Jake, for now.

Runs. Does things. Makes stuff. Has personal opinions. Always trying to be a better self. he/him/them. Your fave, for no good reason. LLAP 🖖

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@enthusiastfren @MarathonTheGame It’s a great game and there are people playing actively. Must be nice to have all of your energy focused on hating something fun.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@Candiccine Plus, the aura and magic of Matt Berry’s voice.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@MidaSponsordKit OH THE GUN TOO!!! 🤯

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@thegameawards Marathon
Mixtape
Ball x Pit
LEGO Batman
Vampire Crawlers

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@CamKolBergh02C He’s so awful. It actually pulled me out @mattdinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, gross to hear his voice come through in one of the books.

OOF.

At least he’s wrong about everything.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@mace_face18 Yep! Polite yet talkative. 🙌😊

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@tigers Booooo

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@nlyonne 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@MarathonGG_ I said screw it last night and bought a second copy of Marathon so I can play on Steam or on my Xbox. Because I will ALWAYS be a runner.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@_bi_bitch Wowwwwwww

[Scott Van Vliet @scottvanvliet]

Earlier today, many players began experiencing issues with sign in, enumerating their game libraries and playing games. The team has worked hard throughout the day to fix the issue, and we've restored service as of 2:30 PM PDT. Nonetheless, this is an unacceptable situation, and we must do better to support you.

Over the coming weeks, you'll hear more from me about our services, our platform, and the work we're doing to make XBOX better. And that starts with some transparency about this incident.

What happened. Late last night, a licensing service that sits outside of XBOX, but which XBOX depends upon, began failing. This caused some sign-in scenarios to fail, and it caused many scenarios that require an entitlement check to also fail, such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own. It also affected several of our publishing and store partners who depend on those same systems which is why some of you saw issues in specific games and not others.

What we did. Our on-call teams caught the first signals overnight through automated monitoring and declared a major incident. Once we isolated the failing infrastructure, we shifted traffic onto the healthy parts of the system while the team continued to work towards a root cause. Service came back unevenly across regions which is why some of you recovered hours before others.

What's next. We're running a full post-incident review. I care less about the one-line root cause and more about the real questions: why a failure in one service was able to take down this much, why recovery took as long as it did, and what we change so a single point of failure can't ruin your night again. That means hardening the dependencies underneath sign in and game launch, improving how we detect and contain this class of failure, and being faster and clearer with you when something breaks.

Thank you for your patience, and for the reports that genuinely helped us narrow this down. We'll do better.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@XBOXSupport While I’m glad to see this resolved, reading the deeper explanation and next steps from your support lead was much more helpful.

This outage highlights a need for giving licenses to the user directly. We should be able to play our games without a server check, full stop.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

This was the correct track to use for this finale. Banger sequences need the right music.

The theatre track choice undermines the weight, similar to the “Just a Girl” fight in Captain Marvel.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@ashstabbath I love Dusty! Im saying Funk & Rhodes are miles above J L and Taker

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@DragonflyJonez @rodimusprime Nobody wants to smoke with SAS.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@esjesjesj What a little dumb shit. Yeah, I’m saying you are a dumb shit, @elonmusk — go fuck yourself, you little loser. Soooooooooo many of us hate you, you sack of sentient worm poop.

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@rsfreebird @Nelstar15 @GCXEvent WHERE INDEED?! I’m making a point to see you before the dial hits ‘27

[Jake, for now. @sunstrouckel]

@AkilahObviously I’m listening.