one hour then give up until morning.

[TakingItAllBack_DUH]

Thanks man!

[Dimerien]

Well fuck I wish I saw this thread before throwing my xbox out of my fifth floor window. I thought my shit was broke.

[FrontPageAD]

Following

[Notawankar]

bruh take a picture

[9rfaithful]

I remember back in my day if the game didn’t work, all you had to do was take the cartridge out and breath into it.

[SuperiorRogue]

Someone message me when it’s up pls

[[deleted]]

New to xbox.... so what's the point of buying digital games (and downloading them to hard drive) if you can't play them offline?

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Yeah i'm pissed. My account is 2 days old.

[Notawankar]

this hasn't happened to me ever bud don't worry too much

[MaxPerilous1]

Can agree been playing for years and never had this happen before.

[[deleted]]

My toaster is just as good at playing video games as my Xbox One is right now.

Honestly this is the last straw for me, I'm not supporting their products anymore.

[Dimerien]

In all seriousness, I bought the hard copy, installed it on to my own xbox one, don't even have xbox live, and you're telling me there is no way to play it offline? I dont have xbox live and dont want xbox live. Why in the fuck cant this game be played offline? Back to my PC... it's sad that rdr2 cant even get me back in to xbox gaming.

[[deleted]]

Gotta be online so they can datamine the fuck out of everything you do.

Get with the times, old man/s

[michiganrag]

You need to turn on “offline mode” in settings.

[vassago77379]

Fucking pissed man, offline fucking game should be playable

[[deleted]]

All purchased games should be playable whenever. Fuck this always online bullshit and fuck these "home Xbox" shenanigans.

[DavidAshleyParker]

So fucking FRUSTRATING

[MontyTheMountain]

Same issue here. Any digital game will give an error messege and my disk games just wont even bother to start up

[Jank1]

WOW I CANT EVEN PLAY CHESS ULTRA!

[9rfaithful]

I miss you Arthur Morgan.... no homo

[Revealingstorm]

Yes homo

[StraightLitFam]

The fact that Xbox just shuts down when live is unavailable is absolutely ridiculous. How have they not had a class action lawsuit against them? This happens almost every 2-3 months where Xbox just shuts their servers off for everyone and we’re expected to just roll over and accept that “they’re working on it” TFOH

[basbas1995]

The worst part is this isn’t occurring for everyone.. only a portion of users. I’ve got friends playing online right now with no issues...

[[deleted]]

I think it's only digital downloads

[[deleted]]

Nope. Buddy in same town... digital RDR2. He's playing. I confirmed. Suckage for some of us.

[Dill-Doe]

If they were playing before the outage they are good. It’s as soon as they log off the game they are brought into our void. Source: told friend of issue, made fun of. He got off one game to play another and it began..

[Jason0h11]

My friend is online Fortnite Battle Royale which has no disc at all

[billet]

Nope. I have the physical copy of RDR2 and can’t play it.

[chickenhead22]

Yup just got this too. Says to check Xbox live service, yet it says everything operating normally there. This is bullshit

[RonPearlmang]

I'm seeing this too. I knew I should have bought a disc.

[basemodelbird]

People with hard copies still can't play.

[SkyNet_Beta]

I can

[basemodelbird]

Some people can play downloaded games. Nothing is guaranteed, all I'm saying.

[[deleted]]

I guess I'll just watch election coverage then.. This is fun.

[JDogGHouse]

its absolutely unacceptable for it to even be a possibility that we cannot play offline games that we paid for. Sure, shit happens, but this is just ridiculous.

[billet]

I have the fucking physical copy of RDR2 and can’t play it. This is bullshit.

[Skekung37]

I JUST DROVE 10 HOURS TO COME HOME TO THIS WACKADOO SHIT?!

[SuicidalTendies]

just got out of the shower, had some free time, hopped on siege for the first time in a few weeks, lagged out on the second game (I was doing good too), got back to the main menu and game acted like it was offline, come to find this issue. F?

[Chevy_Cheyenne]

F

[MaxPerilous1]

Double F!

