Xbox Cloud Gaming has been having issues loading games for the last 24 hours

If you’ve tried using Xbox Cloud Streaming and experienced issues loading games or unexpected disconnections, you’re not alone. Microsoft’s game streaming services have been experiencing issues since Thursday and are still not fully online 24 hours later.

Users on r/xcloud, the subreddit dedicated to Xbox Cloud Gaming, have reported unusually long wait times for a game to load, extending a process that is supposed to be instantaneous to 50 minutes. or wait longer. At Microsoft status pagethe company says that “you may have trouble launching cloud games or unexpectedly disconnect from a game after starting.”

microsoft admitted that Xbox Cloud Gaming had problems on Thursday, and follow up today saying that “users may see an incorrectly high wait time when trying to launch a cloud gaming title,” but that the company hopes everyone can connect faster than that. It’s unclear if that means the issue is fixed, being resolved, or what the problem was in the first place, but Engadget has reached out to the company for information and will update if we learn more.

Xbox Cloud Gaming has experienced outages in the past, but any sort of issue with the service is further affected in light of Microsoft’s “This is an Xbox” marketing push, which made the ability to stream Xbox games basically on anywhere was a primary benefit of using the company. platform.