A.Romero
Member
So I work full time and go to school for a second degree. I pretty much only get to game on Saturdays evening and Sundays. Today I finished early because the semester is over and decided to take a look at Halo's campaign. Launched Gamepass clicked on play and... the Microsoft store opens showing me the page for the Gaming Services app.
I thought it was maybe because I haven't restarted my machine in a while (I'm sitting here like 75% of the time I'm awake)... So I proceed to restart and no luck. OK, must be some weird update issue. Run updates for everything in Windows and every single app in the microsoft store that could be related (like the Xbox console companion). It doesn't work.
Fine, google time. Discover it's a common enough issue to have presence in several forums for almost 2 years. Start trying solutions:
Update, repair, delete, reinstall... Nothing works.
OK. Find some powershell commands. Decide to run them as I'm comfortable doing stuff like that, I work IT for a living. It doesn't work.
So out of the very limited time I got for gaming I just had to spend almost 40 minutes troubleshooting Microsoft's ass for a store.
Fuck that. I thought it was supposed to be greatly improved recently but no, it's plagued with the same issues we have had since always.
I can count with one hand the times I've had issues running software from Steam, EA, UPlay and GOG. How is it possible that one of the biggest software companies in the world has this sorry excuse of a software for one of their flagship products?
Seriously, I really like working Microsoft tech. They are second to none in the enterprise environment but this is just frustrating as hell.
Anyway, wanted to vent. Gamepass is a great deal but Microsoft needs to get their shit together in regards to their store. It was working fine a few days ago. Now I'll do some thinking to decide if this is enough to cancel gamepass for a while (I'm not sure I want to format my PC nor download all the games again).
I thought it was maybe because I haven't restarted my machine in a while (I'm sitting here like 75% of the time I'm awake)... So I proceed to restart and no luck. OK, must be some weird update issue. Run updates for everything in Windows and every single app in the microsoft store that could be related (like the Xbox console companion). It doesn't work.
Fine, google time. Discover it's a common enough issue to have presence in several forums for almost 2 years. Start trying solutions:
Update, repair, delete, reinstall... Nothing works.
OK. Find some powershell commands. Decide to run them as I'm comfortable doing stuff like that, I work IT for a living. It doesn't work.
So out of the very limited time I got for gaming I just had to spend almost 40 minutes troubleshooting Microsoft's ass for a store.
Fuck that. I thought it was supposed to be greatly improved recently but no, it's plagued with the same issues we have had since always.
I can count with one hand the times I've had issues running software from Steam, EA, UPlay and GOG. How is it possible that one of the biggest software companies in the world has this sorry excuse of a software for one of their flagship products?
Seriously, I really like working Microsoft tech. They are second to none in the enterprise environment but this is just frustrating as hell.
Anyway, wanted to vent. Gamepass is a great deal but Microsoft needs to get their shit together in regards to their store. It was working fine a few days ago. Now I'll do some thinking to decide if this is enough to cancel gamepass for a while (I'm not sure I want to format my PC nor download all the games again).