- Steam App
- Empire Builder (2896570)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 7 August 2026 - 19:03:48 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
At or around 3pm EST users began reporting that they could not find lobbies or join lobbies with a code. We have confirmed this to be an outage with Microsoft's PlayFab service that we use to facilitate lobby creation and discovery. As far as we know, this issue is impacting many games that use Microsoft's PlayFab back-end services. We are working with Microsoft to fix the issue and will report back when it is resolved. As always, we thank you for your support and patience.\ Microsoft has fixed the issue and it is now possible to find and join lobbies again.