Xbox Cloud Gaming has had problems downloading games for the past 24 hours

If you’ve tried using Xbox Cloud Streaming and experienced problems downloading games or unexpected crashes, you’re not alone. Microsoft’s streaming services have been experiencing problems since Thursday and have not returned online 24 hours later.

Users on r/xcloud, a subreddit dedicated to Xbox Cloud Gaming, have reported long wait times for games to be downloaded, increasing the process that should be immediate to 50 minutes. or wait longer. At Microsoft social media pagethe company says “you may have problems starting cloud games or be unexpectedly removed from the game after it ends.”

Microsoft he agreed that Xbox Cloud Gaming had problems on Thursday, and follow today stating that “users may experience an incorrect wait time when trying to launch a game title,” but the company hopes that everyone will be able to connect faster than that. It’s unclear if this means the issue has been fixed, resolved or what the problem was, but Engadget has reached out to the company for more information and will update if we learn more.

Xbox Cloud Games it has been turned off in the pastBut any kind of hiccup with the service is a big hit when it comes to Microsoft “This is Xbox” marketing, which made the ability to run Xbox games anywhere a major benefit of using the company’s platform.