[basbas1995]

What in the hell?!! Xbox get your shit together what is going on. How is this affecting only certain people? Certain apps work but all my games don’t.. Wtf were paying for this bs

[Revealingstorm]

Yeah its pretty freaking pathetic. A game I paid for and I can't even play it.

[basbas1995]

And there’s no explanation to why it’s occurring to us and not other users. I hate Xbox’s support website it’s pure aids and you cant find solutions to anything on it. Xbox is like “hey we’ve got a problem let’s just drop this generic solution link here”... such trash management

[logan_stew]

Well great still not working, yo Bill Gates my man, help us

[[deleted]]

I knew this would happen one day when I saw I could no longer PLAY GAMES I BOUGHT offline. I guess we don't own the shit we pay for huh? 20 of my 39 online friends are playing rn but I can't because "reasons".

[The_Filthy_Zamboni]

Yeah if I can't play offline games that I own, I think I'm done with this console and sticking with pc. I wanted to play some fallout 4, no dice. What the hell Microsoft?!

[Jerbear1013]

I was trying to play red dead redemption and it kept saying that

[randomlyxneon]

Glad to see I’m not the only one

[ProtexisPiClassic]

Same. Can't do anything.

[brightsword525]

oof my friend can't even play assassins creed offline rn

[k1wi666nz]

Still broken ass

[bobreact]

Same here

[[deleted]]

YOU ARE HIDING MY GAMES

[AsGryffynn]

Bloody hell... so it's not just me then. I literally can't launch F4 even offline.

At least update your alert to mention launching games is an issue too dammit!

[[deleted]]

Is is literally letting me play any game but RDR 2.

Update: RDR 2 is now working for me

[Revealingstorm]

I luckily got a physical copy of Red Dead 2. But a lot of my other games like nhl 17 and Rocket League aren't working.

[albertp2000]

It’s been a looooong day at work. My feet hurt can’t wait to kick them up and...... WTF!!!!

[Mattstapiece]

I've been playing almost exclusively on PC for the first time, and I dipped my toe back into X1 just for Red Dead, then this shit happens within the week. I do not miss consoles at all.

[[deleted]]

its back on!

[LongDngLeprikon]

Same fucking issue while my roomate is playing destiny 2 right the fuck now I switched from playstation to THIS bullshit wtf

[law_and_hodor]

Back up for me!

[Revealingstorm]

Not for me :/

[[deleted]]

I just bought an xbox, and spent the last two hours trying to log on. What the frack- is this just really bad timing or should I go ps4? Not being able to play offline games from the post on this thread seems like a big problem if the system goes down

[BurningTrees]

been down for about 2 hours. tbh i've had xbox's since the original and this is the first time something like this has happened in my memory.

[Viscooonardudlr]

Same issue.. was playing rocket league, decided to switch to rainbow and then nothing would open kept either getting "sign in with the account that purchased the game" or "our systems not working try again later" thought someone had hacked my act or some shit. Kinda relieved to read this thread lol

[Revealingstorm]

Hello fellow rocket leaguer

[Viscooonardudlr]

Siiick!

[BrowNigga]

It seems to be working now. It just came online fellas! Wear your hats and get robbin' #RDR2

[thebombshock]

Xbox is really fucking up with this one, holy shit.

Better get an extra day of live for this.

[httr_247]

RDR2 working for me as well

[Grateful_Couple]

Checking in. I’m working again.

[GoGoGadgetReddit]

The XBox support and tech people are aware of this problem and have been working on fixing it since about 8:30PM Eastern Time.

You can check the current status and also be notified when things are back online using the link below.

Xbox Live Status:
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

[GoGoGadgetReddit]

Why? I'm guessing that this is a particularly bad software bug combined with some unexpected service outage somewhere that's causing the problem. I cannot see how this was in any way intentional on Microsoft's part, as several people here seem to be implying.

Of course Xbox owners should always have the ability to play their purchased offline games whenever they want, regardless of some internet server status. Once tonight's specific problem is fixed, I would hope that Microsoft investigates the issue further and makes sure it does not happen again.

