Why is an Xbox Live outage causing the offline portion of 'Advanced Warfare' to not work?

An outage hit Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service today, rendering online multiplayer unplayable for some users, but another notable problem occurred: In some cases, it appears offline gaming is impossible in certain situations as well. In "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare," some users with the digital copy of the game complained they were unable to play its campaign.

[Robochobo]

You're unable to play digital games offline if you gameshare with someone else and set your home console to theirs.

[jrshankill]

^ This.

I was able to play my friend's games earlier, but unable to play the games I purchased. His xbox is my home xbox, and vice versa.

So, pointless article.

[UnHoly_One]

Maybe just buy your own games and you wouldn't have any problems like this.

[the_dark_one]

its not pointless article at all. besides in the article its not stated that they are doing the same as you guys. it says that he cant play the game that he download to his console, he bought it, not some other dude or dudette as he is not try to play from his console a game that belongs to some one else. and if he bought it and does not have online connection it shouldnt happen that he couldnt play offline mode even if it was a digital game.

[enfestid]

That's not what is happening, so it's not a pointless article.

[Whitey2k]

n i fought ps4 had problems i guess x1 has its fair shares of talent

[Moe-Gunz]

No company is safe from issues like this.

[CorndogBurglar]

You were able to make sense of that comment? lol

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Anyone who expects any online service to be 100% flawless is living in a dream world.

[the_dark_one]

dont you mean "in a cloud world"? ;D

brace yourselfs disagrees and rage comments incoming :)

[Neixus]

PSN outages:
"LOL psn sucks!!"

XBL outages:
"It's okay, everybode makes mistakes"

While i do know XBL is usually the most stable one, this is what we call double standard

[HeWhoWalks]

Exactly. Like many of us, though - we don't pay those hypocritical comments much mind. Both have their fair share of issues. I don't have them often, on either service, but people really shouldn't make a big deal out of it until necessary.

[Pogmathoin]

Double standards on N4G? Really?

[turdburgler1080]

Sony spends $380 million on the whole giakai service. MS drops $700 million on one data center in Iowa. One out of 25 around the world and growing! The infrastructure is vastly superior to anything sony has. It rarely has a serious issue unlike PSN which shuts down often.

[BitbyDeath]

@turdburglar1080,

Those servers are used for a lot more than just Xbox.
Office365 for example is huge.

[dirkdady]

@turd

That's price Sony paid for gaikai acquisition alone. They also spent bank on building supporting data centers and server farms across the globe.

It's a stupid comparison as there is no acquisition cost to compare with Microsoft

[VegasDawg]

Azure is 99.95%

[Whirlwind_Fanfare_08]

@IGiveHugs2NakedWomen
Well said.

[cellfluid]

What happened to the 300,000 dedicated blah blah blah

[hello12]

If we had servers that be something wouldn't it! Call of Duty is using players to host matches, its obvious when everyone is running around with red and yellow pings every match

[HmongAmerican]

Probably due to traffic since the launched of Advanced Warfare both online service taking a hit.

[Neo_Zeed]

Shouldn't matter at all for OFFLINE play.

[Summons75]

Because who expects Call of Duty to actually work or for Activision to give a budget for the developer to actually develop the game and actually have time and money to make sure they release a quality title instead of broken crap we've had for 8 years.

[Neo_Zeed]

DRM strikes again. Google it. It was already found to still be running even after MS supposedly gave up on their DRM ambitions.