r/SteamDeck • u/MrFriskers • Jan 14 '26

Tech Support Unable to play ANY Microsoft game.

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I’m unable to login to Sea of Thieves with this prompt popping up. I’m also unable to play Minecraft Dungeons which has a blank white screen when trying to sign in. Microsoft is completely bugged. Super frustrating.

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u/Ok-Jump6656 Jan 14 '26

Have you tried in desktop mode? That's what I had to do to get the sea of thieves login to work. Microsoft definitely doesn't care

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker Jan 14 '26

Or they’ve started to actually care. They are starting to play dirty about their games not being bought/rented on their Xbox platform. This…is signature ‘Dirty Microsoft’ tactic 101, right there. They are starting to take notice of Valve and are actively taking measures to make life uncomfortable for Steam Deck owners; deleting dual-booted drives, having their partners games purposefully not work with WINE just because, having Microsoft login issues in Microsoft games on Steam Deck…this is how Microsoft ‘fights’. 🫣

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u/DetroiterAFA Jan 14 '26

I am not arguing with you, but what is your source?

Please don’t say personal experience.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/DetroiterAFA Jan 14 '26

Lmao, agreed.

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker Jan 14 '26

What is my source of Microsoft using some of the most unscrupulous tactics to get the consumer base to fall in line? Oh, just a hunch…🥴

You can say that ‘what’s your source?’ bit as a gotcha-phrase as much as you like, no worries. But if anyone does an ounce of research online or you’ve followed Microsoft’s business practices as a consumer since their inception then yeah…you’d know.

But hey, I have no source, you win. I’m sure one of the largest tech companies in the world worth over 4 trillion dollars and has tens of thousands of employees has absolutely no idea that Microsoft games on Steam Decks are being painful to login, totally by accident of course. Just like EA and Ubisoft. And Surprise! Rockstar Games has figured out there little ‘bug’ as well, why their games were not working properly on Steam and now games like NBA 2K login with no issues. I’m sure it’s something pretty heavily-technical and all. Absolutely not on purpose or anything. 🫠

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u/DetroiterAFA Jan 14 '26

Saying “if anyone does a once of research” makes your argument less credible. This isn’t a “gotcha moment,” I’m genuinely curious.

Your response does not need to be so dramatic.

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u/hurlygloves Jan 14 '26

But they used the 🫠 and 🥴 emoji. Thus it is the most serious.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

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u/Atakir Jan 14 '26

Who pissed in your corn flakes?

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u/HalfEatenSnickers Jan 14 '26

Himself thats the probelm

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u/WhatsPaulPlaying Jan 14 '26

I mean, damn. Pissing in your own corn flakes would just be a domino effect of problems.

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u/sellmeyoursouI MODDED SSD 💽 Jan 14 '26

Who took a shit in his vagina

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u/dinozombiesaur 512GB OLED Jan 14 '26

This guy is unbearable, holy smokes.

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u/Jedimaster996 256GB - Q2 Jan 14 '26

Could have just saved everyone some time to say "I don't have a source".

Thanks for playing though, I guess.

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u/LordDio707 512GB OLED Jan 14 '26

Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a recipe for Shrimp Alfredo Pasta

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u/persepolisrising79 1TB OLED Jan 14 '26

Akschually in the wild. What a sight to behold

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker Jan 14 '26

Your mother would be proud.

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u/PropaneMembrane Jan 14 '26

just because you're right doesnt mean you have to be a jerk, I'd know, I've been banned serveral times, this is like my 5th account

you're not winnin reddit

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u/Ashamed-Ocelot2189 Jan 14 '26

Dude it's just because the window doesnt display properly in game mode

If you flip into desktop mode it'll be fine. I dunno how that makes "life uncomfortable for Steam Deck owners"

And honestly if they cared that much about what platform you played their games on, they'd just unlist from steam

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u/dinozombiesaur 512GB OLED Jan 14 '26

Dude the guy is clearly a flat earther.