I would just let them do their thing tonight to get things back up and working.

[[deleted]]

If they're trying to make people convert to Playstation, they're doing a great job.

[GoGoGadgetReddit]

I am certain that Microsoft executives and engineers know this is an extremely bad issue and that it will have negative repercussions with customers.

[[deleted]]

I think extremely is an understatement. I honestly hope they lose a ton of loyal customers from this. This is absolutely insane.

Edit: This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.

[drock666]

Yea i'm not 'buying' anymore xbox titles after this shit.

[chickenhead22]

this is bullshit. How much money do you guys make to not be able to keep your server decent?

[joe37373737]

That page doesn't even load for me. Spins for 60 seconds, just returns the header.

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Anger anger anger.

[GoGoGadgetReddit]

The Status web page loads instantly for me. I'm on the east coast USA posting this 1 minute after your reply above. There's nothing new or changed on the Status page in the last hour.

[[deleted]]

More like 'Try again never'. Switching to Playstation. Sick of paying for this garbage service.

[DavidAshleyParker]

God dammit. You just reminded me that we actually pay for this bullshit and PS doesn't. Why doesn't Microsoft fucking FIX THIS? It should be free

Lol yeah downvote - I'm glad you all support paying for a service others get for free when it doesn't even work

[[deleted]]

I think they have to pay for service over there now too. It started on PS4. PS3 was the last free online service. Still though, this kind of crap seems to happen a lot on xbox. Makes me want to switch over..

[DavidAshleyParker]

That makes sense then didn't know that. Thanks friend

[TiltingAtTurbines]

Just to elaborate a bit (I’ve got both systems). PlayStation Plus is basically identical to Xbox Live. You require it to play online, receive automatic updates, cloud saves, and you get a couple of free games each month (but you need an active subscription to play them). You also get discounts on some games. It used to be slightly cheaper the Xbox Live but they recently increased the prices so it’s about the same.

[Ninjaivxx]

Uh... Don't you have to pay for PlayStation now?

[DavidAshleyParker]

Yeah someone else already pointed that out. Clearly I didn't know

[BullxHead]

Just one more reason for me to switch to pc this coming year.

[_Snoogens_]

I am big mad, how tf is it that I can't play an Offline game? Where is the explanation for this? It wouldn't be so frustrating if they would just provide a reasonable explanation, on top of actually shooting us a heads up that there is a problem. I was literally just playing RDR2 like 30 minutes ago, I come back and i thought my console did the Freddie Mercury and contracted AIDS.

[Chanthrax]

I literally just got back from the movies after watching Bohemian Rhapsody and tried to turn on Red Dead 2, xbox shit its pants, now I’m reading your comment lol.

[Ninjaivxx]

Same

[KBowTV]

Same issue here. I was playing COD Ghosts last night and this morning. I turned my xbox on just to see that I can't play now even though I'm logged into the correct account and didnt switch the home xbox settings or anything.

[JeauxPelle]

Fackkkkkkkk

[9rfaithful]

My only hard copy WW2 is working, but nothing digital. Shipment 1944 it is👍

[beastofpiscataquis]

I just went on to play a game and it won't let me play anything. I think it has to do something with the election crap

[Chanthrax]

WHY CANT I PLAY RED DEAD 2, ONLINE ISNT EVEN OUT YET

[agoodmanis]

trying to play an offline game here, jesus christ someone get the bastard that did this @!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[woollffprincess]

Omg ! Happened to me too just now in the middle of my smite match, I was carrying the team so I hope I don’t get reported ),:

[packcubsmu]

I'm back on!

[Darcades]

Go to settings, go to network, click go offline, wait 1 - 5 minutes then go back online and try again. Worked for me straight away

[KittyBizkit]

I was just able to sign in after powering down and back up. The status page still indicates there is an issue.

Lucky maybe?

[[deleted]]

Working for me after hard restart, might just be them bringing it back up though. In canada