Questions about todays server outage.

Ok, the servers went down, it happens. They’re now fixed, great.
I couldn’t access Forza online, or the forums, it kept saying it couldn’t sign me in. Other people appeared to be posting fine during this time however.

So I have two questions for T10/mods if you’d indulge me.

  1. Any idea why I couldn’t access the forums as well as the online features for Forza 5?

  2. I thought the cloud handled online for ALL games and so individual developers no longer had their own servers? Is this still the case, and the Forza servers are just for our online profiles, or is it still Turn 10 handling all the online side. I thought the point of the cloud was decentralised servers to mitigate this kind of fault and ensuing outage? Just wanted some clarification if that’s ok guys.

Thankyou kindly!

I had the same thing on the forums, which appears to be an access issue with Xbox LIVE and the logon process, according to the message.

The issues may be within the LIVE server farm, and nothing to do with the game at all. (See my comment above.)