Why is Xbox cloud gaming now doing timed sessions?

It's only Fortnite not all of Xbox cloud gaming since Fortnite is the only free game available for cloud gaming. It's likely to free up bandwidth for people who actually pay to use the service.

Yes, all "Unofficial PC Sessions" when attempting to play via Cloud Gaming session.

Single player and "Player Dedicated Ark" server sessions will load fine in Cloud Gaming.

"Unofficial PC Sessions" servers will load fine if played via the Xbox Console itself.

Error given in Cloud Gaming session is "Cloud Not Retrieve Address".

Issue has persisted for 3-4 days now and appears to be affecting all players through Cloud Gaming. Numerous reports in Ark Official community website, official Discord server, and Reddit.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/716021-could-not-retrieve-address-error/

Xbox Support told me that anyone gaming this issue should report it as an outage through the Xbox Services Status page here: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

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If you gave game pass ultimate, cloud gaming is included with it (I think you already know this)

If you start a cloud gaming session nothing is going to be downloaded in your console
The game is already downloaded in the cloud gaming servers.

That's the special thing about cloud gaming and the reason why you can use it with your phone, another Xbox, PC and now TVs

Hope everything is more clear now, but if you have further questions feel free to ask
Greetings

That's sad to hear.

Well, to avoid this problem in the future I think could be great that before closing the cloud gaming session go back to the main game screen and leave it there for about 1 min and then end your cloud gaming session

Now, about the thing with the audio... are you experiencing this only with this game?

Try some of the suggestions provided in this article to see if something helps

https://support.xbox.com/help/games-apps/cloud-...

If you're experiencing this problem only with this game please share this feedback (usually when you end the session the feedback screen appears)

An Xbox Series X can run 4 sessions of the Xbox one version compared to one of the series X version. so if you're attempting to play an Xbox one native game on the cloud, you will always have greater success simply because there are more slots available to you

Each and every cloud session has an Xbox series X on the other end