Xbox Game Pass is back up after major outage

When attempting to use Game Pass, some Xbox users encountered two distinct problems.

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Payment processing was stopped for anyone attempting to buy or renew a Game Pass membership,

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In the meanwhile, users of Game Pass who were still able to access

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it discovered that some or all of the games were missing content or were not visible at all.

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Whatever was ailing GamePass did not seem to be affecting other Xbox services.

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Around 5:00 PM ET on Thursday, the Xbox Support Twitter feed recognised the outage.

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Xbox Support tweeted on Saturday night at 9:25 PM ET that the problem has been fixed and

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that users should no longer have any issues with Xbox Game Pass. Xbox has not had a good year.

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