The Xbox store continues with problems, and users from all over the world take advantage to buy massively in other countries with a new method.

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Update

Original News

As you may have already noticed, we’ve been experiencing problems for several days when buying and using content from the Xbox store. Logically, users who regularly buy from foreign marketplaces were the first to notice the situation. Alternative purchase methods (gift cards, VPNs…) were no longer working, and it was necessary to insist a lot to be able to buy from popular marketplaces like Turkey or Argentina. Everything suggested that Microsoft was starting to shut down this laborious but affordable way of buying digital games.

However, since yesterday afternoon, through the web Xbox-Now and later through some forums, a method without using virtual private networks has been circulating, which consists of going to the store of the country where you want to buy the game through the browser, executing the purchase normally, and at the time of payment, holding down a combination of keys (which we obviously won’t mention) generating an infinite loop of retries, until one of them bypasses the security and manages to complete the transaction. This execution can take an indeterminate amount of minutes or end in error, but the reality is that the vast majority of users manage to complete their purchases successfully in what has already been dubbed the “tiresome method”.

Xbox Store Problems

This trick, which is no longer a trick, but rather something similar to a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, could exacerbate the situation of the store and maintain the negative status of its information service. Perhaps it’s the consequence of the errors that the Xbox store and Azure servers have been dragging on for several days. Or it could be a series of catastrophic misfortunes that ultimately affect Xbox users around the world, while others, perhaps unknowingly, are taking advantage of a security hole that deceives the brand they love.

We don’t know what it’s due to, but whether it was the chicken or the egg that came first, from Generación Xbox, we see ourselves in the task of informing about this situation, although we also want to make a call for caution, as it’s very likely that one of the companies that most cares about cybersecurity in the world won’t be too happy that its own users are attacking the systems that facilitate the proper functioning of their services. We’ll have to see how this whole issue ends.