"The Outer Worlds 2" was officially released yesterday, and all players who have not purchased the early version can finally experience the game.This includes massive Game Pass subscribers on Xbox Series X/S and PC platforms.But there is a problem: a sudden Microsoft Azure service outage caused a failure, causing another wave of Internet services to suffer unexpected paralysis.

"As of 16:00 UTC, we began to experience issues with Azure front-end services, resulting in some service availability interruptions," Microsoft said in a statement on Wednesday. "In addition, users may experience exceptions when accessing the Azure portal." Microsoft currently attributes the failure to a "configuration change error."

Affected users include Xbox and its first-party game studios, which rely on Azure systems for digital distribution of games on console and PC platforms.

"Due to the ongoing Azure service outage, users of Xbox Series

"The pre-installed games disappeared directly from my Xbox app today," one player replied, "How is this possible?" Another Steam user wrote: "My Game Pass version cannot be started. Even if it is installed, it cannot be played. It keeps saying that it cannot be logged in." Aha, this is the power of cloud services!

The outage occurred a week after a massive AWS outage, which briefly paralyzed mainstream games such as Fortnite and Roblox.

As of 6:01 am on October 30, 2025, Beijing time, Microsoft stated that the Xbox service is now back to normal operation.