MSFS is now Broken...what are they doing?

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Well it seems they were playing chess:

Servers inaccessible? Chess tournament

I’m a fan of MSFS and the people who made it. I understand it’s a complex bit of software, and relatively young. I don’t expect it to be entirely smooth at this stage. However, I haven’t been able to access the MSFS servers since yesterday, and when I look on Asobo’s twitter for information it tells me they were all playing chess yesterday in an “internal tournament”. Nothing whatsoever about the server issues. Nothing on the official MSFS twitter either. Chess is a great game. Maybe I’ll also…