Key Takeaways
- Xbox 360 users are facing reoccurring sign-in issues, with error codes 8015D086 and 8015D000 resurfacing.
- Some players have come up with band-aid solutions as Xbox has yet to address the problem.
- Earlier this year, the Xbox 360’s digital marketplace was closed, and many players wonder when the system’s servers will be taken offline.
Xbox 360 users are once again having trouble logging into their accounts on the console. Just last month, Xbox 360 gamers ran into a set of issues that made it impossible for them to sign in to their profiles and also affected Xbox 360 backward compatible titles on Xbox One and Xbox Series X and S. Luckily, the issues were mended in quick order, but they seem to have returned.
It’s been a sad year for the beloved Xbox 360 console, which many Xbox fans believe represented the gaming brand’s very best generation, having driven forward online multiplayer gaming with titles like Halo 3 and the rise in popularity of Call of Duty. The generation also marked the beginning of one of Xbox’s core franchises, Gears of War. Over the summer, the Xbox 360’s digital marketplace was permanently closed, though not before a series of heavy discounts for some of the biggest games on the platform. Thankfully, backward compatible Xbox 360 games remain available to purchase digitally on the Xbox Store across Xbox One and Series X and S, though the digital 360 games and DLCs that weren’t brought forward are gone for good.
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It seems that the same problems Xbox 360 users ran into last month have returned. TrueAchievements has reported that its forums, Reddit, and Microsoft’s support forums have flooded with Xbox 360 fans who’ve encountered the same two error codes that plagued the console last month, 8015D086 and 8015D000. These codes have been accompanied by a message telling users “Sorry, there’s a problem with the credentials that you’re using to sign in.” Luckily, it seems that gamers playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One and Series X and S via backward compatibility haven’t been as strongly affected.
Xbox 360 Users Face Error Codes 8015D086 and 8015D000 Again
Some Xbox 360 fans have come up with band-aid troubleshooting solutions that may or may not work, at least temporarily. One user suggests logging into Xbox.com on a computer first before attempting to recover one’s account. Playing around with auto-renew on Xbox’s Game Pass subscription service has also been brought up as a short-term fix. It doesn’t seem Xbox has been made aware of the issue just yet, as TrueAchievements mentions Xbox’s Status page, which is currently squeaky clean. It will likely take some time for Xbox to mend these 360 sign-in issues once it becomes aware of them.
With the Xbox 360 marketplace already gone, these recent and ongoing sign-in struggles have brought about the inevitable conversation of the 360’s servers, which many believe will be shuttered in a year or two. It’s unclear what it will mean for players’ libraries of games on 360, though backward compatibility shouldn’t be affected. For now, though, 360 users should expect Xbox to have the error code issues fixed sooner than later. Whether these widespread issues meet their permanent end or pop up once more in a month’s time will remain to be seen.
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 was Microsoft’s successor to its original Xbox video game console. The seventh-generation device was built as a direct competitor to consoles like Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s Wii.
- Brand
- Microsoft
- Original Release Date
- November 22, 2005
- Original MSRP (USD)
- $299, £209, €299
- Weight
- 7.7 lbs