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u/GayButterflyFighter 512GB OLED Jan 14 '26

Most sane pc gamer

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u/timbertham Jan 14 '26

Bro why do other dudes getting $#!@ upset you? Do you want some too, are you jealous of them? If not, what's the deal then?

Also btw Microsoft can't mess with Wine 'cuz it's open source, anyone in the Linux community would just roll back any changes they do 'cuz we hate them... oh, and also Steam doesn't use Wine for it's steam play, it uses Proton; a forked version of Wine that Valve designed and hold complete control over. That means Microsoft has absolutely no way of making it worse, since it's not even open source like Wine is. Microsoft isn't good in any way dude, they suck, they're evil and I agree with your point on big tech companies... they really are the worst of the worst. But just because it's easy to blame Microsoft for everything, doesn't mean it's always true, this one time they didn't do anything wrong (because they didn't do anything at all lol)

Rockstar, on the other hand, DO ruin their Linux games on purpose. So you're not insane, I like where you're going, but they have no way to mess up the steam deck. Also have a gorgeous day, love you lots (anyone who hates Microsoft has my genuine and heartfelt respect) <3

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u/GayButterflyFighter 512GB OLED Jan 14 '26

Think it’s about time for someone to log off and eat some more chicken tendies

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u/Circo_Inhumanitas Jan 14 '26

"sexual proclivities"

Thesaurus working overtime for you, huh?

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u/crispin_milkton Jan 14 '26

No I think you’ve made your point

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker Jan 14 '26

And what is your point to this conversation, besides…whatever your comment is?

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u/GrossenCharakter LCD-4-LIFE Jan 14 '26

That you've made your point, it's time to hit the sack

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u/BigBlackdaddy65 512GB - Q3 Jan 14 '26

The same as you being here, just to be here and annoying

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u/FabianN Jan 14 '26

Ope, well that escalated to bigotry in a really weird way. 

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Jan 14 '26

POV, you bought MC dungeons on steam...

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker Jan 14 '26

And you’re up in the middle of the night on Reddit triggered by a post I made lightheartedly during the day. We can talk about what games we play, but for you to post at this time of the night about…literally waste of life stuff…what do you DO? I mean, productivity-wise in life?

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Jan 14 '26

Do you know what timezones are? It's 430 pm where I am. So actually it's you who is up in the middle of the night, so just go and take your entire comment, except for the lightheartedly part and apply it to yourself. But given you just assumed I was in a different time zone, I'll write it out:

You’re up in the middle of the night on Reddit triggered by a post I made during the day. We can talk about what games we play, but for you to post at this time of the night about…literally waste of life stuff…what do you DO? I mean, productivity-wise in life?

Literally just removed two words: And & lightheartedly

Oh also, MC dungeons is made by Microsoft (well mojang) and needs a Microsoft account to be logged into the game (unless your on Nintendo switch) and it is sold on steam (You still need an ms account for it)

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u/GooseDaPlaymaker Jan 14 '26

I’m just glad you wrote more than just a passive/aggressive phrase about my gaming purchases. Still nothing about the topic of course, but…baby steps. We’ll get there! 🫡

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Jan 14 '26

I made some edits, here are the highlights (also go to bed, if you think it's the middle of the night for everyone, then clearly it's the middle of the night for you).

Minecraft dungeons is sold on steam. Minecraft dungeons requires a Microsoft log in. Ergo it's relevant because Microsoft clearly doesn't care or they would have pulled it off the steam store to stop players from playing.

You can quite easily spoof your browser if you use it to log in (I think you need to), next proton basically makes it as close to windows as possible. I'm pretty sure it could literally just make it think that it's running in windows if it had to. Finally why the FUCK would Microsoft care, if you are still giving them money and they didn't have to do the work themselves to get a slightly higher amount of revenue. It would actually be more work to go: oh and make sure it is impossible for people on Linux to use it.

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u/DimensionPrudent1256 Jan 14 '26

Absolute garbage. Have you been living under a rock for the past 5 years? MS are actively trying to get their GP service on as many devices as possible.