• pwnicholson@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    How does Minecraft even go down? Was it the MS-run Realms that were down? The entire x-box account authorization system?

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      6 months ago

      Azure, the hosting platform owned by MS, was experiencing a major outage which took down quite a few sites.

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        6 months ago

        Just wanted to say that some old desktop PC running Arch testing in my room has 100% uptime lmao

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        6 months ago

        Does it host the Minecraft authentication system as well? I haven’t been able to play recently to check this.

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          6 months ago

          Yep, MC auth is tied to Xbox Live Services, which is run on Azure

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, saw something after I left the comment. It was Minecraft per se that was down. It was the x box authorization/login system. Even bigger!